Saturday Night Live Japan () was a Japanese late-night live television sketch comedy and variety television program broadcast that aired both on

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and Fuji TV NEXT. It was adaptation of ''

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'' on NBC that relies more on the konto style of comedy.

Format

The show has two main hosts,

Koji Imada is a Japanese musician, comedian, ''tarento'' and TV presenter. His talent agency is Yoshimoto Kogyo. In the mid-1990s, Imada paired with the acclaimed Japanese record producer Towa Tei under the stage name Koji 1200. He released two albums a ...

and

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, and is aired monthly every first week rather than weekly. The show still contains the same format of having a guest star appear on the show along with a guest singer or band performing at the end.

References

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