Friday night news
| Television broadcast | |
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| Original title | Friday night news |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1999-2006 |
| Production company |
Typhoon |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 209 |
| genre | Comedy |
| First broadcast | September 17, 1999 on RTL Television |
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Friday Night News was a weekly comedy show of the TV channel RTL . Various skits , mostly designed as mini-series, were presented, which were held together by a fictional news program.
The first Friday Night News broadcast was broadcast on September 17, 1999. The last broadcast was on December 29, 2006. The motto of the show was: If you don't watch it, you can't see it!
Authors included Chris Geletneky , Morten Kühne , Torsten Fraundorf , Tommy Jaud , Ralf Bunzel, Attik Kargar , Carsten Dusse and Sven Nagel.
Moderators
Henry Gründler was the presenter and anchorman of the show until August 2006 .
Up to episode 139 on June 4, 2004, the show co-moderator was "Editor-in-Chief" Volker G. Schmitz , who had to leave the format after an "internal restructuring" and was only a guest on December 3, 2004 in the anniversary episode 150 was on the Friday night news .
The third presenter was Anja Bergerhoff until episode 26 on June 2, 2000 .
Her successor was Ruth Moschner , who moderated the Friday Night News from September 15, 2000 to June 3, 2005 at the side of Henry Gründler . After she had ended her parallel moderation of the program Big Brother - The Decision at her own request in May 2005, her moderation contract for the program Freitag Nacht News was also not extended by the production company on the instructions of RTL Television.
From the end of the summer break in 2005 to August 2006, changing guest presenters took the place next to Henry Gründler. These were Mariella Ahrens , Caroline Beil , Lisa Fitz , Regina Halmich , Jana Ina , Gülcan Kamps , Charlotte Karlinder , Katy Karrenbauer , Janine Kunze , Désirée Nick , Antonia Schmitz , Susan Sideropoulos , Carolin Kebekus , Enie van de Meiklokjes and Sonja Zietlow .
After Ruth Moschner left, audience ratings fell. For this reason, Henry Gründler, the last regular presenter of the FNN, had to leave the comedy show in August 2006 and was replaced by Ingo Appelt .
From episode 194 on September 8, 2006, Ingo Appelt moderated the show together with Carolin Kebekus and Jürgen Bangert . Since then, the program has not had the news character it used to broadcast and the ratings were far below expectations, which is why RTL canceled the program on December 29, 2006.
Rubrics
(Chronological order according to broadcast period)
No sports
Episode 1 to 54.
In the case of No Sports , various events are presented as if they were sports that are played in competitions. Examples are:
- " Flatten everything that works backwards with a tracked vehicle "
- " Make camels dizzy and then hide behind things"
- " Disguised as a red cat , whipping passers-by at random and afterwards on no account walk around a purple Jesus "
- " Playing Mau-Mau and not realizing that you are being attacked by angry cloven-hoofed animals "
The moderators Jochen Brenner (spoken by Chris Geletneky ) and Stefan Domsch commented on these "sports" in an exaggeratedly emotional manner. The most frequent phrases: “What a beginner's mistake!” And “That is top-class-with-a-tracked vehicle-backwards-flattening-whatever-goes!” If the protagonist does not succeed in the mishap or he behaves banally .
With a few exceptions, the “participants” of the competitions are always the fictional players Rico del Monte and Pepe Lupardo. Their trainer Sierra Pinpin Lipausa is also often quoted: "How often has trainer Sierra Pinpin Lipausa said ..."
Flonkball
Episode 1 to 18.
Flonkball is a fictional ball sport that is presented in the form of sports bulletins as if it were common knowledge. The reports always contain numerous “ technical terms ” that are also fictitious. Flonk was also the name of the "ball" in the computer sports game MUDS from 1990.
Example:
"The Flonkball season has started again. And already in the spectacular opening match of the parallel league FIA Flonk Alsace against the Bremen Flonkvereinigung, there was an incident in the sixth seventh: A naked woman ran into the gap, snatched star quarter Pentor Francesco Parisi Flonk and holed up next to her. She threatened to warm the Flonk to minus four degrees if Parisi doesn't perst. All 19 team mimes were necessary to calm the woman down. She injured her colon. "
Surveys with Wulf Assols
Episode 14 to 110.
Wulf Assols was a reporter (played by Karsten Dusse ) who actually asked completely harmless or insane (suggestive) questions to people on the street, but deliberately phrased them in such a way that they were misunderstood by the people and answered accordingly. Example: Wulf Assols: “Imagine a complete stranger bid you a million marks. Would you sleep with your wife for that? " Respondent indignant: " No way! "
The role of the French assistant reporter Alfons in Extra 3 is comparable .
Alarm for Kebap 11 - The Doner Police
Episode 15 to 54.
Alarm für Kebap 11 - Die Dönerpölizei is a parody of the series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , which runs on the same station and in which an unusually large number of cars explode. Scenes from the original series have been re-dubbed for parody; All of the people speak Kanak Sprak with a Turkish accent , this started in the introduction: René Steinke is Commissioner Murat with the bold, blatantly green eye. And Erdoğan Atalay is Commissioner Ali with the fat, dark brown eyes. Both are fat-crass the kebab police. Follow today: ... (e.g. "Büs without tires is like kebab with no spicy - but still bumps") . The final sentence was always: "Alder, I swear!" . Steinke and Atalay were even guests in an issue of Friday Night News and presented a case in the studio in the style of file number XY ... unsolved .
Hoax
Episode 21 to 51.
Here, any real newspaper clippings by Henry Gründler are presented as if they were false reports. The supposedly correct version is created by twisting words within the original report according to the following fixed scheme:
A false report shocks the nation!
The Kölner Express reported on Monday: “A drunk truck driver who drove into two parked cars at a traffic light made a dash and hid in a bush. His bad luck: when the police were looking for him, his cell phone rang - arrest, blood test, driver's license gone. ”
That is not right, of course it has to be:
“ A drunk cell phone that drove into a ringing police officer at a traffic light hid the driver's license and arrested a blood truck. His bad luck: when the driver tried it, there were two bushes in the way - search, car, speedster. "
Sorry, now I've made a promise:
" Two bleeding motorists, whose trucks were parked, drove into a drunk policeman and got stuck in his bush . Their bad luck: when they rang the bell at a traffic light, the guide appeared to them - taking, flitz test, hands off. "
Outside reporter Gerd Logan
First broadcast: September 15, 2000
Gerd Logan is a macho reporter (quote: "A reporter who has only a spark of honor in his body goes under with his report!" ), Played by Chris Geletneky . He mostly takes unnecessary risks in his reports, does not take warnings seriously and thus regularly provokes series of extremely serious to fatal injuries (e.g. headshots at Russian roulette ).
As a running gag he obviously dies in the end; Henry Gründler then moderates Chopin's funeral march accompanied by “Gerd Logan's very last report”, regrets the loss of his colleague and closes with the topic on which the resurrected Gerd Logan will report next week.
Lindenstrasse and Sesamstrasse
Episode 55 to 62.
Lindenstrasse on the corner of Sesamstrasse is a show in which Ernie and Bert are at home on Lindenstrasse and have rough jokes there. The episodes consist of cuts from the series Sesame Street and Linden Street , which were then re-dubbed. Lindenstrasse and Sesamstrasse was developed by Attik Kargar . According to an interview on a fan website, he got the idea when he happened to see a video tape on which half an episode of Sesame Street and half an episode of Lindenstrasse were recorded one after the other. When the producers of Sesame Street became aware of the show, they were not very enthusiastic about the portrayal of the originally child-friendly characters, and so Lindenstraße and Sesamstraße were finally discontinued.
Bernie and Ert
Episode 69 to 95.
Bernie and Ert is an obscene parody of Sesame Street . Bernie and Ert are two bisexual characters who resemble Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street , but each have only one eye, no nose and swapped hairstyles. Their rough and often violent jokes mostly revolve around crime , drug use , sadomasochistic and other mostly anus-related sexual practices, as well as the homosexual relationship between the two. They are therefore aimed exclusively at an adult audience. The jokes are always at the expense of Ert, who faints, suffers serious injuries or dies from some consequences. The figures were drawn by Attik Kargar and appeared in his book Zeltene Tiere . Using the caricatures and the stars of the children's series, Cordula Thonett (puppet theater in the cubicle) built the two puppets. On February 13, 2003, Bernie and Ert were dismissed because of legal concerns. However, both characters later appeared, this time masked and in sadomasochism, as stranger number 1 (Bernie) and stranger number 2 (Ert) in the Bullzeye section .
From August 2, 2013, Bernie and Ert and other one-eyed versions of Sesame Street dolls could be seen in the 10-part Tele-5 show Eye TV - The Crazy Puppet Channel .
Bad times, bad times
Episode 97 to 110.
Bad Times, Bad Times (SZSZ) is a parody of the soap opera Good Times, Bad Times . The actions take place in a four- person shared apartment whose residents suffer from severe depression . In each episode, several residents are killed at once by killing each other or, more often, themselves. Most of the time, however, someone survives in the end who then says a slogan that goes with the topic.
Of the four flat share residents, only three have a speaking role. The fourth person, whose face can never be seen, is the only one named: Clive. Clive always kills himself in the most spectacular way of the flat share residents. B. puts his head in a microwave oven or rotates himself through a meat grinder .
The actors included Carsten Beinlich , Attik Kargar and Marc Löb .
Bullzeye or "Popo Club"
Sequences 106 to 110 and 141 to 165.
At Bullzeye , one-eyed dolls live in a fictional city and cause all kinds of nonsense. There are five locations in this city : a table dance bar with two drunks; a sadoma club , called Popo Club , in which stranger number 1 ( Bernie in a leather mask), stranger number 2 ( Ert , also masked) and Winfried pursue their pleasures; a basement where two Arabic-looking characters ( Mufti and Rashid ) live and often joke about terrorist attacks; a house in which a mentally handicapped construction worker named Bruno lives with his wife Uschi ; a doctor's office with the doctor Dr. Anyway and different patients. The inventor of this series was Attik Kargar .
As of August 2, 2013, the dolls Unknown No. 1, Unknown No. 2, Bruno, Uschi and Dr. Anyway with the new Tele5 telecast Eye TV - The crazy puppet stations for ten episodes a new broadcast format with a new image. Bruno, Uschi, Dr. Anyway and new characters were presenters of a TV channel and parodied broadcast formats such as home shopping , news and The Harald Schmidt Show . The two strangers could still be seen in the Popo Club, but received new votes.
Zacherl - Simply ...
Episode 113 to 165.
In Zacherl ... is a parody of the cooking show Zacherl - Cook Simple! . At Zacherl… it's mostly not about cooking, but about everyday situations. These are "simply" mastered with abstruse methods, e.g. B. "Just take a shower", "Just drink" or "Just start a nuclear war". Ralf Zacherl is played by Marc Löb , his nasal pronunciation and his appearance (beard and bald head) are parodied. Ralf Zacherl himself appeared as Ralf Zacherl in some episodes (e.g. in "Simply clone").
The Minister of Health advises
Episode 125 to 139.
The Health Minister advises is a parody of Ulla Schmidt (played by Carsten Beinlich ), which in short contributions in the style of The 7th Sense urges the population to lead a health-saving lifestyle. The clip of the contribution was always underlaid with the theme song from The 7th Sense . The parody derives much of its wit from Schmidt's caring advice, for example: Sometimes with absurd comments and not infrequently in occasionally rough, style-rich language ("You know it: You are 80 years old and break your ass in downhill racing"; or responding to the possible consequences of poor dental care: "The consequences are clear: you are biting into an old bread roll and suddenly half your mouth breaks off ”). At the end, Ulla Schmidt always says goodbye with: “All the best! Your Ulla Schmidt! "
Open channel
Since episode 132.
In Open Channel , videos of stereotypical “local events” and banalities, which in reality also occupy a large part of regional news, are broadcast. The speaker has the appropriate accent (e.g. Berlin, Hessian or North German). The sub-headings are named Open Canal Süderbrarup , Open Canal Nippes or Open Canal Oer-Erkenschwick .
Uncle Bums
Episode 141 to 151.
Uncle Bums is a parody of the Uncle Ben’s known from advertising . His pasta and barbecue sauce are presented as a panacea in absurd situations. Uncle Bums is played by Volker G. Schmitz. Quote: “It doesn't have to be, because now there is Uncle Bums noodles! Simply pour Uncle Bums noodles on <thing>, stir, done! Because Uncle Bums noodles don't stick! "
CSI: Wanne-Eickel
Since episode 166.
CSI: Wanne-Eickel is a parody of the well-known CSI series from CBS . The experts in forensic evidence are Horst Kasallek (played by Carsten Beinlich ), Wolfgang Konopka ( Marc Löb ) and, in some episodes, Annette Kersch ( Virginia Beckmann ). The two "investigators" are deliberately portrayed as incompetent. They do not recognize obvious facts etc. In addition, they often walk around with a flashlight held over their shoulder, based on the original series. At irregular intervals, CSI parodies were also broadcast that played in other locations (e.g. CSI: Tokyo , CSI: Berlin , CSI: Hamburg ) or people ( CSI: Roberto Blanco , CSI: Udo Lindenberg ), other ( CSI: Stasi ) and other series ( CSI: use in 4 walls ) take a shovel.
Angie's diary
Since episode 166.
Angie's diary is a parody of Angela Merkel , from whose fictional video diary is reported. Angie is played by Carsten Beinlich , voiced by Anne Onken . As a running gag , at the end of almost every episode Helmut Kohl comes to visit, who is shown oversized, with only stomach and hands being seen. Angela Merkel then hands him something that is tiny in his hands. For example, a cheese wheel, which for cabbage is a cheese nibble a few centimeters in diameter. The voice of Helmut is from Teddy Schulze . Sometimes this running gag also works the other way round, so that Kohl gives Angela something that is small for him, but great for her. The diary also appeared every week in the podcast on Apple iTunes .
The Hollywood reporter
Since episode 169.
The Hollywood reporter reports from Los Angeles at irregular intervals , whether about the election in Germany, Halloween or Carnival in Hollywood . Jessica Mazur takes to the streets of LA and questions the Americans.
Tokyo Motel
Since episode 179.
Tokyo Motel is a parody of the band Tokio Hotel . The focus is on singer Bill (played by Carolin Kebekus ), who is portrayed as a girlish wannabe rocker. He is also shown as a toddler in almost every episode. B. On his music stand during rehearsal there is a piece of paper with the text "Alle Meine Duckchen". He also gets his distinctive long hairstyle by getting an Elvis Presley haircut and then having to go outside, whereupon his hair becomes quite straight from the rain.
The Harleys
Since episode 179.
The Harleys is a parody of the documentary soap American Chopper and its protagonists who constantly yell at each other and insult each other . The people involved (Paul Teutul Sr., Paul Teutul Jr. and Vincent DiMartino) were named Papa, Udo and Jan-Erich on Friday Night News . The funny thing is that, in contrast to the original, Papa and Udo shout at each other harmless things, e.g. B. how great they think the new petting zoo. At the end Jan-Erich can be seen alone in the picture and comments on the blaring with one word, e.g. B. "Dummies". Originally, original scenes from the docu-soap were re-dubbed. The scenes were later re-enacted, presumably because of legal concerns. Jan-Erich, who never said more than one word (if at all), was also dispensed with from September 2006.
The theme tune was the classic motorcycle rock " Born to Be Wild ", but in a deliberately mild cover version of the group Stars of Stage and Screen sung by a woman .
Individual evidence
- ↑ quotemeter.de - From: RTL puts "Friday Night News" off
- ↑ The best false reports to read . Online at www.planet-surfeu.de.
- ↑ Stars of Stage and Screen: Dying To Meet You (2002); Stars of Stage and Screen: "Born To Be Wild" .
Web links
- Friday night news in the Internet Movie Database (English)