TIM's Red (left) and Golgo

TIM is the name of a Japanese comedy unit (kombi). The unit consists of Red Yoshida (レッド吉田, born October 30, 1965) and Golgo (or Gorugo) Matsumoto (ゴルゴ松本, born April 17, 1967). They are most famous for their antics on the owarai show Uchimura Produce, as well as various children's shows such as Tensai Terebikun MAX (天才てれびくんMAX). The two are also members of the owarai and music group NO PLAN. Red, the tsukkomi, is originally from Kyoto, and Golgo, the boke, hails from Saitama. Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Yasuda Dai Circus, a popular owarai trio Owarai ) is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. ... NO PLAN: (L to R) Ryō Fukawa, Red Yoshida, Golgo Matsumoto, Kazuki ÅŒtake, Masakazu Mimura, and Teruyoshi Uchimura NO PLAN is a Japanese konto style comedy group, and is also occasionally known for their music. ... 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. ... The Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Yawata. ... 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. ... Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県; Saitama-ken) is located on Honshu island, Japan. ...

As tsukkomi, Red is easily embarrassed and blushes quickly, which is where he gets the name. At the end of every episode of Uchimura Produce, the host, Teruyoshi Uchimura would shout, "And today's Red is..." to which Red would insert some strange (often embarrassingly un-funny) pseudo-English or meaningless Japanese phrase. Occasionally Red was given his own corner, "Red's World" (a play on Summers' Ōtake's "Ōtake World") in which he would perform weird and nonsensical ad libs (e.g. "Ariga-ton, ton, Washington!" and "Pan! Pan! This is Japan!"). Red is a graduate of Bukkyo University in Kyoto. Teruyoshi Uchimura in his movie, Peanuts Teruyoshi Uchimura ), half of the Japanese comedy duo U-tchan Nan-chan, is one of the most famous and influential comedians in the owarai community. ... Summers ÅŒtake (left) and Mimura Summers (さまぁ～ず) are a Japanese comedy duo under Horipro Inc. ... See AdLib for the computer sound card manufacturer. ... This article is about the city Kyoto. ...

Golgo (named after the famous manga Golgo 13) is the boke and is also known for being confusing and rather odd. Golgo is known for his physical and set-up gags, contrasting the more verbal and corny mental humor of Red. Formerly, Golgo was often seen with an un-lit cigar on-air (although he hates tobacco), and he also always sports a small, chaplin-esque moustache. A famous gag of Golgo's has him crying out, "Ah... Inochi!" and then spreading out his arms and lifting one leg in an attempt to mimic the shape of the kanji inochi (命), meaning "life". 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... Golgo 13 (ゴルゴ13, also known under the pseudonym Duke Togo) is a fictional assassin and is the lead protagonist in his own manga series, also titled Golgo 13, created by Japanese mangaka Takao Saito. ... Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ... Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyōgana Uses Furigana Okurigana Rōmaji Kanji (Japanese:  ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and the Hindu-Arabic numerals. ...

History

TIM was formed by the two in 1994 as an acronym for Time Is Money after close apartments in Tokyo brought the two together. Interestingly, both went to the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship; Red with the winner of the Kyoto Prefectural Baseball Tournament, and Golgo with the winner for Saitama. The National High School Baseball Championship (全国高等学校野球選手権大会 zenkoku kōtō gakkō yakyū senshuken taikai) of Japan, commonly known as Summer Kōshien (夏の甲子園 natsu no kōshien), is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament. ...