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Comedian Nagano, appearing alongside guest Kajisack (King Kong’s Yuta Kajiwara) on TV Asahi’s late-night show “Nagano & Kuruma no Hikkakari Nietzsche,” nailed the essence of his guest with the line that he’s “someone who got into showbiz just for looking like Okamura.” During the show, Kajiwara had been venting about how attention always seems to gravitate toward his partner Akihiro Nishino whenever he’s on TV, and Nagano’s remark came out of that exchange. On 5ch, many commenters enjoyed poking fun at how much Kajiwara resembles Takashi Okamura, while opinions split on Nagano’s own recent rise in TV appearances — some calling it proof of talent, others framing it as a rebound following the Tomonori Jinnai incident.
Nagano bluntly calls Kajisack “someone who got into showbiz just for looking like Okamura” — but says “it’s all hilarious”
Comedian Nagano (52) appeared on TV Asahi’s “Nagano & Kuruma no Hikkakari Nietzsche” (Tuesdays, 12:45 AM), which aired late at night on the 27th. During the episode, he nailed the essence of guest “Kajisack” — King Kong’s Yuta Kajiwara (46).
Kajiwara appeared as a guest that day. When he vented about his current predicament — that attention tends to shift to his partner Akihiro Nishino whenever he’s on TV —
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Kajiwara's basically generic Okamura — even the tracksuit is Mecha-ike's Okamura's.
His partner, too — he picked someone in the Yabe mold, with Nishino.
Kajiwara's funny though lol
Never actually watched his YouTube though lol
There's at least one difference!
The color of the tracksuit
Do these couch-potato writers ("kotatsu writers" — bloggers who crank out articles from home without real reporting) really need to use "bluntly" that badly
It's actually gross
He doesn't get the exposure he used to.
Seems like he's working hard on internet stuff though
What kind of take is that lol
His exposure's actually gone up since the Jinnai thing lol
He's even the MC of "Warai no Hi" (Comedy Day), you know?
From the viewer's perspective??
It's kind of like saying "he started baseball because he admired Otani" —
like he's emphasizing that this guy only got started because he happened to resemble that figure he saw on TV
He used to be just an underground cult comedian.
Back in the day he was the type getting stuffed into a sports bag or forced to chug Tabasco sauce — but yeah, he's clearly got real talent
He's been on TV a lot lately — wonder what's pulling strings behind that
isn't this just how Yoshimoto decided to market him?
The whole "Nainai-style" marketing approach
He was getting cocky and it was annoying, so I'm relieved
Far from vanishing, his MC gigs have actually been increasing
I can't stand it when someone with a Kansai accent comes across as clingy
If I saw the two guys from Messenger standing side by side, I think I'd pass out
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King Kong
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Shimofuri Myojo
Basically just the same formula reheated over and over
I get that.
It's great when he pops in from the side while someone else is the main act, but I'm not really into Nagano as the main act
he was killing it there
Turns out it's literally Okamura himself lol
Same with Cocorico and Ryo from London Boots — their Kansai dialect fades out halfway, which makes it sound off.
Ryo's half-baked Kansai phrase "chau darou" (a mangled way of saying "that's not right") used to get made fun of back in the day
Background and key points of this discussion
Throughout the 2010s, Nagano was a “dues-paying” comedian known mainly for late-night location shows, but in recent years his MC work has increased and his TV exposure has grown. The thread split over how to read that rise: some saw it as proof of talent, while others framed it as a rebound after being sidelined from TV following his clash with Tomonori Jinnai. In reality, his MC work has kept increasing even after the Jinnai incident, so the idea that Nagano is being blacklisted doesn’t match his actual recent trajectory. The other point of contention was how to judge Yuta Kajiwara (King Kong) — some enjoyed Nagano’s remark that he “only got into showbiz because he looks like Okamura” as an extension of the self-deprecating jokes about his partner Akihiro Nishino, while others took it as a genuine measure of the talent gap between them. There was also talk of a “lineage” running from Ninety-Nine to King Kong to Shimofuri Myojo as similar success formulas, though this points to a shared comedic style rather than a personal attack.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisupo Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] Nagano bluntly calls Kajisack “someone who got into showbiz just for looking like Okamura” — but says “it’s all hilarious”.”
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