Finland sends Trump some pussy food for thought
mainWho knew Finns could be so funny?
We built walls… and we made the moose pay for them.
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Ha, ha, who knew?
Hilarious…..
Who knew Finns could be so funny? Anyone who’s seen one of Aki Kaurismäki’s films.
Exactly. Or see the Finnish tango.Not quite the passion of Buenos Aires but a lot funnier.
That comment creates the context for considering this video not reportage but satire:
https://youtu.be/mr_A4ELFhmo
I have also seen something using the same format from the Dutch. Who got there first?
In fact if you look on Youtube you will find similar spoof videos from a large number of other European countries. The Dutch one is very funny, but I haven’t (yet) explored any of the others.
The dutch version was the original.
Modern times as usual. Awful. Boring. Stupid. Not funny at all and I am a Finn.
As a Dutchman, I am proud to say that the Dutch one was the one setting the trend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc
…and it’s very funny.
Yeah, you win some, you lose some. Depends on your sense of humour of course!
This passes as humor? Yawn.
I’m still waiting for the black jokes about Obama!!
Really? Lots of them out there (alter your vocabulary the next time you search). Personally though, I fail to see how jokes about ethnicity or race fall into the same category as jokes about makeup or tanning.
And now for outside of Europe.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVJ1nSYP7as
And after Morocco, here is, of all countries… Iran.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVDR-y03XX4
Trump is a moron. I wish he were funny….
Trump might try to grab that…food, but it’s probably too big for his hands….
I have never laughed so much for a long time! Thanks Norman. Of course, it’s British humour about Finland – so funny.
wrong party: DT is a connaisseur and true lady-friend: witness his wives and attractive children.
Poor Head of STATE: ONLY IN OFFICE A FEW WEEKS AND A CONSTANT butt of NL… with his obvious favorite WWIII would be in full sway…………………….
The Fin//Finns? should send to the deserving Clintons: they both appreciate such…
As the Germans might put it, the Ur-url for these is
http://everysecondcounts.eu
The Finland entry is one of the best. Then again, they have more to work with in addition to having the best DT voice mimic and Sibelius on screen and in the soundtrack. I also liked Iran’s video. Like a surprising number of them, both of these vids end up with a dig (not very lighthearted in Iran’s case) at that country’s immediate neighbor.
The best are those who do self-satirise, so to speak. The Dutch one set the trend, It was not just ridiculing Trump, it used self-parody to even let it go deeper.
Many of the other Western versions just imitate this, and do not go delve that deep into the makers’ country itself.
I like the Moroccan and Iranian one as they are sharp and witty, and moreover are risky, including satire on the makers’ own countries up to a level that might be politically risky. The stance in the Iranian one about Iraq is parodying the eternal mutual suspicion between Iran and Iraq, which has a historical background due to the many invasions into the other from each side (from long before Mene Tekel on and the most recent in the 80 88 war) but they also parody the easy way Iranians talk negatively about their Arab neighbours.