Christoph Waltz On The Difference Between Germans & Austrians | CONAN on TBS

(Original airdate: 12/14/11) Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz explains the difference between Germans and Austrians.

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[alexandervapnyar]

"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian." - Billy Wilder, a Hollywood legend and a native of Vienna.

[fraggzbN]

As a certified German, I can assure, that we have great sense of humor. This video, for example, almost made me smirk slightly, but I had to go back to work.

[jamietodd]

*Austrians:* Very polite but don't mean it.
*Canadians:* Very polite and do mean it.
*Australians:* Very impolite but don't mean it.
*French:* Very impolite and do mean it.

[fumble_brewski]

WW1: Because someone shot an Austrian.
WW2: Because someone didn’t shoot an Austrian.

[ponyboy]

My grandparents are German and they have these hilarious conversations, but save the laughing until the end because its more efficient.

[Mimi-cqbg]

A British family adopts a baby from Germany. They name the boy Gus, short for Gustav. He’s a studious infant, rarely crying and rarely causing much a fuss. The baby grows into a serious but healthy little boy, the only hiccup is that he doesn’t talk. The parents don’t care, they love Gus and he’s a great kid overall.

Then, one day, when Gus is seven, the family is at a restaurant and out of nowhere, for the first time EVER, Gus lifts his head and tells the waiter his soup is cold. His parents are blown away, Gus can speak!! They wipe the tears from their eyes and ask if he can speak, why hasn’t he spoken til now? Gus ponders for a moment and replies:

“Up until now, everything has been satisfactory”.

[martinhonan]

My mother was German and was one of the funniest and witty people I ever knew. In highschool we were the house where the kids hung out alot because of my mom's humor and no filter vocabulary. Miss you and love you mom.

[t-mac]

We sometimes get a few Germans checking into the hotel I work at. I have seen MANY nationality’s but the Germans have always been the friendliest, politest, and funniest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

Just thinking about them makes smile. Such good people!

[KrisVesel]

Billy Wilder: 'The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.'

[wojciechgrodnicki]

For Germans, a situation may be serious but never hopeless.

For Austrians, a situation may be hopeless but never serious.

[seanm]

Spike Milligan's in his war memoirs talks about meeting a former German soldier after the war. It turned out they had both served in the artillery and had actually been firing shells at eachother in some of the same battles in North Africa. After meeting, the German gentleman sent spike a note which read something like "Dear Spike, it was a pleasure to finally meet you. Sorry I missed you in 1942." Hilarious!

[Kharn]

As a German, this was very funny to me. Always interesting how people from other countries see yours. I will say though that there's certainly regional differences as well in Germany, in terms of demeanor. For example, I was born in the Rhineland, western part of Germany, my family is from there and I lived there for the first 10 years of my life and still visit my family regularly. We moved up to northern Germany, and mostly people in the Rhineland are more jovial, but sometimes a bit disingenuous. Up here in the north they're usually more reserved, but very genuine.

[raphaelchagas]

Guy that speaks 12 languages:
"blue blue"

[oliomphalos]

That blue-blue thing could've been painfully awkward in another talk show but Conan somehow managed to make it freaking funny.

[lurker]

I'm Polish that lived 7 years in Ireland and now I'm over 10 years living in Austria. His description of Austria and Germany being like Ireland and Britain is spot on. That's how I always explain the difference I feel between Austria and Germany

[plexyglass]

His fartherly warmth in Django is so fun to watch, id love to see a similar character in his own movie

[PCTV]

*"Blue blue."*
- Christoph Waltz

[rjreddenbaker]

Almost 30 years married to a fantastic German lady. She laughs on occasion... but she understands and appreciates the physics of the head-on collision.

[ceridwen]

As an Italian who studied in UK with the Erasmus scholarship (pre-Brexit) and met other people from all over Europe, Germans were always friendly, ready for a joke, they were the only ones who got my puns based on stereotypes who are widely known in Italy...they tend to have a matter of fact humor that's not always easy to catch, but so are the people from my part of Italy so 🤷‍♀️

[thomass]

There’s an old German tale

A German baby is born and never speaks, his mother is worried that he may be mute, one day when he is about 12 years old and he is eating dinner with his parents he finally says “The dinner was a bit cold” the mother is shocked to hear him finally speak and asks why hadn’t he been speaking until now? And he replies “because up until now everything was adequate”.