is a

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and variety

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featuring seven high-profile comedians alongside different guests each week with little to no scripts, produced and aired on

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. The show uses no scripts for the free talk portion and is entirely improvised by the host, the regulars and the guests.

Summary

Shabekuri 007 began airing in 2008 in the 30 minute slot on Saturdays at 7:30pm.Nippon TV Shabekuri Homepage
The initial two months were a success, moving the program to Monday and extending the broadcast time to 1 hour from 10pm to 11pm.
スポニチアネックス Accessed 9-11-2019 The show features 7 comedians from 3 comedy units of

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Cream Stew is a popular Yōshoku dish consisting of meat, usually chicken or pork, and mixed vegetables, onion, carrot, potato and cabbage, cooked in thick white roux. The vegetables are sauteed before the meat is added with some water. The surface fats ...

and

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, usually hosted and MC'd by

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of Cream Stew. The show features guests every week as the main topic and focus, the guests are mainly celebrities that are currently in topic or are promoting entertainment they are featured in such as an upcoming movie. The main difference between Shabekuri 007 as a talk show and other talk shows in Japan is that the program uses no scripts for free talk. The conversation is carried by the comedians and the guests through improvisation. Although the main topics and segments of the show is often structured, due to the nature of having no scripts, the conversation would often go off topic. Shabekuri 007 is one of the most popular programs airing in Japan, with viewership ratings hovering around 10% in the

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List of Episodes

Early era

Prime time era

References

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External links

Official site
Japanese variety television shows Nippon TV original programming 2008 Japanese television series debuts 2010s Japanese television series