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Comedian Sayaka Aoki (53) appeared on TV Asahi’s official YouTube channel “Douga, Hajimemashita” and revealed that a popular comedian she once co-starred with used to “go silent — no reaction at all” whenever she talked. Looking back on the era when she shot to fame in 2003 with “Where are you looking?!” and rode her sharp-tongued persona to stardom, the segment sparked a 5ch thread that spiraled into talk of her old rifts with Hiroiki Ariyoshi and Ryota Yamasato, plus a “who’s the bigger pariah” exchange involving Yu Shinagawa — with posters split over who the silent co-star actually was.
Sayaka Aoki opens up about a popular comedian she didn’t get along with — “Goes silent. No reaction” to her talk during joint appearances
Comedian Sayaka Aoki (53) appeared on an episode of TV Asahi’s official YouTube channel “Douga, Hajimemashita” uploaded on the 10th, where she revealed a popular comedian she once had a falling-out with.
Aoki appeared on “Yasagure Sakaba,” a segment where comedy duo Nagon’s Hakko drinks and chats with fellow comedians. She looked back on around 2003, when she shot to fame with the catchphrase “Where are you looking?!” and became hugely popular as a sharp-tongued “short-fuse” character.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Maybe she's the same type as those guys
Could be she's basically a 'male comedian' herself
You're the only one who'd know such a random deep-cut fact lol
Mari Okamoto
Ariyoshi seems like the type to crush anyone whose character overlaps with his, so I almost felt bad for Aoki
His personality was so grating that's probably why he got blacklisted
Yeah, if it's Aoki and Shinagawa, that tracks
That's really all you can say
Guess the industry really is a closed-off little village
Isn't this guy Shinagawa?
Funny how she'll say stuff like that herself as a 'bit,' but takes it dead seriously when it's said to her
Makes you wonder — if that history hadn't happened, Aoki might've ended up with some brutal nickname of her own that got her noticed too
Kind of like how Shinagawa got stuck with 'Osha-kuso' (a mocking mashup of 'stylish' and 'crap')
'Where are you looking?!'
'What are you looking at, huh?!'
Background and Key Points of This Story
Sayaka Aoki shot to fame in 2003 with her catchphrase “Where are you looking?!”, building a career on her sharp-tongued persona — but that same sharp tongue has repeatedly put her at odds with co-stars over the years. Her falling-out with Hiroiki Ariyoshi in particular has long been covered by entertainment media, and sure enough, posts naming Ariyoshi stood out in this thread too. At the same time, commenters dug up old rumors that Ariyoshi, Ryota Yamasato, and Yu Shinagawa had each been disliked by their own co-stars at various points, so the thread never actually settled on who really went silent on her — it just spiraled into speculation about the tangled relationships among comedians. There’s a gap between what Aoki herself actually said and the older anecdotes being dredged back up online, and keeping that distinction in mind makes the discussion easier to follow.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] Sayaka Aoki opens up about a popular comedian she didn’t get along with… “Goes silent. No reaction” to her talk during joint appearances.”
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