Japanese variety show hosted by the popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown. This TV program began broadcasting on October 3, 1989, and is widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential comedy shows in Japan

Several Segments of Highlight:

No Laughing Games

The objective of each "No Laughing" game is that the cast must refrain from laughing. Each time that they do laugh, the crew comes in and punishes them by hitting them in the butt with darts, shinai, or by some other means. The current record for times punished within a 24-hour period was set by Endo at the police station. He was hit with a nightstick 189 times.

Silent Library

In this segment, the cast and a sixth member are in a staged library in which one of them has to undergo a punishment upon choosing the card with the skull and crossbones on it. Although the game requires that they remain silent during the entire segment, the members repeatedly let out bursts of muffled laughter that is loud enough for the occupants of the library to hear.

Absolutely Tasty Series

This is a series of cooking segments in which the comedians prepare foods, either traditional Japanese dishes like taiyaki and chawanmushi or foods like pizza, with unusual ingredients to use as fillings or flavors, which is eaten later and given a score ranging from two "skull marks" to ten stars. Endo is notorious for using Frisk, a brand of very strong breath mint, in his food. Matsumoto usually introduces very unusual ingredients such as a bear's paw for takikomi gohan, tuna's head for pizza, a dried cobra for nabe, and toothpaste for pasta.

7 Henge

Shichi-henge (The Seven Apparitions) is a segment of the show where the cast and crew sit at a table while a comedian attempts to make them laugh. For each round that a person laughs, they must put 1,000 yen into a box and that collected money is donated to a charity of the comedian's choice. A variation on this "Horror Shichi-henge" involved several members of the cast and crew ambushing Heipo with the intent of causing him to lose his composure and thus be forced to surrender money. Bob Sapp once made a special appearance on this segment in which he collected 53,000 yen.

Other Batsu Games
*Onigokko (鬼ごっこ)
*Haunted Hotel
*No Reaction Pie Hell (ノーリアクションパイ地獄)

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