Japanese comedy strikes a chord

Last night I was watching this HILARIOUS tv show. Every week this group of comedians get up to all different stuff. One of the spots is where the men all dress up as ladies and go to the 100yen shop with a special guest (who is usually a real woman) and one by one they have to take something from a selection of items in front of them and buy it. If the item scanned comes up as anything but 100yen they lose. So there's maybe 10 items there, and one of them will be worth like 45,000yen rather than 100yen. The next spot they do is get all dressed up as insects, the men crickets, the 2 women bees (one of the men is a dung beetle and rolls in a giant ball of shit with his legs up in the air and says something every now and then) and perform ridiculous acts. This weeks one was The Shortest Skipping Rope. They had to take turns jumping through an increasingly short skipping rope. If they stuffed it up the women eat something really smelly, like garlic cloves, and breathe into a pipe onto their face. It's great. Last night they got down to a 5cm skipping rope!! I was laughing my arse off :) The funniest thing though is when they do the sooky lala early 20s man and his mum skit. This guy sits in his room all day playing computer games and his mum is always coming into his room to clean up (and apologise for disturbing him) and they always end up in a huge fight. Last night she came in and asked if she could play the game with him. He let her, but then she was really good at it and he freaked out and they had a fight. It's hard to explain why it's so funny if you haven't seen the way Japanese mothers treat their fully-grown-but-unable-to-look-after-themselves sons. Even funnier is the commentators they have calling the tension in the bedroom as it all escalates towards a fight. Yeah Wednesday nights are pretty ok for TV here.