'Gag Concert' to return after 3-year hiatus with new skits

The show's first episode since June 26, 2020, will air Sunday at 10:40 p.m. and host boy band ZeroBaseOne as a special guest.

KBS's sketchy comedy show "Gag Concert" will return to screens three years after cancelation, featuring a blend of its popular skits as well as new ones. [KBS]

KBS's sketchy comedy show "Gag Concert" will return to screens three years after cancelation, featuring a blend of its popular skits as well as new ones.

The show's first episode since June 26, 2020, will air Sunday at 10:40 p.m. and host boy band ZeroBaseOne as a special guest.

"Gag Concert" first began airing on Sept. 4, 1999, and was canceled after its last episode on June 26, 2020. It holds the record for Korea's longest-running comedy show.

The show has been known as an archetype of Korean comedy shows, predating SBS's "People Searching for Laughter" (2003–17) and MBC's "Comedy House" (2000–5), and had been popular until the rise of online comedy shows.

"Bongsunga School," "Gag Concert" s previously popular skit, will be included in the new episode, marking the revival of Korea's signature comedy show.

Boy band ZeroBaseOne will make a special appearance in one of the new skits, translated as "Communicative Queen Grandma Malja," according to a press release.

The crew of YouTube channel FokCine will make its appearance in the new skit "Nitung's Screening Humanity," a parody of KBS's reality show "Screening Humanity" (2000–) featuring the comical fictional Filipino daughter-in-law Nitung, her husband and mother-in-law, played by comedians Kim Ji-young, Park Hyung-min and Kim Yeong Hee, respectively.

BY LEE CHAE-MIN [lee.chaemin1@joongang.co.kr]