Maybe I am the one who is most suprised about this, but my manzai-duo "Altbayern" won the first prize at the Amagasaki Comedy Competition. Although this competition is not very big it is quite well known within the comedy scene since it has been the stepping stone for many famous comedians for example female stand-up-comedian start Tomochika. We beat 255 competitors and got the prize, which allows us to have a weekly radio show on FM Amagasaki (which is not the BBC of course...).
My partner Daisuke and I acted a scene in which I read a letter written to my parents telling them about my life in Japan, how I put the broccoli into my bicycle when the saddle was stolen, how my (fictive!) girlfriend is only going out with me because of my (fictive!) money and how I destroy the beautiful Japanese paper walls in my room when doing penalty shoots with my German friend with whom I attended the football club before.
At the beginning I had to sing an altered version of the Doraemon-Song, which is well known to every Japanese. And... being not Japanese, I got stuck. We somehow managed to navigate out of this, but to be honest, I thought the prize is gone because of that. After that we enjoyed the shows of the other 15 single persons or duos who had been able to reach the finals. All people I talked to were very friendly and I would love to invite them all as guests to our radio show very soon.
The second prize went to "Onigiri", a boy and a girl from a local primary school doing manzai. The third prize went to "Wataru with Okan", a very unique duo of young man and his mum. I had known Wataru with Okan before, since they had appeared on the bonus-dvd of the famous M1-Grandprix Manzai competition.
A radio show? To be honest I am not sure yet what to do with a radio show, but I hope I can use it as a good chance to make new experiences, meet new people, widen my network etc.
LET ME BE ON YOUR SHOW!!!!!
Posted by: tom | March 26, 2007 at 08:26 AM
LET ME BE ON YOUR SHOW!!!
Posted by: tom | March 26, 2007 at 08:27 AM
Hej hej Till!
I'm just writing to congratulate you on your 1st prize! Who would've thought that? I'm really impressed.
Please tell me if it's possible to listen to your radio show via internet streaming. :-)
Anyway, I hope you also find time to do some 'serious' research ;-)
Enjoy!
Posted by: Thilo | March 28, 2007 at 01:39 AM
Congrats on first place. Your stumbling on the song probably made it even more funny to everyone. They may have even thought it was on purpose.
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