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  • 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

    Take my passport, please — Harvard Gazette
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    solailo 2019/05/24
    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.
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