Take my passport, please — Harvard Gazette

For Patrick Harlan, the path to success as a comedian in Japan ran through an unexpected place: Harvard College. Harlan’s road to television screens across Japan started in 1993, when he ditched the Harvard Glee Club’s flight home after a post-graduation trip to Asia. His decision to crash instead with a friend in Japan who had both a job and an apartment led to fame for Harlan, first as part of t

[solailo]

And his assertion is that comedy around the world rests on this principle of benign violation: violations of assumptions, violations of cultural mores, doing something unexpected, but harmless.

[tachisoba]

"For Patrick Harlan, the path to success as a comedian in Japan ran through an unexpected place: Harvard College."

[crema]

例の騒動のおかげでパックンの経歴が再確認されるように指示されたけども、ハーバード大学関係のサイトにインタビューが載っているということで一安心とか。

[maxtokiforniigata]

パックンいた！w