Japanese gameshow fun: laugh out loud and get beaten with a stick
From the archive: published Mar 7, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
We’ve seen lots of wacky Japanese gameshows before, but never one perhaps that embraces the beating of unlucky contestants.
This show is simple enough: a “funny situation” is played to contestants in a class room. When they laugh, they lose, and get hit with a stick. Entertaining? maybe not. Bizarre? most definitely.