'It's So Funny': North Korean Comedy Show Is Anything But (VIDEO)

The North Korean government controls every aspect of the country's media consumption, even it's comedy. "It's so Funny" is the state's "humor" show in which a man and a woman dressed in military garb talk about beans and other equally boring things. "If we farm in the way the General tells us, we will become happy," the woman says.

The follow report from New Tang Dynasty Television, an independent nonprofit television broadcaster headquartered in New York City, shows actual clips from the show and talks to a North Korean defector about his take on it. (Thanks for the tip, Byron M!)


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[SocialistDistortion]

03:42 PM on 05/24/2010

So in other words...it's their version of Fox and Friends.

[Macnos]

12:06 PM on 06/11/2010

Long Live the Dear Leader, he will guide us to everlasting glory.

Workers of the World, UNITE!

[Mort]

02:34 AM on 04/19/2010

Just have Lil Kim strut around on stage with his big hair and matching ego. Then pull a 3 Stooges on him with face slaps, a pie and trip him flat on the floor. I'd pay good money to watch that and laugh til I couldn't breathe.

[ghee99]

03:06 AM on 04/18/2010

comedians delivering dear leader's message....

that could NEVER happen here

(cough-daily show)

[LMPE]

01:01 AM on 04/17/2010

North Korea's version of "Fox and Friends".

[ManuOB1]

07:05 PM on 04/15/2010

I am one of the few Americans to have actually visited NK. It was in 1989 and the Great Leader was still alive and the famines had not yet occured. The people I met seemed quite normal...all things considering.

[TheGripester]

06:50 PM on 04/15/2010

People are probably afraid not to laugh.

[Aramingo]

12:06 PM on 04/15/2010

So this is what TV will look like after Obama enacts his socialist agenda!

[Abby1]

04:43 PM on 04/15/2010

I actually thought it was a Fox News comedy show. I was waiting for the guns, burning crosses, swatiskas, dooms day speech and so forth.

[LiberalLee]

02:58 PM on 04/16/2010

Oh yawn.
Is that the best YOU can do? Stale talking points from your Revered Leaders?
You want an agenda, try thinking for yourself someday.

[Aramingo]

08:12 AM on 04/17/2010

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasm

[westreal]

09:12 AM on 04/15/2010

So it's not funny like SNL is not funny.

[4peace]

04:49 AM on 04/16/2010

Come on, SNL is funny sometimes, even hilarious sometimes, have you not seen the Tina Fey/sara palin skits? Now those were funny.

[ghee99]

03:08 AM on 04/18/2010

the one where palin herself came on was the best...

btw, did you know that sarah never said "i can see russia from my house"

but people (mostly libs of course) think she did?

actually it was tina fey

[KataVideo]

01:18 AM on 04/15/2010

still, it's better than jay leno

[Mij13]

07:03 PM on 04/17/2010

Wish I'd said that first.

[darth geekboy]

06:02 PM on 04/14/2010

so that's what glen beck and megyn kelly look like in korean.

[roch20]

06:50 AM on 04/15/2010

Genius! LOL!

[Old Ancestor]

05:33 PM on 04/14/2010

If HuffPost were anything close to fair and balanced, they'd also post South Korean propaganda comedy.

Typical liberals!

(insert 'roll-eyes' emoticon)

[LiberalLee]

02:59 PM on 04/16/2010

Roll eyes right back atcha.
Typical GOPer.
Your post doesn't even make sense, but after Fox Fairly Imbalanced News, I'm not surprised,

[ghee99]

03:09 AM on 04/18/2010

huh?

south korea is socialist/communist

thats about as liberal as you can get

[Robert Pickett Burnside]

05:16 PM on 04/14/2010

Interesting. I wonder if they have their own version of 'Desperate Housewives.'

[producedby]

10:01 PM on 04/14/2010

Yes, its called Desperate Inmates doing Hard Labor. They have jokes like

"this one time, in hard labor camp.... we praised Great Leader for not killing us"

Those wacky North Koreans!

[Nick Mroz]

03:37 PM on 04/15/2010

What about Seinfeld?

[LiberalLee]

03:00 PM on 04/16/2010

That's a toss up on who is less funny...

[cjohnathan]

04:18 PM on 04/14/2010

A funny video from a cheerful place...

[larry278]

03:28 PM on 04/14/2010

Reminds me of the Faux entertainment(?) operation.

[Mark Montgomery]

02:54 PM on 04/14/2010

Really? Propaganda? Who'd a thunk? Somebody needs to sound the alarm bells!

[bolivare]

02:24 AM on 04/17/2010

Now thats funny.