Jun'ichi Kōmoto (left) and Satoshi Inoue of Jichō Kachō

Jichō Kachō (次長課長) is a Japanese comedy unit (kombi) consisting of two comedians (お笑い芸人, owarai geinin), Jun'ichi Kōmoto (河本準一) and Satoshi Inoue (井上聡). Sometimes also known as Jikachō (次課長), they are one of the most popular owarai kombi coming from Yoshimoto Kōgyō in Tokyo. Their name literally means "Vice manager, Section manager", and is a reference to the titles of two visitors at the bar in which they were working part-time before they were discovered by Yoshimoto. They were originally a 3-man group with the name Jichō Kachō Shachō (次長課長社長), or "Vice Manager, Section Manager, President", but after the third member of the group left, the name was reduced to its current version. Image File history File links Jicho_Kacho. ... Image File history File links Jicho_Kacho. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Yasuda Dai Circus, a popular owarai trio Owarai (お笑い, owarai) is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. ... Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate, based in Osaka. ... Headquarters of Tokyo Metropolitan Government (City Hall) View of Tokyos Shibuya district Tokyo ) (help· info), literally eastern capital, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized downtown area formerly known as the city of Tokyo which is the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area. ...

Komoto is the boke of the duo, and the much quieter Inoue is the tsukkomi. Both comedians are natives of Okayama. Inoue has a reputation among owarai geinin for being handsome, and he has scored high on Yoshimoto's "handsomest geinin ranking" for the last 5 years. Komoto is most famous for his strange faces and high-pitched character voices, although he is also a very talented singer, and is well respected by other owarai geinin for his skills. He is often heard squealing the line "From me you get no tanmen!" (お前に食わせるタンメンはねぇ!, Omae ni kuwaseru tanmen wa nee!). In March 2003, Komoto was married to Naomi Shigemoto (former Osaka Performance Doll member), and they now have a son. Manzai (漫才) is a style of stand-up comedy in Japan, where two performers—a straight man (tsukkomi) and a funny man (boke)—trade jokes at great speed. ... Manzai (漫才) is a style of stand-up comedy in Japan, where two performers—a straight man (tsukkomi) and a funny man (boke)—trade jokes at great speed. ... Okayama Prefecture (岡山県; Okayama-ken) is located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Chinese cuisine includes many different types of noodles (traditional 麵, simplified 面, pinyin miàn, often written mien or mein in English transliteration). ...

External links

• Yoshimoto Kōgyō official profile