This year was supposed to be a breakout year for Stand-Up Tokyo, an English-language comedy circuit that I helped start here in the city.
It started strong in January, when the cast and crew of the reality show ¡°Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020¡± visited. One of the cast members, Kai Kobayashi, had decided to try his hand at stand-up comedy and I was emcee for the evening. For anyone who¡¯s watched the show, you¡¯ll recall he learned that stand-up isn¡¯t as easy as it looks.
I fared better. It turns out that 30 seconds on ¡°Terrace House¡± equated to more attention than I¡¯ve got from being in three seasons of an . The audiences for subsequent Stand-Up Tokyo events shot up, I was interviewed by a newspaper in Singapore and, hey, I was on Netflix ¡ª that cameo wound up giving me the biggest exposure of my career.
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