In Joel McHale's new global weekly news and clips roundup show, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, he noticed 7de Laan in South Africa.
In his new show, similar to his long-running The Soup that was on E! Entertainment (DStv 124) until it was cancelled, Joel McHale does a new, weekly, half-hour topical series that takes a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture and news from across the world.
"It's a fast and funny distillation of everything people are talking about that week," says Joel McHale.
In a recent episode Joel McHale poked fun at 7de Laan because of how the Afrikaans word "kind" meaning "child", almost sounds like something else in English, and is funny to Americans due to it sounding like a vulgar slang word.
Joel McHale said the Afrikaans language has questionable pronouns and then played a 7de Laan clip in which Matrone makes a call and says "Hello kind".
"Guys, guys, it's okay. That is actually the Afrikaans word for child," said Joel McHale. I know that because I've got a couple of kinds at home."
