Sunday 17 May 2009

team teaching manzai style


A few months ago, one of my colleague told me that working with me was like doing manzai. 

I'm a language assistant so most of my job consists in team teaching English classes with a Japanese teacher of English (JTE). It can be fun, frustrating, a waste of time, amazing, boring ...every teacher (I currently work with 11 JTEs) and every class (25 ) reacts differently so it requires a lot of adaptation.
When that teacher compared our working relationship to that of manzai comedians, I thought it was hilarious but I had forgotten all about it until I saw a manzai show on TV today ^^.

Manzai (漫才) is a style of stand-up comedy in Japan, which usually involves two performers—a straight man (tsukkomi) and a funny man(boke)—trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.

 I wonder if I am the boke or the tsukkomi...

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