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On the August 22 broadcast of TV Tokyo’s “God Tan,” Oswald’s Shunsuke Ito sparked controversy with his response when partner Yu Hatanaka pressed him about his chronic lateness: “Because being late is harder on me.” On 5ch’s Entertainment/Sports News+ board, the thread went beyond criticizing Ito’s habitual tardiness, spiraling into comparisons with blacklisted comedians and even a debate over comedy styles — “Tonkin (a mocking nickname for Tokyo) comedians” versus “Kansai comedians.”
8/25 (Tue) 14:10
On the 22nd, Oswald’s Shunsuke Ito’s response on TV Tokyo’s “God Tan” left the studio stunned, after his partner Yu Hatanaka scolded him: “Do you even know how hard it is to wait for someone who’s late?” The episode, titled “Goodbye, Ito! The Getting-Scolded Comedian Graduation Exam,” quizzed Ito — a man who has angered no shortage of fellow comedians — on the exact reasons behind tip-offs submitted by those very colleagues.
Among the questions, Hatanaka posed: “When I told Ito, ‘Do you know how hard it is to wait for someone who’s late?’ what did he say back?” Ito couldn’t come up with the answer himself — the shocking correct response was, “Because being late is harder on me.” The studio erupted in disbelief, with cries of “No way?!” and “That’s awful.” Even Ito himself held his head in his hands, admitting, “Yeah, that’s not good…”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Because some people do find him funny? Your personal opinion alone doesn't mean anything to the rest of the world.
Here comes the "forced-push" guy again — anything popular he personally doesn't like, he calls "forced."
Just going "forced, forced, forced!" over and over lol
Kaerutei's Iwakura really held it together well.
Speaking as someone who's never been able to kick a lifelong habit of being late —
you're late because deep down you think the thing doesn't matter.
If it were something important, you'd never be late.
Well, of course.
When you genuinely feel something matters, dopamine floods your brain.
The problem with ADHD is that it just doesn't kick in most of the time.
Lately I just can't handle that thick, unmistakable "I'm a Kansai comedian" aura anymore.
It's off-putting.
Sanma's about the only one who never faded out. (referring to legendary comedian Akashiya Sanma)
Guys who lack the talent to back up the trouble they cause don't survive.
Does he even get that stealing other people's time is a serious offense?
Even if it is hard on you, you're the one who put yourself in that mess in the first place!!
That's what I'd like to yell at him.
Did you skip right past where it says "Kaname Stone"?
Never heard of that.
The guy who showed up to the studio absolutely wasted, right? lol
Chronic lateness is actually one of the symptoms of ADHD too —
so why isn't there more understanding about this specific one?
This guy's pattern is usually getting carried away drunk and losing track of time —
he'd probably be cured if he just quit drinking.
And it just keeps growing bigger every single year, every single day after that.
Now that I've built up more knowledge and experience, looking back on how I worked in my 20s makes me want to scream — it was outrageous and embarrassing on so many levels.
Being able to notice and actually reflect on it already puts you way ahead.
There are plenty of monsters out there who never notice even at that age —
people who never change until the day they die.
Background and Key Points
For readers unfamiliar with Japanese TV comedy: Oswald is a two-man manzai duo, with Ito as the “boke” (the fool who makes gaffes) and Hatanaka as the “tsukkomi” — the straight man who also, contrary to what some posters assumed, writes their material. “God Tan” is a long-running TV Tokyo late-night show built around exposing comedians’ off-stage flaws for laughs, so a segment literally quizzing Ito on his own colleagues’ complaints about him fits its format exactly. The “blacklisting” (干される, hosareru) mentioned in the thread is a real, semi-formal mechanism in Japanese entertainment where networks quietly stop booking a talent for chronic unprofessionalism — not just online criticism, but something that can end a career, which is why commenters treat Ito’s lateness as more than a personality quirk.
The thread didn’t really split over whether Ito’s answer was bad — nearly everyone agreed it was — but over how to explain it: some read it as simple selfishness that will eventually get him blacklisted like others before him, while others reframed lateness as a possible ADHD symptom (citing “dopamine” not kicking in for things that don’t feel urgent), asking why society extends understanding to some disorders but not this one. A side argument about “Tonkin” (a jab at Tokyo) versus Kansai comedic styles derailed part of the thread but has no real connection to Ito’s lateness.
What outsiders likely miss: Akashiya Sanma, cited as the one habitually late comedian who “never faded out,” is a decades-spanning national institution — an exception, not a counterexample to the blacklisting norm.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Oswald’s Ito Gives Stunned Response to Partner Hatanaka’s “Do You Know How Hard It Is to Wait for Someone Late?” — Studio Reacts “No Way?”“
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