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Oricon News released its “Favorite Radio Personality Ranking 2026 (Comedians Edition),” with Audrey taking 1st place for the second year running, Sandwichman coming in 2nd, and Bananaman placing 3rd. On 5ch, users questioned why duos like Ninety-Nine and Harai-chi didn’t make the cut, and opinions split over how funny individual personalities like Wakabayashi and Kawashima really are.
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of NHK radio broadcasting, prompting Oricon News to launch its new “Favorite Radio Personality Ranking.” Now in its second year, the survey again split results into two categories: “Actors/Artists Edition” and “Comedians Edition.” In this week’s “Comedians Edition,” Audrey — whose show has run since October 2009, winning over its late-night Saturday listeners (nicknamed the “Little Tooth” fandom) and pulling off a hugely successful Tokyo Dome event in 2024 — took 1st place again, securing back-to-back titles.
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Taking 2nd place was Sandwichman, who host “Sandwichman The Radio Show Saturday” every Saturday at 1pm on Nippon Broadcasting. Beyond the duo’s much-loved opening banter, the show is popular for segments like “Miki Fest,” where Mikio Date handpicks songs based purely on his own biased taste. Buzz around the show has grown industry-wide too — this past July, Mariya Takeuchi, a fan of the program, made a guest appearance.
Source: oricon.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
You mean the musician, right?
Dunno though
It's Tsuboi Norio (spelled つボイノリオ, with a katakana "ボイ")
You're the one who needs a redo
Even though it's a Kansai local radio show, it gets uploaded to YouTube every week —
"Appare Yattemasu" with Kendo Kobayashi and Ungirls on Wednesdays is great
Hinatazaka fans like Audrey
Do an idol group's show and your ranking goes up
Harai-chi's turn… "Sunday's Navel" (Nichiyou no Heso)…
Though I haven't listened in like 20 years
Ninety-Nine's show has zero substance, but their fans fill up domes, so they get favorable treatment
Sandwichman's on a different day in the same time slot
Bananaman and Kawashima aren't even funny on the radio
Kawashima's Saturday 5pm FM radio show often gets fewer than 10 live-thread replies during the whole broadcast
Back when I worked doing rounds outside, I used to listen to Golden Hour a lot
I used to listen to Enokido Ichiro's "Ikiyoyo"
That laid-back vibe was irresistible
Wonder what Enokido's up to these days
Re: #56
I gave it a listen, but Iwai's habit of going "shi shi" kept bugging me — couldn't get into it
SixTONES' All Night Nippon is pretty funny sometimes too
Messenger Aihara is #1 by a landslide
Runner-up would be Tsurukou
No way some no-name guy like that makes the list
The funniest guys right now are Kuuki Kaidan
Today's a "Kuunou" episode, so if you were ever into Ijuin you'll enjoy it
Though if you never followed the show, the segment will just leave you going "???"
Way overrated
Wakabayashi's the problem. He's forcing that contrarian act
Right?
Radio's basically only listened to by contrarian types to begin with, so they're just loud about it
What about Atago and Yumiki?
Every show airing opposite it is universally trash, so Sandwichman wins by process of elimination
The recent "Kona Ningen" bit had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt — first time in ages a radio show did that to me
Every episode he skillfully jerks around the straight-laced Kasuga.
I've never once found it funny
Also, I get that it's on purpose and it's probably his only real bit, but he needs to stop suddenly shouting
Simple, straightforward humor
vs. twisted, clever humor
Guess it just comes down to personal taste.
It's just not funny to begin with
last one I really listened to was Cream Stew, about 20 years back
like that gross-out "Kuso Bukkake" corner Arita used to do
Those guys should just do radio again
Background and Key Points
Oricon’s “Favorite Radio Personality Ranking” is a young franchise, not a fixture: it launched in 2025 to mark the 100th anniversary of NHK radio broadcasting, which began in 1925, and this is only its second year. It splits results into “Actors/Artists” and “Comedians” editions, the latter being the one Bananaman, Sandwichman, and Audrey placed in here. All three acts are owarai duos, the two-person manzai/comedy format that dominates Japanese entertainment agencies like Yoshimoto Kogyo, and for decades radio — especially Nippon Broadcasting’s late-night All Night Nippon franchise, running since 1967 — has been a separate, lower-pressure stage from television where comedians build cult followings distinct from their TV image.
The thread didn’t dispute the top three so much as the absence of others: posters kept asking why durable, dome-filling duos like Ninety-Nine and Harai-chi were missing, while conceding those acts’ shows have “zero substance” content-wise. That tension — dome-scale fame versus what’s actually said on air — is the real fault line, echoed in the argument over Audrey’s Wakabayashi, where fans defended his contrarian, word-inventing style against posters who just found him unfunny.
What’s easy to miss is that this ranking almost certainly reflects an online vote among a self-selected, radio-listening fanbase rather than any ratings or listenership data — several posters note the correlation with fan bases (Nogizaka46/Hinatazaka46 crossover fandoms boosting certain acts) without ever stating outright that the poll measures fan mobilization, not audience share.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “2026 Favorite Radio Personality Ranking (Comedians Edition): Bananaman Takes 3rd, Sandwichman 2nd.”
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