Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sense of Humor

One of my American friends asked me, “Japanese sense of humor is very different from here, right?”
I just said, “Not really, because I’m roughing at watching a lot of American TV shows and movies such as “The Office”, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Tosh.O”. 
However, come to think of it, we have some different types of comedy in Japan.  For example “Manzai(漫才)”.

Manzai (漫才?) is a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture, which usually involves two performers (manzaishi) —a straight man (tsukkomi) and a funny man (boke)—trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
By Wikipedia 


I can’t find any professional Manzai with English subtitle.
But, I found a YouTube video which Japanese guys are doing Manzai in English.


  
Is it Funny?  It was pretty funny for me.
  

Have a good night!

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