Monday, February 22, 2016

USA and UK talk-show hosts

I've been stuck in the kpop blackhole for years despite wanting to come out of the addiction, which means I've watched subtitled shows for the longest time and even spent way too much free time hanging around on kpop forums. That is until recently when Conan O'Brien announced his trip to Korea.


Online forums started to discuss American and UK show hosts, and thus I've started to watch more of Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Dave Letterman and Graham Norton. Slowly I'm getting back into Western media, though my perspective is constantly trying to make sense of and blur the difference between Western and Eastern cultures and humor.

Korean shows and their hosts can actually be pretty great and with good humor. Forget Gangnam Style and Psy. Recently a show called The Genius has amassed a large number of Survivor and Big Brother fans, and also drew discussions on poker, board game and reality TV forums. Of course many people were dismissive and thought it would be a math show, Asians being uncool, etc. But there are many praises among the new fans, and a UK version is getting pitched.



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