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Last year we thought that Tommy Lee Jones had done his final Japanese TV commercial for Suntory's Boss Coffee. But, now, SURPRISE! We were wrong and Tommy Lee "Net Alien" Jones has returned to Japan to star in this new funny WTF Japan Boss coffee commercial!
In this chapter of the ongoing seven-year saga, TLJ is working as a pizza delivery guy slowly flying through the neighborhood. He finds the apartment for the pizza delivery with his super human night-vision eyesight. Then suddenly Tommy Lee gets spotted by a guy (comedian Hiroki Konno) with a digital camera who just took a video of him in action. Then that video of TLJ as the flying "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" gets uploaded to Youtube. The video goes viral and becomes very popular in Japan and then the rest of the world.
A few days later, Tommy Lee is going on another delivery and he's followed by a crowd of netizens with smartphones and cameras ready! The "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" then tries to frighten the crowd but it doesn't work and they say "ooooh" and "aaaah". The rest of the commercial features a popular "Handstand Cat" so check it out!
Related:
Tommy Lee Jones Acts Like a Boss for SuntoryTommy Lee "Space Alien" Jones in Outer Space
Vermillion Pleasure Night was a very funny, offbeat late-night TV comedy show that was so popular some DVDs of the show were released as well as a CD of the show's many soundtracks. In addition to that, a complete collection of all the Vermillion Pleasure Night show segments was released in early 2009. For a TV show that was only on the air for about a half year in 2000, that's really something special, indeed.
In this short skit, two beautiful Japanese "cooking teachers" ham it up while singing karaoke-style enka and showing us how not to prepare seaweed soup, pickles and curried rice on VPN's "Midnight Cooking" TV segment. This version includes English subtitles and will probably be taken down soon so check it out!
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For the past six years, Tommy Lee "Space Alien" Jones has starred in many very funny Suntory Boss Coffee Japanese TV commercials. All of them were very popular in Japan and Tommy Lee was, literally, seen everywhere throughout the nation on many vending machines. But now it appears as though this series has come to an end. In this seemingly final episode, TLJ appears as a doctor with magical powers who ends up being deported sailing away in a boat with local municipal authorities.
But who knows? Maybe the "Space Alien" will return to Japan again soon.
One of the very funniest Japanese TV shows ever is known as "OH! Mikey". This show started out in the year 2000 as segments on the very popular Vermilion Pleasure Night. Soon afterwards it became a popular late night comedy television show on its own. Here is the first episode entitled "Our New Life in Japan" (includes English subtitles):
A couple of days ago, Suntory released another hilarious TV commercial for their popular Boss Coffee beverage starring Tommy Lee Jones as "A Space Alien in Outer Space." In this sixty second version, the New Year is celebrated all over the globe while Tommy Lee is working on his space ship when all of a sudden things go horribly wrong:
The popular indie Japanese comic performance art trio known as Megwin TV (think WTF Jackass in Japan with a low budget) tests a "bowling-ball proof" iPad case:
On average, these wacky and funny guys produce about 30 short clips each month and also do live stage performances! To keep up with their frantic pace, you should visit their official website or subscribe to their Twitter account (Japanese only).
From the land where screaming in public is considered "normal", NHK TV recently ran this funny event where some Japanese housewives went to their husband's companies and screamed various "Thank you" messages to their husbands:
Remember Bill Murray's struggling Suntory whiskey endorsement in Lost In Translation? Well that same maker has been producing a humorous TV commercial series for Boss Coffee starring Hollywood heavyweight Tommy Lee Jones.
Apparently, the original story line for this long-running ad campaign is that Tommy Lee and other Hollywood celebrities, are real supernatural, outer space aliens who lived and worked in Japan. Then after working various jobs, one day they all have to leave and return to their home planet. Sound familiar? Well for this series, one special extraterrestrial (TLJ) just has to come back to earth and Japan for some more Suntory Boss Coffee. And in this hilarious episode Tommy Lee really acts like a boss as a very strict high school teacher:
Note: The above clip is episode #34. For even more laughs be sure to see episodes 1-23 here.
In this hilarious Japanese TV segment from アメトーーク！ "Rain Talk Show", one of Japan's funniest comedians Ijiri Okada イジリー岡田 teases torments two gravure idol models on the show: Jun Natsukawa and Ami Tokito by inspecting their backstage dressing rooms:
The Fuccon Family or "Oh Mikey!" started out as individual comedy segments on the Japanese late night variety show Vermilion Pleasure Night. This series featured a family of Americans living in metropolitan Tokyo and it became so popular that TV Tokyo featured it as a late Saturday night show. This "new" episode, which is filled with disturbing but very funny Japanese black humor, is entitled "The Fuccon Family Returns Home":
Vermilion Pleasure Night was a popular late-night variety and comedy TV show broadcast on TV Tokyo in the latter half of 2000. One of the recurring segments included "Cathy's House" which featured four models within a very bizarre and funny "Barbie Doll" setting. Here is one episode entitled "Wonderful Day":
Here is AKB48 in a recent segment from the AKBingo Japanese TV show. This part is from the "talent" segment of the show in which the girls, literally, put their heads together:
Last year we thought that Tommy Lee Jones had done his final Japanese TV commercial for Suntory's Boss Coffee. But, now, SURPRISE! We were wrong and Tommy Lee "Net Alien" Jones has returned to Japan to star in this new funny WTF Japan Boss coffee commercial!
In this chapter of the ongoing seven-year saga, TLJ is working as a pizza delivery guy slowly flying through the neighborhood. He finds the apartment for the pizza delivery with his super human night-vision eyesight. Then suddenly Tommy Lee gets spotted by a guy (comedian Hiroki Konno) with a digital camera who just took a video of him in action. Then that video of TLJ as the flying "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" gets uploaded to Youtube. The video goes viral and becomes very popular in Japan and then the rest of the world.
A few days later, Tommy Lee is going on another delivery and he's followed by a crowd of netizens with smartphones and cameras ready! The "Space Alien Pizza Delivery Guy" then tries to frighten the crowd but it doesn't work and they say "ooooh" and "aaaah". The rest of the commercial features a popular "Handstand Cat" so check it out!
Related:
Tommy Lee Jones Acts Like a Boss for Suntory
Tommy Lee "Space Alien" Jones in Outer Space
