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

[Applause] christopher thank you so much for being here i told you by stage i am a huge fan of yours and uh your performance in in glorious bastards i think ruin has ruined my marriage because every time that movie comes on i can't stop watching it and i'm always watching you i loved your performances blue blue what's that blue blue blue blue you interrupted me for blue blue no one gets away with that but you christophe quiet blue blue thank you for being here though very excited you know what i love me about i love

about love me i slept there i can't speak tonight because of the google uh you are such an amazing actor you're so intense uh in that movie you can be so in glorious bastards you're so charming and then suddenly this dead-eyed stare that you can give that i find so chilling that you're giving me right now yeah you're so good at that uh i know that you are there are uh you're from austria is that that's right and uh there are like many americans unfortunately i don't know enough about the rest of the world and

i'm familiar with familiar with germany but i don't know the the difference say in the culture between say austrians and germans can you enlighten us oh the difference between austrians and germans is like the difference between a uh a battleship and uh a waltz a battleship and a waltz that's about the difference between really yeah so there's really not a lot of similarities is what you're saying how are the austrians different i mean i know there's the the germans there's the cliche which is they have no sense of humor do they that's not a cliche

it's just 100 percent true well it's it's it's sort of you know um germans i i hope i'm not hurting anybody's feelings again but james does go out on television yeah i mean the germans might hear about this well you know they won't they won't hear about this please speak freely it's just thank you it's just it's just us in a fake movie please speak thank you i think germans always go for for a head-on collision you know and and it's it's never it's it doesn't it rarely has sort of grace and melody and rhythm

it's just and uh i know irony there's no sense of they just say exactly what they mean exactly everything else is is dubious and slimy and they're suspicious of yeah yeah i'm highly dubious and slimy so yeah i love it when a guest just comes out and says that uh but you uh austrians then have a sense of humor they're well it's it's austrians tend to make their lives easier so first of all they are very polite and second they don't mean it so and and it's just you know a mode of communication and exchange

and in between you have a sip so um you know what can go wrong very nice well i'm irish i understand yeah exactly well the same way we are very nice but we don't mean it no absolutely but but but you know ireland has nine literature nobel prize winners nine yeah i mean that says something for communication in a culture yes and um and um that the difference between in all seriousness if that's appropriate at all no we'll cut this part out um the difference between austrians and germans is very much like english and irish

right very much right there's the there's there's more of the sense of the silly and the absurd