My interest about them started when I was little and they were airing Takeshi's Castle on TV. I liked that show a lot and I watched most of series. Funny, this show let me distinguish Japanese from other asians. As a kid I knew about one child policy in China, but didn't really know how many asian countries are there, so when I saw one mother showing picture of her two kids, I thought "Oh, they can have multiple kids and they live on island, so they are different from others"
When that show ended, I didn't get to see any of them for really long time as TV wasn't airing any of them. Only few years ago I started get back to them - watched Downtown's Baku Games, some comedy skits, some variety shows, few talk shows. And after a while I started to notice few things:
1. Competition there is fierce, so new entertainers are actually trying hard to get in center of attention. If it is TV show, then they keep trying to get moved to "Golden Time" just to be noticed by more people. Many of their reactions are overreacted. Cause of this struggle even quite weird characters gets made, some people struggle to get famous for decades!
2. Entertainers are made to be role models. There have been quite many times when if some entertainer does something against law or high morals (drinking before 18, adultery, getting some charges pressed) they get forbidden to show up on shows/TV for a certain time period. Sometimes even gets kicked out.
3. Taking into account those two points and Japanese habit of "keeping face" shows turns out to be pretty interesting and quite silly. How to attract more attention and support, still trying to keep their face?
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