Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
MTB (Miyusik Tagalog Bersiyon) Michael V.'s parody of popular English songs translated to Tagalog in a literal and often humorous manner. The songs were later compiled into an album named Bubble Ganthology in 2006. [1] Bubble Gags: 1997–2022: A segment where various casts of the show throw jokes about a certain situation on each other.
The comic strip was used at times by Marcelo to reference and portray Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. [3] Marcelo depicted Ikabod Bubwit as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").
However, some jejemons are not really "conserving" characters; instead, they are lengthening their message. [2] On April 14, 2010, on a Filipino Tumblr page, a post about vice presidential candidate Jejomar Binay indicated that Binay was the Jejemon's preferred vice presidential candidate, complete with a fake poster with him called "Makki Autors".
Filipino proverbs or Philippine proverbs [1] are traditional sayings or maxims used by Filipinos based on local culture, wisdom, and philosophies from Filipino life.The word Sawikain proverb corresponds to the Tagalog words salawikain, [2] [3] kasabihan [2] (saying) and sawikain [3] (although the latter may also refer to mottos or idioms), and to the Ilocano word sarsarita.
Although with a funny personality, Kenkoy courted Rosing, the Manileña (a woman from Manila) who represented the ideal and romanticized Filipino woman – a female who was timid, shy, kind, caring, prone to jealousy, and impeccable – garbed (like Philippine national hero José Rizal’s Maria Clara) in the traditional baro’t saya or the ...
Roces' oft-quoted line from the film is "Ligaya ang itawag mo sa akin, 'yan ang trabaho ko, nagbibigáy-ligaya. " ("Call me 'Joy,' that's my job, giving joy"). It is often used in a humorous context, where the speaker parodies the catty attitude of a prostitute advertising her ability to give " pleasure ".
A book published by an unknown author in 1919 in Manila entitled Buhay na Pinagdaanan ni Juan Tamad na Anac ni Fabio at ni Sofia sa Caharian nang Portugal [3] (Tagalog for "The Life Lived by Juan Tamad, Son of Fabio and Sofia, in the Kingdom of Portugal") contains a poem consisting of 78 pages of four-line stanzas at seven stanzas per page.
Japanese merchants travelled to the Philippines to trade and immigrants settled in what is now called the city of Paco, Manila.They entertained Filipinos with a form of comedy, called rakugo, until the Spanish replaced local entertainments with European-style theatres.