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Joe Boxer · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Location: Bundang, South Korea

Whoa!
I just checked out the Wikipedia site for SNL and the Korean version is like an expansion.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live
Go to the "International" tab.

Maybe it'll be ok??

Gorf · Joined: 25 Jun 2011

Somehow I doubt they'll be replicating the famous "www.clownpenis.fart" short.

That said, Japan tried this a few months ago and it was awful.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Korea would really be pushing the envelope if they showed (0:54 -) something like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJqSzQerSs&feature=related

As I said in the comment section, "[ . . . ] there would be complete chaos in Korea."

radcon · Joined: 23 May 2011

Wonder if they will do the Korean version of "D*** in a Box?"

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

^^ Mr. Pizza:)

Joe Boxer · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Location: Bundang, South Korea

I actually started having high hopes for the show, but...
nah.

It was supposed to start at 11, but they squeezed an extra 6 minutes or so of commercials in there. Then it opened with the Dynamic Duo (no, not Batman and Robin) for a way too long song.

Did anyone else watch it? The crazy doctor skit was pretty good, and the game show skit was ok (the gay guy was pretty funny!). Also, the guest host showed fake audition tapes for movies he supposedly tried-out for. That was pretty good.

The weekend update was the only time that a couple of politicians' names were used. Pretty tame, really.

Instead of a fake commercial, they had a skit about making fake commercials.

The whole stage area with sets was eerily similar to the real SNL's. Even panning past a clock on a lamppost to the main stage. Except the clock had a "Seoul Milk" sign. Geez.

All-in-all, pretty disappointing. It won't last. Lol, I think I read that critics said that about the real SNL, back in '75 Smile

happiness · Joined: 04 Sep 2010

i was wondering why would they be trying to make a snl here...

so i clicked on the wiki link

go to the international part

oh, Japan did it..

SO........( finish the thought, everyone here can do it lol )

im not watching it, theyll run out of material and ideas very soon.
watch any gag concert here and youll see the same material over and over, slapstick.

ill bet korean celebrites wont do it..

radcon · Joined: 23 May 2011

If Korea SNL made fun of Korean celebs in the same way as the real SNL, you would see Korean celebrity suicides go even higher than they are.

Joe Boxer · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Location: Bundang, South Korea

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

I saw bits of it Sunday night. It followed the format of skit comedy and had a (lame) musical guest. The goodbye from all the cast at the end with the same ending song was also there.

And yes, the show needs more guts in wanting to take on celebs and politicians.

seoulsucker · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject:

Do the actors/actresses in the skits ignore the audience and play only to each other or is it like every other Korean show where the 4th wall simply does not exist?

rhizome · Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Location: Toronto

bumping thread - so as not to make a seperate snl thread every time they do something noteworthy.

Joe Boxer · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Location: Bundang, South Korea

I caught it again last Saturday, or maybe the Saturday before. The guest host was a female that, forgive me, looked like a man in drag.
Did anyone else see that one?
The reason I ask is because in the middle of the weekend update, the "anchorman" presented a story about a recent bullying-induced student suicide. I was thinking to myself, "where the hell is he going with this?" And it was simply a public-service announcement in the middle of the weekend update! WTF?! I mean, there's a time and place for everything, right?
And using Seoul Milk in a sketch is so tacky, even it it supposed to be a joke. They already show the Seoul Milk logo on the clock as it pans past for every commercial break.
The best part about Korean SNL so far is that if you can make it through the episode, they play an episode of US SNL.

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

The U.S. SNL episode is usually hosted by a big name star like Jim Carrey and the channel only has the skits with the host in it.

Still, I'm hopeful that this will lead to bigger and better things in Korean "comedy."

Carbon · Joined: 28 Jan 2011

Koreans can't handle anything deeper than the three morons chanting "Kamsahamnida". Good humor is challenging, both to the viewer/listener and the culture. Korea is far too insecure for this; they are simply incapable of making fun of themselves. Modern Korean culture is completely vapid; an intellectual black hole.