PIKOTARO, Japanese comedian/musician, is now popular around the world.
He was around 50 years old, has been a comedian for tens of years although he did not succeed very much as a comedian.
PPAP (PIKOTARO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E00Zuayv9Q
There are tons of discussions of why he could have and still have a great hit world wide.
In my opinion, there is one thing that made him well-known all over the world.
Music is the answer.
It is one the things than can get beyond the word and boarder.
Now I feel that the mixture of comedy and music is a new type of entertainment, which has potential to excite people world wide.
From this point of view, there is another Japanese comedian music group that you should rember.
Their name is Radio Fish, and I love them better than PIKOTARO.
"Perfect Human (Radio Fish)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bh1nm7Ir8c
Radio Fish is coposed of 2 kinds of members, singers and dancers.
The singers is Nakata (Acchan) and Fujimori who came from a comedian unit called "Oriental Radio".
There are 4 dancers, and one of them is called Fish Boy, who is a real brother of Nakata(Acchan).
When I saw this first time at the begging of 2016 in a comedian TV programm "Kensaku-chan (検索ちゃん)", I was so shocked because of the high quality of their song and dance.
Less than 1 year later, they are invited to sing in *Kohaku Utagassen(紅白歌合戦).
*Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E7%B4%85%E7%99%BD%E6%AD%8C%E5%90%88%E6%88%A6
Currently there are too many comedian in Japan, and the market reaches the point of saturation.
But Radio Fish opened a blue ocean of comedian.
They have already published several songs below.
You should check it out.
"Ultra Tiger"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4gwbH1jiA&list=RDhc2rjxhcnJs&index=3
"Golden Tower"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Nizgi4Gec
"NKT34"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T34Rrp6yeY
"Golden Age/ NKT34"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2rjxhcnJs