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The story
Shueisha Online reports that the September 27 broadcast of ‘Ametalk!’ (TV Asahi) featured its popular segment ‘Comedians Who Don’t Want to Dance,’ and the ‘intense performance’ by Tatsuya Mishima of the duo Suehirogari drew a wave of social-media criticism — comments like ‘so forced’ and ‘a contest for weirdest moves.’ In the 5ch reaction thread that followed, the criticism didn’t stay focused on Mishima alone; it spilled into a broader argument that the whole show ‘just isn’t funny anymore.’ Plenty of posters voiced nostalgia for the show’s energy back when Hiroyuki Miyasako was a cast member, while others argued the format itself — comedians riffing on a single theme — has simply run its course. The thread ended up a mix of criticism and defense.
Shueisha Online, Oct 6
“I can’t stand the forced episodes of Ametalk,” “It’s too contrived to watch,” “The humor is supposed to come from genuinely trying and being bad at it — this is just a weird-moves pageant,” “Even by Ametalk standards, that’s too much.”
Harsh comments like these piled up on social media following the September 27 broadcast of the popular ‘Comedians Who Don’t Want to Dance’ segment on ‘Ametalk!’ (TV Asahi). Drawing the most criticism was Tatsuya Mishima of the comedy duo Suehirogari.
Source: shueisha.online / Original article here
What people said
Honestly, still hanging around on 5channel is the more embarrassing thing here, socially speaking.
Guess everyone else felt the same way.
Ametalk was great back in that era.
Guess it's just reached its expiration date.
There really are people who are just bad at sports, so I wish they'd limit this segment to actual athletes.
Plenty of people are great at baseball but terrible at soccer, stuff like that.
It's because they're comedians that everyone assumes it's staged — so just cast athletes instead.
There'd be people willing to do it, like Maeken (pro baseball pitcher Kenta Maeda) does on 'No Artistic Talent.'
Though there are athletes out there who are hopeless at ball sports across the board too.
It's just not as funny as it was when Miyasako was on it.
I think he was an outstanding MC too.
If it's at all possible, I'd want him back for this show alone.
The rhythm he brought to it was honestly something else.
Good evening, Mr. Miyasako!
Nah, that's not it.
The format itself — comedians talking about a single theme — has simply hit its limit.
They've pretty much exhausted every pattern there is.
Everything else is genuinely not funny.
At this point I want someone to finally tease Idota about his motorcycle and trigger that curse where it makes people vanish from showbiz.
Fair enough — he's a pretty strong-personality type, so when it clicked, it was great.
Back in its prime, that's exactly the kind of thing that made the show popular though.
If anything, that's exactly what Ametalk is.
They used to do stuff like 'Gundam Comedians vs. Etchu Shiro (pro wrestler) Comedians' — man, those were the days.
They'll probably do all of them anyway, lol.
Same with Ultraman — they never explained what happens to the 'perfect life form' If after that bun-shaped form, and it's just been left hanging.
That was even before Miyasako's undisclosed-event scandal, so it's been almost 10 years now.
Nobody's asking for realism — the point is that the end result just isn't funny.
Background and Points of Discussion
‘Ametalk!’ is a long-running talk show that began airing in 2003, and its popularity has been built on segments devoted to a single theme, like ‘Comedians With Bad Athletic Ability’ or ‘Home Appliance-Loving Comedians.’ After years of repeating the same format, the complaint that ‘they’ve already used up every pattern’ has circulated for some time, and the current backlash over ‘Comedians Who Don’t Want to Dance’ is an extension of that. Reactions in the thread weren’t unanimous — judgments of Tatsuya Mishima’s individual performance mixed with critiques of the show’s format itself, and a fair number of posts defended him, arguing it’s unfortunate that genuine effort gets dismissed as ‘fake.’ So it wasn’t pure criticism across the board. It’s also worth noting, for readers unfamiliar with the background, that Hiroyuki Miyasako left the show following his 2019 undisclosed-event scandal — which is why the thread saw so much nostalgia for the show’s energy during his time on it, a detail that might otherwise seem to come out of nowhere.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread ‘“Disrespecting the Viewers” — Controversy Hits Ametalk’s ‘Popular Series’ With Cries of “It’s Reached Its Limit,” Yet It’s Too Soon to Call It “Over”.’
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