Birthday: November 12, 1923 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Birth Name: Bernhard Victor Christoph-Carl von Bülow
Loriot was once best known as a cartoonist, with the distinguishing feature that all his characters had potato-shaped noses. In the 1960s, he presented the TV series "Cartoon" which featured short animated cartoons from all over the world. In between the clips he acted in little funny sketches. These sketches were by a long way the funnie...
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Loriot was once best known as a cartoonist, with the distinguishing feature that all his characters had potato-shaped noses. In the 1960s, he presented the TV series "Cartoon" which featured short animated cartoons from all over the world. In between the clips he acted in little funny sketches. These sketches were by a long way the funniest thing on German television and so Loriot was given his own TV show, only with sketches and no cartoons (except the odd one made by himself). This show turned out to be hugely successful and he was finally persuaded to lift this format to the feature film with Ödipussi (1988). Show less «
Jeder Säugling sollte sich so früh wie möglich mit einem Fernsehgerät beschäftigen, denn späte...Show more »
Jeder Säugling sollte sich so früh wie möglich mit einem Fernsehgerät beschäftigen, denn später hat er ja auch nichts anderes. (Vaguely: Every baby should get used to a TV as soon as possible, since there will be nothing else in his later life.) Show less «
Wie soll auch ein Säugling geistige Maßstäbe entwickeln, nach denen es sich zu leben lohnt, wenn ...Show more »
Wie soll auch ein Säugling geistige Maßstäbe entwickeln, nach denen es sich zu leben lohnt, wenn seine Strampelhosen Milliarden gekostet haben! (approx.: How should a nursling develop moral standards that are worth living for, when his leggings did cost a billion!) Show less «