Merry Christmas from Boring Belgium.wmv

Merry Christmas from boring Belgium, home to the world's best chocolate, beer, waffles, Michelin-starred restaurants, mussels and frites, Manneken Pis, and birthplace of the saxophone, surrealism, Tintin and the Smurfs.

This funny video is a comic response to the best-selling UK newspaper the Moon (famous for its images of fully-clothed young women on page 5) saying that Belgians are boring. The Belgian Tourist Office-Brussels and Wallonia prepare a Christmas present for the journalist who wrote the erroneous article. It turns into a Christmas office party like something out of The Office but more Belgian!

Credits

Concept: The Belgian Tourist Office-Brussels and Wallonia with Aviel Lewis and Jon Martin

Director, cameraman, editor: Aviel Lewis

Assistant and Moonmaker: Jon Martin

Cast: Rosa Barker, Deo Bongo, Sophie Bouallègue, Aviel Lewis, Philippe Marée, Jon Martin, Manneken Pis, Rym Neffoussi, Françoise Scheepers

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Merry Christmas
• Christmas video
• funny Christmas video
• funny video
• Belgium
• boring Belgium
• Christmas present
• The Office
• Chocolate
• Belgian chocolate
• Manneken pis
• comedy
• humor
• humour
• Belgian tourist board
• Smurfs
• saxophone
• Tintin
• Beer
• Belgian beer
• Belgian waffles
• surrealism
• Magritte museum Brussels
• Brussels travel
• Magritte
• office party
• christmas party
• christmas office parties
• Christmas office party

[etipeleg]

Nice! who made this video?

[Belgium]

Aviel Lewis was the Director, Editor and Cameraman.

For a full Crew list and more details just click on (more info) to the right of the video.

[Belgium]

This is a great experience we loved doing it! More to come soon?

[noobboy109]

Belgium is the best country. get over it/

[yana3227]

These people are sick! Belgium is the best country ever!!

[garybsg]

LOL from California

[gamepown88]

this vid is fucked up , and why is it engels instead of dutch ? zeg me waarom!?

[gamepown88]

@ProuDToBeDucth Fuck yeah!!! thx! :p

[inevergiveup1402]

@tukidream

LOL, believe me or not , i havent made check my battery yet ( haha) and i still got problems as the other day, i had left my radio on for a very short time and when i wanted to start the engine, it was not like it is usually , i mean it took more time to start haha, but i ll soon be on holiday , so ill do it ( errrr, yes , i WILL =))

[skeilak]

@tukidream

Never thought of the Kiwis as being particularly boring, but I'll take your word for it.

[tukidream]

@inevergiveup1402

Marie, any place where you are could not be boring, unless your battery goes flat again, lol.

[tukidream]

@skeilak

One weekend I spent a month in Christchurch New Zealand, I can't imagine Belgium could be that boring.

[skeilak]

@inevergiveup1402

I've never been there, but a friend of mine spent a month in Swizerland. He reported that the whole country was remarkably neat and clean, the people were all unfailingly polite, and goodness knows, everything ran on time...

But he also said, that as an American, the place was uncomfortably, "orderly", and so, rather boring.

[inevergiveup1402]

@skeilak

Yodeling ah yes, i didnt know what it meant but suddenly i did ! LOL

As soon as the banks close ! haha

I have been once on holiday with my parents and it reeked of money everywhere ! yuk !