I feel like the number one thing that all English speaking people doing these reaction videos about Kummeli are missing the fact that it's not the prime minister who is the bad politician here. He's just the face of the government and it's Pena who is coming up with these decisions and saying all these stupid comments. The PM is just such a honest guy not to repeat all of that.

I thought that this sketch is about an incompetent prime minister who doesn't really understand anything, and the decisions themselves are made by the prime minister's special assistants. However, the prime minister accidentally slips the real side of things. :)

Pretty much summs up our current government!

Kummeli was one of the most popular comedy shows in finland. It gets fairly regular reruns of yle (finnish public broadcasting sevice). None of it is cencored, except for the "Aziz combat fighter" sketches being cut, due to a request by the creators of the show.

Here in finland we sont get offendes by words. We are above that. You should give it a try.

Problems of being an honest politician 😅

Finnish traditinally watch lot of British tv, so naturally there is similarities. Kummeli dudes have watch lot of Monthy Python and other British comedy classics in their youth etc...

It's about Finnish cabinet politics, decisions made behind closed doors where public cant see, and prime minister Jurmu, unlike politicians, being stupid honest and specific about what was said and who said it, behind those closed doors.

Although this is a comedy, there is a grain of truth in it.

They do actually still show old Kummeli episodes from the 90s on TV. Yle shows the episodes, but of course some of the sketches have been cut out due to not having aged quite so well. For example "Aziz The Combat Fighter" sketches which make fun of jihadist terrorists are no longer shown on the episodes

You see, the n-word wasn't a taboo back then in Finnish. The show was not meant to be racist, but criticize behind the scenes politics and here even they ridicule racists

was on TV 1991-2004

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You should check the: pääministerin kyselytunti kummeli next. 😅

kummeli has made many tv series and movies :D

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n-word at that time in Finland was a bad word but nowhere near as bad as it is now in the social media age. The joke of course is not a problem, the characters are awful and that is the idea. Now it sounds completely different since we are censoring ourselves more and being more sensitive.. which has good and bad things. It stops offensive comedy being effective but it also stops the actual racists using "its just a joke bro" defense. So... don't blame "cancel culture", blame those that exploit our civility and our social norms to spread hate.

The Greens are the party which holds environmental values. Pena is a common name for a male.

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I can't tell if this is fiction or factual :D Shit is hitting the fan in our politics :(