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Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo tries with universal gags and fart jokes.
A man in a suit sits onstage at a Roppongi theater in May and fires a fart-fueled dart at a balloon. Later, another comedian flips through oversize image boards to tell an increasingly absurd narrative about feeding ever-larger pies to an old... Read more.
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