Bear comic Bobaloo hopes he can survive a "Japanese Game Show"

Last summer ABC's I Survived a Japanese Game Show was a pleasant surprise for me in the way it captured the bizarre and campy quality of the Japanese TV I've watched since childhood. Between the silly costumes, slapstick challenges, and the combined genius of the sayonara boys and the show's take on the walk-of-shame (eliminated contestant walks away from the studio still dressed in whatever costume they were wearing at the time while melodramatic piano music plays), it was pure TV candy.

The madness is now back for a second season, and it turns out one of the competitors is an out bear comic. The show lists Bob "Bobaloo" Koenig as a "House Cleaner" but he was also a part of the "Bears on the Run" comedy tour, has performed in the Outlaugh! comedy festival and has played roles in gay films like The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror and Socket.

More on Bobaloo and a clip, below!

In the premiere episode last week, Bobaloo stumbled through his first challenge but managed to bring his team to victory in the "human torpedo" segment. More importantly, it looked like he has the kind of humor necessary to be on a show where playing means dressing up as a giant baby and losing means working a shift at the pachinko parlor.

To get a flavor for I Survived a Japanese Game Show, check out the "Rabbit Fire" challenge from last week's episode, where competitors had to carry bento boxes across a beam while wearing pink bunny outfits ... and Bobaloo took a fall into a pit of flour.