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Should the resultant answer be funny or witty, the member will receive one or more floor cushions - the number increasing with the level of audience response and the host's own amusement or admiration. The floor cushion is brought to the stage by hapless sidekick Takao Yamada, formerly a successful popstar with the 70s idol group Zūtorubi, but ...
The message is composed of rearranged verses from earlier in the song. The B-52s "Detour Thru Your Mind" "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backward. Watch out, you might ruin your needle." [4] A reversed message in Fred Schneider's voice, starting at the 4:35 mark.
Manzai is a traditional style of comedy in Japanese culture comparable to double act comedy. [1] Manzai usually involves two performers (manzaishi)—a straight man and a funny man —trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
Do not let your bag get snatched!" The Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese, Kansai-ben is the common name and it is called Kinki dialect (近畿方言, Kinki-hōgen) in technical terms.
Goodbye Tsugumi (Japanese: TUGUMI, written in allcaps rōmaji) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto in 1989 and translated into English in 2002 by Michael Emmerich. Goodbye Tsugumi was made into a movie in 1990, directed by Jun Ichikawa .
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The title was chosen by Yamaguchi to link with Japanese author Osamu Dazai's 1940s unpublished story Good-Bye. [20] Thematically, the song was written about Yamaguchi's decision to continue to make music in Tokyo , linking to the single's other leading song "Eureka", which was written about living in Tokyo. [ 21 ]
Japanese variety shows are the main outlet for most owarai geinin and along with drama and anime they are some of the most popular shows on Japanese television. As a general term in Japan, "variety show" can refer to "straight" variety shows with an appropriate myriad of topics, segments, and games.