Fooohhhhh!! (Hard Gay!)

Who's the funniest guy (or gay) in Japan?


Hard Gay!

I have a new pastime at the office when things get slow, which only happens when our Frankenstein boss is not around intimidating everybody (he has this annoying habit of talking to people so close, you can actually smell AND see what he had for breakfast!). It's watching videos at YouTube and Google Video.

And while browsing around at lunchtime, I caught this clip of Hard Gay, a Japanese comedienne who dresses up in Village People/Freddy Mercury black leather cut-offs and studs, and has the physique of a pro-wrestler. He goes around the city doing random acts of kindness, but with his trademark gay style-- He loves to pelvic-thrust with arms raised, and shouts "Fooohhhhh!!" at the end of any phrase (Wait, I know someone who’s exactly like that…). His real name btw. is Masaki Sumitani, and he’s straight(not gay).

A picture of Hard Gay in action, taken from the show Bakuten. The purple text reads, "Welcome to the Hard Gay gas station!"

He’s absolutely sidesplitting, and has achieved cult status in Japan from what I read. The last clip I saw him in was his visit to Yahoo!’s Japan office. At the end he strapped himself with neon-light ropes, arms raised, and crane lifted to replace the “Y” in a huge outdoor neon sign of Yahoo! (And yes, whenever the sign lights up, he shouts “Yahoo!”).

Notes:
Links to Hard Gay videos at:
- YouTube
- Google video

The "new" kuwarta o kahon

There's a new game on NBC, which hasn't been showed yet on cable, called "Deal or no Deal".



Hosted by comedianne Howie Mendel(Isn't he the guy who now hosts America's Funniest at Disney Channel?), here's how the game is played:

"The rules are simple. Choose a briefcase. Then as each round progresses, you must either stay with your original briefcase choice or make a 'deal' with the bank(a mysterious entity) to accept its cash offer in exchange for whatever dollar amount is in your chosen case. Once you decide to accept or decline the bank's offer, the decision is final. Contestants are encouraged to ask friends or family in the audience for advice; however, only the contestant's answer will be considered binding and final."

[Tuny coughs]

Rip-off!!

Maybe the producers, Endemol(also the makers of Big Brother) were avid fans of Kuya Pepe Pimentels's Kuwarta o Kahon, and saw how good the game was in the 80s. It also has shades of Eat Bulaga's Laban O Bawi, where you have the Sex Bomb Dancers holding the boxes, while at Deal you have 26 glamorous spokesmodels each holding a brief case.



Ang hirap mamili no? One of the Deal models btw. is Filipina, Jenilee. Maybe we can convince her to join the new Sex Bomb Dancers.



The difference I see in Kuwarta/Laban and Deal, which probably makes it more exciting, is you can actually see how much money you are loosing as the game progresses. Also, instead of winning a banig, bunot, or a bayong of kangkong (as in Kuwarta & Laban), the lowest you can loose here in $.01(a penny).

If you want to get a feel of the game, (or, ehem, nothing to do in the office)play the online version of the game. I won a penny in my last game (I'd imagine feeling like a total fool winning that over a million dollars on live TV).