Happy New Year (a bit early)

[elisi]

Here, have the most delightful tradition from Denmark - the whole country watches this comedy sketch every year. <3

Watch on YouTube

Here's to 2026!

ETA: Realised I should have added more context - no one in the UK knows this sketch, but people in Scandinavia, Germany... [insert random countries] have a tradition for watching this stretching back years.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

That's completely mysterious to me. Why would Danes watch Brits being absurd?

[elisi]

Realised I should have added more context - no one in the UK knows this sketch, but people in Scandinavia, Germany... [insert random countries] have a tradition for watching this, stretching back years.

[jerusha]

What a charming tradition! Happy New Year!

[elisi]

I hope to get others on board... ;) Happy New Year!

[kazzy_cee]

I've seen clips of that sketch before (courtesy of QI!). So silly. Great to have a tradition like that though. Happy New Year!

[elisi]

It's so delightful (and only 10 minutes long!). And blessings upon Sandi Toksvik, flying the Danish flag. :)

Happy New Year!

[kerk_hiraeth]

For whatever reason I knew about this before this century started; may be from some documentary back when the BBC was worth something.

Before I started watching Buffy for sure.

kerk

[elisi]

For whatever reason I knew about this before this century started; may be from some documentary back when the BBC was worth something.
That does not surprise me, it seems the sort of thing that people have talked about. ^_^

Before I started watching Buffy for sure.
It's a tradition I learned from my parents.