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Patrick Harlan is an American-born Japanese entertainer, comedian, and voice actor. He is known for being a member of the comedy duo, Pakkun Makkun, and is also known by his stage name .
Life and career
Harlan was born inColorado
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, and graduated from Harvard University
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with a degree in the Comparative Study of Religion. He first came to Japan on a tour with the Harvard Glee Club
The Harvard Glee Club (Glee Club or HGC) is a 60-voice, Tenor-Bass choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the United States. The Glee Club ...
in 1993. He lived in Fukui and taught at an English conversation school. He studied Japanese on his own, and passed the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test
The , or JLPT, is a standardized criterion-referenced test to evaluate and certify Japanese language proficiency for non-native speakers, covering language knowledge, reading ability, and listening ability. The test is held twice a year in Japan a ...
after 2 years in the country. He moved to Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...
in 1996 to pursue an acting career.
In 1997, Harlan and Makoto Yoshida formed the comic duo Pakkun Makkun, with Harlan as the ''boke'' (funny guy) and Yoshida as the ''tsukkomi'' (straightman). They were the first international pair on the Japanese comedy scene in decades. They quickly made a name for themselves, winning the Tokyo FM
(abbreviation:TFM) is a radio station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the flagship station of the Japan FM Network (JFN).
Timeline
The station's forerunner, FM Tokai (FM東海, abbreviated FMT), owned by Tokai University, was launched on ...
King of Comedy Tournament and making it to the finals of NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
NHK ope ...
's ''Shinjin Engei Taisho'' both in 1999. They were also finalists on NHK's ''Bakusho Onair Battle'' in 2000. Pakkun Makkun became a regular face on Japanese television, with a daily corner on the popular afternoon show ''Just'' on TBS for five and a half years. Pakkun Makkun took their ''Manzai
is a traditional style of comedy in Japanese culture comparable to double act comedy.
usually involves two performers ()—a straight man () and a double act, funny man ()—trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mut ...
'' style to Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
in 2004 and Los Angeles in 2007, performing both times in English with their straight man and funny guy roles reversed.
In addition to comedy, Harlan works as an actor, DJ, commentator, and TV show host. As a solo performer, Patrick became well known as the host of NHK's ''Eigo de Shabera Night
is a Japanese talk show by NHK. The show began in 2003 and ended in 2009, but is ongoing as a special program. Contrary to the title, Japanese is the main language used in the show, although the Japanese hosts use English when interviewing Britis ...
,'' and later the secondary host or "Friday Partner" of Nihon Television's ''Omoikkiri Ii Terebi'' with Mino Monta. From 2010 to 2014, Harlan was the main MC of ''7Sta Bratch'' and ''7Sta Live'' on TV Tokyo. In the 2010s, Harlan began commenting on news and current events, and in 2015 became the moderator of "GAIKOKUJIN KISHAHA MITA (Through Foreign Journalists' Eyes)", a weekly current affairs discussion program on BS-TBS television. He was the anchor of Fuji Television
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...
's Hodo Prime Sunday in 2018, and the Wednesday night anchor for Abema Prime from 2015 to 2019. Since 2012, he has been an adjunct professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology
The Tokyo Institute of Technology () was a public university in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024.
The Tokyo Institute of Technology was a De ...
teaching courses in Communication and Rhetoric and International Relations Theory.
Harlan was chosen as the most likeable commentator on TV in Japan in a 2017 online survey of 29,147 people, and the commentator with the "best personality" in a 2023 survey of 200 television directors and producers.
Television
* Corner personality on "Just",TBS Television
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Broadcasting
* Taipei Broadcasting Station, a radio station in Taipei, Taiwan
* TBS Holdings (formerly Tokyo Broadcasting System), a stock holding company in Tokyo, Japan
** TBS Television (Japan), a television station
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, 1999–2005
* Host of "Eigo de Shabera Night
is a Japanese talk show by NHK. The show began in 2003 and ended in 2009, but is ongoing as a special program. Contrary to the title, Japanese is the main language used in the show, although the Japanese hosts use English when interviewing Britis ...
", NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
NHK ope ...
, 2003–2009
* Secondary host of "", Nippon Television
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as (NTV) or Nippon TV, is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned and operated by the , a sub ...
, 2007–2009
* Host of "7Sta Live" and 7Sta Bratch", TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Through Foreign Journalists' Eyes: Nippon in the World",
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BS-TBS
is a Japanese satellite broadcasting station headquartered in Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo. Its channel name is BS-TBS (formerly, BS-i).
Channels
*Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.
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, 2015–2018
Voice work
* Jack Morton in ''Gamera 2000'' (1997) * Pirate in '' Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas'' (1998) * ''Deep Freeze'' (1999) * Robert Wells in ''Shenmue
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'' (2000)
* Ark Thompson in ''Resident Evil Survivor
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'' (2000)
* '' Silpheed: The Lost Planet'' (2000)
* ''Steel Battalion
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'' (2002)
* Hero in ''D.N.A.: Dark Native Apostle'' (2002)
* Gongon and Dr. Bad-Boon in ''Super Monkey Ball 2
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'' (2002)
* Narrator in ''Little Charo: Tohoku-hen''
* David Rice in '' Neuro: Supernatural Detective'' (ep. 14; 2008)
* Jack Waltz in '' Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper'' (2014)
Books
* 爆笑問題・パックンの英語原論 (''Bakusho Mondai and Pack'n Tackle English'' (full edition)), Gentosha, 2001 * 爆笑問題・パックンのニュースで英語を学ぶ本 (''Bakusho Mondai and Pakkun Learn English from the News''), Gentosha, 2002 * パックンマックンの笑われる英語 笑わせる英語 (''Pakkun Makkun's English to Get Laughed At, English to Get A Laugh''), Seishun Shuppan, 2002 * 小卒レベルのおれがラスベガスで英語で漫才ができた理由 (''How I, With Grade School Level English, Came to Perform MANZAI in English in Las Vegas''), Gentosha, 2004 * ''Pakkun's English Dictionary'', Gakushu Kenkyusha, 2004 * 爆笑問題・パックンの読むだけで英語がわかる本 (''Bakusho Mondai and Pakkun Tackle English'' (revised)), Gentosha, 2005 * パックンマックンの「使いこなせ! カタカナ語」ビジネス編 仕事で役立つ頻出300語マスター (''Pakkun Makkun's Useful Katakana English for Business''), Shogakukan, 2006 * パックンの英語絵本「トゥースフェアリーの大冒険」 (''The Tooth Fairy's Big Adventure'' (picture book. text and illustration by Patrick Harlan)), Shogakukan, 2006 * パックンの中吊り英作文 (''Pakkun's Headline English''), CNN Publishing, 2006 * 「何とぞよしなに」って、英語で言えますか (Let's Talk Business), NHK出版、2012 * Are you a 国際人 ("Are you an International Person"), Chuoseihan, 2013 * パックンマックン・海保知里の笑う英作文 (Pakkun Makkun and Chisato Kaiho's Laughable English Composition), Fusosha, 2013 * TSUKAMU ! WAJUTSU (Speak to Achieve) Kadokawa 21, 2014 * 大統領の演説 (The Presidents' Speech), Kadokawa, 2016 * 世界に通じる子を育てる (Raising Kids who Meet the World), Daiwa Shobo, 2017 * 世界に渡り合う外交術 (Diplomacy to Cross the World), Mainichi Shinbun Publishing, 2017 * 日本のバイアスを外せ (Removing the Japan Bias), Shogakukan, 2018 * 逆境力 (The Power of Adversity), SB Shinsho, 2021 * パックン式お金の育て方 (Growing Your Money Pakkun-style), 2022References
External links
Official Home Page
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Omoikiri Ii Terebi
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Make on the Holiday Blog
digisbs.com/tv/program/michibura
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