hard gay

Hard Gay is my new hero. Bear with me, I know that sounds a bit strange. But when I was in Japan last year, I saw all these posters of a weird guy in a leather outfit and glasses, who Gulkis informed me was named "Hard Gay", and was all the rage. But I'd never actually seen any of his work.

Yuzo sent me a link to all of Hard Gay's videos last night, and they're HILARIOUS. He's difficult to describe, an eternally cheery bondage-dressed Japanese man who runs around chatting with people and yelling "hooooo!".

Start here:

http://www.videouncovered.com/adds/play_page.php?id=1263&id_char=bakuten

Hard Gay goes around the city helping people who need help. There's a couple in this series. The best is watching the Japanese people react to him running up to them.

Next, this one:

http://www.videouncovered.com/adds/play_page.php?id=584&id_char=bakuten

A ramen shop needs more customers, so Hard Gay helps out by grabbing people off the street. There's a surreal sequence where he plays in a park with children, which would be horribly inappropriate if he wasn't so harmless.

And then the best of all, he attacks Yahoo headquarters, claiming they stole his "HOOOOO!", and insists that they put him in a commercial. Watching him get Yahoo's massage expert in a leg lock is the funniest goddamn thing ever:

http://www.videouncovered.com/adds/play_page.php?id=585&id_char=bakuten

I'm going to spend the rest of the day yelling "HOOO!" after everything I say. Hard gay is the funniest goddamn thing ever.