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| Yoo Jae Suk Special Part 1 - The Noblest of All Entertainers | |
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| lordbordem | Nov 14 2014, 06:00 PM Post #1 |
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This is the first part in a 4 part special posted by IZE magazine. It's 4 editorials about Yoo Jae Suk and is mostly opinion pieces. We'll post each one as we finish translating them![]() Written by IZE's Wii Geun Woo Translated by DDD Team Source: http://www.ize.co.kr/articleView.html?no=2014101923027222103 It was the era of comedy. Amongst his colleagues, who made up the golden era of comedy, there was a rookie comedian that was overshadowed by his peers and yet to stretch his wings. He went on stage with his colleagues for a dance routine but was off beat and left with an embarrassing video that will stay with him forever. He spent 10 years as an unknown comedian and every night he would pray to Buddha to give him just once chance. He donned a grasshopper hat and started to break away from anonymity. He went out on the talk show “Talk Box” and made use of his embarrassing stories, gaining popularity in the process. The era of traditional comedy passed and the era of variety shows began. He became a popular MC. He became Leader Yoo. He became one of two MCs that drove the growth of Korean variety shows. He became the god of variety shows, God Yoo. The era of solo MCs has passed and now he stands tall and proud, not with nicknames, but as Yoo Jae Suk. He has gone through much hardship but now he is complete, not as a leader, or a grasshopper or as God Yoo, but as Yoo Jae Suk himself. This is his story. ![]() Could you imagine a Yoo Jae Suk that wasn’t funny? That’s tough isn’t it? Instead Yoo Jae Suk, in recent times, is someone that doesn’t have to be funny. Recently during an airing of jTBC’s <Hidden Singer 3> Lee Juk special, Yoo Jae Suk didn’t have to really say anything funny, just the sound of his voice on the phone was enough to turn the studio up on its head. The most recent headline grabber was his interview with Seo Taji on KBS’s <Happy Together 3>. Even there, it wasn’t really an interview with a Star MC and Guest, but rather an interview between two giants of the entertainment world. On, what is arguably, his home ground MBC’s <Infinity Challenge> Radio Star Special, he grabbed headlines and the hearts of viewers with his “Jae Suk Note,” a memorial to Ladies Code and other souls that have unfortunately before their time. ![]() He’s a person that treats variety shows like a religion and he’s a person that has become a religion himself through variety shows. “God Yoo,” Yoo Jae Suk is the absolute pinnacle of what anyone can achieve in the world of variety shows. On the, now cancelled, MBC <Come To Play>, he was the greatest of talk show MCs, someone that could bring out the hidden variety show talents of any guest and bring out their deepest thoughts and feelings. On <Infinity Challenge>, he would bring out the best of himself but also bring out the best of the other members as well, sort of like a Zinedine Zidane of the variety show world. On SBS <Running Man>, his endless amounts of playfulness, conversation and laughter have made him the great joker. No matter the format, no matter the members, he would somehow make things interesting. He is pretty much the big boss of the variety show world. However the Yoo Jae Suk of recent days seems to have transcended even this status. His good nature and hard working nature is something that has been proven by the accounts of numerous people, this isn’t attempt to add another item to the list of praises he has gotten so far for his ability to maintain himself. Someone that is both funny, famous and also happens to be kind is something that is clearly not that common. This alone is not a complete description of what Yoo Jae Suk is right now. During the <Infinity Challenge> Pause special, he personally said “You cannot have everything without giving up something you like,” however just saying he is a purely professional entertainer is still enough to explain him fully. His current life and existence is essentially an embodiment of his personal variety show style. Fundamentally, Yoo Jae Suk’s MC style is one that places emphasis on being considerate to his peers and bringing out laughs through that. Outside of his TV work, a teacher once appeared on SBS’s <Truth Games> and told everyone how Jae Suk sent autographs to all the students in their class, receiving praise from netizens. This exact behaviour on TV results in sophisticated laughs while out in public, such acts can be seen as morally right. He’s not funny and kind. He instead has combined both fun and being morally acceptable into one package. ![]() Yoo Jae Suk’s insistence on not bringing down others for comedy is itself indicative of high moral standards. However this isn’t to say that picking on others for laughs is necessarily an outright bad thing. He is not someone that thinks in outright numbers, calculating how many people would laugh at his comedy. If your goal is to make the most amount of people happy, then it’s better to have 10 people find a joke funny on a scale of 8/10, rather than have one person that is extremely disappointed and have the remaining 9 find a joke 10/10 funny. It’s not just programs like MBC’s <Radio Star>, where they specialise in attacking their guests for laughs, pretty much all variety shows try to go for the maximum outright laughs. However for Yoo Jae Suk, he may lag behind in terms of outright laughs but he instead looks for a way to make everyone laugh, even if that means the jokes aren’t as impactful. Of course he finds ways to get the most amount of laughs within this method. By making people laugh in a kind way, he is also practicing his own moral principles. Yoo Jae Suk is commonly known for his brand of “kind variety shows” but this definition alone only paints half the picture. He also strives for good natured fun. During the <Happy Together 3> “HOT-Sech-GOD-RG” Special, he would purposely play around with Chun Myung Hoon, someone that had a hard time getting to grips with the show, in order to give them a character and make sure they are included in the rest of the program. He’s not making people laugh by being considerate, instead he is showing that he can be this fun and classy while being considerate. The exaggerated “Oh Brothers” support messages that he sends to the rest of the Infinity Challenge members is also seen as comedic rather than embarrassing. In essence he is both a kind entertainer and a stylish gentleman known for his virtues. Giving up smoking and exercising are physical steps taken by Yoo Jae Suk to exercise self-control as a professional entertainer but this is also his way of ensuring he remains consistent and positive in his daily life as well. In that way, the entertainer Yoo Jae Suk we all know is also Yoo Jae Suk in the flesh and vice versa. In summary, this is why he can bare all and still make it entertaining. He has become someone that can expose himself entirely and honestly even in a world of made up characters like variety shows. As the big boss of the variety show world, while he doesn’t just appear on real variety shows, it’s suffice to say that his whole life is pretty much a classy reality show in itself. ![]() That’s why Yoo Jae Suk’s interview with Seo Taji, a special which had both its fans and detractors, was not a blight in Yoo Jae Suk’s history nor a limit to what a kind variety show can achieve. Just like Seo Taji’s interview with Son Seok Hee on jTBC’s <News Room>, Yoo Jae Suk also welcomed Seo Taji as the meeting between the two greats of their time. In a sense, Yoo Jae Suk being there was an act of courtesy by the broadcasters towards Seo Taji. The meeting between the ex-legend and the current legend. It wasn’t that they weren’t funny, the goal of their meeting was never meant to be for laughs. Detractors would say that driving Seo Taji into a corner, like what would happen on <Radio Star> would have brought about more laughs but that’s not something we expect or ask of from Yoo Jae Suk. In a sense, we could say that this event was just a slightly boring episode in the reality show that is Yoo Jae Suk’s life. So once again, Yoo Jae Suk of now seems to be a person that doesn’t have to be funny. Of course he is still Leader Yoo on <Infinity Challenge>, leading the show for 400 episodes and he will continue to playful joke around with Kwang Soo on <Running Man>. However, if in the past, he was just a “TV Machine> that just coldly understood and acted upon the mannerisms of variety shows, he is now someone who's each actions in itself is an event and something worthy of talking about. <I’m a Man> may only be hovering around the 5% ratings mark but seeing Yoo Jae Suk cry after seeing a mother’s video of support for their children trying to find work, is enough to invoke the emotions of viewers all over. Even after the end of the two MC era, the Yoo-Kang MC Era, Yoo Jae Suk only was able to maintain his position and this is exactly wy. Rather than being the sole survivor of the Top MC era, he is instead someone that has transcended the position of MC, and just being Yoo Jae Suk is significant enough. As an entertainer that once strived to push the absolute limits of his arts, he is now someone that has transcended his field and has reached new heights of nobility.During the 2006 <Infinity Challenge> “Run Away” special, he said “Hey TEO, this has blown out of proportions.” however it might have been Yoo Jae Suk himself that has blown himself out of proportions. Of course, it’s still hard to imagine what Yoo Jae Suk would be like if he wasn’t funny. Edited by lordbordem, Nov 14 2014, 06:09 PM.
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