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Barbara Schöneberger moderates "Do you understand fun?": Resilience training with the entertainment balancing instance
Photo: Wolfgang Breiteneicher / SWR
As a prank, it would have been very funny and, on top of that, unexpectedly edgy: at the start of her premiere broadcast of »Do you understand fun?«, Barbara Schöneberger would sing, plow, dance through her glittering opening number, let herself be lifted up by decor men - and then playfully whisper to her contritely that the spectacle was unfortunately broadcast as silent pictures together with her welcoming monologue due to a sound glitch, which of course would have been just a joke, which is why the number would have been delivered again with the finest sound quality after one had feasted sufficiently on her shocked face.
So if Schöneberger had been impregnated with a small steel plunge pool for all the fun she had as the new moderator of the traditional,
In fact, the transmission error was real, her song went unheard by the television audience.
Lines like "My dress fits like concrete/for the Eurovision" could only be heard in the live stream, but the welcome and guest presentations were also lost on the digital channels.
Advanced resilience training
Most moderators would have let this mishap lurch at least briefly, but Barbara Schöneberger recommended herself that evening as an undeniably indestructible entertainment force and ideal speaker for resilience courses.
Half an hour later, in conversation with guest Hans Sigl, she sounded out the extent of the breakdown, then sang a few lines of her opening song again, and you would have expected that she would say: Oh come on, what the heck, I'll lead just open the whole bang again, music please!
Already in the little film shown at the beginning, in which she is loaded at one of her concerts (in which a supposed fan chains himself to her with handcuffs on stage and then can't find the key again), she showed the greatest possible composure.
“Can you pull my hair out of my armpits a bit here?” she instructed the bondage guy, and then, completely unperturbed by his clasp fiddling, began her next song: “Don’t be disturbed—it’s just a small one Austrian working on me.«
Schöneberger could actually be a great asset for »Do you understand fun?«, whose straightforward humorous premise - »hehe, we're smarter than this bowl there!« - has long been a taste relic similar to those crusty sticky candies that elderly aunts used to have sometimes pick from the bottom of their handbags.
To do this, however, she would have to be given more freedom, in which she could better exploit her special capital, this rare freedom from shame, than in the really endless rounds of talks with her guests, who at least manage to make you wish for the next little loading film.
Unspectacular harmlessness
From the beginning of the show, Paola tells how it was for her to be on a singing tour without a cell phone, when husband Kurt could only call the hotel in the evening, then it's about her mini dress that she wore at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968, it captivated with St. Gallen embroidery.
Jana Ina Zarella thinks that her husband Giovanni looks better and better the older he gets, he was recently a guest on Italian television in a show by Michelle Hunziker, which is why a topless photo of Michelle's new boyfriend is immediately shown and discussed , his name is also Giovanni.
As a viewer, you feel like you're accidentally sitting in strangers' living rooms and would like to leave, but also don't want to interrupt their chat.
The loading films themselves are unspectacular harmlessness: people park their skis in specially set up ski parking zones and clamor because they have to pay a fine and prove with Christmas presents photos that the skis even belong to them.
Influencer twins Lisa and Lena dabble as celebrity decoys in the role of slow-witted baked goods saleswomen.
In general, many well-known people are used as scammers, but apart from Schöneberger himself, no celebrity is made fun of.
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Photo: Benno Kraehahn / SWR
Hans Sigl, costumed as a fashion designer, has a muscle man with a pink cape and flowerpot hat strutting around at a fake catwalk casting – the nicest thing about this clip, however, is the reaction of an elderly woman when Sigl takes off his mask: “That’s the mountain doctor, yes, lick!«.
Giovanni Zarella appears in a small film as a sleazy hotel porter who, for fun, reproduces common prejudices about Italians: he is extremely oily with women, wants to sell hotel rooms on the sly and sell fake watches to guests.
"He's just an Italian, that's their mentality!" says one of the jokers, of course, and anyone who thinks that's funny probably actually laughs at the photo of a cactus field that was sent in and awarded a "Do you understand the joke?" bathrobe with a toilet sign in the middle: spikes, bum, ouch.
The more elaborately staged punishment of a spectator nominated by his wife, who regularly gets on the nerves of those around him with moderately tasteful pranks, is more successful.
Now, during a nightly examination in the sleep laboratory, using manipulated surveillance videos and a body double, he is convincingly persuaded that he was sleepwalking and marauding through the premises in a Batman costume, that he had saved a cat from a burning house in this outfit and had taken on other smaller superhero jobs.
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Photo: Benno Kraehahn / SWR
This is actually one of the few jokes that can compete with the retro clip from 1980 that is also shown.
Its setting couldn't be simpler: a small group of employees forms into a human worm, which hangs behind any passer-by on the street and from then on follows them in single file - simple but delicious Dadaism when the goose people sort themselves as in a particle simulation , then form, disperse in between if the pursued stops irritated, and finally come together again to form a waggle appendage.
For the finale, Barbara Schöneberger is then strapped to a turntable.
From now on, at the end of each show, something surprising should happen for her, she explained at the beginning, and now Giovanni Zarella and Hans Sigl first fiddle her pumps off her feet so that her guests can then throw bags of paint at her in a rotating manner.
"Fun is better than war," read a child's drawing that preceded the show.
You can hold on to that for these minutes.