Will Sharpe

And I still feel like a very gaijin, you know, Western version of a Japanese person.

I feel like a sort of foreigner, I suppose.

And in the same way in England, because I look Japanese, I've always felt a little bit like, yeah, like an outsider trying to kind of learn how people communicate in England, which can be sort of quite complicated at the best of times.

I mean, various shows that I feel like probably have not aged well.

Benny Hill?

Not quite that, but maybe there were lots of different sketch shows like Downtown, Drifters, Tunnels was another one.

So these are British shows?

No, these are Japanese shows, like really silly, silly, silly comedy shows.

And almost built into it was like, can you make each other break?

And that was part of the fun was wondering which comedian was going to start laughing.

And then also sometimes some really low key sort of situational sketches where it might be about a boy whose parents are divorced and makes friends with a lizard in a park.

But they're both played by just grown men.

So there's like a man sat on a bench and he's just sort of talking to this lizard about his parents' divorce.

And really the only funny thing about it is that somebody is wearing a bright green lizard costume.

But yeah, I mean, I did enjoy that.

And I remember really loving the feeling of just being made to laugh hysterically.

I was eight.

Yes, it was.

It was.

I think probably more than I realized at the time.