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Tokyo’s thriving comedy scene offers a wide range of comedians performing around the city; in English!<\/p>\n
Below are a few comedy clubs and troupes that you can find in the city.<\/p>\n
Tokyo Comedy store is mainly about standup and improv comedy – the kinds of comedy that will be most recognizable to people from the US, UK, and other English speaking nations – although different styles, such as sketch or musical, are also represented. They also host improv lessons and\u00a0offer shows, seminars, and workshops for companies, private groups, and charities.<\/p>\n
Good Heavens Comedy Club is Stand-up Tokyo’s flagship comedy show in the hip neighborhood of Shimokitazawa. Held in the Good Heavens British Bar, it is Tokyo’s only weekly comedy show (every Wednesday). Featuring a line-up of Tokyo\u2019s best stand-up comedians, some newer comics trying out the mic for the first few times, as well as established acts such as Stuart Goldsmith, Phil Wang, and Hannibal Buress, it is just 1,500 JPY to enter, which includes a drink.<\/p>\n
Having been going for some seven years now, The Pirates of Tokyo Bay are one of the longest-running – if not the longest running – bilingual improv comedy groups. Great for mixed-heritage couples (where one is Japanese, and the other is an English speaker), the group performs short skits, or games, in the ‘Whose Line is it Anyway’ mold that are just two or three minutes long, which means if one game doesn’t make you laugh, then another one will be coming along soon! Shows are held monthly. See their schedule<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n Combining two of life’s greatest pleasures – beer and laughter – the Craft Beer and Comedy night at\u00a0Two Dogs Taproom in Roppongi is a twice-monthly event where six comedians are split into two teams battling to for points and the audience\u2019s laughter with improvised stand-up and topical jokes. It falls under the Stand-up\u00a0Tokyo umbrella, so quality is – as much as it can be – assured.<\/p>\n Rakugo,\u00a0literally “fallen words”, is a form of\u00a0Japanese\u00a0stand up (though sat down) comedy where a lone storyteller\u00a0sits on stage and using only a paper fan\u00a0and a small cloth\u00a0as props\u00a0depict a long and complicated comical story. You may have seen this classic comedy style that goes back to the Edo era on TV or perhaps if you have been to Kabuki. These free (as in no charge) English language events do not come around often, so when they do you really should check it out.<\/p>\n [spacer height=”20px”]<\/p>\n For up to the minute details of what shows are playing where keep an eye on the Stand-up Tokyo<\/a> Facebook page, or Tokyo Comedy Meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\n [spacer height=”20px”]<\/p>\n By Mark Guthrie<\/p>\n Image\u00a0via http:\/\/www.shitacome.jp\/2017\/#program-index <\/a>\u00a0– screengrab (modified)<\/p>\n Image by\u00a0Joe Lodge<\/a>\u00a0(Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>],\u00a0via flickr.com<\/a>\u00a0(modified)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tokyo’s thriving comedy scene offers a wide range of comedians performing around the city; in English! Below are a few comedy clubs and troupes that you can find in the city. Tokyo Comedy Store Tokyo Comedy store is mainly about standup and improv comedy – the kinds of comedy that will be most recognizable to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[290,47,45],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tokyo-2","tag-any-month","tag-tokyo-city-2","tag-tokyo-metropolis-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50684,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/50684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Craft Beer and Comedy Sumo Slam<\/h3>\n
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Rakugo in English<\/h3>\n
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