Hu Gua plays four roles and crashes mid-performance, while Wang Caihua protects her $350,000 nose
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- Taiwanese variety show “Weekend Strongest” will feature the comedy segment “Gua Gua Nightclub” with singers, actors and the girl group KIRIS.
- Host Hu Gua plays a mother and triplets, forgets character details during the recording and draws laughter from co-hosts.
- A comic skit has Wang Caihua panic after performers pretend to hit her nose, which she says is worth NT$350,000.
Hu Gua found himself playing four characters at once during the recording of the Taiwanese variety show “Weekend Strongest,” and the rapid changes eventually overwhelmed him. In the “Gua Gua Nightclub” segment, he portrayed triplets and their mother, A-Xia, then forgot character names and personalities as the roles piled up.
Do I have to play the mother too? This money is getting harder and harder to earn!
Co-host Chen Ya-lan had to keep prompting him from offstage while she and Ou Han-sheng laughed. Hu joked, “Do I have to play the mother too? This money is getting harder and harder to earn!”
The program also brought back the audience-requested triplets A-Bi, A-Die and A-Li. Guests including Tsai Hsiao-hu, Tseng Hsin-mei, Lai Hui-ju and Huang Teng-hui joined the episode, alongside members of the newer girl group KIRIS.
Brother Hsiao-hu, I’ll teach you another day, but first you have to learn to shift into reverse.
Another skit turned an old motorcycle accident into an improvised comedy scene. Ou Han-sheng revealed that he and Huang Teng-hui had once crashed while riding a motorcycle, with Huang landing near a pavilion. Huang immediately objected, saying he had told his wife only that he had fallen.
Don’t say random things! I told my wife I fell!
In the period comedy “A Chinese Ghost Story,” Wang Caihua played Ning Caichen’s mother and teased Nie Xiaoqian with ghost-hunting props. The cast also parodied “Mission: Impossible,” climbing onto a cabinet to imitate Tom Cruise’s motorcycle scene. When the performers pretended to strike Huang’s forehead with paper talismans, Wang became the target of a joke and shouted, “Don’t hit my NT$350,000 nose!”
Don’t hit my NT$350,000 nose!
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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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