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#84 Bj Fox - Stand Up Comedian in Japan
KoreKara Podcast
English - May 21, 2022 23:16 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBSociety & Culture Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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BJ Fox is a British stand-up comedian based in Tokyo who performs in both English and Japanese. We talk about his start to Japanese and comedy, his thoughts on the state of comedy in Japan, and his experience running a comedy club in Japan!
Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A2WXWOcwAdk
Outline:
00:00 Who Is BJ Fox And How He Got To Japan
04:10 First Time Doing Comedy in Japanese
07:00 Japanese Audience versus Western Audiences
07:52 Thoughts on Other Comedic Forms in Japan
12:00 Working with Other Comedians
14:00 What It's Like Becoming Famous In Japan
19:20 How to come up with jokes
20:40 KoreKara message