Mature laughter.
You are active as a performer, but your activities are also diverse, including regular TV shows, DMM TV, Netflix, YouTube, radio, and stage productions. Do all of these activities work together like cogs in a wheel, and do they have an impact on your productions?
. YouTube has influenced what I make. I make a lot of work because I publish it twice a week. I meet with on-site organizers and a number of comedians that I would not normally meet, so I am naturally able to draw out more ideas from them, and I can immediately bring up something interesting about the comedian who appeared the other day, or something like that, at a TV planning meeting.
As for radio, I simply love radio and want to do it as much as I can, but I don't do it with the intention of using it in my productions. I can say what I want to say, so it helps me mentally.
Are there any genres you would like to challenge in the future?
I only work when I am offered a job, so I never know what will last and what will end. I'm about to enter my sixth year in radio, and most of it has been in Corona, so I feel like I want to do something else.
I don't think it is the same as a challenge, but we have been doing a program called "Godotan" for almost 20 years, and recently we have entered a phase where we are finding it interesting again. We are all getting close to 50 years old, and since we are all old men, extreme things are no longer suitable for us. But when I continue to work with such old men, I have a sense of anticipation for how things will change in the future.
. I think the aging of the population is becoming more and more interesting.
Yes, that's right. Both Ogiyahagi and Gekidan Hito are MCs on other shows. They are old enough to not be players, but I thought it would be more interesting to have them play a role on "Godotan" once in a while. I think that can only be done by the director, who has been searching for a way to do this for the past 17 years. At first, I was worried that radical things would no longer suit me, but then I realized that this was a luxury I could not afford. I think it is something that only someone who has been a director for 17 years can understand, and now I enjoy doing it.
I think that some laughs only become funnier as we get older.
Yes, that's right. There are people who are more interesting when they are dead, but I want to keep the explosive power that is typical of "Godotan" alive. Lately I have been thinking a lot about where they can be silly but still explosive. The extreme comedy is expressed in "Incidents 2," so I hope you will enjoy it there.
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