Comments on: Gaki No Tsukai

Gaki No Tsukai

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:54:26 -0800

"...this clip of a Japanese show called Gaki No Tsukai stands out not for what it includes, but for what it lacks - talking and screaming. It takes place in a studio made up like a library, with the participants (including Kickboxing champion Ernesto Hoost) stifling their laughter, screams of pain and retching noises, just like any student did in their own junior high school library." [youtube video, text shamelessly lifted from wfmu]

By: zenzizi

zenzizi — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:08:05 -0800

dayam.. this is so freakin' weird.. but i lol'd!

By: dobbs

dobbs — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:11:21 -0800

I didn't buy that it was a real library but that was still pretty fuckin' funny. If the video spreads well, I see kids everywhere doing this in the school library. I woulda died over that wasabi one. *shivers*

By: armage

armage — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:33:00 -0800

Ah, ガキの使い... This show doesn't always take place in a library, though. The point is that all of the participants (each of whom is either a comedian, a tarento, or a special guest) have to keep from laughing while one of them does some kind of weird skit. If they laugh they have to pay a penalty, oftentimes money. A recent episode was set at a Japanese ryokan, and they took turns leaving the room and peering down from a hole in the ceiling with weird hair, makeup, expressions, etc. Basically a "how long can you stand it" variety show. Its full name is ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!, or "Downtown no gaki no tsukai ya arahende!!" "Downtown" is the name of a famous manzai comedian duo. Here's another clip from the same show. And another. And one in English.

By: onalark

onalark — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:57:36 -0800

That was great!

By: absalom

absalom — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:20:41 -0800

Funny, but not laugh out loud funny.

By: invitapriore

invitapriore — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:37:03 -0800

I don't think I've laughed that wildly in a long time. The poor guy's face when, after the third instance of getting the wrong card, is confronted with the repeated slaps of that machine...priceless.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:37:14 -0800

My guts are aching from laughing so hard. The best part was that I really felt like a part of the show, with my spouse sleeping on the couch nearby.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:29:58 -0800

I snapped muscles and tendons laughing. Reminds me of being dead bored in school and having fits of laughter only because I shouldn't.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:32:17 -0800

god that was hysterical. the library element was amazing.

By: twjordan

twjordan — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:30:33 -0800

awesome... really awesome

By: fungible

fungible — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:31:50 -0800

It's like Jackass as a game show! It's now my mission to bring this to America.

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:47:01 -0800

That was really amazing, esp. the tender biting of the old man. Wow.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:11:10 -0800

That was hilarious.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:12:11 -0800

That tender biting old man will haunt my dreams; sure, I laughed my ass off, but a part of me was just as terrified as the bitee looked.

By: Jikido

Jikido — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:03:32 -0800

the slapping machine is priceless...reminds me of a cartoon when I was young where a dog spins a wheel and whatever it lands on the cat has to do the dirty deed or pay a penalty....I laughed my arse off- today too.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:03:07 -0800

This is the funniest goddamn thing I've seen all week. The slapping machine just about made me lose it.

By: arrowhead

arrowhead — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:09:11 -0800

Hahhaahha good one good one.

By: runkelfinker

runkelfinker — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:37:38 -0800

I had to stop eating my fish-and-chips lunch when tender biting old man did his thing...

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:09:07 -0800

[ this is good ]

By: avoision

avoision — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:46:18 -0800

I've watched this several times now - and I'm laughing even more each time I watch it with others. Great find!

By: dead_

dead_ — Fri, 19 May 2006 09:13:46 -0800

Oh gosh those Japanese are SO crazy!

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:31:33 -0800

The human species is soooo strange.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:37:56 -0800

Awesome.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sat, 20 May 2006 10:05:39 -0800

Three thumbs up.

By: the cuban

the cuban — Wed, 31 May 2006 04:22:10 -0800

Bob Sapp