SNL Spoofs Fake Sign Language Interpreter Skit

Friday, December 20, 2013

SNL Spoofs Fake Sign Language Interpreter Skit

VIDEO: 'Saturday Night Live' fake interpreter from Nelson Mandela funeral strikes again.



NEW YORK - 'Saturday Night Live' kicked off its John Goodman-helmed episode with President Obama (Jay Pharoah) lamenting the "series of unfortunate events" that happened at the memorial for Nelson Mandela.



First of all, there was that selfie with the Danish Prime Minister, then the handshake with Raul Castro ("He told me he was Edward James Olmos,") and finally, the sign language interpreter who didn't appear to know sign language. Naturally, after mentioning him, Thamsanqa Jantjie (Kenan Thompson) appeared behind the POTUS and proceeded to "loosely" interpret the rest of the speech.



Most importantly, 'SNL' reminded us that lost amongst all the hoopla were the feelings of poor Angela Merkel, he never got her selfie with Obama, even after he spied on her.

An SNL interpreter skit is making people laugh all across the United States of America this week, as SNL decided to make a parody of the #fakeinterpreter who made off-key signs at the memorial service following the recent death of Nelson Mandela. The video is swiftly making the rounds online over the debacle, and viewers are saying that it’s crazy to think that this spoof really isn’t that far off the mark of what really happened with the schizophrenic sign language “expert” last week.



The SNL interpreter skit comes at a time that many citizens across the globe are still mourning the tragic loss of Nelson Mandela, but both the Deaf and others were recently shocked at the real-life debacle of what happened with the sign language interpreter at the peaceful man’s memorial service. Thamsanga Jantjie says he has gone to School Specialized for the Deaf and is skilled in the use of sign language, but the South African actually used bogus signs throughout the service.



Now, Jantjie is adding that he suffers from schizophrenia, and during the speech, the dubbed fake interpreter was having insane visions of flying angels coming into the stadium, preventing him from signing properly. Of course, SNL decided to make a skit of this interpreter’s debacle, and the result is very funny. ... Read more: http://www.examiner.com/article/snl-interpreter-skit-fake-interpreter-debacle-a-hit-parody-of-mandela-service



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Thursday, December 12, 2013

'Fake' Sign Language Interpreter Defends Himself

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO [CC] - Mandela memorial 'fake' sign language interpreter defends himself. A South African sign language interpreter accused of gesturing gibberish during the Nelson Mandela.

JOHANNESBURG - A South African sign language interpreter accused of gesturing gibberish during the Nelson Mandela memorial on Tuesday has spoken out.



Thamsanqa Jantjie said he suffers from schizophrenia which affected him during the service.



The 34-year-old told Johannesburg’s Star newspaper he started hearing voices and hallucinating while on stage.



Jantjie explained how the condition has affected him: “I see angels come to the stadium. Sometimes I will react violently on that place. Sometimes I will see things chasing me. You know, I was in a very very difficult position,” he said.

Interpreter refuses to sign for CNN. Thamsanqa Jantjie, the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial, defends his "translation" at the event.



“Please forgive me, but what I was doing, I was doing what I believe is my calling, I was doing what I believe makes a difference to the country,” Jantjie continued.



After the memorial, South Africa’s leading Deaf association denounced Jantjie as a “fake.”



The South African government has admitted he was not a professional interpreter.

This, along with his admissions of past violence and his state of mental health at the memorial service, has promoted awkward questions about security. ... Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2013/12/12/mandela-memorial-fake-sign-language-interpreter-defends-himself



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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Captioned - Deaf Advocates say sign language interpreter was meaninglessly waving his arms around.



NEW YORK (ABC News) - This is a special room in New York with his ABC news digital special reports speaking gibberish with his hands, experts say.



About the man who steady provided sign language translation on the stage during Nelson Mandela's memorial service and children's children with world leaders the gestures. Apparently all made up in signing any language, BBC's Ross has more information from Johannesburg and Barack Obama was one of the busiest men on the planet.



Barack Obama the man next to him doing the sign language interpreting the speeches at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela. He did it for hours. But Deaf people started complaining over the Internet that they were missing out the chair of the society of South Africa came to tell us what he made at the ceremony.

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Now is sending them some stood it doesn't have meaning that there I don't know what this means of the sign language interpreter.



So together we watched one of Nelson Mandela's grandchildren deliver. You can see even wonders if a rocking horse was mentioned in the podium because the interpreter the for one. Many people that hope that that be plenty of singing and dancing to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela they weren't really ready for all those long speeches at the ceremony. But the biggest headache now for the South African government which organized the event is to explain how this man got the job.



Fortunately from local TV it's clear that to interpret his a completely different page. An extraordinary case of lost in translation.



For more on this I'm joined now by the president of the National Association of the Deaf Chris Wagner was talking with as via an interpreter. What was the signer do weighing that make people think he was a fake. ... Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/nelson-mandela-memorial-interpreter-angers-deaf-community-21185135



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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Deaf Outraged Over Fake Sign Language Interpreter At Mandela Memorial

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO [CC] - The international Deaf community is angry over what they say was a fake sign language interpreter used at Mandela's memorial.



JOHANNESBURG - 'Fake' Mandela memorial sign language interpreter incites anger. It was an event the whole world was watching, but some Deaf people couldn't understand a word spoken at Mandela’s memorial and took to Twitter to vent their frustration.



Allegations have been made that the sign language interpreter used at the memorial may have been unqualified.



Braam Jordaan, a Deaf South African citizen and board member of the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section (WDFYS), told SBS he believes the interpreter is a fake.



"The structure of his hand, facial expressions and the body movements did not follow what the speaker was saying," he told SBS via email.

Watch: The sign interpreter signing at the Mandela memorial service.

Mr Jordaan says the interpreter, who was signing for a portion of the ceremony including Obama's speech, was simply making up his own signs.



"I was really upset and humiliated by the mystery interpreter who was supposed to be signing what Barack Obama, the president of United States of America was saying," he says. "He made up his own signs."



"What happened at the memorial service is truly disgraceful thing to see - it should not happen at all.



"What happened today will be forever aligned with Nelson Mandela & Deaf Community, thanks to this fake interpreter."



Mr Jordaan says there have been question marks over the same interpretor at previous ANC events.

Watch: The interpreter signing along to Jacob Zuma at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012.



The Oceania representative for the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI), Sheena Walters, also states that the signing used was not recognisable as any accepted form of international or South African sign language.



“It seems quite obvious that the interpreter isn’t using South African sign language,” she told SBS. ... Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/12/11/anger-over-hoax-mandela-memorial-sign-language-interpretor



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