Flipping through the channels I came across an episode of 'Ninja Warrior' a Japanese game show that involves ridiculously over-the-top physical challenges. Something like 30 athletes entered the first round. Three made it to the second round.

What caught my eye was that the job listed for one of those three was "comedian" (one of the others was a professional trampolinist).

Young: What if everyone at iO had to try to get through that obstacle course.

Out of curiosity, I found the guy's website, MuscleComedy.com.

"The next performance of Mighty Muscle (Nakayama Kinnikun), Japanese record-holding athlete and A-list comedian from Osaka, Japan, will be performing 'Muscle Comedy 2,' a bodybuilding, weightlifting, superpowered muscle comedy extravaganza!"

Sounds intense.

One of his event posters has him yelling, via word balloon, "Please stretch your abdomen well in order to ensure maximum volume of laughter during the performance!!"

He also has a photoblog. I can't read it, because it's in Japanese, but I wonder if it's just like my own blog, if I posted more pictures of myself shirtless in front of a McDonalds. Just two dudes working their way through the comedy world.