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But then, they admit that they’d be happy to make use of anyone with such a chiseled physique.

Source: Owarai Natalie

Read more stories from RocketNews24. But Sumitani is slowly getting more work, such as this promotion clip for The Devil’s Third, the upcoming game from Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki.

Sumitani's most well-known performing character is Hard Gay (ハードゲイ, Hādo Gei), also called "HG", Razor Ramon Hard Gay or Razor Ramon Sumitani, an eccentric supposedly gay man wearing tight black leather and PVC clothes and acting with overacted gay mannerisms.

According to Wikipedia, Sumitani had been a popular stage comedian, performing a few different characters for a few years befor joining Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd.

In 1999.

Excerpt from Wikipedia on Yoshimoto Kogyo:

Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. (吉本興業株式会社, Yoshimoto Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 9665) is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate, with its headquarters based in Osaka. He has been on Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup, was featured in the recent Netflix special Stand Out, and co-hosts the podcast Inside the Closet with fellow queer comedian Emma Willmann.

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Mawaan Rizwan

A Pakistani-born British comic, Mawaan Rizwan got his start among other great comedians on YouTube.

The site was available in English and Japanese right from the start.
This WMV episode with subtitles was made easily accessible to English-speaking audiences at least as early as November 7th, 2006.

It appears that the first Wikipedia article to be published on Hard Gay was on October 11th, 2005.

The Japan Times printed a story on Hard Gay in English on July 17th, 2005.

Hard Gay videos

His offbeat humor clashing with the japanese more conservative code of political politeness led to worldwide fame when videos from the show were uploaded on Youtube, and subbed in english:

Here, he went to Yahoo Japan company:

Social improvement:

He even went to Tomy's director's house to have his own Pop-up Pirate version:

The original [Bakafish] videos have been deleted due to copyright infrightement, sadly.

And the secret is that I’m gay.”

It’s a moving moment in a provocative and hilarious special that reinvigorated our appreciation for Jerrod’s all-time great comedy.

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Cole Escola

Some people might recognize Cole Escola most as Chip aka “the twink” in Search Party, but their absurdist, goofy comedy easily makes them one of the best gay comedians — if not just one of the best comedians — of our time.

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Being Hard Gay for Laughs and Cash

In 2005, comedian Masaki Sumitani became the most popular funny man in Japan.

It took a lot of flattery from many different sources to even vaguely convince Sumitani that he has the looks to make it as a model, but after taking some test shots with a former classmate who’s now a cameraman for the cover of fashion magazines, he can see his own potential. After three years, the video has just under 70,000 views.

On February 19th, 2006, a user by the name of Grommet on the forums at Bakakage.net started a thread entitled For the NANA fans (link via Wayback Machine) and posted a link to another Hard Gay video.

According to an interview conducted by the online news site Owarai Natalie, while Sumitani is still interested in continuing work as a comedian, he has decided to revamp his public image. Because of this, it was allowed to be aired and not deemed offensive to Japanese audiences.
On the show, Hard Gay goes around performing acts of charity (or yonaoshi, “social improvement” → source: wikipedia link) for unsuspecting bystanders, wearing his fetish outfit while accompagnied by the Ricky Martin's "Livin’ la Vida Loca" song.
He has also trademarked gesture and vocalizations such as his "pelvic thrust", his "Hoooooo" (フゥ～!) or "Foohhhh!" (フォー！) running jokes shouts or also his "Sei sei sei sei sei" shout with his palm in front of the person’s face.

The main theme of Hard Gay's act relies on the idea that Hard Gay is a foreigner, and as such, can get away with outlandish behavior.

And, after a severe foot injury in July of 2009, his wrestling career has also been forced to a close. As he recovered from his wrestling injury, his bikini model wife continued to work and support the family.

Last year Sumitani, still using the name Hard Gay, teamed up with his old partner in wrestling, Makoto Izubuchi, aka Real Gay, to compete in "The Manzai," a televised contest for Japanese comedy duos.

Mawaan is an activist among LGBTQ comics, having gone to Pakistan to film the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, which explores what it means to be gay in a country where it’s deemed illegal. Many of us might know him as a writer for SpongeBob Squarepants and for his hilarious podcast, The Juice With Solomon Georgio.

Hard Gay

Origin

Masaki Sumitani is part of the Japanese comedy duo known as Razor Ramon, a name which he also used in his brief wrestling career.

The thread was called In Bridget we trust (link via Wayback Machine) and contained an image of Hard Gay hotlinked from 420chan.

Http://www.hard-gay.org, was first registered on August 27th, 2006 and archived by archive.org on November 7th, 2006.

Hard Gay eyes second career as professional model

Japanese comedian and former pro-wrestler Masaki Sumitani, better known by the name Hard Gay, has been struggling to find a new outlet for fame and success.

Vulture named him one of the 2021 Comedians You Should Know, describing him as an “affable stand-up whose comedy hits that key demographic intersection between queer, Asian, Jewish, and cutie.”

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Jerrod Carmichael

Pre-2022, Jerrod Carmichael wouldn’t have even made it onto this list, considering he only came out to the public in his most recent HBO stand-up special, Rothaniel, directed by Bo Burnham.

New York magazine placed Bob eighth in the list of “most powerful drag queens in America” and he was the first Black Drag Race queen to reach over one million followers on Instagram. He wants to be a serious model.” The management seems to support him in his decision. Sumitani did hang out in Osaka’s gay district, where he purchased his costume, but rumors quickly circulated that comedian, who recently fathered his second child, was just putting on a gay act.

These rumors were apparently verified when a tabloid showed him out on a date with bikini model Anna Suzuki.

The clip shows some footage of the game as well as dancing girls.

Think they got Sumitani on the cheap?