This is why I'm not a comedian
Beyond this point is a work of fiction and has nothing to do with insciting people to go against the government or promoting any disloyalty to the King.
Imagine this:
You are watching a programme on TV3. Suddenly, the programme's interrupted for a breaking news. Kamaruddin Mape says "Ladies and gentlement, we're sorry to interrupt the programme to bring you a breaking news. The King has abdicated and left the country, Malaysia is now officially a Republic. For more details let's join Karam Singh Walia in front of the National Palace." Then you have Karam Singh Walia giving details about the news and everything. In the background you can see people waving the royal flag and the malaysian flag. Then the news continues with a report from Pang Chin Fei in front of the Prime Minister's Department building.
Again, this is a work of fiction.
A telephone number appeared on the screen so that people can contact the television network for further details. When you call the number, they actually give you details about the news. The news continued for 40 minutes. People began to panic. After 40 minutes, the newsticker appears below the screen (like to one's in CNN and other news networks). It says 'this is a work of fiction'. How would you react to this?
The fictionous part ends here.
I know that will never happen in Malaysia, the televised joke NOR the real thing. And I hope that won't happen. But it's exactly what happened in Belgium last Tuesday. Imagine the Belgian people's, the government's, the Prime Minister's, and even the King's reaction when they saw this news on TV. It was purely a joke made by the TV network. And the TV network is the Belgian equivalent to RTM (I used TV3 as an example instead since I do not know any news anchors from RTM, and to imagine yourself watching RTM is hard enough, let alone imagining the whole joke thing).
En fin bref.
This morning, on a morning TV talk show they were talking about the personal life of Marie Antoinette. I didn't pay much attention to it until one of the panelist said this:
"Queen Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess, therefore she was brought up with Austrian traditions. When she moved to France, she tried to follow the way she was brought up whenever and wherever she could. So she took care of her personal hygiene, including taking a bath everyday. Since the French didn't wash themselves as often as she did, she was simply the best smelling person in the court. But that didn't stop her from using perfumes like the others...."
Wow. I've waited for so long for a French to say that. Finally, someone admits, on national TV, that the French did not (and still don't) take a bath regularly. That is why the world capital of perfume is in France. That is why the safest place to hide something is under a Frenchman's soap. That is why no matter how big a house is, there will be only one bath room (one day of the week for each family member). And it gets worse when they just had a ham and cheese sandwich and some wine for lunch.
Imagine this:
You are watching a programme on TV3. Suddenly, the programme's interrupted for a breaking news. Kamaruddin Mape says "Ladies and gentlement, we're sorry to interrupt the programme to bring you a breaking news. The King has abdicated and left the country, Malaysia is now officially a Republic. For more details let's join Karam Singh Walia in front of the National Palace." Then you have Karam Singh Walia giving details about the news and everything. In the background you can see people waving the royal flag and the malaysian flag. Then the news continues with a report from Pang Chin Fei in front of the Prime Minister's Department building.
Again, this is a work of fiction.
A telephone number appeared on the screen so that people can contact the television network for further details. When you call the number, they actually give you details about the news. The news continued for 40 minutes. People began to panic. After 40 minutes, the newsticker appears below the screen (like to one's in CNN and other news networks). It says 'this is a work of fiction'. How would you react to this?
The fictionous part ends here.
I know that will never happen in Malaysia, the televised joke NOR the real thing. And I hope that won't happen. But it's exactly what happened in Belgium last Tuesday. Imagine the Belgian people's, the government's, the Prime Minister's, and even the King's reaction when they saw this news on TV. It was purely a joke made by the TV network. And the TV network is the Belgian equivalent to RTM (I used TV3 as an example instead since I do not know any news anchors from RTM, and to imagine yourself watching RTM is hard enough, let alone imagining the whole joke thing).
En fin bref.
This morning, on a morning TV talk show they were talking about the personal life of Marie Antoinette. I didn't pay much attention to it until one of the panelist said this:
"Queen Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess, therefore she was brought up with Austrian traditions. When she moved to France, she tried to follow the way she was brought up whenever and wherever she could. So she took care of her personal hygiene, including taking a bath everyday. Since the French didn't wash themselves as often as she did, she was simply the best smelling person in the court. But that didn't stop her from using perfumes like the others...."
Wow. I've waited for so long for a French to say that. Finally, someone admits, on national TV, that the French did not (and still don't) take a bath regularly. That is why the world capital of perfume is in France. That is why the safest place to hide something is under a Frenchman's soap. That is why no matter how big a house is, there will be only one bath room (one day of the week for each family member). And it gets worse when they just had a ham and cheese sandwich and some wine for lunch.
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