I am a 32 year old American...discovered Max through Terry Gilliam's film "Jabberwocky". Max is absolutely brilliant in that film. Terry said Max basically invented the "silly walk" that John Cleese made so famous in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Some people don't get physical comedy, like this ENTIRE audience apparently!!
Good old Max! Never say die, Max!! Good old Max!! A Pro to his fingertips!! Keep right on to the end of the road, Max!! Show 'em you're British, Max!! Always leave 'em begging for more!!
YES RONNIE BARKER. HARRY H CORBETT, DICK EMERY, TONY HANCOCK. WILL HAY, ARTHUR HAYNES, SID JAMES, MAX MILLER. LEONARD ROSSITER, MAX WALL, KENNETH WILLIAMS AND HARRY WORTH WERE 12 OF THE VERY BEST PAST UK COMEDIANS OF WHICH WE HAD MANY, BUT NOW NONE WITH EQUAL EXCELLENCE AND TALENT !!!!.
is that a joke?, absolute shit from start to finish, what in gods name is even remotely funny about that. How the hell he managed to get on TV is beyond me.
+Paul Kersey I was being sarcastic. It always astounds me to see people take the time to come across a video on youtube and get so angry, simply just someone is getting more attention than they could ever muster from their troll-cave/bedroom. If I see something I don't like, I just move on. I would imagine denzilite is about 13- 17 years old. ??
Sad to see Max struggling here. He's relying on just the visual, where he was more than that. There is an interview between Les Dawson and Michael Parkinson where Les describes how difficult it was to do his act in Germany. Not surprising. Different countries with the same language don't always share the same comedy tastes, let alone a different language all together. Plus, German audiences seemed to be very restrained years ago, just look at their equivalent to Top of the Pops. The audience would just sit there. Also, David Hasselhoff appeared to have a big music career there, so go figure.
Music is a universal language, though, or at least it's fairly easy for Anglos to communicate with Germans by music and vice versa. MW was trying here to communicate with a specialised form of comedy of which an audience of strangers would know nothing, so it's obvious he would die on his feet. The fault lies with those booking for the show.
@@vivianstanshall8121 ...wrong...the audience appreciate in a different way and they saw Max and other acts as being art. The German audience loved every second and he performed there many times. Their response was out of respect for a fine artist and it was seen as disrespectful to respond out loud whilst he was performing...
So many comments here calling the German audience names. So, greetings from Germany here. Perhaps we can have a discussion about what is funny in this presentation and what not, or why something is perceived as funny at one time and place but not at another, but perhaps without calling each other stupid or Nazis for those anyway interesting differences? By the way, as a professionalist Mr Wall should probably have known this when appearing in a German TV show. As well as the director of the show should have known it.
Max performed in Germany many times and was much loved by audiences there. There lack of response is down to respect....it is seen as disrespectful to react out loud as it can interrupt the performer. This type of visual humor is much loved in Germany...maybe more than any other type of humor....
I'm a Brit, and I have been living in Germany for 36 years. I totally disagree with the racist comments here. Every country has its own sence of humour, and this particular performance didn't go down well with the audience because that's not the kind of humour that is know or performed here, whereas the very famous - but unknown in Britain - "Dinner for One" with comedian Freddie Frinton, which is shown every New Year's Eve in Germany since the early 1960's, is a massive hit! Seen it? If you haven't, that's something one's missed 😉
Max's routine here was very surreal even for the British audiences. Today it's even more of an alternative humour. I wondered whether the heel clicking might have offended the audiences somewhat? Interesting that Max wasn't well known in Germany, yet Freddie Frinton and Der 90 Birthday is virtually unknown in Britain.
Stop bad mouthing this guy, Max made many people laugh and just because he’s playing to a different audience doesn’t mean he’s a bad comedian. This man will always be a fabulous entertainer.
Are the audience asleep or deceased, such little reaction, max was so funny, and i still refer to him joking with my girls that i look like max wall in my leggings and ankle boots🤣❤️
The German's plainly didn't get Max's humor and maybe Max was running out of ideas at this stage.........but the lack of response from the audience makes this a little uncomfortable to watch
I don't think many of the British got Max's humour. He was more alternative than the alternative comedians. Still brilliant though. The part at the end with audience members and polling booths makes me think it might have a been a German generation game. Imagine that! Now it's their turn to be Professor Wallovski!
@ronnie doorzon He's not my cup of tea. Didn't find him funny in England, so I can see why the Germans didn't. Used to scare me to death when I was a child. Child catcher like.
I was in hysterics but dear Max died here...strange because the Germans have a similar warped sense of humour to the Brits.....oh dear...he didn't go down well. I'd have thought the monkey walk would have titillated them as they think we are a bunch of Island Monkeys...
Great example of the cultural differences between countries, the differences between British and German sense of Humor. Clearly, the German audience was not getting it.
This was such a clever routine.The audience just didn't seem to get it l..bizarre. Must be the hardest thing as a comic to perform to such an unresponsive audience.I don't think they knew what to make of him at all.
I think the Nazi heel snapping to attention thing at the beginning would not have warmed him to German hearts, even if the rest of his performance had been comic genius.
Lets be honest here. The reason no one laughed is because it was shit. Not because they are German. If anything, their sense of humour was ahead of its time in that they realised it was shit at a time that UK audiences would watch any old crap. If any 'entertainer' tried that now, outside of their own living room, they would receive an equal amount of silence from an audience.
Das Publikum hätte sicher gelacht, wenn es auch nur ansatzweise lustig gewesen wäre. Aber sorry, was war an diesem Auftritt lustig? Allenfalls das Schlußstück. Findet man wohl nur als Brite witzig.
Poor old Max. Dying a death in Germany. Shame. You were a legend, Sir.
saw max wall on tv as a kid in the 1960s- 70s 😉😃
loved Max to bits, his face at 5.46 tells a tale bless him! you can not win them all as they say
I am a 32 year old American...discovered Max through Terry Gilliam's film "Jabberwocky". Max is absolutely brilliant in that film. Terry said Max basically invented the "silly walk" that John Cleese made so famous in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Some people don't get physical comedy, like this ENTIRE audience apparently!!
Check out his one man show at the Greenwich, Aspects of Max Wall (parts of it are on RUclips. It's a great performance.
will do! Thanks.
Right you are. But we still see this through our 2019 lens, and this one from the past is almost surreal.
Good old Max! Never say die, Max!!
Good old Max!! A Pro to his fingertips!!
Keep right on to the end of the road, Max!!
Show 'em you're British, Max!!
Always leave 'em begging for more!!
Jan Stroopetje and scratching the glowa!
The great Max Wall, The man had more talent in his little finger nail than the lot of today's mediocre crop put together! RIP Sir!
YES RONNIE BARKER. HARRY H CORBETT, DICK EMERY, TONY HANCOCK. WILL HAY, ARTHUR HAYNES, SID JAMES, MAX MILLER. LEONARD ROSSITER, MAX WALL, KENNETH WILLIAMS AND HARRY WORTH WERE 12 OF THE VERY BEST PAST UK COMEDIANS OF WHICH WE HAD MANY, BUT NOW NONE WITH EQUAL EXCELLENCE AND TALENT !!!!.
Amazing! Enjoyed it... freaky stuff, man
absolute genius of comedy!!!!! thanks for the upload :)
is that a joke?, absolute shit from start to finish, what in gods name is even remotely funny about that. How the hell he managed to get on TV is beyond me.
denzilite I must apologise for the humour not being to your taste. How may I make it up to your sir?
+Joe Hope don't appologise to denzilite,it's his fault for not having a sense of humour.Max was the greatest visual comic of his day.
So unfunny its fucking embarrassing to watch!
+Paul Kersey I was being sarcastic. It always astounds me to see people take the time to come across a video on youtube and get so angry, simply just someone is getting more attention than they could ever muster from their troll-cave/bedroom. If I see something I don't like, I just move on. I would imagine denzilite is about 13- 17 years old. ??
Sad to see Max struggling here. He's relying on just the visual, where he was more than that. There is an interview between Les Dawson and Michael Parkinson where Les describes how difficult it was to do his act in Germany. Not surprising. Different countries with the same language don't always share the same comedy tastes, let alone a different language all together. Plus, German audiences seemed to be very restrained years ago, just look at their equivalent to Top of the Pops. The audience would just sit there. Also, David Hasselhoff appeared to have a big music career there, so go figure.
Music is a universal language, though, or at least it's fairly easy for Anglos to communicate with Germans by music and vice versa. MW was trying here to communicate with a specialised form of comedy of which an audience of strangers would know nothing, so it's obvious he would die on his feet. The fault lies with those booking for the show.
An artist at work.
Painful to watch dear old Max Wall performing his act with hardly a chuckle from the audience, but the old trouper just carried on regardless.
haha I love Max Wall but there's a bit of a cultural clash going on here
+incongra nah not that its just germans dont have a sense of humor its known throughout the world
@@vivianstanshall8121 ...wrong...the audience appreciate in a different way and they saw Max and other acts as being art. The German audience loved every second and he performed there many times. Their response was out of respect for a fine artist and it was seen as disrespectful to respond out loud whilst he was performing...
it's a shame the audience didn't get his sense of humor, Max Wall was a genious and carried on like a professional that he was, good for you Max !!!!
Fair play to the German audience - not a titter during his act, yet Max walked off to thunderous applause.
I loved him when I was a kid seeing my parents laugh so funny
The Germans have NO sense of humor thats why.
Sad and painful . RIP Max Wall
So many comments here calling the German audience names. So, greetings from Germany here. Perhaps we can have a discussion about what is funny in this presentation and what not, or why something is perceived as funny at one time and place but not at another, but perhaps without calling each other stupid or Nazis for those anyway interesting differences? By the way, as a professionalist Mr Wall should probably have known this when appearing in a German TV show. As well as the director of the show should have known it.
Don’t mention the war😂😂😂🇬🇧
in front of the germans, goose stepping in 1975 classic!!
Mr Fawlty Goose stepped in front of Germans in 1975 also 😂
ruclips.net/video/f--KSEkC8Ik/видео.html
We have found the missing link! :-)
Max performed in Germany many times and was much loved by audiences there. There lack of response is down to respect....it is seen as disrespectful to react out loud as it can interrupt the performer. This type of visual humor is much loved in Germany...maybe more than any other type of humor....
There were not laughing in 1966 either, when Hurst scored his hat trick!
How did zey vin de vur ?
I don’t think the Germans were ready for Max Wall
I think I will never been ready for Max Wall
I'm a Brit, and I have been living in Germany for 36 years. I totally disagree with the racist comments here. Every country has its own sence of humour, and this particular performance didn't go down well with the audience because that's not the kind of humour that is know or performed here, whereas the very famous - but unknown in Britain - "Dinner for One" with comedian Freddie Frinton, which is shown every New Year's Eve in Germany since the early 1960's, is a massive hit! Seen it? If you haven't, that's something one's missed 😉
Max's routine here was very surreal even for the British audiences. Today it's even more of an alternative humour. I wondered whether the heel clicking might have offended the audiences somewhat? Interesting that Max wasn't well known in Germany, yet Freddie Frinton and Der 90 Birthday is virtually unknown in Britain.
I'm embarrassed by the moronic racist statements, and apologise on their stupid behalf.
It's a bit of an overstatement to say that saying the Germans don't have a sense of humour is racist.
I have seen it, and as you say different humour for different folks, as I was not terribly amused by it.
This is the most bizarre video I have ever seen.
Try watching the official video of 'Frontier Psychiatrist' by Avalanches.
Tough crowd !
The ORIGINAL /MoonWaker'.....Micheal must have see this guy...Brilliant!
The master...
The great Max,and the worst most unappreciative audience in the world.
They probably only saw the name Rachmaninoff and thought it was the man himself, so when Max Wall appeared. Then a bit disappointment crept in.
Bayshuck well, they are german...!
I hear "crickets",
Bayshuck The audience is German what would you expect
So ein sh..
Stop bad mouthing this guy, Max made many people laugh and just because he’s playing to a different audience doesn’t mean he’s a bad comedian. This man will always be a fabulous entertainer.
They forgot the laugh track
That was well trippy
Who said the Germans do not have a sense of humour....I heard at least two people laugh...or were they coughing!
Ross Poll Clerk I saw Max in England at about this time. We were rolling in the aisles. We appreciated his talent.
Same here - you know about "Dinner for One" ? shown every year all around the world especially in Germany yet unknown here!
I am afraid they where coughing..
One of a kind . What a great entertainer !
Odd thing comedy. What thrills one generation can turn another stone cold. Must be a lesson lurking here somewhere for as all.
Da war gar nichts zum lachen. Einfach nur phantasieloses Kasperletheater!
They were clapping because they were glad to see the back of him.
Who else thinks he looks like Lord Farquad off Shrek
I think he looks like he could be Edna Mode's brother... Depeche.
The footwear!!!
Germans and comedy... tricky combination...
The fact that the audience aren’t cheering loudly does not mean they’re not enjoying it.
Are the audience asleep or deceased, such little reaction, max was so funny, and i still refer to him joking with my girls that i look like max wall in my leggings and ankle boots🤣❤️
Germans
If anyone ever says comedy was great back in the day just answer..max wall.
That would never make the X factor auditions
The drummer at the end is making a right dogs dinner of it ....
obviously, germans don't understand british humour,
max wall is brilliant
wow , tough gig.
obviously before funny was invented !
The only thing that would amuse this audience would be an open grave.
I See a lot of iggy pops stage persona in max wall
The superb Max Wall ,up against a bit of Teutonic indifference here I suspect.
Wrong format, 16:9 instead of 4:3
ya yes
Tough crowd !
Boy, them Germans are a tough audience to impress.
The Germans still wear those kind of trousers
Victor Borge any day.
Tough crowd
As noted by other commenters, the audience is either dead or asleep. Very weird on many levels.
The German's plainly didn't get Max's humor and maybe Max was running out of ideas at this stage.........but the lack of response from the audience makes this a little uncomfortable to watch
I don't think many of the British got Max's humour. He was more alternative than the alternative comedians. Still brilliant though. The part at the end with audience members and polling booths makes me think it might have a been a German generation game. Imagine that! Now it's their turn to be Professor Wallovski!
I think there was a sign on the wall with "forbidden to laugh"
Think your right
I remember this cat, when I was 6, hey the Germans did not like this one bit
Max Wall
The nightmare that entertainers have gone through for generations, the unresponsive audience.
Germans. What can I tell you...,
@ronnie doorzon He's not my cup of tea. Didn't find him funny in England, so I can see why the Germans didn't. Used to scare me to death when I was a child. Child catcher like.
What is Lord farkward doing?
Oh dear. First knee jerk reaction was this was some sort of weird tribute act - where's the trademark wig? That didn't help.
I was in hysterics but dear Max died here...strange because the Germans have a similar warped sense of humour to the Brits.....oh dear...he didn't go down well. I'd have thought the monkey walk would have titillated them as they think we are a bunch of Island Monkeys...
Is this comedy?
Stuff of nightmares.
like a lead balloon
There was people laughing
So , was meinen Sie?
The German's have no word for 'fluffy'... explains it all!
Great example of the cultural differences between countries, the differences between British and German sense of Humor. Clearly, the German audience was not getting it.
...and how those Germans laughed!
Ah well... The Bosch got mystified but Max got paid for mystifying them. Result. God bless you, Max. 👌
This was such a clever routine.The audience just didn't seem to get it l..bizarre. Must be the hardest thing as a comic to perform to such an unresponsive audience.I don't think they knew what to make of him at all.
The Berlin Wall!
Tough german audience !!!!!
You got this guy or you didn't a very funny man.
I think the Nazi heel snapping to attention thing at the beginning would not have warmed him to German hearts, even if the rest of his performance had been comic genius.
They are mainly visual gags but nobody is laughing. Sad.
Chewy
Well that’s germans for you
Better than the comedians that you have now
Der hätte Dracula spielen können....🤪
German audiences just watch politely whatever kind of act it is or they did do in those days anyway.
Where's me wash board?
Its actually quite a talent, try to copy it, not easy🤨
P.S. The Germans definitely have a sense of humour, it's just different to the British one. No clichés please.
dry half wit humor at best
Sourkrauts.
We all know the Germans are not known for their sense of humour
max pretty much died on stage here, i think this is a micro masterpiece of funny visuals and piano.
How embarrassing !
Lets be honest here. The reason no one laughed is because it was shit. Not because they are German. If anything, their sense of humour was ahead of its time in that they realised it was shit at a time that UK audiences would watch any old crap. If any 'entertainer' tried that now, outside of their own living room, they would receive an equal amount of silence from an audience.
you are correct he is extreemly unfunny
Das Publikum hätte sicher gelacht, wenn es auch nur ansatzweise lustig gewesen wäre. Aber sorry, was war an diesem Auftritt lustig? Allenfalls das Schlußstück. Findet man wohl nur als Brite witzig.
This is just terrible
Bet Max was glad to leave the stage !
And so was the audience. A bit painful, this....
Hmmm lead balloon
Laugh ? I nearly started .
I thought this was a great, even with the humourless German audience. I think Max was known as a grotesque!