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Singer Jay Park is not afraid to act silly as the host of Saturday Night Live Korea.

TOO many hip-hop artistes are overly concerned with being cool and tough, and want to be seen to have street credibility.

Not the Seoul-based Jay Park – he has no problems being a funny guy and he is not worried in the least that his Saturday Night Live Korea's hosting gig will conflict with his musical persona.

"I don't worry about portraying an image because when you have an image then you'll stress out about what to say and what not to say," says the 26-year-old Korean-American, who first rose to fame as a member of K-pop group 2PM, but went solo in 2010.

The host of Saturday Night Live Korea, a comedy sketch show, is excited about the comedic gig, especially now that it is getting more popular in South Korea.

It is a franchise of the iconic long-running American variety show, which has seen popular comics such as Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey pass through its ranks.

Park hosted a few highly-rated episodes in Season 3 of Saturday Night Live Korea and went onboard full time for Season 4 early this year.

"It's becoming this show that everyone wants to watch or host and I'm really glad that I'm part of something like that," he says.

It was not all smooth-sailing for him, though.

"There's a language barrier. My Korean's not that fantastic and my humour's a bit different, so sometimes I don't get why something's funny until we rehearse it and then it's like, 'Oh this is funny!'."

The singer also revealed that the hardest thing he has had to do thus far on the show was pulling down his pants for a skit in which he was caught watching porn by an actress playing his wife.

Although Park seems quite willing to go pretty far for laughs, there are some lines he will not cross.

"I would never kiss a guy." – The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network

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Jumaat, 19 Julai 2013