Japanese TV at its finest

[whnay.]

Watch the entire clip...

http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/crazyjaptv.html

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Once again proving that the Japanese are superior in every way.

"old man bites tenderly" has got to be the best.

 

[Nantucket Red]

The Japanese love nothing better than inane comedy. So much the better if it borders on the grotesque, as that last bit.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Once again proving that the Japanese are superior in every way.

"old man bites tenderly" has got to be the best.

Yeah, that really topped it off. But the "slapping machine" had me in stitches. The guy who got that pulled a hat trick!

 

[Matt]

the Japanese really mastered the art of TV with a few simple rules....

a well drawn tit is well worth watching

nothing is funnier than pain

 

[Get Smart]

along the same lines but more extreme was the show Super Jockey in the 90s. It was only shown in Tokyo but Japanese video rental stores had copies of the show on tape. Easily the funniest thing I have ever seen on tv. The amount of pain and humiliation the contestants had to go thru, just to promote their club or store for 30 sec was insane.

 

[Saucemaster]

Oh man, I had this emailed to me a couple weeks ago. I couldn't stop laughing. I forwarded it to who-even-knows how many people. Totally brilliant.

 

[Brian SD]

oh god. too good

 

[RJman]

"To start, you may choose between three categories:
'Ow, that hurts!', 'Why are you doing this to me!', or 'Please let me die!'."

 

[designprofessor]

Oh man that's funny! The nose hair extraction was great.
The Wasabi roll followed by smelly air...brilliant!
Where can you get more of this?

 

[rdawson808]

what, are they in a library or something? F-ed up stuff. Hilarious.

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[designprofessor]

I started my day with this, thought I'd finish it with this. I'm cryin' this is so good.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I have, on VHS, a few episodes of the japanese game show of sorts called Za Gaman (Endurance). Some of you may be familiar with it, some may not. But its highly entertaining.

The world's most extreme game show is Japan's Za Gaman (Endurance), created in 1984 as a prime time series on the Fuji Network. Contestants are forced to endure different types of mental and physical torture, such as standing on their heads with hot coals on their feet, or hanging between swinging cactii above a tank full of snakes. The winners are those who can endure pain the longest. Endurance was less of a game show and more of a pain show. While the half-naked contestants competed to withstand endure pain, agony, and sometimes Arctic temperatures the show's producers were basking in the glow of appreciation from audiences hooked on agony. It ran until 1992, but it's still the most extreme game show the world has ever seen. FIVE FREAKY THINGS ENDURANCE CONTESTANTS HAD TO DO 1. Hang on a cactus above a pit of snakes. 2. Enter an ape enclosure covered in bananas. 3. Cross a bridge of rolling logs over alligators. 4. Sit naked in the icy cold, drinking beer – the last one to go to the bathroom was the winner. 5. Do a headstand in the hot sun while leaning against a sweltering piece of metal.

There's also this brilliant piece of "reality" television... http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/nasubi.html

 

[A Harris]

Funny Japanese video:

http://www.breakdancingelite.com/wor...pan-pranks.htm

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by A Harris

Funny Japanese video:

http://www.breakdancingelite.com/wor...pan-pranks.htm

To enhance your viewing pleasure, keep in mind that the little circles with the Chinese characters say "ass" (shiri) when it's covering their hind quarters and "balls" (kin, short for kintama [lit., "gold balls"]) when it's covering their berries.

It's worth noting also that personal injury lawsuits are pretty much unheard of in Japan.