From Rock Stars to TV Stars

Matt and I got gigs doing extras work for 'SMAStation' an apparently very popular variety show which we never watch cos its in Japanese, hosted by members of SMAP, an apparently very popular boy band. It's a quiz game, so the contestants, Shingo Katori (for the record, the cutest member of the band) and some other Japanese celebrity are given a Japanese sentence and they have to translate it into English.

We get ushered into a tiny studio where 'Katori-kun' is waiting for us to laugh and clap and act like gaijin dickheads, which is well within our repertoires. Then, they kick us out, shove 3 crisp Y1000 notes into our hand and send us packing. The only tiring part is having to deal with the inevitable obnoxious wannabes (no, not us) who love the sound of their own voices and have egos big enough to blow the SMAP boys off the stage...