What Japanese comedy school is REALLY like

Meet Dan Wilson, a Tokyo-based comedian performing manzai and stand up between America and Japan. He sits down to talk to us about going to comedy school and finding a manzai partner, signing to and leaving an agency, and the ins and outs of the Japanese comedy world.

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0:00 Intro

0:50 Meet Dan

2:09 Growing up half Japanese in America

8:05 Discovering Japanese comedy

16:02 Going to comedy school

25:09 Getting signed

27:48 Manzai is a marriage

33:48 Being funny as a non-native

40:55 The reality of comedy agencies

45:56 Social media & Japanese comedy

53:54 Going independent

1:01:48 Performing in English vs. Japanese

1:12:01 Looking back

1:15:35 How to do dirty comedy well

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