Noritsukkomi — play along, then call it out
patterns
2026-07-30
What it is
Two words first, because everything here is built out of them. In Japanese comedy the boke is the one who says the wrong thing, and the tsukkomi is the one who corrects it — the word covers both the person and the act. In a two-person routine those are conventionally separate jobs, held by different people — acts that blur the two, or swap them mid-routine, do exist.
