That Japanese Man Yuta The thing never even works how many people do you need to share it with to get one lesson?

@@Daniel.Emmanuel10 haha true

ぼけ is Japanese for a fool (and you can use that term if you're getting tired of using 馬鹿/バカ). 突込み is the straight guy. Manzai reminds me of the old-style comedy that guys like Abbott & Costello (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obqThbWSvbyRlps.html ) and Martin & Lewis (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr6Hktua2baleZ8.html) did in the 50s - 60s. Before now, the only manzi group I've knew about were "The Two Beats"[One "beat" is famous for doing other more serious work] ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZ-jl9CSqrmaiqc.html ). I was curious about Rakugo. Is that style too dated?

@@Daniel.Emmanuel10 I didn't have to share it with anyone, it works just fine for me. Still receiving lessons for free o_0 I don't know, maybe try again, mate?

mindsinging Tried several times don’t really get anything sent to me

as an austrian, i agree with you.

witzig? Was ist das?

As a German myself I know that there is a thing such as German humour: You will either laugh about our jokes - or we will invade your country!

@@Centigonos true

Germans are funny *takes out gun* funnybot, tell them a joke

XD ok I like that one

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Good one😂

Hahahahaa

Oh Boy, Here we go...!!!

I M U R D E R E D T H E F A M I L Y D O G

Bonnie Enn Cleveland Show?

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padronsk okay twitter for Android was a slam dunk you can’t tell me otherwise

Finally someone who get it i'm from mexico and this kin of stuff never are dismissed in a conversation when you can make a joke with double meaning, search for "albur" in mexico xD if you kinda like spanish

Ah, so that's why the other guy says " someone stole it and you're okay?". Now that makes more sense.

*filthy frank screaming*

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@Studio Spider so what you're saying is, dick jokes are a universal form of humor

"I know that I know nothing" Socrates

At work, we call these "unknown unknowns". We know that in the course of doing something problems will come up but we can't possibly know what they are until we get to them no matter how much planning we do.

Riflemanm16a2 engineer?

@@JohnDoe-si4eg I am a tester who works with software engineers.

Riflemanm16a2 i see “unknown unknowns” is just such an engineer thing to say

nice.

Mr bean , Charlie Chaplin, heck even Jim Carrey

Well, not _only_ that, probably, it's more that here we're talking about the kind of comedy that instead doesn't cross that difference well at all, and that's either puns/language based comedy (needs understanding of the language), or social satire that is heavily reliant on cultural details. I mean, very trivially, there's lots of comedic manga/anime that are funny even if you don't get Japanese as long as the translation is good and don't use slapstick for that, but they base themselves off other types of comedy or shared cultural knowledge. One Punch Man for example is funny because it's about a superhero who's at the same time way too powerful and an absolutely mediocre guy with a pretty lame life, and that much we can get all across the world - though it's still cultural, since someone who's never read a superhero comic or watched a superhero movie would not get it. It also has some Japanese-specific cultural humour, like, his whole obsession with sales probably works better if you have a sense of how people tend to live and shop in big cities in Japan, but it's not like we can't understand it at all either - he's broke, so he's obsessed with buying stuff cheap, that much is easy enough to get.

Hagane no Gijutsushi Interesting, but needs a TL;DR

This was true during an acting troupe my school did in China

I hear Shinpachi's voice. "Dondakeee!" 🤣🤣

@@rammus960 I see Shinpachi's face "Pandemonium-san!"

yeahh, thanks to Gintama I understand japanese comedy more and I gotta admit that it's pretty hilarious most of the times too!

gintama is one of the unfunniest anime that I've see so far

Exactly, I couldn't second this enough, more people need to hear it!

I think that chin-chin thing was only one facet of the joke. There was also the over reaction and such.

@@MuttFitness The overreaction was only to make the pun obvious imo.

@@MuttFitness An important facet. Without it, the overreaction and double-innuendos don't make sense at all

"Those who know nothing can understand nothing."

@Fahad is desu fahad not me You got the quote slightly wrong. It's the other way around. "People die when they're killed". :-P

@@Rokudaimedono fixed it thanks

@@ThinkBeforeYouSleepYT Ok, I believe you

People who don't understand, and don't know that they don't understand, are innocent kids. People who don't understand, and know they don't understand can be taught. People who don't understand, but think they understand are idiots. People who understand, but think they don't understand need to be pushed into action. Basically the stages of growth. Child -> Youth -> Teen -> Young Adult

Yep!

The first and greatest comedian of that kind is buster Keaton, even one of the greatest stuntman , Jackie chan level . That kind of comedy has been replaced for a long time with looney tunes

Physical comedy is not universal. Really it's just as cultural as verbal comedy. However, since humans groups are almost entirely the same physically, and we live in the same physical reality, it's something more anchored outside of culture.

@@Hwyadylaw Show me a culture that doesn't understand the humor of Mr. Bean.

@Fahim Hussain There's no such thing as a universal response to social behaviour. Someone making a funny face or being outright stupid might make you laugh but it might make others worry, uneasy, or even mad. Something stupid or funny in one culture can be incredibly offensive in other cultures. The definition of a funny face or stupid behaviour differs between cultures

oh yeah, subtle, like bumping into a girl around the corner and ending up with your face in her tits.

@@acethemain7776 the classic

Ew, British

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Maybe because it’s quite similar to Fry’s comedy?

I totally thought of Abbot and Castello! But you're also right that here in USA there was major regional differences. West Coast, the South, Deep South etc. Each region is almost like a different country.

George Burns and Gracie Allen is another good example.

Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Rowan & Martin...Lots of manzai equivalents.

Very popular in England too, my first thought when he said double acts were of Morecambe and Wise, or Little and Large, or Fry and Laurie.

Who's on first, I don't know, he's on third. Have to understand context. Only now do I understand how little I understand Japanese culture.

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Kyuubey's been coaching him in persistence. "Do you want to become a magical gir... I mean... learn Japanese?"

@@brandonolson8820 the answer to both is yes

@@jvccr7533 Then you have found the right place. :)

I can't even tell a joke in my native language...

sugoi ochinchin desu onichan

@@thegoodkidboy7726 Chinchin ookii?

@@jakenz88 hai

Underrated thread

I found this way too funny 😂

Badum tsk

I caught me off guard

JSKDJ why is this so funny

Stop.

I laughed reading this and I don’t even know why

why 18?!

Why would anyone not do that?

can someone please explain this one to me? searched through the whole WWW and couldn't find the meaning.

Its a Kansai dialect from kyoto region

Kansaiben is always hilarious

@@letsdjent1416 kansai region.

Its basically *_WHAT THE HELL!!?_* reaction so kinda funny still

Its used where I lived in Osaka as well

I'm a massive fan of Gintama, even the word "Gintama" is a play on "Kintama" (balls)

Yeah, I was expecting that to be part of the joke, too. I mean, it's "chirin chirin," but...

If my dick (chin-chin) was stolen I wouldn’t be daijoubu

I was looking for this comment.

chin-chin? What are we drinking to? "In French, "chin-chin" is a cheer to initiate the touching of glasses."

@@Poodleinacan In Brazil too

_Also news commenters:_ *HONTONIIIIII???* *MAJIDESUKAAAAAAU?*

Yoshiko Chikuni Nobody: Japanese conversationalist: SO DESUNE DAYONE AH

@@yoshikochikuni1247 you forget UWAAAA

Japan and Canada have something in common...eh? So desu ne...

I CAN HEAR THIS COMMENT

That is in fact what happened, though I suspect it was left out of the analysis to avoid demonetisation. Either that or he missed it because something something naive Japanese stereotype something.

@@michaelheliotis5279 thanks, i thougt for moment i was being a complet idiot

@@NoeTheReborn Nah yeah, I ended up in a coughing fit from inhaling my drink when I heard it. Then again, I'm immature and the same thing happened when I first heard the word '喉ちんこ', meaning 'uvula' but literally traslating as 'throat-dick'. It's supposedly a slang word but, from what I've seen, it's about as slang as the word 'arse' is for 'buttocks'. I haven't yet had the courage to ask a Japanese person if it's occured to them what the word literally means, because I'm not sure if I believe they all do given the manner and circumstances in which it has come up (it might seem patronising, but it's not really, as even in English we use words all the time without necessarily realising what they literally mean). It's entirely possible, however, that as 'chin chin' is considered to be more of a juvenile term in Japanese, not unlike 'willy' in English, the word 喉ちんこ might to Japanese ears carry no more obscenity than the term 'front bum' does in English. Yet I will still let out a chuckle whenever I hear someone saying 'front bum', whereas Japanese people will keep a rigidly straight face when someone says 喉ちんこin the middle of the Japanese embassy. On the other hand, perhaps I'm just a stoopid gaijin who needs to grow up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, cleverly translated to English so that the double entendre gets preserved: 'his ding-a-ling got stolen'?

@@DJScrib3 OMG YES! I never even thought of that! That's genius!

By living in another country and experiencing the culture there, how do you think your experience of the joke compares to people that live in Japan?

@@XRioteerXBoyX She means that bikes (and bike theft) are very common in the Netherlands too, so I'd say most of that bit translates well. I laughed out loud during that first clip. 😄

Yeah i live in The Netherlands too but i still didn't find it funny, but i'm dead inside so that's ok.

bike theft in the netherlands is so crazy, and yet more and more bikes appear XD

@@JJSnel-uh3by you okay there bud?

Someone stole the key I accidentally left in my bike lock (the type that's attached to the wheel) and I had to drag the bike down to the store and replace the whole lock, and the tyre too because it was destroyed from the drag :(

I've had two bikes stolen within the last year, so I got a unicycle instead, can't steal if there's only one wheel😉

Tea, had that happen to me. Having the light stolen off my bike was Infuriating. Like why would you steal the light?

Emeraldwing probably the thief would follow you and get that stuff just to piss you off and since he never got cought maybe told his or her friends to get a piece of the action. In other words kid, you got punk’d

Steal enough pieces and then you can make your own bike

As a fellow Dutch person I’m sorry to tell you that the joke was that chirin-chirin can be heard as chin-chin what means dick. Still thought it was a decent joke, even if you interpreted it wrong

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I'm so sorry for your bike's bell. I hope you meet her again. 😭

Yes! And I didn't know bikes were that normal in Japan, interesting!

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Japan had the first memers

It's a Jersey thing.

To be fair, you have to have a high IQ to understand Japanese comedy

@@obviouslykaleb7998 *tips fedora*

@@obviouslykaleb7998 I think the same high IQ to understand rick and morty

"They might even think that what they don't understand doesn't exist." -Flat Earthers and Anti-Vaxxers in a nutshell

It’s sad how true this is, just because of little sentences like those I have so much respect for Yuta.

So damn true, even for people who think they're exempt. it's the struggle of knowledge :/

KZfaq Account wait, what? Do I smell the aroma of baizuo 🍵?

KZfaq Account no, you don’t get it, but the rest of us do.

It may want to make a deal with you.

@@capscaps04 I mean, if I can be an undying Magical Girl... Seems like a win-win scenario xD

Well don't stare into their soul and maybe they won't consider wanting to take yours. DID YOU EVER CONSIDER KYUBEYS FEELINGS?! HUH?!

Do you wanna make a contract?

@@tiagox3275 undying... Yeah that might be the problematic part about that

Yeah, it has nothing to do with bikes being common / uncommon in Japan. lmao

exactly, it was about someone stealing his dick

@@TwitchCronos100 i fucking hate when that happens. EVERY TIME. always getting my dick stolen. man, i wish they would stop stealing my dicks so much, maybe then i can worry about my *bike's bell.*

Japanese jokes the japanese don't get.

Yeah lol I also thought it was a pun until he explained differently

Interesting. Didn't know all that history.

@@ThatJapaneseManYuta I'm a bit of a history nerd. The double act developed in vaudeville, which was a type of variety theater in the west that consisted of music, dance, comedy, magic and various novelty acts... which makes me curious at to whether mazai is associated with variety shows in Japan. Thx so much for your channel. Your videos are always though provoking.

Everything is a cultural import in Japan

@@anaglyphx I see why you say that. Japan has always been very quick to adapt technology from outside sources, but I'd put to you that in many senses it is superficial. From a historical perspective I feel Japan has stayed uniquely Japanese, and where it really has changed has been internally driven.

Angry Applesauce There is nothing uniquely Japanese. The language, food, fashion, rice cultivation, government, schooling etc all comes from external sources. They are good at taking things, restructuring them and making them look uniquely Japanese. Whatever that means.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!!!

Male magical girl

Would you like to develop an app?

*"DO YOU UNDASTAAN~?"*

A termite walks into a bar and taps on the top and asks: "Is the Bar tender here?"

@@charlesesseltine7054 A priest, a Rabbi and an Imam walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, a joke?"

Allright mines a bit longer get ready but it’s hilarious Allright 3 guys go to the doctor because of alcoholism, being a cigarette addict, and being gay. The doctor says if the alcoholic drinks he dies, if the puffer smokes he dies, if the gay guy fucks a dude he dies. They leave the doctors office and walk into a bar. The alcohol doesn’t believe the doctor so he drinks and then dies. The gay guy says to the smoker wow that docs serious. The walk out the bar and the gay sees a cigarette lit on the ground. The gay guys says to the Smoker, if you bend over and pick the cigarette up we are both screwed Your welcome 🙏🏻

@@deraykrause4517 I need to get this! Does a joke rhyme with something religious?

@@deraykrause4517 Good one. Reminds me of: A priest, a Rabbi and an Imam walk into a bar. The guy walking behind them ducked.

Hi Hannah, thank you for your mature response! I've wanted to talk about this for a very long time and when I watched your video, it gave me the final push. None of us are immune to making those mistakes. I enjoy watching your videos and I know it takes a lot of effort to make them. It's not possible to get everything right every time (I just said something incorrect about Marian Franklin in this very video...she's NOT on Netflix lol) so let's stay open-minded.

That Japanese Man Yuta Exactly. Staying open minded and learning from past mistakes is the best way to move forward. I really enjoy your videos also. You offer a super unique perspective on Japanese life that I really appreciate! Keep it going :)

Beautiful communication! Both your examples are heartwarming and educational. Arigato!

No you didn’t haha He actually refuted your argument haha You’re passive-aggressively trying to backdoor an argument you didn’t make to cover yourself haha Despite using sporty SJW jargon like the of-course-bc-it’s-2019-you-say “problematic” “systematic” and “normalize”, you still don’t understand the cultural you pretend to speak for

Hannah, your comment is so refreshing! It's especially hard to find this kind of humility, honesty and openness to growth in KZfaq comments. Thanks for making my day. I appreciate you and Yuta both for the way you interacted over this. I'll check out your channel and almost certainly subscribe.

Lol

Hehehehe true that xD

Yeah, it's best

Is gintama good?

Oshiete, ginpachi sensei~

Mr bean is just too low level, it's amazing how they bring comedy that low level and universal

@@houghwhite411 its on the level of good night song for kids being sung in a strippers club.

I think Mr. Bean is well known in practically every part of the planet. And somewhat timeless as well. It doesn't matter if you were born in 1900 or 2010, you will find him hilarious no matter what. Of course the ever decreasing attention span is probably already making kids get bored of full episodes of Mr. Bean. Some tightly edited highlights would work nonetheless.

That was also my biggest take-away here. I never thought of Japanese kids watching him. Mr. Bean is essentially the spiritual successor to Charlie Chaplin, who incidentally, is really fun to watch from a cultural perspective. He basically invented American slapstick humor and some of it is still pretty funny 100 years later

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Chaplin's overrated. Harold Lloyd was leagues beyond Chaplin and it's a tragedy we can't see all his earlier stuff that got burned up. Rowan Atkison doing Mr. Bean was at a high level, too, but it took quite a while to produce what little Bean there is.

Ohhh Gintama.. Good times, guess I gotta re-watch it now

Gintama is golden. Question is how it works for us? What it is that makes it tick? Where is the show's strength coming from? The setting of the show is still in Japan, but in alternative history? Still I don't think the show discarded any of these. I think the show goes in some of these cases and cakes it up, goes over the top, but still I can't think of anything I missed. Hard boiled detectives, member of shinsengumi gobbling up mayonese. I guess the thing that goes over my head is the drama and history this show is trying to tell and tell it in the context of the show's setting. It's a comedy show,and the moment it wants to be a drama it has too big moves for me to follow.

True

It was very similar, and to be honest with the translation I laughed at everything up to the getting drunk part, which is where he explained it's more of a sound pun than anything and I didn't catch that. A guy overreacting to a small inconvenience is quite universal, I think. CalebCity put up a video that's literally that concept just a while ago, where he pretends his friend is willing to murder a man for taking his friend's parking spot. Small inconvenience turned into massive overreaction. The nuances of the act I think is what puts this apart. Parts where the Japanese audience laughed hardest were the parts where I was quietest.

I think an example a lot of adults today would understand in Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly Oddparents.

But manzai is much, much older

Although a lot more complicated, Seinfeld depended on the wackos (his friends) combined with Jerry, the straight man (even though like the real Seinfeld, he was an actual comedian). An extension of his real standup, which was normal guy looking at weird things about life and other people. Otherwise, in regular standup even the various more sophisticated duos are gone. Al Franken started as a duo with another guy, maybe one of the last.

It reminds me a lot of the Smothers Brothers in particular.

that show is funny as heck

It's Thai, if i am not wrong. Edit: I checked, it is Japanese

@@BoltonBolt how??

@@Rice--0 nvm, I checked and it turns out to be Japanese

@@BoltonBolt There is a newer Thai version iirc

welovfree • محمد Ikr!

@@Madhattersinjeans Such a thorough KZfaq comment deserves a reply: This is why I say a good joke isn't supposed to be original. If you try to be too groundbreaking, you're not going to be relatable, and therefore not funny. The best comedians tend to point out things that are obvious, but that people are unwilling or too complacent to observe.

Facts I don't get stand up comedy at all

@@Derna1804 as an actual stand up comedian I want to make the point that if anybody reading this ever tries doing comedy of their own it absolutely MUST be original otherwise you’ll be considered an unoriginal hack and a thief and will struggle to progress unless you’re an insanely good performer of the stolen stuff, but even then everyone gets caught in the end and it’s been known to destroy careers. Premises are fair game though, nobody can really claim a premise unless it’s literally 100% unique to their life like doing a bit about a disease that is so rare they named it after you. But if you’re a regular person and plan on staying that way (recommended tbh) then originality is kinda whatever. Do what makes the people around you enjoy your company, it’s not like it matters.

@@KyleTheMurderer Nobody said anything about stealing jokes. A joke can be new, that doesn't make it at all original. A joke can be original, that doesn't make it very original. Here's an example of a completely new joke: "I won't call your mama ugly because she's a national hero. SEAL Team Six sent bin Laden her picture in the mail." Is that original? No. People know the format, they've heard a million of the same type of joke before, they know the characters involved, they are very likely to agree on the premise that killing Osama was generally a good thing. Now if you're really serious about giving people advice as "an actual stand up comedian," maybe advise them not to go into stand up.

Yes, and this is what I don't get about Japanese stand-up comedy. The jokes are really simple, like basic insults, plays on words, making fun of mispronunciation, etc., and the format is old-fashioned and formulaic. Because it's so simple, I do actually understand why it's 'technically' funny - the only jokes that go over my head are Japanese pop culture references. What's hard to fathom is how such tired material can be so popular.

@@FrothingFanboy i don't live in japan nor i've ever lives there so all i am about to say is to be taken with a grain of salt. Japan is quite a monoethnic place so comedy about race would most likely go over the majority of people, criticism of customs, society and/or leaders and their problems is quite taboo so it wouldn't fly either. So what is left is mostly "low brow" humor

@@FrothingFanboy What I personally find funny in Japanese comedy is the delivery. If a comedian nails the delivery, even simple jokes can be hilarious. Sometimes, having a comedian just freaking out over something unimportant does the trick for me.

American comedy is just blunt sarcasm without a shred of nuance, and making fun of an endless and tiresome array of stifling racial stereotypes that you should have grown out of already. I had a good laugh at the Japanese sketch but I didn't laugh once at the American sketch, even though I do understand the cultural context. Why does the comedian have to smile at her own joke to signal the audience to laugh more?

@@mikicerise6250 American vaudeville is like Abbott and Costello what he showed was modern standup. If you want American humor like what he showed you should check out "who's on first" I roll every time I hear it

Nice one lol

...... no

Best type of jokes in English. Requires zero brains, only an epic trainwreck of a language.

That brought me closer to laughter than the manzai

Anvilshock If that’s sou (ba dum, tss), then why don’t you try making a joke? If it’s as easy as you say, you should be able to spout off dozens of them in no time. Plus, you’ll make more friends that way

epic reference

How about another joke,Murray?

@@kokodayo5796 yes MuRAAAY. (i love it when he switches on the hate and from then on pronounces his name differently, really effective and chilling. The most important word to any person is their name, so to deliberately mispronounce it as sign of disrespek..... that movie was so goos but creepy)

I second this! It was very interesting. M ight watch it again

thank you for the info.

I always burst out laughing like a complete idiot whenever I come across a pun, regardless of the language it is in. And you just made my day :)

@@alexanderougai4899 Even though it may be complicated, here's a pun from my native language, Greenlandic: "Juuli sumiippa? Juuli Maaliannguakkunniippoq" (Where's Jules? Jules is at Little Maria's residence) (Maaliannguaq/Little Maria) (Juulimaaq/Santa Claus) (Juulimaaliannguaq/Little artificial Santa Claus) (Juulimaaliannguakkunniippoq/He's at the little artificial Santa Claus' residence)

AH96 GreetinGs to GreenLand

i would say it must be her real voice as the 'Gangster' talk can be copied easy

@@marcoalessandro2034 It's just as easy to copy that California accent.

But either way the joke stands the police are here to protect the interests of their employer.

@@dijek5511 i really don't think so .. it is too pretentious ( and i am basically an animation voice actor...very versatile )

@@marcoalessandro2034 Not that versatile apparently. And you're not very good at hiding it either as you can't be "basically an animation voice actor", you either are or you aren't. See, pretentious is not that hard.

Findecanor that’s surprising since british humour isn’t everyone’s cup of tea

@@cintivla woah 😂 tea

@@cintivla If it's green it could be for the japanese

@@thelegendaryklobb2879 No, only black, or 50 shades of Earl Grey.

Jewii Is there standup comedy in China?

@@30803080308030803081 yes there is, but as far as I know there aren't that many stand up comedians. One of the most famous stand up comedians in China, Zhou Libo (who became really famous about 10 years ago) faded away in recent years, I think because he offended the CCP (I'm not sure this IS the case, but it could very likely be).

Is that what they call "cross talk" in the west? If so, that's not funny for westerners, either. China and Japan have their own forms of humor that only their citizens find amusing.

So, are all forms of political jokes off the table totally in China?

@@niello5944 make a political joke and see yourself never allowed to speak publicly ever again.

Well said.

@s__n_Ghs_w_J_g_r_v_ Do you have a point to make or did you just drop by to show everyone what an asshole you are?

@s__n_Ghs_w_J_g_r_v_ All you contributed was showing everyone what an asshole you are. What is that worth? Less than nothing. If you have nothing to contribute, why talk? Oh, yeah. It's to stroke your own ego. Are you done fellating yourself or are you going to waste our time with more of this?

I'm from the US and I didn't even know that that was the joke I thought I was missing out on something. I understood it just fine though.

Ma

Itte Q is the only program I can understand.

LOL

Haha

boo

And you're the father uncle-dad-grandpa.....

@Probably Buddha Stfu

Perhaps he was accidentally being a genius of sarcasm.

@@glowfly5314 He was surprised to learn we don't eat cheeseburgers every day so that wasn't the case.

Ah, I see.

Honestly I thought that was the joke that it sounded like he was, so the straightman (second guy) reacted as if the first guy got his dick stolen and still came to the show. The follow up jokes by the second guy sound a LOT like thats what he's talking about with the translation.

I'm Japanese but I thought that too

Yeah, that's what I got from it too.

Glad I'm not only the one who thought that way XD

I thought so too!

Correction he said 'They don't understand that they don't understand'. It's the dunning Kruger effect. If you don't know your limitations you might think you know all there's to know.

@@meunomejaestavaemuso Oh, you poor guy...

@@meunomejaestavaemuso ok boomer

@@cinnagummi seriously, fuck off that was damn useful and comprehensive information

Gaby Iero Please stop killing that meme.

Years ago I worked in an "Asian" restaurant. That was when Vietnamese fleeing the communists were coming to America. One slow night the word went around. "They are going to show Abbott & Costello doing Who's on First down in the bar." All the staff gathered. All of us?we? Americans were roaring with laughter. All the Vietnamese guys were looking at us as though we had lost are minds.

Dreadogastus F Of course they wouldnt understand. Do they even know English?

🅹🅰🆈🅵🅰 ✓ • 15 years ago⠀⠀⠀ Now? Yes. Back then? Highly doubt it unless with specific circumstances

We do

SLAM THE FART 😂

@@MrHrchak11 OMG THAT PVC GUY 😂😂😂😂😂😂

you mean the tiktok guy? 😂

@@josephnielsen357 omg tik tok no way i love tik tok😂

But that's not what the meaning is.

TouhouGaijin It’s not what the word originally meant, but over time the meaning of words change or gain extra meanings.

Belial uP

TouhouGaijin so you know the full meaning does include silly exaggerated humor and exaggerated ( usually nonverbal ) behaviors.... this in one wording or another is included in the definition to date as long as you're getting a full definition some definitions are in fact abbreviated. Most likely the answer you're going to get when you use Google as an abbreviated answer...

Yup- exaggerated humour (same is true for drama acting, it tends to be more theatrical than what western audiences are accustomed to) ie "slapstick" tsukomi slaps boke on the back of the head. Not a huge fan of most Japanese humour. I do love 低燃費のハイジ though

lol

British comedy is pretty deadpanned

And Sarcasm

Xander 9898 and there’s no such thing as sarcasm in Japanese comedy. They have to have a tsukkomi explain the joke...

What do you mean? British humour is _soooo_ sophisticated. Or so the British tell me.

Japanese TV ads are ANOTHER whole world of entertainment! And that's reflected on KZfaq, where you find at least one large great series of examples! Over the top wildness, plus anime, Pokari Sweat, phones, banks, talking dogs, Tommy Lee Jones, and so much more!

@@tomhannah3825 Ikr, such a holy Bible

I mean, long long man, bro