Audrey (owarai)

Audrey
Pseudonym ex-name: Nice Middle
Native name Ōdorī (オードリー)
Years active 2000
Employer K Dash Stage
Members

Audrey (オードリー Ōdorī), is a Japanese owarai duo of Toshiaki Kasuga (春日 俊彰 Kasuga Toshiaki) as boke and Masayasu Wakabayashi (若林正恭 Wakabayashi Masayasu) as tsukkomi, formed in 2000. The duo has won 2nd place in the M-1 Grand Prix 2008 competition. As of February 2009, the duo belongs to the management company K Dash Stage Co., Ltd.

Biography

Formed under the name of Nice Middle (ナイスミドル naisu midoru) in 2000, Kasuga initially was the tsukkomi and Wakabayashi the boke. After almost 6 years of unsuccessful activities, Wakabayashi was one day told by a TV playwright in person that his mate, Kasuga, is "junk" (ポンコツ ponkotsu) as a tsukkomi, and that he had "better look for another mate". When Wakabayashi tried to explain to Kasuga what he had been told, Kasuga "thought he was just joking." Rejecting the idea but swapping their roles instead, they finally started to make first appearances on terrestrial TV broadcasts in 2008. On December 21, 2008, the two made it all the way to the final round of the M-1 Grand Prix of the year from the consolation. After the first session of the final, competed and broadcast live on the same day, they were temporarily in the top position ahead of the other eight duos, but ended up 2nd overall behind NON STYLE.

The manzai performed by Audrey is characterized by Kasuga's trying to shoot tsukkomi but each time turning out to be terribly off-the-line boke, interrupting Wakabayashi's talks with delayed responses and frequent gags. Wakabayashi, on the other hand, either reacts fast and hard with his tsukkomi in return, or sometimes just "ignores" him.

In 2009, they were on TV commercials for major global companies such as Toyota Motor, Nintendo and KFC.

Members

Toshiaki Kasuga (春日 俊彰 Kasuga Toshiaki)
Masayasu Wakabayashi (若林 正恭 Wakabayashi Masayasu)

Media

TV

Regular


Irregular

Radio

Internet TV

Regular

Magazines

CM

See also

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