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Even More Gaki no Tsukai - Plus Matsumoto Hitoshi is God

This is how you play Russian Roulette. With cards instead of guns. And dudes in smiley-faced body suits instead of bullets. On TV. In Japan.

And, I’d like to take a moment to profess my supreme appreciation for Matsumoto Hitoshi. He may be the finest actor/comedian of his generation. He certainly knows how to take a lemon-like situation and make with it something like lemonade.

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16 Responses to “Even More Gaki no Tsukai - Plus Matsumoto Hitoshi is God”

Judge Rage June 30th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Cheers to you, Gavin. In a few short months you have discovered something that I discovered about 12 years ago when I lived in Japan and learned a lot of Japanese watching TV in Japan. What I figured out is that Matsumoto Hitoshi (or Hitoshi Matsumoto, or Ma-chan) is not only the funniest guy in Japan, he might be the funniest guy in the world. I am happy to debate this topic with YouTube evidence…but in the last decade (and these guys have been a duo since elementary school, some 30 plus years ago) I have spent probably 500 hours laughing outloud at their work, and I can’t say that about ANY other comedian. (This is across Matumoto’s own DVD specials [5 hours], the Gaki no Tsukai specials [12 hours] and their regular shows, Gottu ‘A’ Kanji, Downtown DX, and HEY! HEY! HEY! [250, 100, and 150 hours at least, repectively]).

Anonymouse June 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pm

I think the most brilliant part is in the middle when everyone is telling him happy birthday. . . and subsequently get him beaten for it.

Lauds to Matsumoto, truly. What a sucky way to start a birthday.

WaveExistence July 8th, 2006 at 4:50 pm

Does anyone know where you can get the DVDs of all this? These have to be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen, and I don’t even know Japanese!

Gachapin July 16th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

i grew up in japan, and i have to tell you how happy i am to know that non-japanese people are also able to appreciate Matsumoto’s humor.

as for the question about the DVD’s, if you live in the U.S. in a major city like L.A. or N.Y., you can visit one of the local Japanese supermarkets (Mitsuwa or Nijiya). They usually have a DVD store where they sell DVD’s of Japanese TV shows for pretty cheap (probably illegally, but oh well…)

gavinpurcell July 16th, 2006 at 4:13 pm

Yo Gachapin,

I live in LA and would love to know where I can go to pick these up. Any specific addresses?

As always, thanks for reading.

-Gavin

Andrea September 1st, 2006 at 2:56 am

I could be wrong, my japanese consists only of arigato and oneko, but in this page seems there are DVD of that show:

http://www.210.ne.jp/410/productsList/20

http://www.210.ne.jp/410/productsDetail/w0010g2007

ArchAngel September 2nd, 2006 at 2:38 am

I’m from Israel
Dont know japanese at all but this show is cracking me up
i would like to know where can i get that dvd
or similar shows to this1

myk September 22nd, 2006 at 10:38 am

Anyone know of any DVD collections of this stuff?

tonymontana October 11th, 2006 at 5:49 am

where I can find more of this show? I saw one movie when they are trying to learn english…very funny…:))

Jerry L October 12th, 2006 at 12:56 pm

Hey, I was wondering if they have any Downtown merchandise (shirts, etc.)? I’m sure they do, since they’ve been the cornerstone of Japanese comedy for 20+ years.

seijurohiko168 January 15th, 2007 at 4:41 am

“matsumoto happy birthday….matsumoto out!” lolz what a way to be greeted on your bday

Sparhase January 31st, 2007 at 9:39 am

I discovered the whole Gaki bunch two weeks ago. At this time I was quit down but this stuff made my laugh my bum off - very therapeutic. So thanks for this blog.

[PT]Snake March 21st, 2007 at 12:12 pm

can anyone inform me if this possible to watch any of these stations online (life feed)?

* Nippon TV, Sapporo TV, Aomori Broadcasting Corp., Miyagi TV, Yamagata Broadcasting Co., Fukushima Central TV, Yamanashi Broadcasting System, TV Niigata, Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., TV Kanazawa, TV Shinshu, Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Nihonkai TV, Yamaguchi Broadcasting Co., Nishinippon Broadcasting Co., Nankai Broadcasting Co., Kochi Broadcasting Co., Nagasaki International TV, Kumamoto Kemmin TV, Kagoshima Yomiuri TV - from 10:56 p.m. until 11:26 p.m. every Sunday (JST)
* Fukuoka Broadcasting Corp. - from 0:50 a.m. until 1:20 a.m. every Saturday (JST)
* Yomiuri TV (Kansai), TV Iwate, Hiroshima TV - from 0:26 a.m. until 0:26 a.m. every Wednesday (JST)
* Akita Broadcasting System, Inc. - from 0:31 a.m. until 1:01 a.m. every Thursday (JST)
* Chukyo TV - from 1:20 a.m. until 1:50 a.m. every Friday (JST)
* Ryukyu Broadcasring Corp. (affiliated with JNN and TBS Network) - from 1:25 a.m. until 1:55 a.m. every Tuesday (JST)

(these stations broadcast gaki no tsukai)

FelipeChoque September 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

I definitely, definitely will give my money to these people in exchange of original DVD’s, specially if they have english subs. Thanks to the people who posted links to buy DVD’s!

H December 13th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

they sell the originals on yesasia.com and cdjapan.co.jp (english speaking sites), although unfortunately for some there are no eng subs. I’m planning on buying all of them although they’re about 60 bucks each. :/