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The sketch parodied German stereotypes, especially those pertaining to German seriousness, efficiency, and precision.Originally created for the Toronto company of the Second City comedy troupe, Myers later imported the character to television for the Canadian sketch comedy show It's Only Rock & Roll and the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
This is covered briefly on the Mike Myers page, but for a little more info: Dreamworks brokered a deal between Universal, Imagine, and Myers. Universal and Dreamworks wanted to get into bed on cofinancing kids' movies. Dreamworks wanted Myers free to replace Chris Farley in Shrek. So, they made some kind of deal that convinced everyone.
Dieter Meier (born 4 March 1945) is a Swiss musician, conceptual artist and entrepreneur. He is the frontman of the electronic music group Yello , which was co-founded (with ex-member Carlos Perón ) by music producer Boris Blank .
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John Frusciante cited the group's ability to experiment of as an inspiration when working in a recording studio. [109] In 1989, a sped up version of Kraftwerk's song "Electric Café" began appearing as the theme song for a series of sketches on Saturday Night Live called "Sprockets", a German television spoof by Mike Myers.
In June 2000, Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for US$ 3.8 million for backing out of a contract to make a feature film based on his SNL character Dieter. Myers said he refused to honour the US$ 20 million contract because he felt his script was not ready. Myers countersued and a settlement was reached after several months where Myers ...
Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. [2] For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983.
Dieter Hallervorden (born 1935), German comedian; Dieter Thomas Heck (1937–2018), German television presenter, singer and actor; Dieter Helm (1941–2022), German farmer and politician; Dieter Hoeneß (born 1953), German football (soccer) player; Dieter Kühn (born 1956), East German football (soccer) player; Dieter Lüst (born 1956), German ...