What are the "Don't Laugh" episodes of "Gaki no Tsukai?" This is one of the marquee TV events in Japan where Downtown (arguably the biggest and most well know comedy duo), Cocorino (right up there thanks to being on this show for many years) and Hōsei Tsukitei (comedian/story teller) have to endure a day of pranks (and each other) without laughing. I am not sure how the episodes are released in Japan, but it should be now or fairly soon we should be seeing this pop up in the usual places. From what I can read this will be the song in the final episode where the song covers the events of the 10 episodes. Puffy will be doing the end song for the annual "Gaki no Tsukai Don't Laugh" episodes. This blog is not dead, just not a ton of exciting Puffy news. My take is it seems like they do just enough to keep going.Īlso a side note, I think they are a dark horse for the 2020 Tokyo Opening Ceremonies given they are one of a handful of Japanese acts to have a significant international following.Hey all. While it looks like 2020 has a lot on the calendar for Puffy, they have talked about ending their run this year so it will be curious to see if they hold to that or that was idle speculation their part. Some of this may be entirely out of their control, depends on who owns all the music as they shifted labels (they do remain represented by SMA which can be confusing) and commercials might introduce other complexities. the frustration here is if you add up all the side work and one off singles Ami and Yumi have done since "Thank You," they could handily spin up an album. You can see more about the Asahi Clear ad campaign here. There are two adverts in this campaign, this one I liked better than the other. Of course we are not hearing the whole song, but it is on brand so to speak. Nothing earth shattering here, it sounds like a Puffy song made for a commercial. Long story short, it was fun enough and I am glad Ami and Yumi get some serious TV time. Also the vocal delivery was not super energetic, which I could apply to a lot of what Puffy has done in recent years. Maybe this is because translating lyrics is different. I think some of the issue may have been translation which didn't feel as tight as the rest of the show. It is neat to see Puffy on a bigger stage than they usually get these days ( probably 10-20% of Japan was watching*).īut. But nope it was "Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi" with new lyrics recapping the special. I was hoping for an original song recapping the batsu game, which I recall being pretty standard. Anyways this year's special was remarkable and rumored to be the last, so it was neat seeing Puffy do the end song, which may be the biggest act to do it. The theme we saw early in the 2000s, which is arguably their one of their best NYE specials. It was a good combination of running gags and some new ones. Gaki no Tsukai is an amazing show on a weekly basis, but they pull out all the stops for the annual special This year was really good with the Youth High School batsu. In all of this is a slew of Japanese actors, comics, musicians and celebrities making appearances in those skits. The producers do an amazing job setting up gags and skits to make them laugh. They must not laugh for the day, if they do then they will be punished. The annual Gaki no Tsukai ended January first and for us who don't really speak Japanese the translation by Team Gaki was completed this past week.įor those that do not knwo what I am talking about the annual batsu game, Don't Laugh puts the cast of Gaki no Tsukai into a job/theme for a day.