SNL Japanese version of Th Office

[Knife-Fingered Sue Sanderson]

My sister just sent me the link to this. It gave me a giggle :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXL8r6rqGc

[koku]

This is the best thing ever. I've watched it like 5+ times now.

[Kai]

Couldn't watch the video cause it was taken down.:meh:

[Duke Luke of Juke]

NBC material never lasts long on youtube.

You can watch it here: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=252558

[Kyletherealninja]

I thought it was hella dumb. An actual Japanese version of The Office might be pretty interesting if they could find a way to make it funny/parodize Japanese office worklife.

[koku]

I thought it was hella dumb. An actual Japanese version of The Office might be pretty interesting if they could find a way to make it funny/parodize Japanese office worklife.

Nothing on Japanese tv is funny. :]


I kid. I kid.

[TommyA]

I was uninterested till the guy said "It's funny because it's racist!"

My girlfriend and I laughed out loud there.

[MNJetter]

I was most amused by the monologue before the actual skit started. The skit reminded me of Japanese class when the professor had us make up roleplays. Same trying-vaguely-to-be-authentic-but-been-watching-too-many-Kurosawa-films accent.

[Televisions_Nick]

I think this is the best skit they've done in years. The joke (obviously) isn't that it's racist, the joke is that it's just the American Office with a Japanese "skin." (Which was the criticism of the first season of the American Office, that it was just the British Office with an American "skin," though the show eventually came into its own in a big way.) The person who wrote this obviously has a love for Japan AND a love for the Office, because there's a lot of jokes in there that aren't easy jokes to get if you've never been to Japan. And the mimicry of the visual language of The Office is spot-on.

But yes, though Japan doesn't really DO sitcoms in the traditional sense, a truly Japanese version of The Office would be very, very interesting, if they kept the comedy uncomfortable and naturalistic like they have in the British and American Offices, though that's really not part of the Japanese comic sensibility. (See any of the office scenes in j-dramas, where the office's "characters" like the blowhard boss, slutty secretary, etc, are all very, very broadly drawn.)

[japanat]

The "Radio Taisou" imitation cracked me up (the old folks wake me up every morning at 6am from April to December)

[ミュー]

I wish they had actual Japanese people who looked like the characters on the Office do the skit. Then it wouldn't matter that I don't know who they're parodying.

[MNJetter]

The "Radio Taisou" imitation cracked me up (the old folks wake me up every morning at 6am from April to December)
Yeah, same here. The character on the actual show totally seems like the kind of guy who would insist on doing it, too.

[stsparky]

Then this is called for:
Algorithm Exercise - Pitagora Suicchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqymBgc06k - the steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNkZpl3vpg - fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7SARvxs6E - more fun

[koku]

Then this is called for:
Algorithm Exercise - Pitagora Suicchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqymBgc06k - the steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNkZpl3vpg - fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7SARvxs6E - more fun


Lmao I sang that in front of Japanese class once. It was appropriate for the class and awesome. :clap:

[The_Penguin]

NBC material never lasts long on youtube.

You can watch it here: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=252558
*ROFL* Watching white guys bow like that made break out laughing.

[MNJetter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7SARvxs6E - more fun
Bwahaha, Algorithm taisou done together with the Television taisou girls. I haven't seen that one.

The "steps" link, though, is for a different dance than the other two.