There is a television show on primetime Japan that is very similar to the American "Punk'd" TV Show. It generally follows the same theme of fooling celebrities, but it has a very interesting twist to it that makes it much more funnier!

The show starts out with a selected number of male comedians that will get punk'd. These comedians are generally picked from either the most popular ones at the time or just a random selection from the thousands of comedians that are on primetime TV in Japan. The real interesting point about this show that makes it much more entertaining than the American Punk'd is that they fool these comedians with beautiful Japanese models. How you may ask? Well they pick a beautiful model, they set the comedian up with the model at an event like a photo shoot, give them a chance to talk, and get the model to pretend to be interested and ask them for their number. This is insanely cruel but really funny to see what the comedians are like in real life. 

So now you know the basic story of what happens in the show. Let's go with how the show is set up. When the model and the comedian exchange cellphone numbers, the model's cellphone is given to the show. The show MCs then pretend to be the girl and everyone can see the comedian's messages. Another group of beautiful models at the show judge whether or not the comedian is crazy and whether or not the girl should go on a date with them. If the date proceeds, they make a fake date scenario to do something to the comedian.

In case the date occurs, the scene is all set-up in advance with cameras everywhere the comedian and the girl will go. One of the simple story lines that I saw took place when the girl and the comedian would meet infront of her house. She would forget something and run back to her house. While going back, she would accidentally slip and fall and pretend to be hurt. The comedian would come to help her and then fall into a giant pit. A famous comedian (lately) started doing this dancing skit, and when he got punk'd on this show, a hundred guys came out of nowhere and surrounded the pit and started dancing. That was a good laugh.

Among all the punk'd comedians, my favorite would have to be the handsome comedian who actually got the girl to fall for him. It seemt like a perfect date and you could tell that she liked him because of her body language. Unfortunately, she was playing a role on the show, and it was time to get punk'd! They went back to her apartment (fake apartment), and she showed him her modelling outfits. She asked him to try one on and she would get into something nice too. Well he tried something on and it was a cheerleading outfit! He even danced too hahaha. Anyway, the skit ended with the "ex-boyfriend", which was supposed to be a yakuza-type, jealous boyfriend, coming and asking to get back together with her. She told the comedian to go hide out on the balcony while she talks with the ex-boyfriend. Well, the ex-boyfriend came in and found him and she said that if the yakuza guy doesn't hurt the comedian, she would get back together with him. Anyway, it was quite entertaining because at one point the comedian was hiding on the balcony, wearing rabbit ears and a cheerleading outfit, trying to hide from the yakuza. He was really scared, that's for sure.

Anyway, here is a clip from the show. It is not the same episode I saw but it is still pretty funny. I hope you enjoy it!