Michael Palin does Karaoke in Japan | Around the World in 80 Days | BBC Studios

Michael Palin's in Japan. Among the evening's entertainment on offer is the traditional karaoke.
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[@dannyrocko22]

simply the best travel doc ever twinned with the best presenter ever.... u can't go wrong with this

[@imhellag]

I suddenly want to go back in time, a simpler, kinder era. To 1988.

[@NxDoyle]

It was not kinder or simpler. You were younger. So many people have it in their heads that x number of years ago there existed a social idyll, that nothing in the present day can match. People look at life 20, 30, 40 years ago and wrongly conclude that _the world_ was a better place. In some ways, the world may have been. But it's a trick that people play on themselves. It's not the time that was better. It's that _you_ were younger, had fewer cares and responsibilities, you enjoyed life more. You didn't have kids and a mortgage and the weight of 20 years of life experience, some of which involved losing parents or getting divorced. It always surprises me when people attribute a happier life to the time in which that life was playing out. Most of human history has been oppressive, exclusive, filled with danger at every turn, war, starvation, disease, infant mortality...we are the most fortunate people ever to have lived.

[@tankiegang7049]

The internet has made people lose their manners

[@dewchamp5716]

This man is a good singer as well! Gotta love Michael

[@123brownjames]

One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen 😂👏🇬🇧

[@john5006201]

Michael should really have sung the Lumberjack Song.

[@Psychicqueen]

My mom, (who's Japanese) once commented on how when Americans get drunk, they get loud and possibly violent, but the Japanese just wanna sing, dance, and have fun.

[@krimskrams]

and i expected him to sing "always look on the bright side of life" :D

[@BethGoth15]

Mike, sweetie, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A DARLING?!

[@DafyddBrooks]

I wish Michael Palin could be playing japanese arcade machines :). modern presenters and youtubers probably would today

[@bermudafeathers]

Ah this is great. He's so cute.

[@L2766W]

Funny man and likely as nervous as any of the rest of us who have ever taken up the mike and let our dulcet tones ring out over the dance floor.(I will admit to having done it but then again I have also sung with a regular band so it was no big deal.)

[@johnmcternan4157]

Kiryu would be proud 😂

[@zweij]

@znikacz dokładnie, nieskromnie mówiąc, mam szczęście że go poznałem :)

[@savoytruffle96]

bloody hell, that's me auntie! in the red, singing! nah, just kidding. but it sure looks a lot like her in the 80's! it'd be so cool if my aunt actually sung with Michael Palin, though... 3:09-3:28 is just adorable, though.....

[@Stephie2007]

HAHAHA!

[@123loco1991]

hhhoooowww can you give him a thumbs dowwwnn????!!!!!

[@krimskrams]

@john5006201 even better! :D

[@Mokkari77]

Hey it wasn't that prevalent in the west in 1989.

[@madmax7272jj]

embarrassing...I am Japanese but I HATE karaoke. Yes I enjoyed couple of times. And it's culture(?) spread all over the world.Nevertheless It shouldn't have. ITs a shame.