Comedian Kinichi Hagimoto’s “no collaboration” comment to Kazuko Kurosawa on a radio show stirs public debate over his intent.
1Old Men’s Friends Club ★.Dec. 15, 2024 (Sun) 12:47:15.15ID:f1QI1TB29
Comedian “Kin-chan,” also known as Hagimoto Kinichi, made a guest appearance on the radio program “Takada Fumio’s Radio Beverly Lunchtime” (Nippon Broadcasting System) which aired on December 10th. The daily personality on this day was Azuma Takahiro, so the master and disciple performed together. The assistant was Kurosawa Kazuko of Morisanchu, and when Hagimoto asked her, “Do you want to work in a fun way? Or do you want to work rigorously?” Kurosawa replied, “I want to work moderately.” To this, Hagimoto responded, “Work isn’t fun. “My job is to think that he’s strict, but interesting,” he said, and “With the questions you just asked, I almost never appear on the show with this person,” revealing the unexpected fact that they would never appear together on the show. “It’s scary,” Kurosawa said. I’ve already fallen,” he said dejectedly. “Was he the kind of person who would say something like this?” Kinchan’s unexpected “cold response” has caused a wave of shock and criticism online. “If a big shot in this position said something like that, I’d be really depressed.” “Was he really the kind of person to say things like that?” “I’m not good with this guy, he seems to have a lot of likes and dislikes.” “Kin-chan is scary.” Weekly Josei 2024/12/13.
Hagimoto seems like he’s popular, but the only people who praise him and call him Taisho or Kin-chan are his protégés, the so-called Hagimoto group. Unless he’s praised by people outside of that group, I can’t trust him. Like B-Take, who is admired outside of the group, Tamori, who didn’t even have a group in the first place, and Sanma, who is admired by people outside of comedians.
I don’t know what would have happened if he’d said that he wanted to enjoy his work. Judging from the context, I think Kinchan just wanted to tell people to stop doing things half-heartedly.
Nancy Seki once wrote that when Sanma and Kinchan appeared together, it would have been fine if Sanma had made a joke and Kinchan had made a fool of himself, but since Kinchan was the senior, he would always try to make jokes, which made it difficult for Sanma.
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