Thai officials furious with Saturday Night Live and try to have sex tourism skit pulled offline as it shows creepy men learning the language in order to seduce children

The Thai government thinks that a Saturday Night Live skit making light of the country's notorious sex tourism industry is no laughing matter.

The controversial short aired over the weekend and now the Thai Culture Minister is appealing to the U.S. government to remove it from the internet because it is 'tarnishing' the country's image.

The minute-and-a-half skit was pre-recorded before Saturday's show and is done as a commercial for the Rosetta Stone language program, showing a group of creepy men who are looking to learn Thai for an upcoming 'business trip'.



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Not the best spokespeople: Taran Killam (left), Bobby Moynihan (center right) and Bill Hader (right) were all featured in a fake ad for Rosetta Stone where they wanted to learn Thai

Awkward: They said a 'thing' and a 'business trip' brought their attention to Thailand

Other clean-cut actors are shown talking about how they want to learn German to trade recipes with their grandmother or Spanish to talk to co-workers.

SNL stars Bill Hader, Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan all give shady explanations for why they would want to learn Thai instead.



'I'm learning Thai so I can go to Thailand for a thing,' Hader said.

'I'm learning German, so I can pretend that I'm German while in Thailand,' Killam added.

Learning in action: Thai government officials are upset about the skit because they think it portrays the country in a bad light

Risque: One of the vocabulary words they choose to highlight refers to a sex trick common in the country

Adding an air of criminality to the skit, a fourth 'offender' is shown in the shadows with his voice concealed as he touts the all-important phrase 'I need to speak with the American Embassy.'

Driving the point home, the clip boasts that it teaches users how to say 'how much', 'ping pong ball', and to ask 'is that for the whole night'.

Thai officials are not taking as light-hearted of a tone with the alluded behavior as the comedy writers were, as they are now pushing for its removal.

Trouble: The fourth offender is left anonymous, as many are in news shows

'The government will also inform the US Embassy that the commercial spoof is tarnishing Thailand’s image, and will ask the embassy to explain the situation to the producer of Saturday Night Live,' Thai Culture Minister Sonthaya Khunploem told The New York Post .

As of Wednesday, only one unofficial version of the clip was available on YouTube.

Though Hulu has different access restrictions in Thailand, the clip was readily available on the show's page.