Work Work Watching

February 21, 2008 on 9:59 pm | In Humor, Language, Media, Osaka | | Email This Post

Speed post. This is too funny not to share.

Work Work Watching #1

Especially funny is number 5, where the Japanese director teaches the American actor the art of NORI-TSUKKOMI 乗り突っ込み with the help of his useless interpreter.

Work Work Watchign #5 - Nori-tsukkomi 

There is a wikipedia entry on nori-tsukkomi if you are like the American director and not familiar with this traditional form of Japanese Kansai-style comedy.

Basically, nori-tsukkomi is when someone does something unexpected and silly against your expectation. For example, you say “wow it’s raining, go get the umbrella.” and the guy comes back with a toothpick umbrella used to decorate cocktails.

If you immediately bash the guy over the hed and say “hey! What the heck do you take me for! That’s not an umbrella!” That would be a regular tsukkomi.

If instead, you say “wow, nice umbrella. Now I can keep my fingers dry… Small… and easy to carry…. - WHAT the heck! This umbrella is way to small!” and bash them over the head… That is then nori-tsukkomi. You have first skillfully gone along with their silly gag before suddenly pointing out their folly and bashing them over the head.

I love this stuff.

“Listen, nori-tsukkomi you alright?”

- Harvey

Related Posts... (in theory)   Men at Work in Shibuya    NEET    Perfect Packing.  

Click here to Stumble Upon it!

4 Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post.

  1. Gravatar

    I love Work Work Watching! Have you really never seen it before now?

    Comment by Chesu — February 21, 2008 #

  2. Gravatar

    If you like Work Work Watching, you should check out Golden Eggs. Its made by the same people. :D

    Comment by Satoshi — February 22, 2008 #

  3. Gravatar

    Yeah it was my first time seeing Work Work Watching! I do know Golden Eggs! I love that as well.

    ブラじゃない！

    Comment by harvey — February 24, 2008 #

  4. Gravatar

    hahah. i’ve heard of nori-tsukkomi. but not what it actually is.

    thanks for the explanation ^_^

    Comment by Zaty — March 2, 2008 #

Leave a comment

XHTML: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Study Japanese with help from J-List!
Study Japanese with help from J-List!

Cheap Gas - Debt Consolidation - Credit Counseling - Arizona Landscaping

Powered by WordPress with Pool theme design by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS. ^Top^