Answer Me This!: Big in LUXEMBOURG
So. Just before Christmas 2007, we decided to embark upon a Crazy Scheme to storm the Luxembourg iTunes podcast charts. And lo, here is a film of the results:
The Saturday Telegraph duly published an article about the jape, which you can read HERE.
Furthermore, we were guests on Sky News on 17th January to talk about it all:
To find out more about the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, click HERE. It’s really quite an underrated place.
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August 6, 2021 at 1:52 am |
[…] • Answer Me This, the long-running monthly comedy advice show by Helen Zatlzman and Olly Mann that’s also one of the U.K.’s most successful independent podcasts, is coming to an end this week after 14 years and 400 episodes. Good night, sweet AMT. Shout out to that one time in 2007 when Zaltzman and Mann stormed the streets of Luxembourg to push the podcast up the Luxembourgian iTunes charts. […]
April 9, 2009 at 4:49 pm |
aha , well put ralph
February 16, 2009 at 8:46 am |
Mr Schmit, you have done the folk of Luxemburg no favours. You appear completely humourless and I suspect that you don’t get invited to many parties in Cardiff. You clearly have no understanding of irony and self deprocating humour which is a main stay of British humour.
You clearly are not representative of the Lux podcast tastes else Helen and Ollie wouldn’t have made it to no 3 in the lux charts.
What I don’t understand is why you chose to study in Cardiff, a city full of people with a great sense of humour, or is this the only City on the planet that will cater for your sex predilections.
Good on yas Helen and Ollie – keep up the good work.
January 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm |
put some bird feed/ wildlife feeds outside your garden.
January 1, 2009 at 2:34 am |
thats a bit sad i mean , no offence , but the trip to luxemburg was done for comedic effect , they could of done similar things in any country no need to take it personally , watching the video made me think that helen and oli are hilarious and didn’t at all make me think anything bad about any country , just chill
September 15, 2008 at 7:11 pm |
Although the import rate is credit-crunchingly bad.
September 14, 2008 at 8:14 pm |
That French reject – oops, Luxembourger – needs to buy a sense of humour from the AMT! Superstore.
August 10, 2008 at 4:07 am |
You lux’s obviously have a great sense of humour.
August 10, 2008 at 4:05 am |
Why dont you chilll ouutttttt
Comedy has to take the mick out of SOMETHING
god
March 19, 2008 at 12:54 pm |
I know someone whose surname is Luxembourg, and he is quite boring too. Sorr – Did I say “too”? I meant to say “unlike the country of Luxembourg”.
My mistake.
March 17, 2008 at 10:26 pm |
Xavier… succinctly making the point just how ‘funny’ people from Lux really are… they’re not anal beaurocrats in the slightest!
March 3, 2008 at 8:59 pm |
Sorry, it’s me again,
After my last comment I looked a bit over your site and found some more B****sh*t:
Quote:”That notwithstanding, there’s yet more excitement at Answer Me This! as this week Helen and Olly made their joint TV debut on Sky News, talking about their Luxembourg jape (probably the first time Luxembourg’s made it onto the news in quite a while).”
Jean-Claude Juncker the prime minister of Luxembourg makes it into your times almost every fortnight – I told you you had a wrong opinion. Don’t get me wrong, but I just can’t stand untrue comments. I felt free to add some recent “Times”- articles to this mail:
6th of April 2007
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister from 2001 until last year, was considered too much of a maverick to exert significant influence, the study concluded. In contrast, some respected leaders of small countries, such as Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg, Europe’s longest-serving Prime Minister, punched far above their weight.
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Mr Juncker told the report that “greater member states have a greater say. We never admit it, of course, but one has to acknowledge that geography and demography are playing a role”.
21st of April 2007
In Berlin, finance ministers from the eurozone shrugged off the euro’s surging strength. Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister who chairs meetings of Ecofin, said: “The growth situation in our area is improving, is robust, is broadening.”
10th of July 2007
If Mr Strauss-Kahn becomes the IMF managing director in October, Frenchmen will be at the helm of four leading international institutions: the IMF, the European Central Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A key factor in the quick decision was a fear, expressed by Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, that the EU would look indecisive if the selection process became drawn out and several candidates entered the ring.
16th of July 2007
Mrs Merkel signed up not only Sarko but also Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg to save the last EU summit.
Is this the future of the Franco-German partnership – not an ideological axis committed to deeper European integration but a kind of crisis-busting A-team? And, if so, will Britain be part of this new pragmatic order? So far, the leaders know almost nothing of each other.
23rd of August 2007
Eurozone economy Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Ecofin council of finance ministers, said that recent financial market turmoil does not threaten economic growth in the eurozone.
15th of September 2007
The European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, said that the “Eurogoup” of finance ministers from eurozone nations agreed that the economic impact of the global credit squeeze would be “very, very small”, despite an increase in risks. Jean-Claude Juncker, the Eurogroup’s chairman, added a sour note to the ministers’ chorus of reassurance when he told reporters that, as markets worldwide remain in the grip of volatility sparked by the credit crunch, “I don’t think the worst is behind us.” Mr Juncker conceded, however, that “this is not a scientific answer”.
3rd of October 2007
European discomfort with the € is spreading beyond France. The head of the group of eurozone finance ministers has added his voice to demands for the US to make a greater effort to curb the $’s fall.
Jean-Claude Juncker criticised the perceived indifference in Washington toward US policies — including trade and budget deficits — that most economists believe are contributing to the intense downward pressure on the $. His remarks helped to break an eight-day streak of records for the €, which peaked at nearly $1.43 on Monday in New York.
11th of October 2007
Eurozone economy Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said the €’s record strength against other leading currencies could weigh on eurozone economic growth next year, blaming “the historically high foreign exchange rate of the euro in relation to other currencies — the dollar, the yuan and the yen”.
13th of October 2007
Who is not on Gordon Brown’s side regarding not to conduct a referendum on the EU reform treaty?
Mr Brown and before him Mr Blair stirred up the wrath of several federalist leaders for not going along smoothly with plans for a more integrated EU. The angry bunch includes Romano Prodi, of Italy, José Luis RodrÍguez Zapatero, of Spain, Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg, and Guy Verhofstadt, of Belgium.
21st of October 2007
“Countries like Britain, that are always claiming special clauses and using them, that always want to get out of common policies through opt-out clauses, need to know that they will become something like partial members,” warned Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg.
26th of November 2007
Although the ¥ has risen by about 5 % against the $ this year, the ¥ has weakened by almost 7 % versus the €, raising the cost of European exports. European policy-makers are reluctant to put a figure on the appreciation that they would like to see, but Mr Juncker indicated recently that the ¥ was undervalued by as much as 25 %.
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“We Europeans want a regular, structured, macroeconomic dialogue with China, which will not just be about the evolution of the Chinese currency,” Mr Juncker said. “I really want to have a quiet debate with our Chinese colleagues about the situation of international currency questions – and that is best done with direct talks.”
27th of November 2007
The three [J.-C. Trichet, president of the ECB, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who is also chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers and Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s monetary affairs commissioner] engaged in talks with People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, urging Beijing to let the ¥ gain more against the euro. The EU is anxious to put the brakes on a trade deficit with the world’s fastest growing major economy that is swelling by $20 million an hour.
4th of December 2007
Inflation: Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, said that soaring inflation was becoming a risk to the bloc as its 13 members struggle to cope with slower economic growth.
12th of January 2008
Sarkozy last year said Blair was one of two obvious candidates for EU presidency. Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister, was the other name proffered by the French premier. [what Sarkozy says and thinks are probably two different things]
16th of January 2008
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium Prime Minister, is understood to have been voicing concerns felt privately by several others, including Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, who heads the Eurogroup of single currency members.
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Referring to Britain’s decision not to join the euro, a spokesman for Jean-Claude Juncker said that Mr Juncker “has noticed that the UK by its own choice is not sitting at a table where decisions are taken regarding currency and finance, so he has to take a few initiatives to stay in the game”.
19th of January 2008
Mr Blair has been openly nominated by President Sarkozy of France but in recent days there has been much speculation in Brussels that this was simply a smokescreen to smuggle in his preferred candidate, said to be Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, an arch-federalist considered unacceptable by Britain. [Just like Britain by most other European nations, where the opposite counts for Luxembourg]
March 3, 2008 at 8:46 pm |
G’Day,
This looks, like you’ve only asked the minority of Luxembourgers, who can’t speak proper English or you just cut the English-speakers out you got in front of your camera. But I can tell you, one thing that will not make Luxembourgers laugh is to call the statue of the old Grand-Duke’s Mum an “iron b**ch”, that’s for sure!
I am from Luxembourg, currently I’m a student in Cardiff, I’ve lived in Australia and was pretty much on any other continent on the planet. I can say with confidence, that I could list 100+ examples on what’s wrong with the UK, which I’d like to spare you at this point but the only true thing in your “Luxembourg-Podcast” is probably that many people in Luxembourg-City are not as extroverted , than in some other places (which annoys me too). Over 60 % of the day population in Lux-City are foreigners, mostly French and Portuguese, by the way.
My proposal would be, give it an other go in Luxembourg and check out what really matters about this country in the heart of Europe, to sort out the wrong opinion that you and everyone else, who saw this podcast, might have now from the Grand-Duchy. This time try not to interview brainless kids, who don’t know from boredom what to do with their time, but hanging around in the town center or try to answer to questions they did not understand… (- or speak to a bronze statue, she will not answer in a hundred years 🙂 )
Greetings,
aXe
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