In my time clicking around in YouTube, I have come across some good comedy from Japanese TV. I can’t speak or read Japanese, but I know what’s funny. Most of these are pretty old now, so you may have seen them, but for those who haven’t, here are some samples…

Game show (or is it just a comedy sketch?) set in a library:

Spa Prank

Treasure hunt…

Below is a video of a 1/5th scale radio controlled B-29 bomber, the ‘Dina Might’ which in real life was shot down by a Japanese fighter on June 26, 1945. According to Gizmodo, it has four, 160cc engines, a wingspan of nearly 30 feet and weighs 463 pounds. That’s 210kg!

Michael Jackson’s Thriller video…in Lego. Enjoy!

Found this video clip of Fernando Alonso doing a lap in the Renault F1 car, shot with a camera mounted basically in his line of sight, somewhere on (or in) his helmet. Looks great, and sounds even better - got me looking forward to the first GP in March.

While watching some videos on YouTube, one of the related links showed up as Stanford Prison Experiment - Psychology of imprisonment. I watched it, and it ended up being quite fascinating. There is a Wikipedia link here, and the videos are below:

Part 1 
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Each part is just under 10 minutes long. The experiment, done in 1971, which was to have lasted two weeks, ended up finishing after only six days. The volunteers who were either guards or prisoners fell into their roles so well, the ‘prison’ went into a state of chaos. Riots, punishments, solitary confinement, two prisoners having breakdowns and having to be removed - all in just six days. Quite eye-opening viewing - I don’t know how anyone could survive in a real prison, as either an inmate or a guard, without some sort of emotional scarring.