''Dittsche: Das wirklich wahre Leben'' ( English: ''The Really Real Life'') is a German improvisation comedy

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starring Olli Dittrich and Jon Flemming Olsen. Olli Dittrich plays the

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Dittsche, who frequents a local fast food diner and converses with the proprietor about current events, drawing heavily on bizarre tabloid headlines to formulate perplexingly insane theories about their background. Schildkröte (German word for

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), a bar regular (played by Franz Jarnach), looks on mostly passively in the background. The show is unscripted and is broadcast live from a real fast food diner in

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. One special feature of the show is the camera perspective, which changes in a fixed pattern and is digitally processed to mimic surveillance cameras. The show also features many celebrities from German TV and sports, who appear as customers of the diner.

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