Crazy anarchic actions

Please don’t copy Joko and Klaas’ action!

The entertainers Joko and Klaas took over the ProSieben program for a whole day on Sunday and got up to all kinds of mischief, like setting off fireworks in a cellar.

(Bild: Krone KREATIV, ProSieben)

With a 24-hour anarchic campaign, entertainers Joko and Klaas not only disrupted the ProSieben TV program. For more than an hour on Sunday, the entertainers also hijacked the program of sister station Sat.1. 

After the entertainers set off a large firework display in a cellar in Berlin in the morning, their home channel ProSieben warned potential copycats.

"The fireworks in the cellar were supervised by professionals. There was no damage to the building. The following clearly applies: Please do not imitate it at home," a ProSieben spokesperson told the German Press Agency on Sunday about the live spectacle that night.

In response to a dpa inquiry, the Berlin fire department said that there had been "no operations" in connection with the "action" described.

This video of the action is circulating on Twitter:

Entertainers Joko and Klaas took over the ProSieben program at midnight on Sunday, right after "The Masked Singer", for an entire day. The two entertainers greeted the TV audience from a rooftop in Berlin. "I can say what I want. Shiteeeee - I can say that. But I can also say: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 24 hours of 'Joko and Klaas against ProSieben'," said Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (40).

Joko Winterscheidt (45) stood on a ladder at a skylight because he allegedly didn't dare to go up on the roof. At the start, the private broadcaster displayed the information that it had no influence on the scheduling of the broadcasting time. In the first half hour, the entertainers presented their planned program on a flip chart, which still left many questions unanswered. The two are expected to perform live acts again and again.

The planned program day of Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf

(Bild: ProSieben/Florida TV)

Fireworks in the cellar
The duo then carried fireworks into a cellar on the site in the east of the city. The station showed commercials in between. Then the two, who were outside, set off the fireworks. It could be seen through camera shots in the cellar and from outside looking at a window that fireworks were being set off. Smoke developed. The two then moved on through Berlin.

Joko and Klaas are program directors for a day

(Bild: ProSieben/Nadine Rupp)

Later, the two were seen in an apartment. Klaas sent Joko, whom he addressed like a child in an artificial parental tone, to bed. He put children's books by his bed and pulled out a children's toothpaste. Klaas announced live early morning sport for the TV audience at 9 o'clock. "And I don't know what other highlights will follow. Bye, good night."

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The first live sequence of the two entertainers ended after 75 minutes. This was followed by an alpaca presenter avatar.

Sat.1 studio hijacked
The entertainers also hijacked the program of sister station Sat.1 for more than an hour on Sunday.

Actually, joko and Klaas were only supposed to use the Berlin studio of Sat.1 breakfast television for their campaign on ProSieben as soon as it was empty. At least that's how it was initially announced. But the duo burst in during the last few minutes of the Sat.1 live show. The Sat.1 cameras filmed the two as they prepared the studio kitchen for their own breakfast. Suddenly Klaas asked: "Can we just take over the Sat.1 camera?"

The presenters in the studio did not intervene. As a result, Joko and Klaas' program could be seen on both channels, sometimes from different camera angles. Together with podcasters Jakob Lundt and Thomas Schmidt, the two spent an hour buying up second-hand goods from viewers for a lot of money - from red boots and video games to children's toys.

It initially remained unclear whether the hijacking of the second channel had been agreed with the television company. After an hour, the haunting ended on Sat.1, which then showed a game show. On ProSieben, on the other hand, Joko and Klaas broadcast webcam images from the Namibian desert showing oryx antelopes at a waterhole for around half an hour without comment.

The two recently won the entire program day on the show "Joko und Klaas gegen ProSieben". If the two win the show, they can usually do whatever they want for 15 minutes live on prime-time television the following day. The TV audience only finds out what is on the program live when the action begins.

This time they won 24 hours. According to the broadcaster, this is a one-off prize in the anniversary season.