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IPPON Grand Prix

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IPPON Grand Prix
IPPONグランプリ
GenreOwarai
Variety
Television special
Directed byJunya Komatsu
Presented byHitoshi Matsumoto
Daijiro Enami
StarringHitoshi Matsumoto
and many others
Narrated byKenichi Endō
Shinichirō Matsumoto
Opening themeEikichi Yazawa, "止まらないHa〜Ha"
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
Production
ProducerYuichi Nakajima
Running time130 minutes
Original release
NetworkFuji TV
ReleaseDecember 28, 2009 (2009-12-28) –
present

IPPON Grand Prix (IPPONグランプリ, Ippon Guran Puri) is a Japanese variety television show focused on owarai and also a bi-annual oogiri competition hosted by Hitoshi Matsumoto, produced and aired on Fuji TV.[1]

Format and rules

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The premise of this television special is an oogiri competition between 10 comedians or participants in a two stage process to crown a winner for that particular contest. The 10 participants are split into Group A and Group B, and proceed to compete within their groups, the winners of each group will face each other in a first to 3 grand finals to determine the winner.

Nine of the ten participants are usually well known veterans and newcomers in the comedy industry, with the remaining final participant coming from a series of auditions to determine a skilled individual that can be amateur or professional at oogiri.

The name IPPON refers to when the participant is successfully able to generate the maximum level of comedic effect as judged by the other contestants. There are four rounds of oogiri questions for each group, and the right to answer the oogiri is a quiz show style, where the contestants must hit the buzzer before anyone else. Every contestant is given equal opportunity to hit the buzzer to answer the question within a time span. When they answer the oogiri, the other group of 5 will judge by allocating their possible 2 points on the answer. If all 5 members of the other group gave their 2 points, then the contestant answering the question would get an IPPON. To achieve an IPPON, they must achieve 10 points, as in full points from all 5 members on the other group. After the 4 rounds, the contestant with the most IPPON points goes on to the finals. Additionally, if a contestant reaches 10 total IPPONs before all 4 rounds finish, he also automatically moves on to the finals.

If by the time all 4 rounds are finished, and there is a tie among the contestants, they go into sudden death mode. An additional question is asked and the individual who gets the IPPON first moves on.

The grand finals are judged by all eight other contestants except for the two grand finalists. Meaning to achieve an IPPON, they need 16 points or full points from the other 8. When an IPPON is achieved, the question is changed immediately and a new question is asked. The first one to achieve 3 IPPONs is crowned the winner.[1]

Winners

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# Date Winner Broadcast

Time

Viewership

Rating

1st 2009-12-28 Bakarhythm 0:25 - 2:35 07.2%
2nd 2010-03-31 Osamu Shitara 05.4%
3rd 2010-10-06 Bakarhythm(2) 04.6%
4th 2011-01-04 Hiroaki Ogi 22:00 - 23:54 11.6%
5th 2011-06-11 Bakarhythm(3) 21:00 - 23:10 14.6%
6th 2011-10-22 Ken Horiuchi 13.6%
7th 2012-04-07 Chihara Junior 11.9%
8th 2012-11-17 Ryuji Akiyama 13.2%
9th 2013-05-25 Ken Horiuchi(2) 11.4%
10th 2013-11-23 Hiroiki Ariyoshi 15.4%
11th 2014-05-24 Ryuji Akiyama(2) 11.2%
12th 2014-11-08 Hiroiki Ariyoshi(2) 11.0%
13th 2015-05-23 Daikichi Hakata 13.9%
14th 2015-11-14 Osamu Shitara(2) 11.0%
15th 2016-06-11 Masayasu Wakabayashi 11.8%
16th 2016-11-19 Akira Kawashima 12.7%
17th 2017-05-13 Chihara Junior(2) 09.5%
18th 2017-12-02 Ken Horiuchi(3) 11.6%
19th 2018-03-10 Bakarhythm(4) 10.6%
20th 2018-12-15 Osamu Shitara(3) 10.7%
21st 2019-04-20 Ken Horiuchi(4)
22nd 2019-11-30 Daigo 11.1%
23rd 2020-06-13 Bakarhythm(5) 12.7%
24th 2020-12-05 Nishida Kouji 11.1%
25th 2021-05-22 Daigo(2)
26th 2021-12-04 Akira Kawashima(2)
27th 2022-05-21 Chihara Junior(3) 9.7%
28th 2023-05-13 Bakarhythm(6)
29th[2][3] 2024-02-03 Ryuji Akiyama(3)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "IPPONグランプリ". フジテレビ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  2. ^ This edition was hosted by Bakarhythm.
  3. ^ https://twitter.com/IPPONGP/status/1749281231383249319
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