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Booga Booga reunion SkitS

Here’s another skit from Booga Booga’s 1982 reunion gig at a Honolulu comedy club called the Laff Stop!

The late Pat Morita, who had yet to star in his world famous role as Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid franchise, was instrumental in getting the trio back together and also emceed their two week run. Here’s an excerpt from Rap’s bio about that reunion, picking up after James Grant Benton confided to Morita that he’d like to get Booga Booga back together:

A few months later, Rap, Jimmy and their other former Booga Booga brother, Ed Ka‘ahea, sort of bonded over a bikini contest at a Waikīkī beach bar. After the guys had the tough job of judging bikini-clad girls at the Shorebird’s weekly T & A competition in late February 1982, a newspaper item dished that the three had “hinted strongly” at a Booga Booga reunion. Behind the scenes, Jimmy was working to sell Rap and Ed on the idea. He proposed, “Heck, it would be a dynamite bill if Pat Morita would be the master of ceremonies for a Booga Boo

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More than four decades after redefining comedy in Hawaii, Rap Reiplinger and his humor are still making people laugh. His iconic catch phrases are forever carved in the memory banks of fans old and new, whether they live in Hawaii or have migrated elsewhere.
Rap's one-liners are comedic glue that bind people together and bridge generations whenever anyone takes a sip of wine and declares it, Not too sweet, not too rancid, but jesss right! That line and other Rapisms make folks laugh, and, whatever their differences, they find common ground in Rap's unique perspective on Hawaii's ethnic melting pot.
These catch phrases are so ingrained in the lexicon and culture of Hawaii that many people who say them today do not even know where they originated. The source is the man whose story lies in the pages of this book.

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Naka Nathaniel: Hawaii Comedian Rap Reiplinger Can Still Teach Us How To Get Along
Earlier generations teased each other using racially based humor without malice. It helped people work together to make things better.
No kamaaina in Hawaii innocently asks a person named Russell for a pen.
“Russell, you get pen?” is a simple shibboleth that demonstrates local credentials.
Hawaii has become more transitory than ever, but hereʻs a shortcut for those trying to establish roots in Hawaii: Go watch “Rap’s Hawaii.”
After watching, youʻll know why some people say “not too sweet … not too rancid” after tasting wine.
The television special first aired on KGMB in May 1981 and even though his comedy is more than 40 years old, the legacy of the late Rap Reiplinger, who died in 1984, endures here in Hawaii and offers a big insight into how people get along with each other here.
I’ve been very wrong about the reception of things exported from Hawaii. No. 1, of course, is poke. Never in a million years did I think poke would be enjoyed all around the world.&n