'Tony' Yasumura reveals all about his not-naked shtick and its origins in Japanese comedy
The shtick that’s gone viral features a soccer player, a Spice Girl, James Bond, you name it, appearing to be naked TOKYO -- The shtick that’s gone viral features a soccer player, a Spice Girl, James Bond, you name it, appearing to be naked , except they’re not really naked at all. The disarming sight gag by Japanese comic Tonikaku Akarui Yasumura is simple and rather silly. But its bare-all message about the deceptiveness of what meets the eye has a lot of people laughing. The recent appearance of Tony, as Yasumura is known these days, on “Britain’s Got Talent” has drawn more than 10 million views on the audition show's YouTube account. “Do it with a majestically dignified and utterly unfounded confidence,” he told The Associated Press recently in Tokyo, of the secret to his comedy. “That gets over because what you're doing is such nonsense.” Yasumura has been doing his trademark act for nearly a decade on TV shows and comedy houses around Japan. He stands before the audien...