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Lauri Wylie (British author) is the author of the sketch. He is said to have written it in 1920. The play was officially premiered in 1948 at the Duke of York's Theater in London.Ah my misstake, thought it was a german show from the start.
In 1962, Dinner for One was rediscovered for television by Peter Frankenfeld and director Heinz Dunkhase in Blackpool, England, a stronghold of variety theater. On March 8, 1963, the sketch was shown in the live show Guten Abend, Peter Frankenfeld, hosted by Frankenfeld. The sketch was so well received that NDR invited Frinton and Warden back to NDR's Studio B in Hamburg-Lokstedt from April 30 to May 4, 1963 for a recording of the sketch. Freddie Frinton did not actually want to perform in Germany. He had been a troop supervisor in the Second World War and did not have a high opinion of Germany, so he refused to perform the sketch in German.
In short, it is a German television production in English.