Serialization: “It’s Tough to be Kuro-chan, Too! Part 2: Kuro-chan talks about his roots as a comedian and his relationship with FRIDAY

Yasuda Dai is “Japan’s best surprise comedian” who has survived being left on a deserted island, having his home monitored 24 hours a day by camera, and being honey-trapped. …… Kuro-chan of “Circus” tells the story behind the scenes in the series “Kuro-chan mo tsurazu yo! Kuro-chan also has a hard time! In the second installment, Kuro talks about his roots in the industry.

Did you enter the entertainment industry with the goal of becoming an idol?

Hi~!　Again, this time from Kyun to Bakkyun. Wow~!　This is the second installment of this series, so I’m going to get excited~. Last time I wrote about “Wednesday’s Downtown,” but this time I’m going to write about my roots, including how I became a comedian and the “Surprise Hell” I’ve been through!

I originally wanted to be an idol, not a comedian. I had always wanted to be a “pop idol” like Seiko Matsuda (63) or Yoko Oginome (56). When I was doing my teaching internship at university, I sang “The Angel’s Thesis” to get along with the elementary school children, and they got a lot more excited than I expected. I was strangely moved and thought, “Maybe I’m suited for this. I thought, “Maybe I am suited for this.

But it was extremely difficult to tell my parents about such a dream. I went to a junior college after graduating from college, and then transferred to a university, so it wasn’t the right time to tell them I wanted to be an idol. So I took the liberty of joining the “Laugh It Away! I went to Tokyo the day before and camped out in front of ALTA to audition for a “contest where I don’t look 25. I really wanted to be on TV. I passed the audition, and at that moment when I was on TV for the first time, I felt like my life started to change.

I decided to become serious about becoming an idol, so I applied to Shochiku Entertainment’s idol club and was accepted without a hitch. But when I went to the lesson, for some reason I was sent to show my material, and the instructor said to me, “Why didn’t you bring your material? I was told, “Why didn’t you bring your story? In short, I was cheated. In a way, that was probably the first time I was tricked.

I think these days people have a strong image of the “Wednesday Downtown” surprise, but I’ve been getting surprises all my life. Especially when I was young, many of them were mentally tough. One of the most memorable ones was the “Q-sama ‼︎” (TV Asahi) breakup surprise. It was a “breakup surprise” and the leader of the group suddenly said, “I want to be a rapper. He had been practicing rapping for a while before that. I didn’t understand what it meant at the time, but it was all a setup (laughs).

(Laughs.) But at that time, I seriously thought, “He’s going to quit. If the duo broke up, the three of us would have to split our income 50-50, and to be honest, we would not be able to make a living. Above all, I thought to myself, “No one will be happy with this decision! I was so serious that I started to cry as I stopped the show. Looking back, I realize that a comedian’s job is to make people laugh, but I was crying my eyes out on national television. …… I was so pathetic and frustrated and all sorts of emotions were mixed up in my heart. I really felt like I was going to have a mental breakdown.

Stop your girlfriends from finding out about your passionate articles!

Every time I get a surprise, I react to it and make everyone laugh, right? The roots of my reaction are not actually from comedians, but from “pro-wrestling athletes. I was particularly impressed by the “aesthetics of being beaten” by Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi, and thought that the sight of pain, suffering, and being pushed into a corner is what strikes people’s hearts.

As a comedian, I too believe that “getting beat up” and “getting angry” are the best things you can do, and if it makes someone laugh, I’m willing to take on any amount of pressure!　That’s how I feel. In that sense, I believe that reaction art is “professional wrestling with laughter!

I am a person who can switch off no matter how hard things get, and this is partly thanks to “FRIDAY” and partly because of it. A long time ago, I went out to dinner with a tennis girl I met on a DVD shoot, but the article said, “Failure to take home a girl! (laughs).

I didn’t want my girlfriend in Osaka to see the article, so I went to Osaka first thing in the morning and bought all the copies of FRIDAY at a nearby convenience store. Looking back now, I think I could have found a better way, but I was in a real hurry at the time. But in the end, my girlfriend saw it on a hanging advertisement on the train and found out. …… I couldn’t stop crying.

And when I explained to her that I had bought all of them at a convenience store, she got angry and said, “Then why didn’t you come to see me? She was really right. But then I turned on a switch and said, “I don’t need to worry about things that don’t bother me anymore,” and from then on, I really didn’t care. So in a way, maybe it was FRIDAY that made me who I am. I can talk about it now, but on the day I was photographed, I actually went to a sex club after dropping the girl off. I’m grateful that they didn’t write that (laughs).

(Laughs.) Lately, “Wednesday’s Downtown” has been so great that there are fewer regular surprises, and I’m actually a little sad about that. I have a strange mindset that says, “You can come up with more surprises. There are some surprises that I don’t even know what they are, but my reactions are what got me into the world, and the underlying aesthetic is the “beauty of being surprised. I will continue to accept surprises!

So, thank you for reading this second installment!　I hope you look forward to the next installment!