You can take the boy out of the onsen but not the onsen out of the boy.
Thought I was done with the whole MechaIke Onsen thing but a cool opportunity came up so I was back up there on Sunday. More info when I can share it.
(I do have a live show in Ikebukuro at 7PM tomorrow night, though, that I really need you all to come to. Tickets are 1500 yen. Contact me for more info!)
So it’s done! Over! I can finally take a step back and breathe! After a long month plus of preparation, practice, and figuring out how exactly to fill an entire hour of stage time, Iruka Punch’s first solo live show went off with minimal hitches and nary a tear to be seen.
Here’s the general order of our show, for those of you who can read Japanese.
The thing you learn the most when doing a solo comedy show in Japan? Pacing and tempo is everything. When working as an owarai conbi in Japan, you generally have two different categories of comedy to work with: manzai, Japanese “stand-up” comedy, and conte, a sort of minimalistic take on sketch comedy. My conbi, Iruka Punch, happens to have a foot in both pools, which makes doing a solo show a bit harder than it would have been if we had just simply have done an hour of manzai. Continue reading
Stephen Tetsu 