
His role on the show is usually divided up between the suberi-kyara (the unfunny character who tries very hard to be funny, but fails) and the ijime-kyara (the underdog who gets bullied and picked on, often physically). Cocorico, Appeared for the first time in 1994 as guests, but only at 1997, they become regular members of the program.įormerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki (山崎 邦正 Yamasaki Hōsei) on the show, however at times the rest of the regulars will call him Yamachan or Hosei-san.Naoki Tanaka ( 田中直樹, Tanaka Naoki), the boke half and the leader of Cocorico.Īlthough they are veteran comedians already, Cocorico is considered the juniors of Gaki no Tsukai and are treated like this at the show, since they are the youngest.He usually appears as a nice, cute and kind man, but at some segments as Stalking Tanaka, Tanaka's Breakdown Series or TANAKER, he plays the evil or rebel character. Tanaka has also a clumsy, fearful and overdramatic persona and he's often the target of scary pranks, which he usually falls everytime he got scared, and the classic "Thai Kick". Since Tanaka is also an actor, he appears as the main character in occasional drama segments. Shōzō Endō ( 遠藤章造, Endō Shōzō), the tsukkomi half of Cocorico.At 2000's his character was the cool, but pervert man, but passing the years, Endo's persona was becoming slightly boke, and the pervert aura has reduced. Nowadays Endo shows himself as a untalented person at the show, who has a bad acting skills, in opposite of Tanaka. Hiromitsu Noriyasu ( 軌保博光, Noriyasu Hiromitsu), Hōsei former partner at Team 0.Įndo's most famous gag is " Ho-ho-hoi", which he, usually wearing only underpants, does a funny dance singing a song finalyzing with that phrase.He left the program at 1993 and left the comedy career, since he was becoming more interested in filmmaking.

