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- PEOPLE, Page 79Godzilla Was Here
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- In Japan a cantaloupe costs $40," says comedian Tamayo
- Otsuki. "It's 29 cents a pound here. I eat one every day, and
- so far, I've saved $20,000." A regular performer on the U.S.
- comedy-club circuit, Osaka-born Otsuki, 30, gets laughs by
- noting clashes in East-West culture and commerce. How do comics
- differ in Japan? "They have to be cute," she says, "not
- controversial." The diminutive Otsuki, who has a Godzilla-size
- appetite for fame, writes material that is decidedly prickly,
- but the former sushi waitress nonetheless thinks her humor
- "helps Americans and Japanese understand more about each other
- -- and themselves."
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