Podcasting Day: Documental Season 5 with Lydia Bugg! π
Added 2022-03-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
It's Podcasting Day, where there are 9000 Dogg Zzones, and this is all of them. This week we're joined by our own Liddy to revisit Documental, the impenetrable Japanese reality competition about not laughing. Specifically, we talk about season five, featuring the return of Jimmy-- the man who came to a comedy contest armed only with a dress and a mouth capable of swallowing a party of adventurers.
Listen here, or wherever you get podcasts! There are spoilers ahead and all over the fucking podcast, so consider watching Documental Season Five (streaming on Amazon) before listening!
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Okay, about the show: season five added some more chaos to the format, with each contestant able to bring a guest, but it's mainly notable for the emergence of the Frank Dux of making a room full of naked men laugh, Hollywood Zakoshisyoh.
No one knew what to do to him or about him.
Documental was created by Hitoshi Matsumoto as an act of laughter science. He reduced comedy to a test of honor and strategy, and he's been tweaking the formula for years to understand the fundamentals of hilarity. And then Hollywood Zakoshi came in and taught him he knew nothing. For four seasons this maniac had been studying the show, preparing. And with the fury of a thousand 1994 Jim Carreys, he dick-twirled and ball-flopped his way to the most one-sided victory reality television has ever seen. Lydia was not happy we asked her to watch it!
Please enjoy! And help the show by liking, subscribing, reviewing... all that! (γγγγγ·γ§γ’γγ³γ‘γ³γγγγ£γ³γγ«η»ι²γι‘γγγΎγ!) Or you could buy something from the store! Watching lunatics shake their penis at one another is how we make our living!
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Comments
If this is real, it should be an article by now
Bill D
2022-04-13 13:44:30 +0000 UTCIt would be a massive coincidence if it happened to be the 2006 Japanese all-lesbian Phantom of the Opera but man I would be so pleased.
Clementine Danger
2022-04-06 09:45:54 +0000 UTCIt's Liddy's turn next, right? After two Conans, she retaliated with Xanadu. There have been two of these, now she gets to bring something. I'm something for that. Stoked is too strong, pumped is too Arnold, I think the word I'm looking for is 'apprehensive'
Spiritual Gigolo
2022-03-25 12:02:13 +0000 UTCIβm just offended they blur all these comedian testicles.
Ian Davis
2022-03-25 02:48:55 +0000 UTCso i've started watching documental. and it's weirdly intriguing. but im only on season 1. so maybe that will change
DeltaFoxtrot
2022-03-24 17:49:46 +0000 UTCI have not seen a whole minute of this show, but the pods you cast about them are of my most beloved ones ever. Please more
Ramiro Vasara
2022-03-24 09:58:33 +0000 UTCI don't know if the descriptions of this Japanese madness broke me, but "The H stands for Grabowski" cracked me up.
Matt Edwards
2022-03-24 07:05:10 +0000 UTCMaybe its the sadist in me but I also like the idea of inflicting something like this on a person who hasn't seen it before. It adds a certain spice to the fascinating details of why it does and does not work as comedy.
Flippant Sausage
2022-03-23 16:09:29 +0000 UTCI am absolutely never watching this show for general snowflake reasons but I never pass up the chance to hear experts talk about the finer details of their field, triple especially if that field is comedy.
Clementine Danger
2022-03-23 12:44:02 +0000 UTCi am only marginally interested in actually watching this show. But i am very interested in podcast episodes after brockway has mad someone else watch it
DeltaFoxtrot
2022-03-23 12:37:58 +0000 UTCI learned a lot of my English vocab from reading Seanbaby articles and I think that worked out quite nicely for me.
Clementine Danger
2022-03-23 12:31:41 +0000 UTCWell said!
LyraV
2022-03-23 12:30:23 +0000 UTCLast time this came up you worried that this was too inside baseball for a general podcast. I'm glad you decided that no, by their very nature our hot dog children are connoisseurs of the finer details of Anal Devastation Comedy and The Soul-Deep Comedy Horror of Finding Blackness Inherently Hilarious. I'm genuinely delighted with this vote of confidence in your audience.
Clementine Danger
2022-03-23 12:12:25 +0000 UTC
