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
GenreComedy
Written byJens Helin, Mikko Kivinen
StarringOuti Mäenpää
Country of originFinland
Original languagesEnglish
Finnish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes20
Production
Running time25 minutes
Production companyMetronome
Original release
NetworkSubTV
Release2004 (2004)

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

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