Newly popular SNL-like sketch shows mock the Chinese Communist Party and tap into a strengthened sense of Taiwanese identity.
Chen and producer Sandra Ho launched EyeCTV a year after watching CCTV for the first time in 2014 while taking part in a contest for aspiring Taiwanese journalists hosted in Quanzhou, China. But the propaganda, meant to improve the Chinese Communist Party’s image in Taiwan, had the opposite effect on the pair, drawing attention to China’s tone-deaf messaging.
“The current situation of our constitution and our country is not normal, but there’s nothing we can do about it,” said Ho. “So we want to at least highlight these conflicts to reveal the ridiculousness behind our status quo.” Wang warns, however, that the growing influence of Taiwanese political comedy may reinforce nationalism in both Taiwan and China. Even though the Chinese government has so far ignored jokes at its expense from EyeCTV, angry Chinese Internet users have begun to cite these political comedy shows as “proof that Taiwanese people always make fun of China,” he said.
“We want the world to wake up and see that China is a threat,” Ken Young, one of the show’s hosts, said in an interview from the show’s cluttered studio in a Taipei apartment complex. “And we [Taiwanese] are the ones on the front line bearing all the costs.”Even before launching the sketch show, Young and his co-host Kylie Wang never shied away from topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party.
, the mostly Muslim minority from Xinjiang in northwest China, to share experiences about life during the sweeping internment and “reeducation” campaign in their homeland with Han Chinese.Wang considers it important to show that in Taiwan you can make jokes about the Chinese Communist Party and still make a living.
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