Open mic night

Me and my friends went to Tokyo for silver-weekend. We spended most of our time in the wonderful Harijuku area and while we were walking down the shoppingstreet, we found a very cozy, small, quite shabby but still very nice bar that we decided to check out the same night. The primary reason why we chose that bar was because all of us are really big music fans and the pub have livemusic every night. Besides from this night of course, when they had open mic night for comedian instead! We were quite disappointed that they didn´t play any livemusic but there were a crazy man, running around in the pub, screaming. We found that very interesting so we joined the tree japanese women who already watched the show. 

I´m not an expert in this area, I have never been to a comedian show in Sweden and neither in Japan, but still I can tell that this was something extraordinary... All of the comedian were guys accept from one who was a transvestite. They were all very loud, they often came out two at the time and laught and talked very fast to eachother. This way of comedy show match very well with the explaination of the japanese comedian style "Manzai" which involves two preformers, a straight man ( Tsukkomi) and a funny man (boke) - trading jokes at a great spead. Most of the jokes is about mutual misunderstainding, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags. Even though we didn´t understand a word, they were still very eager to make us feel like anyone else in the audience. There where only tree japanese women in the audience and us, but the show where still very serious. All of us got one paper each with the different comedian names on, the papers was for voting, quite difficult for us when everything was i japanese. The night ended up very funny although we went there for music. 

One more thing about the japanese humorscene, rumor say that if you aim at somebody in Osaka (with a fake gun a.k.a. your finger) they will pretend that they gotten shot... Can anybody comment this rumor?