It’s been a funny few weeks. Back at work following a long and nice break for the Obon holiday (main summer holiday in Japan) and there’s been a string of fairly comic moments, which all culminated today. Let me entertain you if you will…
First I discovered that someone, somewhere thought it would be a good idea to licence (and I use the word lightly here cos I really wonder if they did licence them) extracts from British TV comedies to show in school receptions, while students wait, chat etc… Which sounds like a great idea - British comedy is after all responsible for some of the finest moments in the history of comedy on TV (Fast Show or Monty Pythons just to name two). If there’s one thing I’ve always loved the Brits for, it’s their sense of humour (with a few exceptions - I never quite got some of it, TV or real life). Where it gets a little twisted, and kinda funny, is in the choice of said British TV comedies: Little Britain and the Migthy Boosh… err… what? :???: It ain’t nothing against either of these programmes in particular, I quite liked Little Britain at the start though it got tiring fast and I never got the Mighty Boosh but a lot of friends rave about it, it’s just that well… I don’t quite see how Japanese people would really understand either, there’s an incredible amount of references with regards to culture, society and the likes which I would never expect a Japanese person who hasn’t lived in England for a while to get, and that’s without touching on accents and slang, double entendres etc… What’s more, some of the sketches in Little Britain don’t strike me as particularly good taste - yeah they’re funny, but for a school environment? (ok and here feel free to point out that Eikawa does not equate school) Whatever floats the corporate boat though, it’s pretty funny witnessing moms, children and receptionists watching the only gay in the village sketches or the violent throwing up ones :lol: After all it’s English, which is all that seems to really matter to them.
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