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Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! is a Japanese variety show which stars comedians Matsumoto Hitoshi, Hamada Masatoshi, Tsukitei (Yamasaki) Hōsei, Tanaka Naoki and Endō Shōzō. It is best known to western audiences for the annual No-Laughing Batsu Games and the original version of Silent Library.

Submissions aren't limited to just Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!, you can post anything related to the members of Downtown, Cocorico and Tsukitei Hōsei.

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Role titles question regarding Cocorico in Gaki (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a typical manzai I'm pretty sure Tanaka was boke and Endo was tsukkomi but during the show it seems that Matsumoto is so overwhelmingly boke, alongside Yamazaki, that the show doesn't really call for a third. Does anyone call Tanaka a tsukkomi while on Gaki or is there a third term where you're neither boke nor straight man? Endo seems to be quite flexible too, his ho-ho-hoi and pteredon as well as his lusting for Hamada episodes show he can play an amazing boke but he also seems to fill the tsukkomi role with Hamada during the batsu games.

Then I have a question regarding License, who I have never seen be either Tsukommi nor Boke, they are more like spares for announcements and stuff, is there a term for their style?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The tradition manzai roles do not apply on Gaki because the 5 are just playing off each other. There are not defined roles for them on the show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Cocorico pretty much adheres to the senpai/kohai relationship with Downtown. Even though they don't have a lot of subs, I think they were smart to make a Youtube channel to remind people they exist as a duo outside of Gaki.