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Being a comedy show and a damn good one at that, Gaki No Tsukai has had more than its fair share of hilarious moments.
- The Drunken Momotaro Theater. All of it.
- Suga Kenji's Blatant Lies subtitles on the Dice Reaction Batsu Game.
- Tanaka's terrified shout while opening his drawer during the Newspaper Batsu Game.
- Also from the Newspaper Batsu Game, Yamasaki accidentally stumbling into a heater he'd been making a fuss about for minutes beforehand.
- The entire lunch time period of the Newspaper Batsu, starting with Hamada mouthing off about the judgement of the guy in charge of calling people out and appropriately getting called out.
- Also from the Newspaper Batsu Game, Yamasaki accidentally stumbling into a heater he'd been making a fuss about for minutes beforehand.
- Whenever poor Yamasaki is chosen to receive a slap from Chouno, Yamasaki usually ends up on his knees begging for mercy. And it always results in the others laughing their asses off and usually getting slapped multiple times.
- Everyone dreads hearing the phrase 'Tanaka — Thai kick!' His agonized overreactions to being kicked guarantee that the other four will be called out for laughing.
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- In the 24-Hour Endurance tag, the punishments are done by people in entirely black suits. One punishment forces you to watch a slideshow with entirely black pictures.
- During the spy tag game Tanaka gets captured by the festival devils and put on a wooden horse - while the others are standing a safe distance away and watch:Endo: What is it?
Tanaka (as he's mounting on the horse): This isn't good.
Hamada (Observing what's going on): I see, it's some kind of torture device.
Tanaka (offscreen): IT HURTS!!! - The 2005 High School Batsu game.
- The educational video has Jimmy Onishi trying to read English, mainly reducing Endo and Tanaka to repeated punishments. Jimmy stumbles over words like 'asked' and 'questions', reading the latter as 'lotions'. It also takes him several times to say 'Venice' before pronouncing it as 'VEEK-tah'. Yamasaki commented beforehand that he doesn't give up.
- Then, Jimmy is instructed to count from 1 to 100. He doesn't have any trouble until he gets to 20, calling it 'ten-ten' after some hesitation note . This continues with 'ten-ten one' through 'ten-ten-ten' for 30. By the time he gets to 100, he counts on his fingers how many rapid-fire tens to say.
- Finally, Jimmy tries to say the days of the week in order. He struggles to name the day after Sunday, to the point of asking if he can just say the ones he knows. Jimmy is finally able to get Yamasaki to crack upon admitting that he never learned how to say Tuesday in English.
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- Since the 2010 Spy No Laughing batsu game, the drawers often include some sort of doll, usually modeled after one of the cast members. You can be sure that, soon after discovering the dolls, they will start to play with them with hilarious results.
- Also in the 2012 and 2013 batsu games, the wig they make Hamada wear is the cause of many laughs, to the point that it's been described by Matsumoto as a weapon of mass destruction:Matsumoto: If all Japanese wore wigs like these, we probably could win a war.
- In Yugawara, when Hamada laughs while in the community bathroom, he gets called out. Hilarity Ensues when the punisher runs into the hotel room and can't find Hamada; he ends up 'punishing' Yamasaki instead. However, when Yamasaki tries to explain what happened to him later, he manages to out Hamada twice.
- For the Detective Batsu game, Tanaka plays a Super Mario Maker level and succeeds in getting past Bowser. The exit pipe takes him to a screen that spells 'Tanaka Thai Kick' in blocks, the pipe itself dumping Mario into a pit.
- In a moment that Yamazaki describes as hell, Matsumoto activates a joint liability card he found in a drawer earlier in the episode. For the next ten minutes, if a person laughs, everyone except Matsumoto is out. Now, what makes this hell for Yamazaki is the fact that he's been forced to wear a KekkoKamen costume, which is very skimpy, so you can imagine how painful it is to have your partially bare buttocks slapped by one of those rubber batons. The over-exaggerated screams he makes as he's slapped is just too damn funny. What makes it worse is that those screams make everyone laugh even more, resulting in the next ten minutes of everyone trying their hardest not to laugh at his torture.
- In the Scientist episode, Yamazaki is forced to wear an AstroBoy costume, which is funny enough, but what makes it even funnier is when a girl comes in dressed as Uran and teases him with a bag with a button that plays the sound of Yamazaki laughing, resulting in him getting an out and a slap on the buttocks. After chasing Uran around and attempting to bribe her with a bag that has Hamada's laugh recorded in it, the girl finally gives it to him...but what he doesn't know is that the guys secretly swapped buttons. When he presses the Hamada bag with his own laugh in it, the scream he makes when he is slapped is one of pain and anger. Needless to say, everyone is laughing at that.
- One Silent Library session has the guest player Azuma Mikihisa see a disproportionate amount of batsu (four by the first intermission, with Hamada a distant second with just two). What proves to be the last straw is the Monkey Palm Strike, which is basically getting slapped by a trained monkey - which puts Azuma into a legitimate Freak Out!. The guys end up forgetting the rule of silence as they coax Azuma into going through with it any way they can. And then it gets off to a false start when some mixed signals cause the monkey to rudely shove him instead.
- Another thing Azuma gets hit with is nose hair waxing, which really does involve sticking hot wax sticks up his nose. It's done by a proper beautician so the whole thing goes off without a hitch, until Azuma tries to hide the wax sticks to prevent anyone from seeing what else came out of there.
- Matsumoto's reaction to the Trembling Earbuds (it's not clear what those things are really doing but it looks pretty bad).
- 2017 No Laughing Challenge. The theme is 'American Police', though all the guys are dressed more like Texas border patrol.
- The first Tanaka Thai Kick. It's bad enough that it leaves Tanaka on his knees hobbling in pain across the floor... then he bangs his head on his own chair.
- Tanaka finds out that he's been set up for a matchmaking session with the lovely Becky, and the matchmaking agent has a palmtop on hand to show off a series of Becky's photos... and all the guys slowly realise that she's been posing alongside assorted things belonging to Tanaka, like in his car, and beside his mom. That's not the important point - it's when they reveal that every photo has an English letter in it somewhere, and arranging all the letters in order spells out... TANAKA THAI KICK.
- In what has to be a historic moment for this show, the matchmaking agent draws attention to one photo with Becky holding up a mug, and a hard zoom on it reveals the words BECKY THAI KICK. This might also be the one time they bring in a female MMA fighter just to do it too.
- About halfway through, the guys take a break and participate in a more traditional game show, divided down the middle and teamed with additional guest celebs so that Hamada and Matsumoto become opposing team captains.
- The first game involves a static shock platform that both players stand on and essentially play chicken with just their hands, as the slightest touch will cause a spark that will make one of them jump off and lose the round. Tanaka faces off with a shaggy-haired dude, and the game briefly halts as said shaggy dude's hair starts standing. Another round involves none of the 5 guys, and the one one Matsumoto's team sways too far forward, causing the spark to get the other guy in the nuts. Matsumoto suggests they make it really fair and make it a nut-off, leading the two guys to... well... touch wands in front of a studio audience.
Matsumoto:Stop rubbing yourself there!- One game challenges them to make a finger gun and ok sign with both hands, then change them both around at the same time continuously, which all the guys think looks easy enough... until they actually try. Hamada fucks it up immediately. Matsumoto goes from zen-like calm the first few times to grimacing so hard you'd think he was passing a stone!
- 2018 No Laughing Challenge. The theme is treasure hunters, which somehow translates into Great White Hunter khakis for everybody.
- The game show segment's obligatory mindfuck game - an announcer calls out a simple equation like 4+4, and the player calls out the answer while holding up the number of fingers with both hands. This turns out to be deceptively difficult - when have you ever held up five fingers with 2 and 3 fingers on both hands and not one open hand?
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- In an unrelated show, Yamazaki was babysitting for a large family. The kids are familiar with his antics on Gaki.Child: Hosei, out! Receives butt slap with baseball bat!
Hosei/Yamazaki: N-no, that would kill me.
Index
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! | |
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Genre | Variety |
Starring | Hitoshi Matsumoto Masatoshi Hamada Hōsei Tsukitei Naoki Tanaka Shōzō Endō |
Opening theme | Coldcut, 'Theme From Reportage' (1989–2017) |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 1444 (as of 24 February 2019) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Bunta Azumai (2017–) Kenji Suga (1989–2017) |
Producer(s) | Yoshinobu Nakamura (2017–) Masaomi Miyamoto, Ichiro Goda, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Akihiro Ohnuma, Kouzou Komurasaki |
Production location(s) | Various |
Editor(s) | Toshihide Saito (1989–2017) |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Yoshimoto Kogyo |
Release | |
Original network | Nippon TV |
Original release | October 3, 1989[1] – present |
External links | |
Official website at Nippon TV |
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!Dauntaun no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!, lit. 'Downtown's We Aren't Errand Boys!'), often abbreviated Gaki no Tsukai (ガキの使い) or just Gaki Tsuka (ガキ使), is a Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting. The program has been broadcast on Nippon TV since its pilot episode on October 3, 1989 and continues to this day, celebrating its 1000th episode on April 18, 2010. The program currently broadcasts on Nippon TV and its regional affiliates from 23:25 until 23:55 JST.
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Cast[edit]
Regular cast[edit]
- Downtown, one of the most influential and prolific kombi in Japan,[2][3] who are known for their sarcastic, short-tempered stage personas.
- Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志Matsumoto Hitoshi), the boke half of Downtown.[4]Absurdism, sarcasm, and a blunt, ill-tempered persona make up his comedic style. Deadpan is his forté, but he can slip into exaggerated reactions as well. He is often described as an 'M', or masochist.
- Masatoshi Hamada (浜田雅功Hamada Masatoshi), the tsukkomi half of Downtown.[4] His quick temper, displays of schadenfreude, and tendency to hit people on their heads are notorious in the owarai world.[5] He is often described as an 'S', or sadist.
- Hōsei Tsukitei (月亭方正Tsukitei Hōsei),[6][7] part of the regular cast since 1990. His role on the show is usually divided up between the suberi-kyara (the unfunny character who tries very hard to be funny, but fails) and the ijime-kyara (the underdog who gets bullied and picked on, often physically). Formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki (山崎 邦正 Yamasaki Hōsei) on the show, however at times the rest of the regulars will call him Yamachan or Hosei-san.
- Cocorico,[6] part of the regular cast since 1997.[7]
- Naoki Tanaka (田中直樹Tanaka Naoki), the boke half of Cocorico.
- Shōzō Endō (遠藤章造Endō Shōzō), the tsukkomi half of Cocorico.
Supporting cast[edit]
- License (Kazuhiro Fujiwara (藤原一裕Fujiwara Kazuhiro) and Takafumi Inomoto (井本貴史Inomoto Takafumi)). A comedy duo that works at the show and has occasionally joined the regular cast. Fujiwara is also known as 'Vacuum Fujiwara' because of his eating ability, which is used as a running gag in some skits.
- Hideaki Onishi (大西秀明Ōnishi Hideaki). Often called by his stage name, 'Jimmy Onishi' (ジミー大西Jimī Ōnishi). Left the regular cast in 1996 to pursue a painting career. He has subsequently made several appearances in pre-taped segments that are shown to the cast in the 'No-Laughing' batsu games, since 2005. In the videos, Onishi portrays an inane version of himself appearing in various roles, saying or doing things that are inane/off-the-wall, usually repeatedly, in an attempt to make the cast laugh.
- Kenji Suga (菅賢治Suga Kenji). Chief producer. Appears in various sketches often as himself or as various characters during batsu games. As well as appearing in person during these, his likeness is often used for comedic effect in various ways—for instance, appearing on humorous posters, or as a stone bust. The name 'Gāsū' (ガースー), a reversal of the kana in his given name, is also referenced in similar ways. He retired from the show in late 2017.
- Toshihide Saitō (斉藤敏豪Saitō Toshihide). Chief director. Usually referred to by his nickname, Heipō (ヘイポー). Several sketches and games are based on his complete inability to stomach scary things (however silly they may be) and his perverted nature. He also appears whenever the cast needs an extra man around such as in 'Silent Library' and 'No Laughing at the News Agency' where he and Tanaka were paired up to do a Blair Witch kind of challenge in a nearby forest. He also took Hamada's place in the 'Kiki Ketchup' series when the former was hospitalized.
- Hiroshi Fujiwara (藤原 寛Fujiwara Hiroshi). Downtown's former manager. Often seen portraying a female character during batsu games, where he meets up with the participants and guides them through the game. He often stutters and speaks incoherently, and generally displays a great deal of incompetence in serious matters.
- Yoshinobu Nakamura (中村喜伸Nakamura Yoshinobu). Producer of the show, often used when a sixth person is needed for a skit. Has appeared in batsu games and has shown his ability to withstand pain.
- Itsuji Itao (板尾創路Itao Itsuji). A member of the comedy duo 130R and former cast member of Downtown's Gottsu Ee Kanji. Appears often in batsu games. Itao has had six different women portraying his 'wife' throughout the series, one of whom, Sherri, is best known for her dancing along to Madonna (namely, 'Material Girl' and 'Like a Virgin') in the No Laughing High School batsu game and the No Laughing at the Police Station batsu game.
Recurring guests[edit]
- Ameagari Kesshitai (Hiroyuki Miyasako (宮迫博之Miyasako Hiroyuki) and Tōru Hotohara (蛍原徹Hotohara Tōru)). A comedy duo that has occasionally joined the regular cast.
- Obachan Ichigo (おばちゃん一号)浅見千代子 (Asami, Chiyoko) and Obachan Sango (おばちゃん三号)三城晃子 (Mishiro, Akiko); literally, Old Lady #1 and Old Lady #3. Two elderly women who often appear in the batsu games
- Africa Chūō TV (アフリカ中央テレビAfurika Chūō Terebi) Director role played by Craig Nine.
- Hidetoshi Hoshida (星田英利), better known as Hosshan (ほっしゃん。). Another comedian who makes appearances during the batsu games.
- Ayako Nishikawa (西川史子Nishikawa Ayako). A former Miss Japan who later became a physician.
- Chiaki (千秋). Endō's ex-wife (they divorced in December 2007).[8]
- Maejima Koichi, as Shin Onii (新おにぃShin Onii)
- Takahiro Matsumoto (松本隆博Matsumoto Takahiro).
- Hanako Yamada (山田花子Yamada Hanako).
- Hackam Naronpat. A professional Thai-Kick Boxer.
- Masahiro Chono (蝶野 正洋Chōno Masahiro). a retired professional wrestler.
- Shōhei Shōfukutei (笑福亭笑瓶Shōfukutei Shōhei). A rakugo artist.
- Rola (ローラRōra). A Japanese fashion model and tarento.
- Claudia Umemiya (梅宮 クラウディアUmemiya Kuraudia).
- Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナTsuchiya Anna): Appeared in two year end batsu games with comic Yuki Himura.
- Shoji Murakami.
- Matsuko Deluxe (マツコ・デラックスMatsuko Derakkusu). A TV personality known for his cross-dressing persona.
- Moriman.
- Suga Tomio, as Piccadilly Umeda.
- Egashira 2:50.
Broadcasting TV stations[edit]
- Nippon TV, Aomori Broadcasting Corp., Miyagi TV, Akita Broadcasting System, Inc., Yamagata Broadcasting Co., Fukushima Central TV, Yamanashi Broadcasting System, TV Niigata, TV Shinshu, Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., TV Kanazawa, Fukui Broadcasting Co.,Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Chukyo TV, Yomiuri TV, Nihonkai TV, Yamaguchi Broadcasting Co., Shikoku Broadcasting Co. Nishinippon Broadcasting Co., Nankai Broadcasting Co., Kochi Broadcasting Co.,Fukuoka Broadcasting Corp. Nagasaki International TV, Kumamoto Kemmin TV, TV Ōita, Kagoshima Yomiuri TV from 23:25 until 23:55 every Sunday (JST)
- Sapporo TV from 00:59 until 01:29 every Wednesday (JST)
- TV Iwate from 00:50 until 01:20 every Sunday (JST)
- Hiroshima TV from 00:59 until 01:29 every Thursday (JST)
- Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp. (affiliated with JNN and TBS Network) from 00:58 until 01:35 every Sunday (JST)
References[edit]
- ^Scherker, Amanda (October 1, 2014). 'You Have to See These Japanese Game Shows to Believe Them. But Even Then You Won't'. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^Japan Zone article Retrieved on 2008-2-21. 'The biggest name in comedy duos has to be Downtown.'
- ^Corkill, Edan (November 27, 2011). 'Comedy's a funny business in Japan'. The Japan Times. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ abMorales, Daniel (December 22, 2014). 'The annual pain and pleasure of punished comedians'. The Japan Times. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^LINCOLN, 松本プレゼンツ「浜田との壁を取り除こうのコーナー」Episode aired on 2005-11-29. A large group of younger comedians express their fear of Hamada, which Matsumoto tries to help over come in this episode.
- ^ ab''Gaki no Tsukai' cast members hold press conference for their year-end 'no-laughing' program'. Tokyo Hive. November 29, 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ abEdwards, Nathaniel. 'Gaki no Tsukai And The Living Legends Of Japanese Comedy'. Tofugu. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^'Cocorico Endo, Chiaki Divorce'. Japan Zone. December 31, 2007. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
External links[edit]
- Official website at ntv.co.jp
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