明石家 サンマ ★Sanma and Alpaca

I don't know what has made the alpaca so popular in Japan recently, but they are everywhere. First, I noticed stuffed alcapas in stores all over the place. Then I noticed people with alcapa cell phone straps and teenagers with little alcapa stuffed toys stuck to their backpacks. Watching the new years TV specials, I noticed alcapas in 4 different ads. My favorite magazine (Tokyo Grafitti) had an article where they asked random people off the street "what is the image on your cell phone" and out of 50 people, there were 5 alcapa pictures. Do you know why the sudden alcapa boom? (Beyond the obvious answer that they are cute and weird looking) This is Sanma (明石家 サンマ) and I love him. (The older one with the white teeth) I think he's really hilarious. His shows are fun to watch because he is always, always cracking up laughing and has a great "laughing face" where his eyes get all crinkly and his shining, unnaturally white and straight teeth get shown completely. He's so loud and hilarious that I wouldn't even want to meet him because he would make me laugh until I cried and embarass me in public with his loud voice and wild energy. I am the type of person who can't stop laughing when people start making me laugh, so it would be awful. I love watching Sanma's shows, though, because they always put me in a good mood and he seems like a nice person. I even have a small picture of him on the back of my door. His face makes me happy.