Talk show host hits sweet spot - Taiwanese talk show

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By Yu Sen-lun
STAFF REPORTER
Saturday, Apr 17, 2004,Page 16






PHOTO COURTESY OF TCM RECORDS

A group of gray-haired men gathered in front of the Presidential Office and shout, "We want black gold ! We want black gold!"

This is a scene from a recent track on Hing-chun's (???) third album Hing-chun Talk Show 3(????????). The well-received record is full of political satire delivered in fluent and entertaining Taiwanese. Hing-chun is one of the few artists who excels at mimicking Taiwan's radio culture and creating his own talk show, which mixes vintage advertising language and political satire.

During the election campaign, the Chinese Nationalist party (KMT) -- in an attempt to attract more local votes -- imitated Hing-chun's talk show and made a commercial for Lien Chan (??). In the ad, Lien is the name of a brand of medicine what has magical powers and can cure almost anything. There have also been TV variety shows producing comic sketches based on Hing-chun's talk-show style.

"He takes us back to the medicine-selling radio culture of 20 years ago, but blended with his own humor," says music critic Jamie Wong (???).

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