Noriko Show

Noriko Show
Genre	Comedy
Written by	Jens Helin, Mikko Kivinen
Starring	Outi Mäenpää
Country of origin	Finland
Original language(s)	English, Finnish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Metronome
Distributor	MTV3, SubTV
Release
Original network	SubTV
Original release	2004

Noriko Show was a Finnish Candid Camera style talk show inspired in Wendy Van Dijk's character Ushi Hirosaki. Its two seasons were aired in 2004. The character Noriko Saru (played by Finnish actress Outi Mäenpää) is a Japanese reporter who meets famous Finnish people. The premise of the joke, aside from the fact that she is not Japanese, is that Noriko does not speak English very well. The celebrity usually cannot understand her and her questions. At the end of the interview, after giving a photograph of herself face down, saying that it is Noriko, Mäenpää removes her wig, glasses and false teeth.

Noriko Show ran on Subtv on Saturdays and Sundays at 7.30 pm and 4.45 pm.

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