And his family hates him...

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Guinness certifies Japanese TV host as the world's busiest

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TOKYO (AP) -- Flick through a few channels on Japanese TV and Monta Mino is most likely there. And the world's most prolific television presenter, who just broke his own record for the most hours of live television in one week, says he wants to work even more.

Mino, whose real name is Norio Minorikawa, received a Guinness World Record certificate Thursday acknowledging his 22 hours and 15 seconds of live TV broadcasts in April. He broke the previous record - also set by Mino in November 2006 - of 21 hours and 42 minutes.

In counting the hours for the record, Guinness included Mino's appearances on various live shows on several TV channels.

The hyperactive 63-year-old, who claims he only needs four hours of sleep every night, hosts 11 TV programs, including news shows, talk shows, wildlife shows and quiz shows, and appears on television every day of the week except Sunday. But apparently that isn't enough.

"How about a live show on Sunday?" Mino said at Thursday's award-giving ceremony at Nippon Television Network Corp., where he hosts an early morning news program. (link.)

どっちかな？ Pants Pankuro (パンツぱんくろう) and the Toilet Training Hippo!

Here's your Tuesday video weirdness. This time it's brought to you by the Japanese government. (NHK)

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♪愛に生きる人～ MIKAN SEIJIN and ANIKI!!

It's Tuesday again, so here's the requisite video weirdness from Ugo Ugo Ru-ga (ウゴウゴルーガ). (See previous posts here and here.)

This time out we have an eye blistering 9 minute 33 second blast of an Alien from the Planet Tangerine (aka. ミカンせいじん MIKAN SEIJIN) and ANIKI (あにき)! Not much to explain here; do what you need to do and take what you need to take to appreciate the psychedelic weirdness of it all.

♪愛に生きる人~

Sanada Sensei! (サナダせんせい) A Tapeworm's Philosophical Advice Straight from the Butthole!

It wasn't meant to be this formal, but it's been a week since I made the Puri Puri Hakase post and that means that it's time for more anally obsessed Japanese children's cartoons! (Hooray!!)

Yet another animated interlude on the long canceled children's TV show Ugo Ugo Ru-ga (ウゴウゴルーガ), Sanada-sensei is a tapeworm (sanada means tapeworm in Japanese) that comes out of the butthole of our mysterious host to impart profound philosophical insights to all the little Japanese boys and girls.



In this clip Sanada-sensei imparts this profound observation: "You cannot make good choices when you're young and you also can't when you're old. -Pascal." He then zips back in the anus exclaiming effeminately (as if sniffing a flower), "Wonderful!"

Woah.

link.

PURI PURI HAKASE (プリプリはかせ) - Daily Inspiration from a Talking Turd!!

'Only in Japan!!' as the well-worn expression goes.

An animated interlude on the long canceled children's TV show Ugo Ugo Ru-ga (ウゴウゴルーガ) -- backwards word play on Go Go Girl -- Puri Puri Hakase (プリプリはかせ) is a talking turd that rises up out of a toilet bowl to give the happy little children of Japan a few choice words of inspiration. What better way to start their little days?



For the Japanese challenged, this one says: "You can still look cool doing something UN-cool, as long as you try your best." Nice. (I wish I had this sort of TV parenting when I was a wee-lad.) Link(J).