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HANOI, Vietnam — The Kitchen Gods were asked by the emperor’s assistant: “What curves gently?”
The gods wore flowing robes fit for mandarins in a 17th-century royal court. But they were actors in a television studio this week.
Four potential answers flashed on the screen, in the style of the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” One read: “A newly built road.”
Nguyen Ba Tien, a driving instructor, was watching the broadcast in his living room on Wednesday in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. He said the road answer was funny because it alluded to a widespread rumor that the path of a real-life Hanoi road had been altered in order to bypass the homes of government officials.
The show, called “Meeting Each Other at Year’s End,” addresses “hot topics in society,” Mr. Tien said. “It reflects how Vietnamese people think.”
The closest thing Vietnam has to “The Daily Show,” the program airs on state television every Lunar New Year’s Eve. Highly anticipated and widely watched, it is famous for slyly lampooning government policies and passing wry judgment on some of the country’s thorniest social problems, including systemic corruption and a widening gap between rich and poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/w...s-satire-every-lunar-new-years-eve.html?_r=0#
Do China and other countries have any similar programs?
The gods wore flowing robes fit for mandarins in a 17th-century royal court. But they were actors in a television studio this week.
Four potential answers flashed on the screen, in the style of the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” One read: “A newly built road.”
Nguyen Ba Tien, a driving instructor, was watching the broadcast in his living room on Wednesday in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. He said the road answer was funny because it alluded to a widespread rumor that the path of a real-life Hanoi road had been altered in order to bypass the homes of government officials.
The show, called “Meeting Each Other at Year’s End,” addresses “hot topics in society,” Mr. Tien said. “It reflects how Vietnamese people think.”
The closest thing Vietnam has to “The Daily Show,” the program airs on state television every Lunar New Year’s Eve. Highly anticipated and widely watched, it is famous for slyly lampooning government policies and passing wry judgment on some of the country’s thorniest social problems, including systemic corruption and a widening gap between rich and poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/w...s-satire-every-lunar-new-years-eve.html?_r=0#
Do China and other countries have any similar programs?
