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CABLE WORLD STAFF
Remember Susunu Denpa Shonen (Don't Go For It, Electric Boy!), Japan's favorite TV show featuring the exploits of Nasubi, a comedian locked in a tiny apartment with no food or clothing? (See Cable World, Feb. 1) Over the past 15 months an average of some 15 million viewers have tuned in weekly to see the isolated Nasubi forced to eat dog food, live without toilet paper and be woken from sleep by producers throwing exploding party poppers at his naked genitals.
"Do you think we have pushed (Nasubi) too far?" the show's producer asked earlier this year. Heck no. After all, his genitals are electronically covered by an eggplant icon (Nasubi means eggplant in Japanese).
But sadly for Japan's fun-hungry viewers, Nasubi's primetime run has ended. Indeed, producers recently led him into a fake waiting room where, as he was sitting naked, the walls collapsed to show a studio full of screaming, cheering guests. A stunned, famished and frightened Nasubi demanded to know if people had in fact been watching him naked all along. "That's out of order," he said. "Is it allowed?"
"I felt like I was trapped between sanity and madness," Nasubi later told reporters, prompting a Nihon TV declaration that no further interviews would be allowed until Nasubi's health checks out.
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