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Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!, Dauntaun no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!, lit."Downtown's We Aren't Errand Boys!"), often abbreviated Gaki no Tsukai (ガキの使い) or just Gaki Tsuka (ガキ使), is a Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as ...
Kanchō (カンチョー) is a prank performed by clasping the hands together in the shape of a finger gun and poking an unsuspecting victim's anus, often while exclaiming "Kan-cho!" [1] It is a common prank in East Asian countries such as Japan. [2] In Korea, it is called ttongchim (Korean: 똥침), [3] [4] and in China, qiānnián shā ...
America's Funniest Home Videos is based on the 1986–1992 Tokyo Broadcasting System variety program Kato-chan Ken-chan Gokigen TV (also known as Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan), which featured a segment in which viewers were invited to send in video clips from their home movies; ABC, which holds a 50% ownership share in the program, pays a royalty fee to TBS Holdings, Inc. for the use of ...
Batsu games are considered funny in Japan because of the (often outrageous) reactions of the comedians that experience them. However, there have been cases of injuries caused by batsu games, such as one at the Kumamoto Aquadome, where a participant jumped into a pool from a high dive platform and broke several ribs.
Downtown (ダウンタウン, Dauntaun) is a Japanese comedy duo from Amagasaki, Hyōgo consisting of Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada.Formed in 1982, they are one of the most influential and prolific comedy duos in Japan today. [1]
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.
This is a list of Japanese comedians—known in Japanese as owarai geinin (お笑い芸人), owarai tarento (お笑いタレント), or simply geinin (芸人) —and their group names. This page uses the word "comedian" in its broadest possible sense. For more information on modern Japanese comedy, see owarai.
Google Japan has open sourced the "firmware, circuit diagrams, and design drawings" for all of its novelty input devices, beginning with Google Japanese Input Morse version on April 1, 2012, to allow anyone to build their own versions of the devices. [255] On April 1, 2013, Google announced Google+ Emotion.