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Poor Yatabe, all alone!

Today's Ame Talk report is about the recent ○○Jyanai Hou Geinin SP.

To explain these Jyanai Hou episodes - several groups has the member or members who stand out. Whether it be their gags, facial expressions, or looks.

These geinin are the total opposite. The "Regular Johns" of their respected groups.

These are the Jyanai Hou Geinin.

On the initial Jyanai Hou SP, Hannya's Kawashima was there. I think we can all say in comparison to Kanada & his characters, he (Kawashima) does get a bit overshadowed.

I do love Kanada & his gags! However, I can't help but feel bad, or even sad for their overlooked partners.

On this 2010 Edition of the SP, we see some familiar faces from the line-up I was able to find, as well as some new members. The members are,




Proof that these guys do get looked over was first realized by myself. I had to look up the majority of their names, save for Wagaya & Fruit Punch. Sorry, guys! This has opened my eyes.

 Here are some of their stories of being overshadowed!

"We (Garage Sale) have been introduced as, 'Gori & company!' (「ゴリさんたち、おねがいします～」)" (Garage Sale, Kawata)

"It took them around ten minutes to remember my name." (Dangerous, Yasuda)

"I got mistaken for a regular otaku." (Tenshin, Mukai)

"The sound guy forgot to give me a pin mike." (Doki Doki Camp, Satou)

"A couple mistook me for Xabungle's Matsuo." (Hiking Walking, Matsuda)

"My manager has mistaken called me Gorita (ゴリ田さん)" (Garage Sale, Kawata)

"A student recognized us in a restaurant and asked to shake our hands. Shortly after, I went to the restroom and the same student I shook hands with told me, 'Wagaya is right over there!'" (Wagaya, Yatabe)

Sad, right? Lesson learned - learn about all members of your favorite groups! They feel bad. ]:

This just in from Owarai Natalie!

Watanabe Entertainment - known for such talents like Lotti, Wagaya, Angles, Xabungle, and more - are partering up with the popular Japanese blogging site Ameba.

WE!Owarai (Watanabe Entertainment! Owarai) will be Ameba powered blogs for WE's popular owarai talents.

It's just now being announced (as far as my knowledge, anyhow) but after looking at Lotti's blog, there are entries as far as December 2009. So perhaps a proper opening was being carefully planned. [:


Speaking of blogs, I already follow quite a few Yoshimoto blogs, as well as other geinin I like via Laff Blog so I'll try and post information from their blogs as well.

When in Japan last summer, I got the lucky chance to buy two issues of Owarai Popolo (お笑いポポロ). However, I went to Los Angeles recently to take the JLPT-3級 exam.

When I went to this Japanese magazine store to try and buy "December's issue," they told me they didn't have it. I thought, "Hmm...what's up with that?" Then they told me it's like a quarterly magazine. /orz

So now that it's January, there's a new issue! For February, no less. LOL

People I See and Like
Tokyo 03
Wagaya
Audrey (duh!)
Lotti~
Hibiki!
Sandwichman

As well as this years M-1 Grand Prix winners: Punk Boo Boo! (パンクブーブー)

...I have NO idea who they are! That's the beauty of M-1: by this time next year I'll not only know them, I might love them!

Happened with Audrey & Non Style. LOL

News Link: http://natalie.mu/owarai/news/show/id/25925

【つっち、つっち！】 My Blackberry background at the moment, found on Pixiv!

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Even with these past few days being so...ugh. Horrendous. I've been trying to do stuff to forget about it but truth be told, it's been horrible. Even with that though, I check my Yahoo! Japan mail and see that I got the above message.

Made my freaking week. Now I'm just scared to tell them I live overseas, shit. What if they wont send it? IDK...I won that rightfully, and I've never heard them say, "No overseas mails!" we we'll see, I guess. =\

Edit: And just because I'm bored - today I downloaded the first 3 episodes of The Three Theater, which is Bakushou Red Theater's predecessor! I really like the title cards on the shows and I wanted to compare Three Theater's to Red Theater's. So yeah...feel free to ignore this - it just makes me happy. :3




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The Three Theater | Bakushou Red Theater" 
So on The Three Theater, their faces for the title card & to introduce them in between each skit was the same. For Red Theater, the title card and the images in between each skit are different.



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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Hannya: It's hard to say because I really like both their title calls. I think the Three Theater one is cute 'cause they're both holding the apple up. (It was in my user info here for the longest too - I recently changed it though.) I really like Red Theater's as well though 'cause they look all cool and shiz. [:




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Fruit Punch (FuruPon): MuraKen never wears glasses like that...LMAO. Well if my bias were to lead my opinion's direction, I like the Red Theater one better. I think they both look better on it, IDK~




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Shizuru: Ikeda (left) just can't make normal faces. LOL, if I had to choose what weird face I like best. Um, maybe...both? I can't pick. As for MuraJun (right) I like his Three Theater one like .00001% more. Both pretty close. [: He's a cutie. I like weirdos apparently.




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Jaru Jaru: Haha, split decision. I think Gotou (on the left) looks better on Red Theaters and I think Fukutoku (on the right) looks better on The Three Theaters~ [:




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Wagaya: Um, Tsubokura is a smoking hottie. (highfives ) LMAO, but I like him better with the red scarf on in The Three Theater call. Yatabe (on the right on Red Theater's title call) reminds me of a grandpa on there but I like it better than Three Theaters for some reason. As for Sugiyama (in the middle) I think he looks the same on both. LOL!




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Lotti: Nakaoka (right) creeps me out on a regular basis so my opinion is based on Kokako (left), the less creepy half. I like the Red Theater shot of Kokako! He has the strangest eyes too. They're dark and...either expressionless or soulful. You pick.




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Eikou Kano: NGL, I'm not a big Kano fan. LOL! However, I think the Red Theater shot has more...umph.




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Kanako Yanagihara: I think Kanako looks cute on both! (I love her bangs, gah!) but I think the Three Theater shot (might be the hair...) flatters her a lot. Both are cute though. [:




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Three Theater Title Call/Individual | Red Theater Indvidual 
Teruyoshi Uchimura: Clearly Red Theater's is better! I love Uchimura~
Well that was fun. LMAO!

Some dude named Kazuhiro e-mailed me, wanting to be language partners. He's like 31, whatever. His reason was, "To be honest, I don't know anything about America but you like Japanese comedy so I'm interested." Um, lulz.

He asked me who my favorite geinin we're, so I emailed him back and mentioned Hannya but I didn't mention all the kickass other younger(ish) groups I like!

Also, its really hard to determine who's a senpai in owarai because there are so many freaking groups!

I know for a fact Dachou Club & Neptune are so that's why I mentioned they were my fave senpai conbi...

But what about all the in-betweens?

See, Hannya has been out since 2005. For owarai, that's still young! FuruPon and...Shizuru are still fairly young.

Jaru Jaru have been out surprisingly long! Lotti as well! Wagaya - they are actually youngish despite them all being the same age of 37. I looked up InJohn (Instant Johnson) too & they've been debuted since 1997! Shiiiiiiit.

Yanagihara Kanako is like, 2 years older than me but I don't know how long she's been active. I've seen her a shit load on shows. Sometimes that the benefit of being a solo geinin - it seems like if you have a certain look and appeal, you'll get a lot of work and never really fall out of obscurity.

Then there's always the downside & the opposite will happen. Like for Sekai no Nabeatsu! /sigh You hardly ever hear him doing things anymore. I loved him too! He was my 最近ハマっているもの of last year. LOL

I want Hannya to do new gags! Throwing that out there.

I think it's because I've been watching owarai...pretty much daily. Almost more than Arashi, yikes! and so after seen FuruPon's, "Annoying Guy" gag or Shizuru's "Seishun" gag like 2354696234565 times its like, "It's still funny but...what else you got?"

Thank God for Red Theater - new shit every Wednesday. *_*

I didn't realize how much of an influential figure Uchimura Teriyoshi was until I researched him today! Guy's a big deal! He really his funny though so no surprise but I just didn't realize how much of one he was.

I bought three postcards to write & send to some Yoshimoto geinin~ :) I already sent Hannya a letter so these are for JaruJaru, Shizuru, and Fruit Punch.

Everyone else I like on RT aren't with Yoshimoto. So...they'll wait. Nyahaha.