Comedian Gekidan Hitori to be news presenter
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TOKYO —
Comedian Gekidan Hitori, 31, will serve as a news presenter in the new program “Manaberu!! News!” on the TV Asahi network from October. The program will feature trivia stories related to recent news events.
Gekidan Hitori said, “I am looking forward to the challenge of working on a live news show.” A producer said Gekidan Hitori was chosen for the role because of his talent as a comedian, actor and author.
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thepro
this guy is seriously annoying
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chibaman
They can save money on a female co-host by having him grow his hair a bit longer and putting on a dress.
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presto345
The news is quite serious these days. This character can probably make it less so.
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bamboohat
Isn't that going backwards? comedian-->actor-->author-->newscaster?
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Peaceful_Man
They said it... trivialising news
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isthistheend
Ratings, ratings, ratings. Attract the housewives to your station by all means. Who cares about "respectability". We have NHK for that.
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thepro
NHK is respectable?
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Beelzebub
I guess Japanese have been watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in the US and have decided that it's time to parody the TV news. The "Wide" shows do it better. I doubt of this thing will go anywhere. Unless Gekidan gets caught coming out of a love hotel with Mona Yamamoto.
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wanderlust
Only other option was to become a politician... too much competition there.
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