Nude Skydiver Video

I don't know who first captured this mpg off of German TV, but it's a winner. You'll be laughing for hours. Show your friends!

Download nude skydiver movie (over 4 megs)
NOTE: This link was corrected on 18 May 1999. It should work OK now. Apologies!

The TV Total host, and the studio audience's reaction.

It's from a show called "TV Total". Here's what my cousin Jonas said about the program itself. Jonas is a German high school student who provided the translation below (with, of course, the approval of his father):

"We've got your e-mail and we immediately knew which TV show you mean. It's called TV Total and it's on the channel PRO SIEBEN (http://www.prosieben.de). Daniel [my brother] and me watch this show every week. In the show Stefan Raab, the host, imitates famous or not so famous people and shows the best cuttings of all the talkshows which were on TV in the previous week. He always invites three guests who have done something strange or funny and at the end of the show one of the guests wins a funny award by a vote of the studio crowd."

What's he doing? Watch the mpg and see!

"After I had read your mail I at once visited your Internet site to download the video. I had seen it already on TV and I think it is cool that a video of a German TV show is on an American homepage."

[Ed. note: Isn't it odd that we Americans are liberated and clever enough to invent the Internet, but we have to be shown how to use it by German high school students? This video could never be shown on "America's Funniest Home Videos", yet there it is on German TV, being healthily watched by German teenagers. It's time for America to catch up to the rest of the civilized world and join the 20th century, don't you think?]

Thanks to Jonas for providing, also, the following text and translation:

Ja, und jetzt meine Damen und Herren habe ich mir gedacht, was könnte denn noch nackt Spaß machen und ich bin darauf gekommen: Fallschirmspringen!	Yes -- and now, ladies and gentlemen, I was wondering -- what else would be fun if done naked -- and I came up with: skydiving! [The video clip begins.]
Schauen Sie sich das hier an: OK, den Fallschirm haben sie noch angezogen, sicherheitshalber...	Look at this. [He chuckles.] OK, they are still wearing their parachutes, ha ha... for the sake of safety... [audience laughs at joke]
...man weiß ja nie. Und jetzt gleich, passen Sie bitte auf! Passen Sie bitte genau auf ... hier	...you never know [when you might need one!]. And now, in a second, take a look here! Take a look exactly here...
...eijeijeijeijei ...autsch.... ha ha ha oh	...aye yae yae ...ouch.... ha ha ha oh...
[Audience laughter] [Unintelligible] [Cheers and applause]

And now...

A Pen is Central Editorial

Speaking for the Management,
here is our Site Manager,

Mr. Jim W.

Let's get serious for a moment.

This clip is a wonderful example of the overwhelming power of the Internet to move us, inspire us, and give meaning to our mundane existence on this otherwise trivial little planet we call "earth."

Is the Internet an efficient communications medium, keeping family members in touch with each other?

Yes.

Is the Internet a thought-provoking purveyor of culture to the masses?

Yes.

Does the Internet epitomize the American pioneer spirit, and embody the very best that America has to offer the world?

Again, I say the answer is self-evident: Yes.

Just watch the video!

Consider this:

The video is in German, but its language is universal.
Everyone -- and I mean everyone -- instantly gets the point of this video:
- no matter their language,
- no matter their culture,
- no matter their religion,
- no matter their sexual orientation.
In fact:
- I laughed at this video.
- You laughed at this video.
- Jerry Falwell laughed at this video.
- Our mothers laughed at this video.
- The Pope laughed at this video.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger laughed at this video.
- Even Jesus would have laughed at this video!
  - Note: No disrespect intended.

This video clip is the culmination of over two thousand years of the advance of Western civilization. This clip alone justifies the billions and billions of dollars which we have spent developing the Internet, educating our children, and living the principles of freedom every day of our lives. This clip single-handedly has the power to lead us out of the morass we call human existence -- the answer to our prayers, our hope of future salvation.

It happens to be in German, but its language and its appeal are world-wide. It is all the magic and potential of the Internet -- of human communication -- of love -- of life itself! -- rolled into a single monumental and overwhelmingly inspiring achievement.

And it's even pen is-related -- which is why we posted it here on Pen is Central.

Consider this:

Men and women can laugh together at this video.
Adults and children can laugh together at this video.
Rich and poor alike can laugh at this video.
Northerner and Southerner, Union and Rebel can laugh together at this video.
Heterosexual and homosexual and bisexual can laugh together at this video.
Black and White can laugh together at this video.
Irish Protestant and Catholic alike can laugh at this video.
Jew and Arab and Gentile and German can laugh together at this video.
Serb and Armenian can laugh together at this video.
Hutu and Tutsi can laugh together at this video.
Even Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan can laugh together at this video.

Get my point?

Its appeal is universal. It is the very essence of what it means to be human. The video clip lasts but 39 seconds -- yet it encapsulates all of human history, all of what is right and proper and decent and worthy in our civilization: the freedom to be different, the freedom to express the human spirit, the freedom to document one's triumphs, and the quintessentially human ability to react to unexpected challenges.

It is accessible. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It represents Everyman. It is eternal.

I am a university professor; I have studied these things. I am a certified sexologist, and I know what I'm talking about. Hearken unto me: this is the real thing -- even more so than Coca-Cola.

Should our culture perish, and should future interstellar explorers happen upon this benighted little corner of the universe, if they had but 39 seconds to spare trying to understand what human civilization had been about -- well, as you can imagine, these are the 39 seconds I would choose to show them.

They would watch. They would see as if with new eyes. (Assuming that these aliens had eyes.)

They would laugh. They would weep! They would send it to their friends! (Assuming that aliens have friends.)

In short: They would understand! Oh, yes! They would understand! Remember: Everybody's got one -- and this video proves it.

Yes, this clip exemplifies the power of the Internet to illuminate, to expand our boundaries, to entertain, to unite us in our common humanity (ahem) in the face of considerable cultural hurdles and misunderstandings. The Internet will lead in the coming millennium to peaceful coexistence and a degree of world harmony previously unknown to humankind since our expulsion from the Garden of Eden -- and this video clip will take us there.

Obviously, the arrival of world peace itself will be heralded by the dissemination and appreciation of this video.

Yeah, dude. Cooool!

Yeah, right.

Apparently another German student has a TV Total fan site located here. It's rudimentary as of 13 May 1999, but might develop into something in the coming weeks.

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