Englische Ansage
1977 German comedy sketch by Loriot / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Englische Ansage" (German for "English Announcement") is a one-person comedy sketch written by German humorist Loriot. It shows a continuity announcer who summarizes the plot of an English crime series, but fails because of the hard-to-pronounce names. Alternative titles of the sketch are "Inhaltsangabe" (Synopsis) and "Die englische Inhaltsangabe" (The English Synopsis).[1]
The sketch was first aired in November 1977 in the fourth episode of the TV series Loriot [de]. The announcer was played by Evelyn Hamann. A text version of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and has since been included in several anthologies of Loriot.