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A quick and dirty Japanese humor tutorial

Japanese humor is slowly but surely infiltrating mainstream media in the US. Fake Japanese game shows on ABC, human Tetris on Fox, the YouTube video of the guy that shoots out of a toilet stall into a ski slope… as someone who grew up in Tokyo watching Japanese variety shows every night, though, I have to say that the US adaptations don’t really get it.

Previously, I explained why I thought I Survived a Japanese Game Show doesn’t work on my blog. I also wrote this little blurb explaining why:
The host of a real Japanese game show is a politically incorrect, sarcastic man who revels in mild forms of torture and isn’t afraid to smack a woman on the head. (The feminist in me battles the light-hearted Japanese humoree every time I watch one.) The contestants [...]

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