Nippon TV Threatens to Lose Control by Encouraging New Members of Shoten and Compelling Them to Lie and Keep Silent

How long will Nippon TV continue to “encourage new members”?

I wondered about this when I was thinking about the selection of “Laughing Point” (NTV).

Who will be the next Gochi member?

Who will be the next member of “Laugh Point?

The “Who will be the next Gochi member?

But the question of who will be the next Gochi member on “Gurunai” has never been reported. This is because there are so many celebrities who are eligible for the competition that becoming a Gochi member does not completely change the life of the person who becomes a Gochi member.

A writer for a TV magazine told us, “The reason is that there are so many celebrities who are eligible for Gochi.

The case of “Laugh-In” is different, however.

Among the 1,000 or so rakugo storytellers in Tokyo and Osaka, the benefits of obtaining a cushion for “Laugh-In” are enormous,

He said, “I get calls from local rakugo comedians one after another. Shota Harufutei, Taihei Hayashiya, Ichinosuke Harufutei, and Miyaji Katsura spend most of their weekends doing local business.

A person involved in rakugo said, “All of them are making money on weekends by doing business in the provinces.

Even Sanyutei Yoshiraku, who sells himself as a bored character, often appears at local rakugo performances. That’s how much money he can make as a member of the Laughing Point.

That is the power of the laugh point and its ability to sell.

The new member, rakugo storyteller Harunosuke Tachikawa (51), also became a man of the hour overnight.

The response was so overwhelming that he happily blurted out, “I’m going to drown in e-mails and lines.

A fellow rakugo storyteller enviously revealed, “The response to the show was tremendous.

After the broadcast of “Laughing Point,” he appeared in a live broadcast of “Truth Report Bankisha! (Nippon Television Network Corporation), after the broadcast of “Laugh Point,” Harunosuke began by saying, “I’m sorry to those who were silent.

I apologize to those who have been silent.

I’m sorry for those who have been silent,” he apologized.

This is precisely the problem with “encouraging new members. This is exactly the problem with the ‘new-member stunt’: making the comedian apologize. More to the point, Harunosuke kept lying. When someone asked him, “Aren’t you the next member? He would say, “I’m not the next member,” when someone asked him if he was the next member.

Harunosuke said on the show,

Harunosuke said on the program, “I was really told that if I leaked it, I would lose my regular spot on Laugh Point.

Harunosuke revealed on the program that he had been “pressured” by Nippon TV.

I have heard the same thing from Ichinosuke and Miyaji. Harunosuke said he told his family the day before the broadcast, but Sanpei said his family only found out about it when they saw the broadcast.

Mr. Miyaji had to decline in advance to appear at a rakugo performance that overlapped with Saturday’s recording, and he flatly apologized to the organizers, saying that he had been double-booked. It is NTV’s way of forcing rakugo artists to do such things,” said an entertainment writer.

(The same entertainment writer) “The silence of the Rakugo performer himself was the result of pressure from Nippon TV. In addition, the fact that some comedians were involved in this “booking frenzy” was also a detriment.

Various media outlets are writing speculative articles. This time, too, articles were written about whether it would be Momoka Chokarou or Futaba Katsura if it were a woman, or Wasabi Yanagiya or Shoya Shunputei if it were a man (……). That much is fine.

But when my colleagues and customers read them, they would ask me, “Are you a member of Laughing Point? The comedians are fed up with this. Comedians are fed up with this. Even if they clearly said it was not them, they would not be believed because Ichinosuke had lied about it as well.

He then paused for a moment and continued, “In fact, he had a PR campaign for his own party just before the event.

Momoka, who held a press conference just before the event to publicize her own club, assured the audience that it was not her, and Shoya, a disciple of the host Shunputei Shota, said at a rakugo performance, “It was not me.

However, it would have been better if Nippon TV had not dragged its feet and announced Kikugafuji’s graduation as soon as possible after his announcement. It is time for Nippon TV to quit dragging Gochi and Laughing Point members. There is no way that they will continue the Heisei era method forever,” said a rakugo expert.

In recent years, the members of the Gotere have changed in succession, with Sanpei Hayashiya, Miyaji Katsura, and Ichinosuke Harufutei, and there have been no information leaks, indicating ironclad information management.

On the morning of the day of the broadcast, Shukan Josei Prime identified Harunosuke. It was a scoop. In fact, the sports newspaper had received the information with the deadline of 5:37 p.m.,” said a reporter from a sports newspaper.

(A sports newspaper reporter) “The recording was made in Kojimachi, Nippon TV’s Kojimachi district, just before the broadcast, and was broadcast almost as it was filmed, but the information was leaked. It is about time that the “tiresome tradition” of forcing the comedian in question to be “silent,” forcing the comedian to lie, and involving other comedians in the process, was over. The announcement of the new members made me feel that it was time to move on.

At any rate, Master Harunosuke is a nice guy!　Keep up the good work!