Comical comedy - Mandan

A type of comedy-themed vaudeville show. It is a one-man performance that mainly involves humorous storytelling, and differs from rakugo in that it does not focus on a plot or punch line. It was first performed by Yamano Ichiro and Tokugawa Musei in 1926 (Taisho 15) at the first performance of the Nayamashi-kai, a hidden talent competition for film commentators (film commentators). It is said that Otsuji Shiro named it mandan after the idea of ​​manga. Later, when they lost their jobs with the advent of talkies, they began to perform mandan in earnest, and as the term mandan became more widely used, more and more people began to specialize in it, and it came to occupy an important part of comedy shows at vaudeville shows and on TV. Some of them are performed with instruments such as the ukulele or shamisen, and some are performed with singing, while others are performed with a variation of three to five or six people performing a dialogue. It is called "ukulele manzai" or "pop manzai," and when performed by multiple people it is often called "boys' manzai."

[Soya Mukai]

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寄席(よせ)演芸の一種。滑稽(こっけい)な語りを主とする一人芸で、筋(すじ)や落ち（サゲ）にこだわらない点が落語と異なる。1926年（大正15）に活動写真の弁士（映画説明者）たちの隠し芸大会「ナヤマシ会」の第1回公演で山野一郎と徳川夢声(むせい)が演じたのが最初で、大辻司郎(おおつじしろう)が漫画からの発想により漫談と名づけたとされている。のちトーキーの出現で失職した彼らは本格的に漫談を演じるようになり、やがて漫談という用語が一般化するにつれ、それ以外にも漫談を専業とする者が増え、寄席や放送の演芸番組の重要な一画を占めるに至った。なかにはウクレレや三味線のような楽器を手に、歌を交えて演ずるものや、さらにその変形として3人から5、6人で掛合(かけあい)をする形式のものもある。「ウクレレ漫談」「歌謡漫談」などと称され、ことに複数で演ずる場合は「ボーイズもの」とよばれることが多い。

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