My Top 10 Favorite YouTube Japanese Game Show Clips

I don't know what it is, but there's something about the Japanese game show videos on posted on YouTube that grabs my funny bone and tickles it to death. A few of the game shows are actually quite cruel but hilarious all the same. I first discovered Japanese game shows when my husband introduced me to the TV program Most Extreme Elimination Challenge in which contestants run through an obstacle course that is obviously a take off of video games like Super Mario Brothers. Contestants are both male and female as there are noticeably no restrictions on body size, shape or gender. There must be a rule in their game show contract that requires them to come dressed in costume because most of the players on the show are wearing them. Narrators are also dressed in costumes however theirs are far more outrageous. As soon as I saw that YouTube had Japanese game shows in their databases I was ecstatic. I'm including in my list of top 10 favorite Japanese game show clips several different game shows, some of them are like Most Extreme Elimination Challenge while others are far more devious.

1. Evidently the Japanese people find it hysterical to beat the snot out of each other because in this video not only are they being beaten they are laughing about it and coming back for more. I guarantee you that these gentlemen won't be sitting down for a month of Sundays. Watch for yourself what happens when a classroom full of grown men try not to laugh while one man attempts to speak English. There are no dangerous or gruesome violence in this YouTube video so without giving it away I'll just say Don't spare the rod and spoil the...err..children? Watch the video.

2. My. The things you can find on YouTube. Would you venture on to a game show if you knew someone was going to dump you out of a chair and into the snow, backwards, naked? Well these Japanese people did and it's positively hilarious. No full nudity is shown in these clips but they are indeed naked. Watch the video.