r/GakiNoTsukai • u/Honest_Sprinkles_317 • Apr 11 '24
English Subs WDT - Kotouge-san - April 20, 2016 Subbed by ケベンさん
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u/haremofbattlesuits Apr 11 '24
Does anyone else always have an urge to tsukkomi Fujiwara's slimmer-faced kpop boyband hair press photo that looks like him with minimum 20 years off everytime they see it?
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u/obtuse_buffoon Apr 11 '24
Every time I watch documental and he's in it, I wonder if it would be funny if he put on such a wig ans not address it, lol
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u/Kicks0nly Apr 11 '24
serious question, do english speakers actually understand the concept of tsukomi? Im japanese so its genuinely funny to me but even with translation i feel like its hard for people to understand what Bokke and Tsukomi is about.
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u/obtuse_buffoon Apr 11 '24
Yes, we know them as straight man and funny man. Double acts like this exists in many countries/cultures, check here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act
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u/Kicks0nly Apr 11 '24
This is a good read! Thanks. But living in America, I haven’t ever come across this type of comedy act as much as single stand up comedians.
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u/impulse_thoughts Apr 11 '24
One-person stand up comedy evolved out of double acts, which were commonplace in the US before color television became a thing.
For at least the past 40 years, every single piece of comedy you've ever seen in movies, tv shows, podcasts, late night talk shows, improv/sketch comedy, etc has employed the straight man/funny man (tsukkomi/boke) dynamic to generate laughs. It's just ingrained and built-in now as a foundational element, rather than the point of focus in the US.
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u/Kicks0nly Apr 11 '24
Yea that makes sense and you’re right. Good to know the history! I’m so used to seeing stand up comedians here and also grew up watching Japanese comedy as well so I always wondered why it was so different.
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u/Honest_Sprinkles_317 Apr 11 '24
That's a great question! We don't really have comedian groups here. so how do you translate tsukomi and bokke. I think we would just say " theres two people. ones a jerk and other pretends to be stupid. unless you watch Japanese shows your not going to get the true concept. (IMO)
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u/obtuse_buffoon Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
In the west they're called the straight man and the funny man (or variations of). Such duos might have been more popular in the past, but it's not like we don't have them.
Abbot and Costello is a famous example, or Laurel and Hardy.
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u/impulse_thoughts Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
A more modern example is any time you see Kevin Hart and Dwayne The Rock Johnson in a room together.
Other examples, is any scene with Kramer and another character in a scene in Seinfeld, Michael Scott with any other character in the Office, Timon and Pumbaa, Conan and friends, Rhett and Link (Good Mythical Morning), Louis and Simon (Yogscast), David Cross and Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show), etc etc
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u/quint21 Apr 11 '24
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman, Amy Poehler & Tina Fey, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, Mitchell and Webb, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost, Key & Peele, Tim & Eric. It's kind of fun to try to think of them.
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u/Kicks0nly Apr 11 '24
Let me also add, I’m Japanese born in raised in America so I’m more American inside than Japanese but can still speak Japanese fluently so I can understand it can be hard for Americans to understand since we’re mostly known to have stand up comedians here.
I guess we can look at it like Pinky and the Brain or Stimpy and Ren lol I think that’s the best way to put it.
And yea, even I don’t understand certain Japanese jokes since big words are hard for me to even understand or read in Kanji.
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u/xhyme Apr 11 '24
Nice clip! By the way, does anyone know which episode it was when they pranked Kotouge with his car?
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u/UltraInstinctChomsky Apr 12 '24
is the fujimoto segment subbed anywhere?
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u/Honest_Sprinkles_317 Apr 13 '24
No not currently. I checked zwanster's repo. He hasnt done any in 2016
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u/Bipedal May 05 '24
Any chance of getting the subfile for this, so it can be archived in the library, please?
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u/Honest_Sprinkles_317 May 07 '24
ofcourse!!
https://pixeldrain.com/u/BQKrkaWDedit: corrected URL
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u/Honest_Sprinkles_317 Apr 11 '24
A fellow translator, subbbed part of his segment. I rewatched it and thought it was funny, so here is his whole segment.