Every year on New Year’s Eve, a longstanding German tradition has been to gather around the television and watch an 18-minute, black-and-white British comedy sketch from 1963. It’s called “Dinner for One,” and features a wealthy old woman and her butler. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman explain the tradition.
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