Comedian Gekidan Hitori.

Comedian Gekidan Hitori to be news presenter

Sunday 17th August, 07:20 AM JST

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.

9 Comments

thepro at 08:29 AM JST - 17th August

this guy is seriously annoying
chibaman at 08:40 AM JST - 17th August

They can save money on a female co-host by having him grow his hair a bit longer and putting on a dress.
presto345 at 12:45 PM JST - 17th August

The news is quite serious these days. This character can probably make it less so.
bamboohat at 02:28 PM JST - 17th August

Isn't that going backwards? comedian-->actor-->author-->newscaster?
Peaceful_Man at 05:40 PM JST - 17th August

They said it... trivialising news
isthistheend at 07:34 PM JST - 17th August

Ratings, ratings, ratings. Attract the housewives to your station by all means. Who cares about "respectability". We have NHK for that.
thepro at 12:34 AM JST - 18th August

NHK is respectable?
Beelzebub at 02:16 PM JST - 18th August

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.
wanderlust at 02:36 PM JST - 18th August

Only other option was to become a politician... too much competition there.