Zwobot
Zwobot was the presenter of the eponymous program, which ran from January 14, 2000 to December 14, 2001 on VIVA Zwei . Zwobot was a sarcastic and usually bad-tempered microphone protector , which consisted of a black microphone protector with the VIVA Zwei logo and glued-on eyes.
concept
The Zwobot show was mainly in the form of a puppet show staged and contained some elements typical for such a Kasper and a crocodile. Most of the episodes of the hour-long program had a political or media theme and had three to eight moderation blocks, between which music videos were played.
In addition to Zwobot, various other dolls appeared in different categories, for example:
- “Seattle Jörg” with Seattle Jörg and his diary
- “Who's afraid of the bell monster?” With the bell monster and the cryptophone
- "Kroko, surrender!" With Wah Wah Binx and Kroko
- "Mediapark" with Floker and Huns
- "Kraku + NetNet"
- "Shoot the pianist from the planet of the apes" with the pianist
- "Gutter Kids"
- "The Kinky"
- "Mr. Explosion"
- "Terror Girl"
Charlotte Roche , Rocco Clein as Rocco Zwei and Markus Kavka had guest appearances in puppet form . Zwobot's most famous interviewee was Madonna in person.
The most popular and well-known episodes or series were:
- The diary of the Cologne taxi driver
- Star Wars Episode Two
- After the atomic holocaust
- Brandy distilling and cat shooting
- On drugs
- Two 1/2 weeks
Trivia
A special two-minute Zwobot video was the last broadcast on VIVA Zwei before it was closed on January 6, 2002 at 11:58 pm - it said "Zwobot is dead" and in it Zwobot sang about with other dolls from his own Broadcast the end of VIVA Zwei. This was followed by Mr. Explosion , known from the program - “today at VIVA Zwei” - before the transmitter was switched off at 00:00 and the logo of the successor channel VIVA Plus was displayed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ dermarius: Farewell to VIVA Zwei. August 4, 2007, accessed August 1, 2018 .