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#1 2005-09-28 8:23 pm
- Nefarious
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The Iron Man of "Comedy"
http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/nasubi.html
Nippon Television's (NTV) producers have obviously never heard of the Geneva Convention. If they had, they wouldn't have treated poor Nasubi the way they did. They wouldn't have stripped him naked and shut him in an apartment, alone with no food, furniture, household goods, or entertainment. They wouldn't have kept him there for over a year until he had won $10 000 in prizes by sending in postcards to contests. They wouldn't have cut him off from the world and they would have told him that he was on nation-wide TV. ...
Nasubi's first ordeal ended in December. ... Finally, he was given back his clothes, and for the first time in a year, he knew what it was like to wear clothes other than women's underwear.
....This time, they took him into a Television studio, and led him in a box that he thought was a room. Out of habit, he took off his clothes and waited. Suddenly, the walls of the 'room' fell down and the 'ceiling' was raised. He found himself naked in front of a thousand cheering fans and the hosts of Denpa Shonen came out and explained everything that had been happening over the last year and three months to him.
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#3 2005-09-28 8:56 pm
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
He found a boat and sailed until he reached the end of the set, then he found a door and walked out.
Hey!!! Was that Pithy? Got a twenty?
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#4 2005-09-28 9:00 pm
- brendave
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
Just shows that "Reality" is no longer reality. MTV was a bit out there because the people involved had no reality to them... this is sick!!!
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#5 2005-09-28 9:23 pm
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
Is this serious? Isn't this cruel and also unusual?
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#6 2005-09-28 10:31 pm
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
Japan is smurfed up. I've said it before and I'll say itagain.
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#7 2005-09-28 11:38 pm
- Moses
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
Buy American.
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#8 2005-09-29 12:04 am
- joseph_tso
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
that's messed up
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#9 2005-09-29 12:15 am
- mo' ron
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Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
So what was the point of the Nasubi experiment? Ostensibly, it was to test the thesis that contests had become so ubiquitous that it would be possible to live entirely on what one had won in them. This was called kensho seikatsu (Living off contests).
HAHAHAHAHAHAH...
Of course the real reason is that programs involving human suffering are extremely popular in Japan. The gambaru genre, started in the 1980's with the immensely popular show Za Gaman, a show in which university students competed in contests to see who could stand the most pain, eat the most unpleasant foods, and perform the most humiliating tasks. Denpa Shonen is a logical continuation of this trend, and the stunts are becoming more and more dangerous/appalling.
Sounds a lot like Fear Factor.
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#10 2005-09-29 1:15 am
Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
Nefarious Bidding wrote:
He found himself naked in front of a thousand cheering fans and the hosts of Denpa Shonen came out and explained everything that had been happening over the last year and three months to him.
...then they turned and presented him, heaving as they faced the audience...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, at the conclusion of this Human Instrumentality Project, we present to you the future pilot of Evangelion, Test Model, Unit One; Shinji Ikari!"
{cut camera to every single damn person in the audience}
{Everyone, one at a time}: "Congratulations!"
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#11 2005-09-29 3:31 am
Re: The Iron Man of "Comedy"
thats just plain smurfing stupid...
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