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Mad TV – Bae Sung French Airways with Ken Jeong
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
In this MADtv Season 10 sketch, a businessman played by Ike Barinholtz needs help communicating with French staff at an airport. Bae Sung, played by Bobby Lee, is treated as the only available translator, while the misunderstanding escalates around his dubious French and oddball behavior. The sketch also features Ken Jeong and centers on Bae Sung's mangled multilingual attempts, airport confusion, and the discovery that the businessman's dog Papers has been present amid the chaos.
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Highly quotable.
Sounds like fluent French to me.
If Bae Sung doesn't even know his own language, how can they expect him to do translations from French?
The customer kept collecting more and more help, but somehow the situation only got messier.
This guy was weird, he kept asking everyone if they speak french but he was using english.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The sketch is from MADtv Season 10 Episode 13, which an archival partial-episode upload says originally aired February 12, 2005 with guests Nicole Sullivan and Debra Wilson. The episode description identifies the premise as Bae Sung being the only person who can help a businessman communicate with the French at an airport. Viewer comments particularly note Ron Pederson's French, Bobby Lee's Bae Sung character, Ike Barinholtz's customer, and the dachshund named Papers. Daniele Gaither and Jordan Peele were listed as absent for the episode. Research listed additional appearances by Ken Jeong and Ron Pederson; those names were retained in notes because they were not available as SCDB people at entry time.
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