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Sad queue in front of a white wall: In their latest prank on ProSieben, Joko and Klaas tried to drive away viewers
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What does maximum boring television look like?
Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf pursued this question in their latest prank on Wednesday evening on ProSieben.
The two entertainers used the 15 minutes of freely available broadcasting time they had gained the previous evening, which they can regularly wrest from their employer on the show “Joko & Klaas vs. ProSieben”, for a kind of uprising against the broadcaster.
They tried to drive away their TV audience completely: After a short introduction, the duo could be seen for the rest of the fifteen minutes of prime time, queuing wordlessly in front of a white background.
In addition, the moderators played unsettling monotonous synthesizer music.
In addition, references to the program of the competition were displayed.
With the project, they wanted to get on their employer ProSieben "as much as possible," said Joko at the beginning.
You had set yourself "to peter the ProSieben quota down to zero with your help," said Klaas.
Accordingly, the treadmill at the bottom of the program advertised the competition during the prank: for example an environmental documentary on 3sat, an Oscar-nominated drama on Arte, the »Wilsberg« crime thriller on ZDFneo, the revived RTL show » The price is hot” or the Netflix series “Ozark”.
Consumer tips were also displayed on how to make better use of the time: »Baking tray badly burned?
Get up now, soak with baking soda or baking powder and just clean it.« Joko and Klaas insulted their own program in the running text as »quotaless cheek«.
It is not yet clear whether the entertainers were successful with their project: the ratings will not be known until Thursday morning.
ktz/dpa