There's little funny about North Korea's comedy TV show, which has no jokes
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There was this one time, I threw a missile at south Korea.
DURRR HURRR, UR SO FUNNEH NK.
This shit beats Seinfeld any day.
[quote]Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin are having a summit meeting in Moscow.
During a break, they're bored, and they decide to take a bet to see whose bodyguards are more loyal.
Putin is on the 20th floor and calls on his bodyguard Ivan, opens the window, and says: "Ivan, jump!"
Sobbing, Ivan says: "Mr. President, how can you ask me to do that? I have a wife and child waiting for me at home"
Putin sheds a tear himself, apologises to Ivan, and sends him away.
Next, it's Kim Jong Il's turn. He calls his bodyguard Lee Myung Man and yells: "Lee Myung Man, jump!"
Not hesitating for a split second, Lee Myung Man is just about to jump out the window.
Putin grabs Lee Myung Man to prevent him from jumping and says: "Are you out of your mind? If you jump out this window, you'll die! This is the 20th floor!"
Nevertheless, Lee Myung Man is still struggling, trying to escape Putin's embrace and jump out the window: "Mr. Putin, please let me go! I have a wife and child at home!"[/quote]
This made me laugh
[quote]Chang Man Yong works on a collective farm in North Korea. He goes fishing, gets lucky, and brings a fish home. Happy about his catch, he tells his wife: "Look what I've got. Shall we eat fried fish today?"
The wife says: "We've got no cooking oil!"
"Shall we stew it, then?"
"We've got no pot!"
"Shall we grill it?"
"We've got no firewood!"
Chang Man Yong gets angry, goes back to the river, and throws the fish back into the water.
The fish, happy to have had such a narrow escape, sticks its head out of the water and cheerfully yells: "Long live General Kim Jong Il!"[/quote]
Did they just laugh about their poverty?
[QUOTE]At High School No. 1 in Pyongyang, a girl brags to her teacher about the cat she's got at home: "Our cat has just given birth to seven kittens. All of them just stick close to their mother, they feel really comfortable, and sleep all the time. They're all true communists."
A few days later, the teacher asks the girl: "Are the communist kittens at home growing up nicely?"
The girl says: "Comrade teacher, big trouble! They've all opened their eyes, and they've all renounced communism!"[/QUOTE]
I'm surprised they put that. It was also funny.
NK seems like a horrible place to live.
FYI those jokes obviously aren't from the show itself as they all are rather obviously anti-regime. They're probably from the South or North Korean people.
In all dictatorships there have always been jokes about the regime but i think no governments have prosecuted them as hard as NK probably does. I don't want to know what you get for saying anything negative about the government and great leader Kim in a country where you get sent to camp for working too slow.
[QUOTE=Tu154M;21692461]FYI those jokes obviously aren't from the show itself as they all are rather obviously anti-regime. They're probably from the South or North Korean people.
In all dictatorships there have always been jokes about the regime but i think no governments have prosecuted them as hard as NK probably does. I don't want to know what you get for saying anything negative about the government and great leader Kim in a country where you get sent to camp for working too slow.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's why the jokes where explicitly separated from the portion about the TV show, and where called "bonus NK humor", not "jokes from the show".
This is a hell of a lot funnier than those "Disney sitcoms".
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;21692742]This is a hell of a lot funnier than those "Disney sitcoms".[/QUOTE]
Less brainwashing too.
i find this one funny
[quote]Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin are having a summit meeting in Moscow.
During a break, they're bored, and they decide to take a bet to see whose bodyguards are more loyal.
Putin is on the 20th floor and calls on his bodyguard Ivan, opens the window, and says: "Ivan, jump!"
Sobbing, Ivan says: "Mr. President, how can you ask me to do that? I have a wife and child waiting for me at home"
Putin sheds a tear himself, apologises to Ivan, and sends him away.
Next, it's Kim Jong Il's turn. He calls his bodyguard Lee Myung Man and yells: "Lee Myung Man, jump!"
Not hesitating for a split second, Lee Myung Man is just about to jump out the window.
Putin grabs Lee Myung Man to prevent him from jumping and says: "Are you out of your mind? If you jump out this window, you'll die! This is the 20th floor!"
Nevertheless, Lee Myung Man is still struggling, trying to escape Putin's embrace and jump out the window: "Mr. Putin, please let me go! I have a wife and child at home![/quote]
it means if Kim's bodyguard doesn't jump, they are gonna kill his family for being disloyal
[QUOTE=wanksta11;21693373]it means if Kim's bodyguard doesn't jump, they are gonna kill his family for being disloyal[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I was about to strangle the neighbors cat because i was angry that i couldn't figure out the punchline.
North Koreans have TVs ?
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;21693575]North Koreans have TVs ?[/QUOTE]
Bahahaha! OF course, what, do you think this is a third-worl-wait.
[QUOTE=fskman;21696940]Bahahaha! OF course, what, do you think this is a third-worl-wait.[/QUOTE]
NK isn't third-world, it's Absolute Communist Dictatorship.
Technically it'd be considered second-world.
Really rather surreal...
[QUOTE=starpluck;21690213]This shit beats Seinfeld any day.[/QUOTE]
Take that back. Seinfeld rules.
My buddy's from South Korea, and he (along with his family) says North Korea is the worst shithole he's ever seen.
Propaganda there tells the people that North Korea is best place to live. All the fucking TV shows, books tell how great kim junk is.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;21697750]NK isn't third-world, it's Absolute Communist Dictatorship.
Technically it'd be considered second-world.[/QUOTE]
Actually, they've completely abandoned communist ideals.
They have Full House in North Korea?
[quote]Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin are having a summit meeting in Moscow.
During a break, they're bored, and they decide to take a bet to see whose bodyguards are more loyal.
Putin is on the 20th floor and calls on his bodyguard Ivan, opens the window, and says: "Ivan, jump!"
Sobbing, Ivan says: "Mr. President, how can you ask me to do that? I have a wife and child waiting for me at home"
Putin sheds a tear himself, apologises to Ivan, and sends him away.
Next, it's Kim Jong Il's turn. He calls his bodyguard Lee Myung Man and yells: "Lee Myung Man, jump!"
Not hesitating for a split second, Lee Myung Man is just about to jump out the window.
Putin grabs Lee Myung Man to prevent him from jumping and says: "Are you out of your mind? If you jump out this window, you'll die! This is the 20th floor!"
Nevertheless, Lee Myung Man is still struggling, trying to escape Putin's embrace and jump out the window: "Mr. Putin, please let me go! I have a wife and child at home!"[/quote]
That was actually quite funny.
[QUOTE=Upgrade123;21698311]My buddy's from South Korea, and he (along with his family) says North Korea is the worst shithole he's ever seen.[/QUOTE]
Friend of my dad went there once:
- He left for it about 6 months later than planned because of all the bullshit.
- They just introduced the cellphone (this was about a year ago).
- But it didn't work outside of NK and you couldn't receive calls from outside NK, obviously.
- He heard a rumor that you weren't allowed to take pictures that showed how bad shit was. He copied all his pics to his laptop just in case. Funnily enough, he was officially requested to erase his memory card at the airport, or he wouldn't be allowed through.
Its amazing how such masses of people can be brainwashed like so.
This is one of the best short documentarys I have saw on NK. As someone mentioned before they set up stage for visitors.
[URL]http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3[/URL]
I actually remember a danish documentary, where 3 danish commedians get's into North Korea claiming to be actors... That was pretty funny.
I could see this getting a cult following
That's getting pretty close to the textbook definition of a dystopia.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21699673]Actually, they've completely abandoned communist ideals.[/QUOTE]
I know, but they still consider themselves Communist.
However, as you said, they lack any Communist ideals.
[QUOTE=wanksta11;21693373]i find this one funny
it means if Kim's bodyguard doesn't jump, they are gonna kill his family for being disloyal[/QUOTE]
I though it meant he'd rather jump out the window than put up with his wife and kids.
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