お笑い
owarai
🇯🇵 Japanese slang from Osaka
What does “お笑い” mean?
comedy (Osaka’s great passion)
Example
“今夜はお笑いのライブ行こ。”
kon’ya wa owarai no raibu iko.
Let's go to a live comedy show tonight.
Good to know
Every Osakan is expected to be a bit funny.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: コメディー
More from Osaka
- たこパa takoyaki party
- アレ'that thing' = the championship
- 飲みに行こかshall we go for a drink? (Kansai)
- ミナミMinami, Osaka’s nightlife south
- 道頓堀Dōtonbori, Osaka’s neon canal street
- ひっかけ橋"pick-up bridge" (Ebisubashi, Osaka)
- 吉本Yoshimoto, the comedy empire (and its theatre)
- ノリツッコミplaying along with a joke, then calling it out
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