Nambong Baek was Korean comedian one of the most famous men in Korean comedy cultures. He is my grandpa’s generation, continued his performance until I was middle school student (mid-1990s) The performance at the video enclosed is one of his best performant standing comedy, resembling various gestures when man is drunken. This was common way […]
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These three men are remembered as great comedians, famous for their comical dance performances on the stage. The performative actions and its invocation are what people have memory, which is so-called “몸 개그” (body gag). The comedians appearing the above Youtube clip are believed as good 선배 (elderly people from same cultures) from their devotional
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김형곤(Kim Hyung-gon, 金亨坤, 1960/05/30 ~ 2006/03/11) was one of the legendary Korean comedian many people recall his moments of comedy activities, both on television and offline standing comedy. He popularized many phrases which were measurement of popularity of comedian. “잘 되야 될텐데, 잘 될 턱이 있나” (I hope it will be going well, but is
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