外国人のお笑いブログ

Today, I was on Pixiv, looking through all 182 pages of Owarai fanart. That was the highlight of my day. I got so many, so much cuteness! It was an overload, seriously. I'm a happy camper. [:

Audrey and Non Style had the most fan art by far. They do traditional manzai comedy though. Which is basically stand up comedy here, but still has its own flavor. It's a category of its own and its kinda tough to do and understand. However, they do it well!

I prefer skit comedy, which is called conto in Japan. Red Theater, The Three Theater, etc are conto shows. Hannya is predominantly a conto combi (duo, pair). Since I grew up watching Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, it's pretty natural for me to lean towards conto, really. I love the different characters and (on Red Theater, for instance) situations they're put in to.

There's your tiny Owarai Lesson of the day.

I also learned today that there are many I guess...nicknames/abbreviated states for random comedians I like.

I saw Wagaya referred to as My Home (マイホーム) which is just the translation of their name. Warai no 3LDK which is like "Comedy's 3 Room House," because there are three members and their name refers to a house.

Then for both Wagaya, Shizuru, Kanada, and Kanada's character Kosatani, I saw a few artists who removed the vowels from their names regularly.

So Shizuru becomes SZR.
Wagaya is WGY.
Kanada was KND.
And Kosatani KSTN.

...and Destini becomes DSTN! LOL You can do it for any Japanese word or any...constant-ed...thing. Really. LOL

Then, Rozan was called 63 a lot. I assume its ro(ku), zan (or san, the s turns to z in a compound?) Or something.