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Hitoshi Matsumoto | ... | Self 7 episodes, 2016-2019 |
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Toshifumi Fujimoto | ... | Self 4 episodes, 2016-2018 |
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Jimmy Ohnishi | ... | Self 4 episodes, 2016-2018 |
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Kunihiro Kawashima | ... | Self 3 episodes, 2016-2017 |
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Ten entertainers pay a participation fee of one million Japanese Yen to enter a room together for six hours. Any person who laughs is immediately evicted, so the challenge is to make others laugh without laughing themselves. The last person left in the room wins the prize money of 10 million Japanese Yen.
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Documental thrives on it's strong premise of comedians trying to not laugh at each other, but gets less funny as each season lingers on.
The psychology behind the show is quite fascinating. Some go the deadpan strait man route, some absurdist, some self-deprecating-there isn't one way to win. It's pretty apparent when a competitor is "trying too hard" to get a laugh, which is why many of the predictable props & costumes bomb hard in the later rounds.
Overall, there's some funny moments and you're likely to have a couple favorite comedians that you are rooting for by the time that it's over.