Akashi's saury is an unavoidable heavyweight when discussing Japanese funny artists. As one of the funny entertainer big3, the other two tamori focused on hosting, Takeshi Kitano became a famous director, only Akashi family saury is still active in the front line of funny artists, known as funny monsters!
Akashi family saury
Akashi family saury, whose real name is Takafumi Sugimoto, is a funny artist of the Japanese Yoshimoto Koyo Company. When he was young, he was a rakugo artist who was under the second generation of Kofukute Matsunosuke. Because of his talent in the field of funny, his master recommended him to turn into a funny artist. He is still active in the Japanese art world as One of Japan's top funny artists.
Akashi's saury debuted in 1974, and early shows are now hard to see, so I mainly describe the performance style I have seen after 2000. Since 2000, Saury has established itself as the King's Landing in Japan's comedy world. Basically, they are hosted as the main MC show, including pain and pleasure! Akashi tv station to see, る!さんま御殿!! ホンマでっか!? tv,さんまのお笑い向上委員會。 Saury is best at mobilizing the guests of the program to form an interaction, quickly find a groove from the guests' words, or spit or bring in their own self-deprecation, and finally form a laugh. Its characteristic laughter often leads the audience to laugh together.
In addition, Akashi's saury can be said to be a natural funny artist. The average funny artist has both on and off status, and it is difficult to maintain the status during non-work periods. And according to the people who have been exposed to saury, he is almost no off state. Or rather, his normal life is always in the state of a funny artist. Many artists complain that hanging out with saury in private is similar to work, and they will be asked to pretend to be stupid or complain at any time.
The profession of funny artist has penetrated deeply into the entire life of Akashi's saury, which is why he has earned the nickname of Funny Monster.
As the top of the Japanese art industry in the field of funny, how good is the saury fish, you can see the statistics carried out by Japanese magazines:
From 1975 to 2003, Japan's nhk has conducted an annual survey of japan's most popular stars, and since 1985, saury has won male first place in 12 of the 19 selections until the end of the statistics in 2003!
In the Nikkei Entertainment section, the "Favorite Artist" ranking won the first place in a row from 2002 to 2011, during which the competition was interrupted for 3 years, and was still ranked first after reopening in 2014, and then remained the first place until 2017.
In the "Celebrity Directory" released by TBS, according to the survey results, "artists who really feel interesting", "favorite hosts", and "favorite celebrities" all ranked first.
Since its debut in Japan in 1981, saury has stood in the fiercely competitive Japanese art world for many years. In recent years, the craze of the younger generation of funny artists has not shaken its position in the Japanese art world.
In addition, the saury itself hosted the program to language dialogue, in the domestic circulation is not a lot, if you are interested in Japanese or interested in Japanese entertainment can find some related videos to watch, personally recommend a sp program, called Saury East Dafang program. There are about 4 issues, mainly some interactions between Saury and students at the University of Tokyo in Japan. It can also be seen from this show that even in the face of ordinary people who are not funny artists, saury can quickly find laughter points and guide guest dialogue through keen reactions, and finally achieve the purpose of hilarity.