Christoph Waltz On The Difference Between Germans & Austrians | CONAN on TBS

Christopher, thank you very much for being here, I told you on stage, I am a big fan of yours and your performance in Glorious Bastards. I think the ruin has ruined my marriage because every time that movie comes out, I can't stop watching it and I'm always watching you. I loved them. your performances blue blue what is that blue blue blue blue you interrupted me for blue blue no one gets away with it but you

christoph

e calm down blue blue thank you for being here although very excited you know what I love me about I love about love me I slept there I can't talk tonight because of Google uh you're an amazing actor you're so intense uh in that movie you can be so glorious bastards you're so charming and suddenly this dead look that you can give, that I find so creepy that you're giving me right now, yeah , you're so good at it, I know you're there, you're from Austria, it's like that and uh.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans, I don't know enough about the rest of the world and I'm familiar with Germany, but I don't know the

difference

, let's say, in culture between, let's say, Austrians and Germans, can you enlighten us? the

difference

between

austrians

and

germans

is like the difference between a battleship and a

waltz

a battleship and a

waltz

that's the difference between really yeah so there really aren't many similarities is what you're saying how are

austrians

different ? I mean, I know there are the Germans, there is the cliché, which is that they have no sense of humor, that's not a cliché, it's 100 percent true, well, it's kind of like, you know, Germans, I hope I don't hurt the Nobody's feelings again. but james is on tv, yeah i mean the

germans

might find out about this, well you know, they won't, they won't find out about this, please speak freely, it's just thanks, it's just us in a fake movie , please speak, thank you.

I think the Germans are always looking for a head-on collision, you know, and it never, rarely has any kind of grace and melody and rhythm to it, it's just and, uh, I know it's irony, it doesn't make sense, they just say exactly what. they want to say exactly that everything else is dubious and slimy and they are suspicious of yes, yes, I am very dubious and slimy, so yes, I love it when a guest comes out and says that, but you Austrians, then you have a sense of humor. They're fine, Austrians tend to make life easier for them, so first of all, they're very polite, and second of all, they don't mean it, and it's just that you know a way of communication and exchange and, in the half, you take a sip. um, you know what can go wrong, all right, well, I'm Irish, I get it, yeah, exactly the same, we're very nice, but we don't mean it, not at all, but, but, you know, Ireland has nine Nobel Prize winners in literature, nine, yes.

I mean, that says something about communication in a culture, yeah, and um and um, that the difference between in all seriousness, if that's appropriate, no, we'll eliminate this part, um, the difference between Austrians and Germans is very similar. to English and Irish, right. much more of the sense of the silly and the absurd