Wellknown finnish comedienne Miitta Sorvali makes a comic show Miitta täti. Miitta täti is a selfeducated socialpsychologist, who runs therapy sessions for finnish socialites in the field of entertainment, sports and politics. When the guest first steps in the ”therapy room”, Miitta täti whashes he´s/she´s feets. She also holds the guests in her arms in a therapy chair, she asks questions and make songs with them about their situation. She plays with tabus and atrocitys.
Miitta täti´s way of talking to the guests is not so profitable I guess, but that´s exactly why the show is so fun to watch. Some guests have been quite stunned about the way she talks and that´s the most of fun.
On last show I´ve seen, her guest was Krisse Salminen, a finnish comedienne herself. Miitta made Krisse act like an elderly and ask her to luy down on hospital bed wearing hospital clothes and diapers. Miitta was wearing same kind of costume, but suddenly she had to take a piss in a pisspot. Ha-ha-ha, Krisse was laughing too. Miitta´s humour is based on her own humor, she sayd in an interview of IltaLehti (newspaper). The show is actually really rube and I don´t normally laugh at these kind of things, but Miitta does it so well.
Sorry, these sites are all in finnish:
http://tv1.yle.fi/ohjelmat/viihde/miitta-tati
Miitta täti (Aunt Miitta) is very different style tv show that it is commonly known in TV1 and why it is good thing to find this kind of humour on the channel TV1 YLE, because it is goverment fundet channel and "we" all pay the nationnal tv permit fee to watch it.
ReplyDeleteUsually TV1 is more natur documentry & news based channel. This why it is good to notice this kind of fresh new ideas includet show.
I like it. It different in a good way.
It is interesting to see how the idea of 'humour' varies depending on the cultural aspects. I believe it is a great way to know how people think: analyzing what is seen as 'funny'. This show might seem strange to some cultures, but it is extremely funny once you understand Finnish culture.
ReplyDeleteMiitta-täti really stands out from most of the other finnish comedy bits. Actually I think that the show is not just about comedy. And definately not about safe comeby. One goes through alot of different emotions watching the skits. For instance in some of the therapy sessions the guests started crying out of being brought to an emotional state by the therapist.
ReplyDeleteAs I watched the show I started to pay attention to whom I, as the audience would relate to. At times this would be one of the characters seen in one of the bits but in addition I became very aware of myself as The Viewer, here a kind third party involved in the show. One could say that the show connected me to what was happening on screen.