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Called ''manzai'' in Japanese, this is a kind of StraightManAndWiseGuy duo, but also the interaction between two characters who constantly play off each other. A ''boke'''s job is to set up the gag by telling a story or explaining a fact which is obviously false (making him an idiot) or flawed (making him sneaky). The ''tsukkomi'' is, roughly, the StraightMan who has to correct him, [[DopeSlap often]] [[PaperFanOfDoom physically]].
It is common in Osaka so normally both members of the comedy duo will speak in [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]]. Frequently, manzai teams will dress in one of two ways: 1) similarly tailored outfits with complementary color schemes; 2) one (usually the ''boke'') wears casual clothes, and the other (usually the ''tsukkomi'') a respectable business suit. Ironically, the most famous ''manzai'' duo of all time, [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], reversed this -- Hitoshi Matsumoto, the ''boke'', always wears a suit and tie (albeit with the tie tucked neatly into his trousers), and Masatoshi Hamada, the ''tsukkomi'', always wears something casual. (They're also pretty much single-handedly responsible for the equation of Kansai-ben with funny characters.)
The western equivalent is a PunchAndJudy show.
When the characters do this ''purposely'' to impress, it's not supposed to be very funny and no one will laugh, despite good intentions. When someone is the ''tsukkomi'' for an entire cast, they're probably also the OnlySaneMan. When someone is a ''boke'' for the whole cast, they're probably also a CloudCuckoolander. Do not be surprised in a show with a large cast if one character is ''boke'' to one person and ''tsukkomi'' to another.
Can be ThoseTwoGuys. Compare RightWayWrongWayPair.
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* ''Manga/SketDance'' is one giant Shonen-style BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, quite arguably. Although all of the Sket Trio can be any of the two roles depending on the situation, Bossun and Himeko are able to pull off this act ''masterfully'', even when in their everyday interactions with each other.
** Chiaki Takahasi pointed this out when Bossun met Himeko for the first time.
** In one chapter, Bossun and Himeko partnered up on the spot during the closing round of a live Manzai contest. [[spoiler: Their flawless performance eventually gave them the win against their cheating opponent]].
** Himeko once participated in a TV show pitting two pro or amateur comedians against each other in an "all-out tsukkomi clash", delivering line after line of loud comedic reactions to see who was the superior [[StraightMan straight man or woman]].
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is basically a series of BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. The characters even describe their own interactions as such.
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in ''Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
* ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene...with Akari.]]
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
** Chiyo unintentionally acts as the tsukkomi to Tomo once, and gets berated by her and Osaka for doing so.
* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' does this in the PostEpisodeTrailer a couple of times.
* Megumi and Miki in ''Manga/TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the ''Manga/{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
** She calls him ''baka-gaeru''.
* In the "Tower of Terror" episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', the Ghost Pokemon trio (Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar) are first seen watching such a routine on TV.
** In the Diamond and Pearl saga of the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' manga, the goal of the two main characters is not to be great Pokemon trainers, but to be great ''manzai'' performers. They take a chance to practice their act in every chapter.
** When Team Rocket accidentally capture Brock's Lombre (they were aiming for a Mawile), Wobbuffet appears to Lombre and they do a bunch of random slapstick skits in the process, all in PokemonSpeak. Funnily enough, it was Wobbuffet, the biggest idiot in Team Rocket, who was playing the ''tsukkomi''. What does Meowth have to say? "A really bad comedy routine".
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's'' and Kyon's actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.
** Playing on the AnachronicOrder in which the ''Melancholy'' episodes were first broadcast, the next-episode announcements at the end of each show of the first season were a compressed boke-tsukkomi exchange between Haruhi (giving the number of the episode in chronological order) and Kyon ("correcting" the number according to the broadcast order and stating the episode title).
** Emphasized even more in ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', since in this particular series, every character undergoes intentional {{Flanderization}}.
*** Haruhi-chan gives us a second duo in Yuki-chan and Achakura. Yuki is the Boke by the way.
* Rina and Ranfa do an impromptu BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine when they run into each other in a ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' episode.
* The premise of ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker...)
* Kunogi Himawari of ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'' misinterprets Doumeki and Watanuki's constant arguments as an attempt to be a humorous Boke and Tsukkomi team.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', doubles partners Hikaru "Dabide" Amane and Harukaze "Bane-san" Kurobane from Rokkaku frequently pull these off. More often than not, ''boke'' Dabide makes some rather bad word puns, and ''tsukkomi'' Bane kicks him ''on the head'' as a punishment. That even happens during matches, where Bane [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Dabide across the face if he's slacking.
** In the Senbatsu arc of the anime, Amane is paired up with Oshitari (who ''is'' an Osaka native) in doubles. He attempts to pull the other into a similar dynamics...only to make the always calm Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny lose]] [[BerserkButton his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes temper]]. It's theorised, however, that Oshitari ''may'' not be ''that'' upset, just playing the ''tsukkomi'' role relaying on verbal insults rather than physical violence.
* Uryuu and Pesche did this when they were forced to team up on ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Pesche is [[RuleOfFunny acting stupid on purpose, though]].
** Less explicitly, there's also Hitsugaya to Matsumoto, Soi Fon to Omaeda, Ichigo to Kon (with Rukia), to his Dad (with Karin), to Keigo, to Urahara, and to Nel, Hiyori to Shinji & vice versa, Nanao to Kyouraku, Maki-Maki to Yachiru, etc., etc. With so many characters, it's no surprise there's a lot ''manzai'' duos in ''Bleach''.
** In ''Souls,'' the ''Bleach'' character book (for the manga), a short omake chapter has Mayuri Kurotschi discussing this with Nemu, while both wear stand-up comedian suits -- however, Kurotschi is taking "tsukkomi" in its alternate Japanese meaning of the verb "to stab" and is apparently looking forward to the part where he gets to stab Nemu. Then again, this '''is''' [[HeroicSociopath Mayuri]] [[CloudCuckooLander Kurotsuchi]] we're talking about; he doesn't seem content to produce anything less than half of the NightmareFuel in the entire series.
** Around the time Ichigo first used his Bankai, one {{Omake}} held a manzai routine with Ichigo as the straight man and Ganju, Orihime and possibly someone else as the comic counterpart. The entire think was based off of similar sounding words to Bankai and manzai (such as banzai and sempai), in sentences that are worded so as to be self-referential humor and correct. Surprisingly, this skit of Japanese wordplay ''was'' brought over in the dub. The important words were explained in a series of rapid-fire notes, but left untranslated.
** This series loves it enough to use it in a 100 year flashback. Both Shinji and Urahara with Hiyori, Kensei with Mashiro (which continues in the present), and Shinji with [[spoiler: Aizen]].
* The wannabe comedy duo in ''Anime/AkahoriGedouHourLovege'', Love Pheromone, are a straightforward example of this. Mostly.
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
-->'''Nozomi:''' I want to do [activity]!
-->'''Rin:''' You were kicked out of the school's [activity] club after three days.
-->'''Nozomi:''' You don't have to mention ''that!''
** Later, [[TheCameo an actual manzai duo]], named Audrey, guest-stars in one episode of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', both the VisualNovel and the {{anime}}, Tomoya and Kyou try to teach Kotomi how to perform a proper tsukkomi. Sadly, the poor girl has boke written all over her face, and she regularly ends up on the receiving end of a tsukkomi immediately after attempting her own. At one point, she expresses the desire to become a great manzai performer. Both Nagisa and Ryou motivate her to work for her goal, but Kyou and Tomoya are quick to point out that all three of them are boke to the core.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi,'' HotBlooded Tasuki and his best friend Kouji go into these sometimes.
* Maria in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
** Not to mention she tended to make people ATwinkleInTheSky...And then, because it's [[MindScrew that kind of show]], she joined a secret Boke and Tsukommi ''underground political organization'' [[hottip:*: They were partly that, but they also represent far right-wing Japanese ultra-nationalists, who complain about Japan's "peacetime boke" (in comparison to its [[ImperialJapan earlier attitude]])]].
* When she returns from Japan in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'', Sora gives Anna a set of manzai props (a PaperFanOfDoom and an [[{{baka}} idiot]] mask) as a souvenir. Anna then immediately tries to get Ken to play boke to her tsukkomi. Ken is not thrilled by the idea.
* Very common in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
** And then there's Chisame, who wishes she could give everything the tsukkomi treatment so very, very badly.
*** Chisame takes on this role physically when dealing with [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]] although most of the time its usually a [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v27/c249/6.html knee to the face]] instead of an actual fan [[spoiler:(He could take a Nuke and probably not feel it)]]. They make [[spoiler: (made)]] a very good team.
** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's...different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
* In a season 1 episode of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
* In ''Motto! OjamajoDoremi'', former SOS Trio member Sugiyama forms this act with straight-A student Ogura as rivals to the new Trio. Helped along by Aiko (who's from Osaka), Momoko finds them as stupidly hilarious as Hazuki does for the other team
* In ''Manga/LoveRoma'', [[CloudCuckooLander Hoshino]]'s relationship with his girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Negishi]] mainly consists of him saying or doing something stupid and her [[DopeSlap slapping him for it.]] In one scene he mentions their romance is like a boke and tsukkomi routine. She's about to agree, when he mentions he's the tsukkomi and she's the boke.
-->'''Negishi:''' *thinking* ''I'm'' the boke?!
* Break and Sharon have elements of this in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki+'', this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
* A brother-sister variation occurs in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' with Jun (serious big sis) and Jinpei (smartass kid).
* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is essentially one big manzai routine between Yamada and her best friend Takeshita. Whenever Yamada bugs her best friend about something sex-related, Takeshita is there to smack her (verbally and/or physically).
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'s'' often odd dialogue centers around the main character Araragi as the tsukkomi and the other person in the conversation as the boke. Whether or not the boke is acting as such intentionally is a matter of debate.
* Koganei (a newscaster) and Amasawa (a weatherman) from ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' have a strong manzai dynamic together which creates much of the appeal of their program, as the audience is waiting for the moment Koganei will crack.
* ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagohime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld's'' GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In ''Manga/IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
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* Lampshaded in the Japanese version of the ''Mac & PC'' commercials. By maintaining the outfits from the US version, Mac has inadvertently become a casual-clad Tsukkomi while PC is the formal-wearing Boke. Given that these two actors form the comedy group Rahmens, this may have been deliberate. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzmXD2YTqc&feature=rec-HM-r2 Watch all 12 of them here.]]
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* A RunningGag in the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' FanWebComic ''[[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]]'' has Hayate [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master]] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a KansaiDialect. Note: Link may be considered {{NSFW}}.
* One of the welcome surprises resulting from the CrazyAwesome that is ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' is the Rei-Asuka comedy duo. Rei is the boke, while Asuka, perhaps understandably, thinks "tsukkomi" is some sort of bizarre Japanese perversion and refuses to listen whenever someone attempts to explain it.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Kanae and Kunikida think that Yanagimoto and Taniguchi are trying to invoke this while dating.
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* [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], possibly the most famous manzai duo, could be considered a subversion nowadays, having shifted from the rigid manzai to a more fluid conversational style of humor.
* The Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix is an annual manzai ''tournament'', sponsored by Yoshimoto Kogyo (the largest ''jimusho'' (artist management company in Japan) and broadcast on Asahi TV. Many of the most prominent Japanese comedians of the last ten years came into the public's eye through their appearances in the competition.
* The [[TransPacificEquivalent Japanese version]] of ''Series/SesameStreet'' has two Muppets like these.
** Bert and Ernie are also known to play this, possibly the best known Western example.
* Yuto and Deneb do this in ''KamenRiderDenO'', though Deneb is more naive than stupid, and Yuto, as a JerkAss, tends to overreact badly.
** More explicitly, the ''KamenRiderDecade'' stage musical (yes, it exists) has several imprisoned Riders doing it to kill time. [[KamenRiderKabuto The Hoppers]] (complete with gigantic bowties) try it out, but then, lampshading the Kansai part, [[KamenRiderDenO Den-O]] changes to Ax Form and does a bit alongside [[KamenRiderRyuki Ohja]].
** In the ''KamenRiderKiva'' net movies, Kengo and Wataru practice one of these and [[HilarityEnsues it goes over as well as you'd expect.]]
* In ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', Ryuunosuke and Genta's interaction borders on this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when they actually do a manzai routine to amuse the others at New Year.
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* In the early '90s in the [[{{WWE}} WWF]], this was the schtick of legendary announcer duo of [[BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] and [[AwesomeMcCoolname Gorilla Monsoon]]. Together, they were the very first heel/face announcing tandem, interacting as much with each other as the action in the ring. Often, the Brain would say something obviously biased or [[BlatantLIes obviously untrue]] in support of a hell wrestler, with Monsoon reacting with an exasperated "Will you stop?". In the modern era, it's a formula that's been repeated with Michael Cole and Jerry "the King" Lawler to varying levels of success, though Cole comes across as much more petulant as a heel announcer, while Lawler doesn't quite have Monsoon's straight-laced gravitas to pull off being the straight man in the routine.
* The tag team of extreme CloudCuckooLander, Al Snow and badass martial artist, Steve Blackman. Snow insisted on calling the team Head Cheese, based on the fact that Snow carried a mannequin head around with him and Blackman was from Wisconsin.
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) have this exact dynamic in their routines on ''TheRickyGervaisShow''. Karl, an "idiot", is brought in and asked to talk about various SeinfeldianConversation topics, which soon derail into [[CloudCuckoolander total nonsense]], at which point Ricky corrects him by shouting "[[CatchPhrase Don't. Talk. Shit.]]"
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', if you have Maya and Yuki contact a demon together, they'll do one of these, with Maya as the boke. Notable example: "Did you know that when a tsunami hits it can send you and your family on a trip?" "That's not what they mean by 'it sends you packing.'"
** One example, however, is based on misinterpreting Japanese characters:
--> Maya: Oh, yeah! I was just reminded that I found this interesting dish at a ramen shop!
--> Yukino: What's so special about it?
--> Maya: It was "Tonkatsu ramen"! I've never heard of it before. I wonder if anyone would really eat soup with deep-fried pork in it.
--> Yukino: Er, Maya...I think it was "tonkotsu" ramen.
* In an extra segment for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
** Also, Jack Frost and Pyro Jack have a fusion spell where they do a Boke and Tsukkomi routine with the effect of [[FaceFault knocking down all enemy shadows]].
* ''DevilSurvivor2'', another ''MegaTen'' game, gives you the option of doing one of these in all Hinako's [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Fate route]] conversations. The protagonist is the boke, and Hinako (who is from Osaka) cheerfully plays along as the tsukkomi.
* In one ''VideoGame/RyuGaGotoku'' side mission you are supposed to help a man get him and his friend back together for the act because of recent failure. Turns out the problem was their roles were mixed up. The guy dressed in street clothes tried to be the boke but was the tsukkomi and vice versa with his friend who was dressed in a nice suit being the tsukkomi when he was naturally the boke all along.
* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' characters acting out some of these skits. Most memetically pleasing is the one where [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] (playing the Boke) tricks [[SquishyWizard Patchouli]] (unwitting Tsukkomi) into a very embarrassing [[ParappaTheRapper Chop Chop Master Onion sequence.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX6eD39qAA The Scarlet Tsukkomi Routine]] has Flandre and [[{{Baka}} Cirno]] pull a fast one on Remilia by trying to cast Cirno (the ultimate Boke) in the role of a Tsukkomi.
*** These two videos are but part of a long-running manzai competition between the girls of Gensokyo, known as the Touhou M-1 Grand Prix collection. This is a play on the real-life Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix (see below). The prize for the 3rd iteration was to have the winning pair overwrite Reimu and Marisa as the main characters; [[spoiler: Reimu and Marisa won]].
** Links to all the English-subbed Touhou Manzai skits (along with some that are not) can be found at the Touhou Wiki [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_M-1_Grand_Prix here]].
** Yuyuko and Youmu are known to do this in {{canon}}, most infamously in ''Imperishable Night'' where BigEater Yuyuko implies that after defeating Mystia she ''ate'' her. [[spoiler:She didn't.]] While Yuyuko is [[ObfuscatingStupidity just acting]], Youmu isn't. Poor Youmu.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' features a pair of would-be comedians who practice boke and tsukkomi routines (Their names? [[AbbottAndCostello Bud and Lou]]), as well as a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]] that lets you [[HealingShiv cure party members of confusion by whacking them on the head]].
* The Hammerhead Brothers from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''.
* There's an extended reference in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She...she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
* Solt and Peppor from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' display this kind of interplay during their boss fights. In fact, when we meet their Home World versions, they are doing this routine as a comedy duo on Fargo's ship.
* In an optional minigame when Koh visits the Monsbaiya Theater in ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'', he can be roped into playing the ''tsukkomi'' to one of the regular performers' ''boke''.
* Two birds perform this as one of the endless minigames in ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever''.
** [[NoExportForYou ...But only in the Japanese version.]]
* Pretty much the core comedy dynamic in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' line of games. Your sensible but put-upon attorney plays the tsukkomi for their usually CloudCuckoolander boke sidekick. Additionally, the same dynamic carries into the courtroom with the judge and loony witnesses, and the roles trade off fluidly between the prosecution and the defense in each game.
* The WiiWare Sega title ''VideoGame/PoleNoDaibouken'' is an unusual example of this: the entire ''game'' is the ''boke'', what with all the weird and zany gags, and the narrator is the ''tsukkomi'' trying to be the foil to all the insanity.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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-->'''[[TheStinger Waldorf]]''': Personally, I never could get behind Japanese comedy.\\
'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf Statler]]''': Why not? Better than being in front of it!\\
'''[[MemeticMutation Both]]''': Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
It is common in Osaka so normally both members of the comedy duo will speak in [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]]. Frequently, manzai teams will dress in one of two ways: 1) similarly tailored outfits with complementary color schemes; 2) one (usually the ''boke'') wears casual clothes, and the other (usually the ''tsukkomi'') a respectable business suit. Ironically, the most famous ''manzai'' duo of all time, [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], reversed this -- Hitoshi Matsumoto, the ''boke'', always wears a suit and tie (albeit with the tie tucked neatly into his trousers), and Masatoshi Hamada, the ''tsukkomi'', always wears something casual. (They're also pretty much single-handedly responsible for the equation of Kansai-ben with funny characters.)
The western equivalent is a PunchAndJudy show.
When the characters do this ''purposely'' to impress, it's not supposed to be very funny and no one will laugh, despite good intentions. When someone is the ''tsukkomi'' for an entire cast, they're probably also the OnlySaneMan. When someone is a ''boke'' for the whole cast, they're probably also a CloudCuckoolander. Do not be surprised in a show with a large cast if one character is ''boke'' to one person and ''tsukkomi'' to another.
Can be ThoseTwoGuys. Compare RightWayWrongWayPair.
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* ''Manga/SketDance'' is one giant Shonen-style BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, quite arguably. Although all of the Sket Trio can be any of the two roles depending on the situation, Bossun and Himeko are able to pull off this act ''masterfully'', even when in their everyday interactions with each other.
** Chiaki Takahasi pointed this out when Bossun met Himeko for the first time.
** In one chapter, Bossun and Himeko partnered up on the spot during the closing round of a live Manzai contest. [[spoiler: Their flawless performance eventually gave them the win against their cheating opponent]].
** Himeko once participated in a TV show pitting two pro or amateur comedians against each other in an "all-out tsukkomi clash", delivering line after line of loud comedic reactions to see who was the superior [[StraightMan straight man or woman]].
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is basically a series of BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. The characters even describe their own interactions as such.
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in ''Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
* ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene...with Akari.]]
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
** Chiyo unintentionally acts as the tsukkomi to Tomo once, and gets berated by her and Osaka for doing so.
* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' does this in the PostEpisodeTrailer a couple of times.
* Megumi and Miki in ''Manga/TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the ''Manga/{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
** She calls him ''baka-gaeru''.
* In the "Tower of Terror" episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', the Ghost Pokemon trio (Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar) are first seen watching such a routine on TV.
** In the Diamond and Pearl saga of the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' manga, the goal of the two main characters is not to be great Pokemon trainers, but to be great ''manzai'' performers. They take a chance to practice their act in every chapter.
** When Team Rocket accidentally capture Brock's Lombre (they were aiming for a Mawile), Wobbuffet appears to Lombre and they do a bunch of random slapstick skits in the process, all in PokemonSpeak. Funnily enough, it was Wobbuffet, the biggest idiot in Team Rocket, who was playing the ''tsukkomi''. What does Meowth have to say? "A really bad comedy routine".
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's'' and Kyon's actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.
** Playing on the AnachronicOrder in which the ''Melancholy'' episodes were first broadcast, the next-episode announcements at the end of each show of the first season were a compressed boke-tsukkomi exchange between Haruhi (giving the number of the episode in chronological order) and Kyon ("correcting" the number according to the broadcast order and stating the episode title).
** Emphasized even more in ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', since in this particular series, every character undergoes intentional {{Flanderization}}.
*** Haruhi-chan gives us a second duo in Yuki-chan and Achakura. Yuki is the Boke by the way.
* Rina and Ranfa do an impromptu BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine when they run into each other in a ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' episode.
* The premise of ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker...)
* Kunogi Himawari of ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'' misinterprets Doumeki and Watanuki's constant arguments as an attempt to be a humorous Boke and Tsukkomi team.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', doubles partners Hikaru "Dabide" Amane and Harukaze "Bane-san" Kurobane from Rokkaku frequently pull these off. More often than not, ''boke'' Dabide makes some rather bad word puns, and ''tsukkomi'' Bane kicks him ''on the head'' as a punishment. That even happens during matches, where Bane [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Dabide across the face if he's slacking.
** In the Senbatsu arc of the anime, Amane is paired up with Oshitari (who ''is'' an Osaka native) in doubles. He attempts to pull the other into a similar dynamics...only to make the always calm Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny lose]] [[BerserkButton his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes temper]]. It's theorised, however, that Oshitari ''may'' not be ''that'' upset, just playing the ''tsukkomi'' role relaying on verbal insults rather than physical violence.
* Uryuu and Pesche did this when they were forced to team up on ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Pesche is [[RuleOfFunny acting stupid on purpose, though]].
** Less explicitly, there's also Hitsugaya to Matsumoto, Soi Fon to Omaeda, Ichigo to Kon (with Rukia), to his Dad (with Karin), to Keigo, to Urahara, and to Nel, Hiyori to Shinji & vice versa, Nanao to Kyouraku, Maki-Maki to Yachiru, etc., etc. With so many characters, it's no surprise there's a lot ''manzai'' duos in ''Bleach''.
** In ''Souls,'' the ''Bleach'' character book (for the manga), a short omake chapter has Mayuri Kurotschi discussing this with Nemu, while both wear stand-up comedian suits -- however, Kurotschi is taking "tsukkomi" in its alternate Japanese meaning of the verb "to stab" and is apparently looking forward to the part where he gets to stab Nemu. Then again, this '''is''' [[HeroicSociopath Mayuri]] [[CloudCuckooLander Kurotsuchi]] we're talking about; he doesn't seem content to produce anything less than half of the NightmareFuel in the entire series.
** Around the time Ichigo first used his Bankai, one {{Omake}} held a manzai routine with Ichigo as the straight man and Ganju, Orihime and possibly someone else as the comic counterpart. The entire think was based off of similar sounding words to Bankai and manzai (such as banzai and sempai), in sentences that are worded so as to be self-referential humor and correct. Surprisingly, this skit of Japanese wordplay ''was'' brought over in the dub. The important words were explained in a series of rapid-fire notes, but left untranslated.
** This series loves it enough to use it in a 100 year flashback. Both Shinji and Urahara with Hiyori, Kensei with Mashiro (which continues in the present), and Shinji with [[spoiler: Aizen]].
* The wannabe comedy duo in ''Anime/AkahoriGedouHourLovege'', Love Pheromone, are a straightforward example of this. Mostly.
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
-->'''Nozomi:''' I want to do [activity]!
-->'''Rin:''' You were kicked out of the school's [activity] club after three days.
-->'''Nozomi:''' You don't have to mention ''that!''
** Later, [[TheCameo an actual manzai duo]], named Audrey, guest-stars in one episode of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', both the VisualNovel and the {{anime}}, Tomoya and Kyou try to teach Kotomi how to perform a proper tsukkomi. Sadly, the poor girl has boke written all over her face, and she regularly ends up on the receiving end of a tsukkomi immediately after attempting her own. At one point, she expresses the desire to become a great manzai performer. Both Nagisa and Ryou motivate her to work for her goal, but Kyou and Tomoya are quick to point out that all three of them are boke to the core.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi,'' HotBlooded Tasuki and his best friend Kouji go into these sometimes.
* Maria in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
** Not to mention she tended to make people ATwinkleInTheSky...And then, because it's [[MindScrew that kind of show]], she joined a secret Boke and Tsukommi ''underground political organization'' [[hottip:*: They were partly that, but they also represent far right-wing Japanese ultra-nationalists, who complain about Japan's "peacetime boke" (in comparison to its [[ImperialJapan earlier attitude]])]].
* When she returns from Japan in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'', Sora gives Anna a set of manzai props (a PaperFanOfDoom and an [[{{baka}} idiot]] mask) as a souvenir. Anna then immediately tries to get Ken to play boke to her tsukkomi. Ken is not thrilled by the idea.
* Very common in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
** And then there's Chisame, who wishes she could give everything the tsukkomi treatment so very, very badly.
*** Chisame takes on this role physically when dealing with [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]] although most of the time its usually a [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v27/c249/6.html knee to the face]] instead of an actual fan [[spoiler:(He could take a Nuke and probably not feel it)]]. They make [[spoiler: (made)]] a very good team.
** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's...different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
* In a season 1 episode of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
* In ''Motto! OjamajoDoremi'', former SOS Trio member Sugiyama forms this act with straight-A student Ogura as rivals to the new Trio. Helped along by Aiko (who's from Osaka), Momoko finds them as stupidly hilarious as Hazuki does for the other team
* In ''Manga/LoveRoma'', [[CloudCuckooLander Hoshino]]'s relationship with his girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Negishi]] mainly consists of him saying or doing something stupid and her [[DopeSlap slapping him for it.]] In one scene he mentions their romance is like a boke and tsukkomi routine. She's about to agree, when he mentions he's the tsukkomi and she's the boke.
-->'''Negishi:''' *thinking* ''I'm'' the boke?!
* Break and Sharon have elements of this in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki+'', this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
* A brother-sister variation occurs in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' with Jun (serious big sis) and Jinpei (smartass kid).
* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is essentially one big manzai routine between Yamada and her best friend Takeshita. Whenever Yamada bugs her best friend about something sex-related, Takeshita is there to smack her (verbally and/or physically).
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'s'' often odd dialogue centers around the main character Araragi as the tsukkomi and the other person in the conversation as the boke. Whether or not the boke is acting as such intentionally is a matter of debate.
* Koganei (a newscaster) and Amasawa (a weatherman) from ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' have a strong manzai dynamic together which creates much of the appeal of their program, as the audience is waiting for the moment Koganei will crack.
* ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagohime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld's'' GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In ''Manga/IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
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* Lampshaded in the Japanese version of the ''Mac & PC'' commercials. By maintaining the outfits from the US version, Mac has inadvertently become a casual-clad Tsukkomi while PC is the formal-wearing Boke. Given that these two actors form the comedy group Rahmens, this may have been deliberate. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzmXD2YTqc&feature=rec-HM-r2 Watch all 12 of them here.]]
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* A RunningGag in the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' FanWebComic ''[[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]]'' has Hayate [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master]] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a KansaiDialect. Note: Link may be considered {{NSFW}}.
* One of the welcome surprises resulting from the CrazyAwesome that is ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' is the Rei-Asuka comedy duo. Rei is the boke, while Asuka, perhaps understandably, thinks "tsukkomi" is some sort of bizarre Japanese perversion and refuses to listen whenever someone attempts to explain it.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Kanae and Kunikida think that Yanagimoto and Taniguchi are trying to invoke this while dating.
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* [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], possibly the most famous manzai duo, could be considered a subversion nowadays, having shifted from the rigid manzai to a more fluid conversational style of humor.
* The Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix is an annual manzai ''tournament'', sponsored by Yoshimoto Kogyo (the largest ''jimusho'' (artist management company in Japan) and broadcast on Asahi TV. Many of the most prominent Japanese comedians of the last ten years came into the public's eye through their appearances in the competition.
* The [[TransPacificEquivalent Japanese version]] of ''Series/SesameStreet'' has two Muppets like these.
** Bert and Ernie are also known to play this, possibly the best known Western example.
* Yuto and Deneb do this in ''KamenRiderDenO'', though Deneb is more naive than stupid, and Yuto, as a JerkAss, tends to overreact badly.
** More explicitly, the ''KamenRiderDecade'' stage musical (yes, it exists) has several imprisoned Riders doing it to kill time. [[KamenRiderKabuto The Hoppers]] (complete with gigantic bowties) try it out, but then, lampshading the Kansai part, [[KamenRiderDenO Den-O]] changes to Ax Form and does a bit alongside [[KamenRiderRyuki Ohja]].
** In the ''KamenRiderKiva'' net movies, Kengo and Wataru practice one of these and [[HilarityEnsues it goes over as well as you'd expect.]]
* In ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', Ryuunosuke and Genta's interaction borders on this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when they actually do a manzai routine to amuse the others at New Year.
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* In the early '90s in the [[{{WWE}} WWF]], this was the schtick of legendary announcer duo of [[BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] and [[AwesomeMcCoolname Gorilla Monsoon]]. Together, they were the very first heel/face announcing tandem, interacting as much with each other as the action in the ring. Often, the Brain would say something obviously biased or [[BlatantLIes obviously untrue]] in support of a hell wrestler, with Monsoon reacting with an exasperated "Will you stop?". In the modern era, it's a formula that's been repeated with Michael Cole and Jerry "the King" Lawler to varying levels of success, though Cole comes across as much more petulant as a heel announcer, while Lawler doesn't quite have Monsoon's straight-laced gravitas to pull off being the straight man in the routine.
* The tag team of extreme CloudCuckooLander, Al Snow and badass martial artist, Steve Blackman. Snow insisted on calling the team Head Cheese, based on the fact that Snow carried a mannequin head around with him and Blackman was from Wisconsin.
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) have this exact dynamic in their routines on ''TheRickyGervaisShow''. Karl, an "idiot", is brought in and asked to talk about various SeinfeldianConversation topics, which soon derail into [[CloudCuckoolander total nonsense]], at which point Ricky corrects him by shouting "[[CatchPhrase Don't. Talk. Shit.]]"
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', if you have Maya and Yuki contact a demon together, they'll do one of these, with Maya as the boke. Notable example: "Did you know that when a tsunami hits it can send you and your family on a trip?" "That's not what they mean by 'it sends you packing.'"
** One example, however, is based on misinterpreting Japanese characters:
--> Maya: Oh, yeah! I was just reminded that I found this interesting dish at a ramen shop!
--> Yukino: What's so special about it?
--> Maya: It was "Tonkatsu ramen"! I've never heard of it before. I wonder if anyone would really eat soup with deep-fried pork in it.
--> Yukino: Er, Maya...I think it was "tonkotsu" ramen.
* In an extra segment for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
** Also, Jack Frost and Pyro Jack have a fusion spell where they do a Boke and Tsukkomi routine with the effect of [[FaceFault knocking down all enemy shadows]].
* ''DevilSurvivor2'', another ''MegaTen'' game, gives you the option of doing one of these in all Hinako's [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Fate route]] conversations. The protagonist is the boke, and Hinako (who is from Osaka) cheerfully plays along as the tsukkomi.
* In one ''VideoGame/RyuGaGotoku'' side mission you are supposed to help a man get him and his friend back together for the act because of recent failure. Turns out the problem was their roles were mixed up. The guy dressed in street clothes tried to be the boke but was the tsukkomi and vice versa with his friend who was dressed in a nice suit being the tsukkomi when he was naturally the boke all along.
* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' characters acting out some of these skits. Most memetically pleasing is the one where [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] (playing the Boke) tricks [[SquishyWizard Patchouli]] (unwitting Tsukkomi) into a very embarrassing [[ParappaTheRapper Chop Chop Master Onion sequence.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX6eD39qAA The Scarlet Tsukkomi Routine]] has Flandre and [[{{Baka}} Cirno]] pull a fast one on Remilia by trying to cast Cirno (the ultimate Boke) in the role of a Tsukkomi.
*** These two videos are but part of a long-running manzai competition between the girls of Gensokyo, known as the Touhou M-1 Grand Prix collection. This is a play on the real-life Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix (see below). The prize for the 3rd iteration was to have the winning pair overwrite Reimu and Marisa as the main characters; [[spoiler: Reimu and Marisa won]].
** Links to all the English-subbed Touhou Manzai skits (along with some that are not) can be found at the Touhou Wiki [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_M-1_Grand_Prix here]].
** Yuyuko and Youmu are known to do this in {{canon}}, most infamously in ''Imperishable Night'' where BigEater Yuyuko implies that after defeating Mystia she ''ate'' her. [[spoiler:She didn't.]] While Yuyuko is [[ObfuscatingStupidity just acting]], Youmu isn't. Poor Youmu.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' features a pair of would-be comedians who practice boke and tsukkomi routines (Their names? [[AbbottAndCostello Bud and Lou]]), as well as a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]] that lets you [[HealingShiv cure party members of confusion by whacking them on the head]].
* The Hammerhead Brothers from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''.
* There's an extended reference in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She...she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
* Solt and Peppor from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' display this kind of interplay during their boss fights. In fact, when we meet their Home World versions, they are doing this routine as a comedy duo on Fargo's ship.
* In an optional minigame when Koh visits the Monsbaiya Theater in ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'', he can be roped into playing the ''tsukkomi'' to one of the regular performers' ''boke''.
* Two birds perform this as one of the endless minigames in ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever''.
** [[NoExportForYou ...But only in the Japanese version.]]
* Pretty much the core comedy dynamic in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' line of games. Your sensible but put-upon attorney plays the tsukkomi for their usually CloudCuckoolander boke sidekick. Additionally, the same dynamic carries into the courtroom with the judge and loony witnesses, and the roles trade off fluidly between the prosecution and the defense in each game.
* The WiiWare Sega title ''VideoGame/PoleNoDaibouken'' is an unusual example of this: the entire ''game'' is the ''boke'', what with all the weird and zany gags, and the narrator is the ''tsukkomi'' trying to be the foil to all the insanity.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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-->'''[[TheStinger Waldorf]]''': Personally, I never could get behind Japanese comedy.\\
'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf Statler]]''': Why not? Better than being in front of it!\\
'''[[MemeticMutation Both]]''': Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
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It is common in Osaka so normally both members of the comedy duo will speak in [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai-ben]]. Frequently, manzai teams will dress in one of two ways: 1) similarly tailored outfits with complementary color schemes; 2) one (usually the ''boke'') wears casual clothes, and the other (usually the ''tsukkomi'') a respectable business suit. Ironically, the most famous ''manzai'' duo of all time, [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], reversed this -- Hitoshi Matsumoto, the ''boke'', always wears a suit and tie (albeit with the tie tucked neatly into his trousers), and Masatoshi Hamada, the ''tsukkomi'', always wears something casual. (They're also pretty much single-handedly responsible for the equation of Kansai-ben with funny characters.)
The western equivalent is a PunchAndJudy show.
When the characters do this ''purposely'' to impress, it's not supposed to be very funny and no one will laugh, despite good intentions. When someone is the ''tsukkomi'' for an entire cast, they're probably also the OnlySaneMan. When someone is a ''boke'' for the whole cast, they're probably also a CloudCuckoolander. Do not be surprised in a show with a large cast if one character is ''boke'' to one person and ''tsukkomi'' to another.
Can be ThoseTwoGuys. Compare RightWayWrongWayPair.
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* ''Manga/SketDance'' is one giant Shonen-style BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, quite arguably. Although all of the Sket Trio can be any of the two roles depending on the situation, Bossun and Himeko are able to pull off this act ''masterfully'', even when in their everyday interactions with each other.
** Chiaki Takahasi pointed this out when Bossun met Himeko for the first time.
** In one chapter, Bossun and Himeko partnered up on the spot during the closing round of a live Manzai contest. [[spoiler: Their flawless performance eventually gave them the win against their cheating opponent]].
** Himeko once participated in a TV show pitting two pro or amateur comedians against each other in an "all-out tsukkomi clash", delivering line after line of loud comedic reactions to see who was the superior [[StraightMan straight man or woman]].
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is basically a series of BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. The characters even describe their own interactions as such.
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in ''Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
* ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene...with Akari.]]
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
** Chiyo unintentionally acts as the tsukkomi to Tomo once, and gets berated by her and Osaka for doing so.
* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' does this in the PostEpisodeTrailer a couple of times.
* Megumi and Miki in ''Manga/TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the ''Manga/{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
** She calls him ''baka-gaeru''.
* In the "Tower of Terror" episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', the Ghost Pokemon trio (Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar) are first seen watching such a routine on TV.
** In the Diamond and Pearl saga of the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' manga, the goal of the two main characters is not to be great Pokemon trainers, but to be great ''manzai'' performers. They take a chance to practice their act in every chapter.
** When Team Rocket accidentally capture Brock's Lombre (they were aiming for a Mawile), Wobbuffet appears to Lombre and they do a bunch of random slapstick skits in the process, all in PokemonSpeak. Funnily enough, it was Wobbuffet, the biggest idiot in Team Rocket, who was playing the ''tsukkomi''. What does Meowth have to say? "A really bad comedy routine".
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's'' and Kyon's actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.
** Playing on the AnachronicOrder in which the ''Melancholy'' episodes were first broadcast, the next-episode announcements at the end of each show of the first season were a compressed boke-tsukkomi exchange between Haruhi (giving the number of the episode in chronological order) and Kyon ("correcting" the number according to the broadcast order and stating the episode title).
** Emphasized even more in ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', since in this particular series, every character undergoes intentional {{Flanderization}}.
*** Haruhi-chan gives us a second duo in Yuki-chan and Achakura. Yuki is the Boke by the way.
* Rina and Ranfa do an impromptu BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine when they run into each other in a ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' episode.
* The premise of ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker...)
* Kunogi Himawari of ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'' misinterprets Doumeki and Watanuki's constant arguments as an attempt to be a humorous Boke and Tsukkomi team.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', doubles partners Hikaru "Dabide" Amane and Harukaze "Bane-san" Kurobane from Rokkaku frequently pull these off. More often than not, ''boke'' Dabide makes some rather bad word puns, and ''tsukkomi'' Bane kicks him ''on the head'' as a punishment. That even happens during matches, where Bane [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Dabide across the face if he's slacking.
** In the Senbatsu arc of the anime, Amane is paired up with Oshitari (who ''is'' an Osaka native) in doubles. He attempts to pull the other into a similar dynamics...only to make the always calm Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny lose]] [[BerserkButton his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes temper]]. It's theorised, however, that Oshitari ''may'' not be ''that'' upset, just playing the ''tsukkomi'' role relaying on verbal insults rather than physical violence.
* Uryuu and Pesche did this when they were forced to team up on ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Pesche is [[RuleOfFunny acting stupid on purpose, though]].
** Less explicitly, there's also Hitsugaya to Matsumoto, Soi Fon to Omaeda, Ichigo to Kon (with Rukia), to his Dad (with Karin), to Keigo, to Urahara, and to Nel, Hiyori to Shinji & vice versa, Nanao to Kyouraku, Maki-Maki to Yachiru, etc., etc. With so many characters, it's no surprise there's a lot ''manzai'' duos in ''Bleach''.
** In ''Souls,'' the ''Bleach'' character book (for the manga), a short omake chapter has Mayuri Kurotschi discussing this with Nemu, while both wear stand-up comedian suits -- however, Kurotschi is taking "tsukkomi" in its alternate Japanese meaning of the verb "to stab" and is apparently looking forward to the part where he gets to stab Nemu. Then again, this '''is''' [[HeroicSociopath Mayuri]] [[CloudCuckooLander Kurotsuchi]] we're talking about; he doesn't seem content to produce anything less than half of the NightmareFuel in the entire series.
** Around the time Ichigo first used his Bankai, one {{Omake}} held a manzai routine with Ichigo as the straight man and Ganju, Orihime and possibly someone else as the comic counterpart. The entire think was based off of similar sounding words to Bankai and manzai (such as banzai and sempai), in sentences that are worded so as to be self-referential humor and correct. Surprisingly, this skit of Japanese wordplay ''was'' brought over in the dub. The important words were explained in a series of rapid-fire notes, but left untranslated.
** This series loves it enough to use it in a 100 year flashback. Both Shinji and Urahara with Hiyori, Kensei with Mashiro (which continues in the present), and Shinji with [[spoiler: Aizen]].
* The wannabe comedy duo in ''Anime/AkahoriGedouHourLovege'', Love Pheromone, are a straightforward example of this. Mostly.
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
-->'''Nozomi:''' I want to do [activity]!
-->'''Rin:''' You were kicked out of the school's [activity] club after three days.
-->'''Nozomi:''' You don't have to mention ''that!''
** Later, [[TheCameo an actual manzai duo]], named Audrey, guest-stars in one episode of ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure''.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', both the VisualNovel and the {{anime}}, Tomoya and Kyou try to teach Kotomi how to perform a proper tsukkomi. Sadly, the poor girl has boke written all over her face, and she regularly ends up on the receiving end of a tsukkomi immediately after attempting her own. At one point, she expresses the desire to become a great manzai performer. Both Nagisa and Ryou motivate her to work for her goal, but Kyou and Tomoya are quick to point out that all three of them are boke to the core.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi,'' HotBlooded Tasuki and his best friend Kouji go into these sometimes.
* Maria in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
** Not to mention she tended to make people ATwinkleInTheSky...And then, because it's [[MindScrew that kind of show]], she joined a secret Boke and Tsukommi ''underground political organization'' [[hottip:*: They were partly that, but they also represent far right-wing Japanese ultra-nationalists, who complain about Japan's "peacetime boke" (in comparison to its [[ImperialJapan earlier attitude]])]].
* When she returns from Japan in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'', Sora gives Anna a set of manzai props (a PaperFanOfDoom and an [[{{baka}} idiot]] mask) as a souvenir. Anna then immediately tries to get Ken to play boke to her tsukkomi. Ken is not thrilled by the idea.
* Very common in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
** And then there's Chisame, who wishes she could give everything the tsukkomi treatment so very, very badly.
*** Chisame takes on this role physically when dealing with [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]] although most of the time its usually a [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v27/c249/6.html knee to the face]] instead of an actual fan [[spoiler:(He could take a Nuke and probably not feel it)]]. They make [[spoiler: (made)]] a very good team.
** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's...different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
* In a season 1 episode of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
* In ''Motto! OjamajoDoremi'', former SOS Trio member Sugiyama forms this act with straight-A student Ogura as rivals to the new Trio. Helped along by Aiko (who's from Osaka), Momoko finds them as stupidly hilarious as Hazuki does for the other team
* In ''Manga/LoveRoma'', [[CloudCuckooLander Hoshino]]'s relationship with his girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Negishi]] mainly consists of him saying or doing something stupid and her [[DopeSlap slapping him for it.]] In one scene he mentions their romance is like a boke and tsukkomi routine. She's about to agree, when he mentions he's the tsukkomi and she's the boke.
-->'''Negishi:''' *thinking* ''I'm'' the boke?!
* Break and Sharon have elements of this in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki+'', this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
* A brother-sister variation occurs in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' with Jun (serious big sis) and Jinpei (smartass kid).
* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is essentially one big manzai routine between Yamada and her best friend Takeshita. Whenever Yamada bugs her best friend about something sex-related, Takeshita is there to smack her (verbally and/or physically).
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'s'' often odd dialogue centers around the main character Araragi as the tsukkomi and the other person in the conversation as the boke. Whether or not the boke is acting as such intentionally is a matter of debate.
* Koganei (a newscaster) and Amasawa (a weatherman) from ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' have a strong manzai dynamic together which creates much of the appeal of their program, as the audience is waiting for the moment Koganei will crack.
* ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagohime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld's'' GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In ''Manga/IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
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* Lampshaded in the Japanese version of the ''Mac & PC'' commercials. By maintaining the outfits from the US version, Mac has inadvertently become a casual-clad Tsukkomi while PC is the formal-wearing Boke. Given that these two actors form the comedy group Rahmens, this may have been deliberate. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzmXD2YTqc&feature=rec-HM-r2 Watch all 12 of them here.]]
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* A RunningGag in the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' FanWebComic ''[[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]]'' has Hayate [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master]] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a KansaiDialect. Note: Link may be considered {{NSFW}}.
* One of the welcome surprises resulting from the CrazyAwesome that is ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' is the Rei-Asuka comedy duo. Rei is the boke, while Asuka, perhaps understandably, thinks "tsukkomi" is some sort of bizarre Japanese perversion and refuses to listen whenever someone attempts to explain it.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Kanae and Kunikida think that Yanagimoto and Taniguchi are trying to invoke this while dating.
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* [[GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende Downtown]], possibly the most famous manzai duo, could be considered a subversion nowadays, having shifted from the rigid manzai to a more fluid conversational style of humor.
* The Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix is an annual manzai ''tournament'', sponsored by Yoshimoto Kogyo (the largest ''jimusho'' (artist management company in Japan) and broadcast on Asahi TV. Many of the most prominent Japanese comedians of the last ten years came into the public's eye through their appearances in the competition.
* The [[TransPacificEquivalent Japanese version]] of ''Series/SesameStreet'' has two Muppets like these.
** Bert and Ernie are also known to play this, possibly the best known Western example.
* Yuto and Deneb do this in ''KamenRiderDenO'', though Deneb is more naive than stupid, and Yuto, as a JerkAss, tends to overreact badly.
** More explicitly, the ''KamenRiderDecade'' stage musical (yes, it exists) has several imprisoned Riders doing it to kill time. [[KamenRiderKabuto The Hoppers]] (complete with gigantic bowties) try it out, but then, lampshading the Kansai part, [[KamenRiderDenO Den-O]] changes to Ax Form and does a bit alongside [[KamenRiderRyuki Ohja]].
** In the ''KamenRiderKiva'' net movies, Kengo and Wataru practice one of these and [[HilarityEnsues it goes over as well as you'd expect.]]
* In ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', Ryuunosuke and Genta's interaction borders on this. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when they actually do a manzai routine to amuse the others at New Year.
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* In the early '90s in the [[{{WWE}} WWF]], this was the schtick of legendary announcer duo of [[BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] and [[AwesomeMcCoolname Gorilla Monsoon]]. Together, they were the very first heel/face announcing tandem, interacting as much with each other as the action in the ring. Often, the Brain would say something obviously biased or [[BlatantLIes obviously untrue]] in support of a hell wrestler, with Monsoon reacting with an exasperated "Will you stop?". In the modern era, it's a formula that's been repeated with Michael Cole and Jerry "the King" Lawler to varying levels of success, though Cole comes across as much more petulant as a heel announcer, while Lawler doesn't quite have Monsoon's straight-laced gravitas to pull off being the straight man in the routine.
* The tag team of extreme CloudCuckooLander, Al Snow and badass martial artist, Steve Blackman. Snow insisted on calling the team Head Cheese, based on the fact that Snow carried a mannequin head around with him and Blackman was from Wisconsin.
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) have this exact dynamic in their routines on ''TheRickyGervaisShow''. Karl, an "idiot", is brought in and asked to talk about various SeinfeldianConversation topics, which soon derail into [[CloudCuckoolander total nonsense]], at which point Ricky corrects him by shouting "[[CatchPhrase Don't. Talk. Shit.]]"
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', if you have Maya and Yuki contact a demon together, they'll do one of these, with Maya as the boke. Notable example: "Did you know that when a tsunami hits it can send you and your family on a trip?" "That's not what they mean by 'it sends you packing.'"
** One example, however, is based on misinterpreting Japanese characters:
--> Maya: Oh, yeah! I was just reminded that I found this interesting dish at a ramen shop!
--> Yukino: What's so special about it?
--> Maya: It was "Tonkatsu ramen"! I've never heard of it before. I wonder if anyone would really eat soup with deep-fried pork in it.
--> Yukino: Er, Maya...I think it was "tonkotsu" ramen.
* In an extra segment for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
** Also, Jack Frost and Pyro Jack have a fusion spell where they do a Boke and Tsukkomi routine with the effect of [[FaceFault knocking down all enemy shadows]].
* ''DevilSurvivor2'', another ''MegaTen'' game, gives you the option of doing one of these in all Hinako's [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Fate route]] conversations. The protagonist is the boke, and Hinako (who is from Osaka) cheerfully plays along as the tsukkomi.
* In one ''VideoGame/RyuGaGotoku'' side mission you are supposed to help a man get him and his friend back together for the act because of recent failure. Turns out the problem was their roles were mixed up. The guy dressed in street clothes tried to be the boke but was the tsukkomi and vice versa with his friend who was dressed in a nice suit being the tsukkomi when he was naturally the boke all along.
* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' characters acting out some of these skits. Most memetically pleasing is the one where [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] (playing the Boke) tricks [[SquishyWizard Patchouli]] (unwitting Tsukkomi) into a very embarrassing [[ParappaTheRapper Chop Chop Master Onion sequence.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX6eD39qAA The Scarlet Tsukkomi Routine]] has Flandre and [[{{Baka}} Cirno]] pull a fast one on Remilia by trying to cast Cirno (the ultimate Boke) in the role of a Tsukkomi.
*** These two videos are but part of a long-running manzai competition between the girls of Gensokyo, known as the Touhou M-1 Grand Prix collection. This is a play on the real-life Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix (see below). The prize for the 3rd iteration was to have the winning pair overwrite Reimu and Marisa as the main characters; [[spoiler: Reimu and Marisa won]].
** Links to all the English-subbed Touhou Manzai skits (along with some that are not) can be found at the Touhou Wiki [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_M-1_Grand_Prix here]].
** Yuyuko and Youmu are known to do this in {{canon}}, most infamously in ''Imperishable Night'' where BigEater Yuyuko implies that after defeating Mystia she ''ate'' her. [[spoiler:She didn't.]] While Yuyuko is [[ObfuscatingStupidity just acting]], Youmu isn't. Poor Youmu.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' features a pair of would-be comedians who practice boke and tsukkomi routines (Their names? [[AbbottAndCostello Bud and Lou]]), as well as a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]] that lets you [[HealingShiv cure party members of confusion by whacking them on the head]].
* The Hammerhead Brothers from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''.
* There's an extended reference in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She...she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
* Solt and Peppor from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' display this kind of interplay during their boss fights. In fact, when we meet their Home World versions, they are doing this routine as a comedy duo on Fargo's ship.
* In an optional minigame when Koh visits the Monsbaiya Theater in ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'', he can be roped into playing the ''tsukkomi'' to one of the regular performers' ''boke''.
* Two birds perform this as one of the endless minigames in ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever''.
** [[NoExportForYou ...But only in the Japanese version.]]
* Pretty much the core comedy dynamic in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' line of games. Your sensible but put-upon attorney plays the tsukkomi for their usually CloudCuckoolander boke sidekick. Additionally, the same dynamic carries into the courtroom with the judge and loony witnesses, and the roles trade off fluidly between the prosecution and the defense in each game.
* The WiiWare Sega title ''VideoGame/PoleNoDaibouken'' is an unusual example of this: the entire ''game'' is the ''boke'', what with all the weird and zany gags, and the narrator is the ''tsukkomi'' trying to be the foil to all the insanity.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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* In the early '90s in the [[{{WWE}} WWF]], this was the schtick of legendary announcer duo of [[BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] and [[AwesomeMcCoolname Gorilla Monsoon]]. Together, they were the very first heel/face announcing tandem, interacting as much with each other as the action in the ring. Often, the Brain would say something obviously biased or [[BlatantLIes obviously untrue]] in support of a hell wrestler, with Monsoon reacting with an exasperated "Will you stop?". In the modern era, it's a formula that's been repeated with Michael Cole and Jerry "the King" Lawler to varying levels of success, though Cole comes across as much more petulant as a heel announcer, while Lawler doesn't quite have Monsoon's straight-laced gravitas to pull off being the straight man in the routine.
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* The [[TransPacificEquivalent Japanese version]] of ''SesameStreet'' has two Muppets like these.
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* The [[TransPacificEquivalent Japanese version]] of ''SesameStreet'' ''Series/SesameStreet'' has two Muppets like these.
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* In ''LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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* In ''LegendOfLegaia'', ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) are as close to this trope as two Western comedians will ever unintentionally get.
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) are as close to have this trope as two Western comedians will ever unintentionally get.
exact dynamic in their routines on ''TheRickyGervaisShow''. Karl, an "idiot", is brought in and asked to talk about various SeinfeldianConversation topics, which soon derail into [[CloudCuckoolander total nonsense]], at which point Ricky corrects him by shouting "[[CatchPhrase Don't. Talk. Shit.]]"
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* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) are as close to this trope as two Western comedians will ever unintentionally get.
* RickyGervais (tsukkomi) and KarlPilkington (boke) are as close to this trope as two Western comedians will ever unintentionally get.
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* In ''LegendOfLegaia'', Gala ends up acting as a stand-in in one of these routines. He's quite naive and his religion forbids laughter, so he makes a perfectly clueless boke.
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* In ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker ... )
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* In ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker ... marker...)
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** In the Senbatsu arc of the anime, Amane is paired up with Oshitari (who ''is'' an Osaka native) in doubles. He attempts to pull the other into a similar dynamics... only to make the always calm Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny lose]] [[BerserkButton his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes temper]]. It's theorised, however, that Oshitari ''may'' not be ''that'' upset, just playing the ''tsukkomi'' role relaying on verbal insults rather than physical violence.
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** In the Senbatsu arc of the anime, Amane is paired up with Oshitari (who ''is'' an Osaka native) in doubles. He attempts to pull the other into a similar dynamics... only to make the always calm Oshitari [[DudeNotFunny lose]] [[BerserkButton his]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes temper]]. It's theorised, however, that Oshitari ''may'' not be ''that'' upset, just playing the ''tsukkomi'' role relaying on verbal insults rather than physical violence.
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** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's... different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
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** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's... different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
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* A RunningGag in the ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' FanWebComic ''[[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]]'' has Hayate [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master]] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a KansaiDialect. Note: Link may be considered {{NSFW}}.
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* A RunningGag in the ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' FanWebComic ''[[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]]'' has Hayate [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master]] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a KansaiDialect. Note: Link may be considered {{NSFW}}.
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* In ''{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', if you have Maya and Yuki contact a demon together, they'll do one of these, with Maya as the boke. Notable example: "Did you know that when a tsunami hits it can send you and your family on a trip?" "That's not what they mean by 'it sends you packing.'"
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* In ''{{Persona ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', if you have Maya and Yuki contact a demon together, they'll do one of these, with Maya as the boke. Notable example: "Did you know that when a tsunami hits it can send you and your family on a trip?" "That's not what they mean by 'it sends you packing.'"
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--> Yukino: Er, Maya... I think it was "tonkotsu" ramen.
* In an extra segment for ''{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
* In an extra segment for ''{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
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--> Yukino: Er, Maya... I think it was "tonkotsu" ramen.
* In an extra segment for''{{Persona ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}: FES,'' the main character and one of his classmates, Kenji, act out an impromptu comedy routine. The response the player chooses for Kenji's setups determine whether you are a master of Japanese humor or not.
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* In the ''[[GaidenGame Saiyuki Gaiden]]'' series, Kenren tries to do this with Goujun but fails.
-->'''Kenren''': Come on, I "boke"ed so you were supposed to "tsukkomi."
* In one ''Yakuza 2'' side mission you are supposed to help a man get him and his friend back together for the act because of recent failure. Turns out the problem was their roles were mixed up. The guy dressed in street clothes tried to be the boke but was the tsukkomi and vice versa with his friend who was dressed in a nice suit being the tsukkomi when he was naturally the boke all along.
* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of {{Touhou}} characters acting out some of these skits. Most memetically pleasing is the one where [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] (playing the Boke) tricks [[SquishyWizard Patchouli]] (unwitting Tsukkomi) into a very embarrassing [[ParappaTheRapper Chop Chop Master Onion sequence.]]
-->'''Kenren''': Come on, I "boke"ed so you were supposed to "tsukkomi."
* In one ''Yakuza 2'' side mission you are supposed to help a man get him and his friend back together for the act because of recent failure. Turns out the problem was their roles were mixed up. The guy dressed in street clothes tried to be the boke but was the tsukkomi and vice versa with his friend who was dressed in a nice suit being the tsukkomi when he was naturally the boke all along.
* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of {{Touhou}} characters acting out some of these skits. Most memetically pleasing is the one where [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] (playing the Boke) tricks [[SquishyWizard Patchouli]] (unwitting Tsukkomi) into a very embarrassing [[ParappaTheRapper Chop Chop Master Onion sequence.]]
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* YouTube has some {{Fan Vid}}s of
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* The Hammerhead Brothers from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''.
* There's an extended reference in ''{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She... she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
* There's an extended reference in ''{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She... she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
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* The Hammerhead Brothers from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''.
''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''.
* There's an extended reference in''{{Kanon}}'' ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' during Mai's route. As the local {{emotionless girl}}, she has trouble expressing herself. Eventually, she gets embarrassed with Sayuri's teasing and bonks her on the head, leaving Yuichi and Sayuri to stop in utter shock. 'She... she played the tsukkomi!' She continues this throughout when feeling nervous. Sayuri and Yuichi get hit a lot because [[TheComicallySerious they find it hilarious to see Mai do that.]]
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* Two birds perform this as one of the endless minigames in [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever.]]
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* Two birds perform this as one of the endless minigames in [[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever.]]''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever''.
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* The WiiWare Sega title ''PoleNoDaibouken'' is an unusual example of this: the entire ''game'' is the ''boke'', what with all the weird and zany gags, and the narrator is the ''tsukkomi'' trying to be the foil to all the insanity.
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* The WiiWare Sega title ''PoleNoDaibouken'' ''VideoGame/PoleNoDaibouken'' is an unusual example of this: the entire ''game'' is the ''boke'', what with all the weird and zany gags, and the narrator is the ''tsukkomi'' trying to be the foil to all the insanity.
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* ''SketDance'' is one giant Shonen-style BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, quite arguably. Although all of the Sket Trio can be any of the two roles depending on the situation, Bossun and Himeko are able to pull off this act ''masterfully'', even when in their everyday interactions with each other.
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* ''SketDance'' ''Manga/SketDance'' is one giant Shonen-style BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, quite arguably. Although all of the Sket Trio can be any of the two roles depending on the situation, Bossun and Himeko are able to pull off this act ''masterfully'', even when in their everyday interactions with each other.
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* ''Gintama'' is basically a series of BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. The characters even describe their own interactions as such.
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
* DigimonXrosWars of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene... with Akari.]]
* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in ''AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
* DigimonXrosWars of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene... with Akari.]]
* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in ''AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
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* ''Gintama'' ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is basically a series of BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. The characters even describe their own interactions as such.
* In a typical bit of self-reference, Haré in''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'' ''Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu'' said that, since he is the show's ''Tsukkomi'', he is not good at telling funny stories.
*DigimonXrosWars ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' of all places have this. [[spoiler:And it was done during the DefrostingIceQueen episode for Nene... with Akari.]]
* In''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kasumi occasionally tries to pull off a sequence of these jokes playing both parts herself.
* Shows up in''AzumangaDaioh'' ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' quite often. Tomo occasionally demands to be the "boke" to an utterly unsuited Osaka's tsukkomi, and Yomi (who is eminently suited) has played that part at least once. Osaka was once asked to do this with Miss Yukari, and was asked which person should take which part. She asked Yukari to be the boke, prompting Yukari to bop her. As Yomi stated, "So it begins..."
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* ''{{Maria-sama ga Miteru}}'' does this in the PostEpisodeTrailer a couple of times.
* Megumi and Miki in ''TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the ''{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On ''KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
* Megumi and Miki in ''TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the ''{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On ''KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
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* ''{{Maria-sama ga Miteru}}'' ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' does this in the PostEpisodeTrailer a couple of times.
* Megumi and Miki in''TenshiNaKonamaiki'' ''Manga/TenshiNaKonamaiki'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual {{Hyperspace Mallet}}ing with the PaperFanOfDoom.
* Saki's willingness to be the''{{Genshiken}} ''Manga/{{Genshiken}} tsukkomi'' is treated as a RunningGag throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a PaperFanOfDoom.
* On''KeroroGunsou'', ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', Natsumi frequently refers to Keroro as ''boke-gaeru'' (usually translated as "stupid frog"). Episode 18 of the series involves Natsumi being [[OvernightAgeUp turned into an adult]] and given a KansaiRegionalAccent by Kururu's latest inventions, so she can perform ''manzai'' in a beauty pageant/comedy contest.
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* [[TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi's and Kyon's]] actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's'' and Kyon's actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.
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** Emphasized even more in ''[[HaruhiChan Haruhi-chan]]'', since in this particular series, every character undergoes intentional {{Flanderization}}.
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* Rina and Ranfa do an impromptu BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine when they run into each other in a ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' episode.
* The premise of ''LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of ''KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from ''HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In ''{{GetBackers}},'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker ... )
* The premise of ''LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of ''KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from ''HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In ''{{GetBackers}},'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker ... )
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* Rina and Ranfa do an impromptu BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine when they run into each other in a ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' episode.
* The premise of''LovelyComplex'' ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' is the budding romance between HugeSchoolgirl Risa and TheNapoleon Ootani, who has trouble seeing Risa as anything more than his partner in their {{Boke And Tsukkomi Routine}}.
* In an episode of''KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', Kaede entertains guests at a victory party by performing both parts of the routine with herself as the tsukkomi and Blanche as the boke.
* [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Aizawa Sakuya]] from''HayateTheCombatButler'' ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' more or less views life as a non-stop series of gags and comedy routines, frequently treating the unwitting Hayate as the boke and viciously assaulting him for any number of completely nonsensical reasons (mainly for being really bad at being a boke) whenever she makes an appearance. Her antics, in turn, often set ''her'' up for the boke role whenever Nagi is nearby, who answers attacks on Hayate in the name of comedy in kind.
* In''{{GetBackers}},'' ''Manga/GetBackers,'' Emishi and Amon pull off a number of these. (The first involves Emishi trying to describe the appearance, by comparing her to various celebrities, of a woman he's never met; in the second he insists on the existence of "stomach trilobites" to the point of drawing one on his abs in marker ... )
* The premise of
* In an episode of
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* In ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', doubles partners Hikaru "Dabide" Amane and Harukaze "Bane-san" Kurobane from Rokkaku frequently pull these off. More often than not, ''boke'' Dabide makes some rather bad word puns, and ''tsukkomi'' Bane kicks him ''on the head'' as a punishment. That even happens during matches, where Bane [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Dabide across the face if he's slacking.
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* In ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', doubles partners Hikaru "Dabide" Amane and Harukaze "Bane-san" Kurobane from Rokkaku frequently pull these off. More often than not, ''boke'' Dabide makes some rather bad word puns, and ''tsukkomi'' Bane kicks him ''on the head'' as a punishment. That even happens during matches, where Bane [[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps]] Dabide across the face if he's slacking.
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* Uryuu and Pesche did this when they were forced to team up on ''{{Bleach}}''. Pesche is [[RuleOfFunny acting stupid on purpose, though]].
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* Uryuu and Pesche did this when they were forced to team up on ''{{Bleach}}''.''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Pesche is [[RuleOfFunny acting stupid on purpose, though]].
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* The wannabe comedy duo in ''AkahoriGedouHourRabuge'', Love Pheromone, are a straightforward example of this. Mostly.
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in ''YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in ''YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
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* The wannabe comedy duo in ''AkahoriGedouHourRabuge'', ''Anime/AkahoriGedouHourLovege'', Love Pheromone, are a straightforward example of this. Mostly.
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in''YesPrettyCure5'' ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is not unlike that of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine. Nozumi is an [[TheDitz optimistic idiot]] who is always trying to [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]] while Rin is a [[GrumpyBear sensible realist]] who always points out the gaping flaws in Nozumi's plans. Usually along the lines of:
* The relationship between best friends Nozomi and Rin in
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** Later, [[TheCameo an actual manzai duo]], named Audrey, guest-stars in one episode of ''FreshPrettyCure''.
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* In ''FushigiYuugi,'' HotBlooded Tasuki and his best friend Kouji go into these sometimes.
* Maria in ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
* Maria in ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
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* In ''FushigiYuugi,'' ''Manga/FushigiYuugi,'' HotBlooded Tasuki and his best friend Kouji go into these sometimes.
* Maria in''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''
* Maria in
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* When she returns from Japan in ''KaleidoStar'', Sora gives Anna a set of manzai props (a PaperFanOfDoom and an [[{{baka}} idiot]] mask) as a souvenir. Anna then immediately tries to get Ken to play boke to her tsukkomi. Ken is not thrilled by the idea.
* Very common in ''MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
* Very common in ''MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
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* When she returns from Japan in ''KaleidoStar'', ''Anime/KaleidoStar'', Sora gives Anna a set of manzai props (a PaperFanOfDoom and an [[{{baka}} idiot]] mask) as a souvenir. Anna then immediately tries to get Ken to play boke to her tsukkomi. Ken is not thrilled by the idea.
* Very common in''MahouSenseiNegima'', ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', mostly due to lead girl Asuna's [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponized]] PaperFanOfDoom. Setsuna also seems to be able to convert her tanto weapon to a fan at will whenever she wants to DopeSlap someone (specifically Chao whenever she makes a SarcasticConfession about her many [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot affiliations]]).
* Very common in
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** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''LoveHina'', Mutsumi's... different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
* In a season 1 episode of ''SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
* In a season 1 episode of ''SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
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** In Akamatsu's earlier work ''LoveHina'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', Mutsumi's... different way of thinking is based on the idiot half, with Naru or Keitaro providing the straight man's reaction.
* In a season 1 episode of''SailorMoon'', ''Manga/SailorMoon'', this was one of the acts for a talent show.
* In a season 1 episode of
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* In ''Love Roma'', [[CloudCuckooLander Hoshino]]'s relationship with his girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Negishi]] mainly consists of him saying or doing something stupid and her [[DopeSlap slapping him for it.]] In one scene he mentions their romance is like a boke and tsukkomi routine. She's about to agree, when he mentions he's the tsukkomi and she's the boke.
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* In ''Love Roma'', ''Manga/LoveRoma'', [[CloudCuckooLander Hoshino]]'s relationship with his girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Negishi]] mainly consists of him saying or doing something stupid and her [[DopeSlap slapping him for it.]] In one scene he mentions their romance is like a boke and tsukkomi routine. She's about to agree, when he mentions he's the tsukkomi and she's the boke.
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* Break and Sharon have elements of this in ''PandoraHearts''.
* ''BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from [[TheLawOfUeki The Law of Ueki +]], this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
* ''BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from [[TheLawOfUeki The Law of Ueki +]], this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
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* Break and Sharon have elements of this in ''PandoraHearts''.
''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
*''BlackLagoon'' ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features this in an omake, which has Yukio and her kohai trying to do a manzai. No one in Yukio's yakuza gang apparently gets the idea of slapstick, and it doesn't end well. Brass knuckles get involved.
* In a strange example from[[TheLawOfUeki The Law of Ueki +]], ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki+'', this trope is actually part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, where he was badly injured while practicing one of these routines and his partner left the city without him, so he stopped believing in friendship. This character is otherwise completely serious, and upon the other characters being told about this, they decide to proceed to use BrainBleach.
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* In a strange example from
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* ''BGataHKei'' is essentially one big manzai routine between Yamada and her best friend Takeshita. Whenever Yamada bugs her best friend about something sex-related, Takeshita is there to smack her (verbally and/or physically).
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* ''BGataHKei'' ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is essentially one big manzai routine between Yamada and her best friend Takeshita. Whenever Yamada bugs her best friend about something sex-related, Takeshita is there to smack her (verbally and/or physically).
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* Koganei (a newscaster) and Amasawa (a weatherman) from ''TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' have a strong manzai dynamic together which creates much of the appeal of their program, as the audience is waiting for the moment Koganei will crack.
* NodameCantabile has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of ''FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between ''{{One Piece Strong World}}s''GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
* {{Eyeshield 21}} has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In ''IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
* NodameCantabile has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of ''FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between ''{{One Piece Strong World}}s''GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
* {{Eyeshield 21}} has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In ''IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
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* Koganei (a newscaster) and Amasawa (a weatherman) from ''TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' have a strong manzai dynamic together which creates much of the appeal of their program, as the audience is waiting for the moment Koganei will crack.
*NodameCantabile ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. {{Tsundere}} Chiaki often resorts to violence CloudCuckooLander Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect StraightMan.
* In an early episode of''FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagohime Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[PlanetOfHats planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between''{{One Piece Strong World}}s''GodCreatedCanonForeigner ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld's'' GodCreatedCanonForeigner villains Shiki and Dr. Indigo, who, apparently, have been doing it over 20 years ago.
*{{Eyeshield 21}} ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.
* In''IchigoMashimaro'', ''Manga/IchigoMashimaro'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.
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* In an early episode of
* This is a good part of ''Manga/OnePiece'''s humor. A character will say or do something completely absurd and act like it's no big deal, while someone else will flip out. A more literal example would be the interaction between
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* Solt and Peppor from ''ChronoCross'' display this kind of interplay during their boss fights. In fact, when we meet their Home World versions, they are doing this routine as a comedy duo on Fargo's ship.
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* Solt and Peppor from ''ChronoCross'' ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' display this kind of interplay during their boss fights. In fact, when we meet their Home World versions, they are doing this routine as a comedy duo on Fargo's ship.
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* Two birds perform this as one of the endless games in the Wii version of VideoGame/RhythmHeaven.
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* Two birds perform this as one of the endless games minigames in the Wii version of VideoGame/RhythmHeaven.[[RhythmHeaven Rhythm Heaven Fever.]]
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* Kunogi Himawari of ''{{xxxHolic}}'' misinterprets Doumeki and Watanuki's constant arguments as an attempt to be a humorous Boke and Tsukkomi team.
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* Kunogi Himawari of ''{{xxxHolic}}'' ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'' misinterprets Doumeki and Watanuki's constant arguments as an attempt to be a humorous Boke and Tsukkomi team.
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** The other notable example is this:
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** The other notable example One example, however, is this:based on misinterpreting Japanese characters:
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* Pretty much the core comedy dynamic in the ''AceAttorney'' line of games. Your sensible but put-upon attorney plays the tsukkomi for their usually CloudCuckoolander boke sidekick. Additionally, the same dynamic carries into the courtroom with the judge and loony witnesses, and the roles trade off fluidly between the prosecution and the defense in each game.
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* Pretty much the core comedy dynamic in the ''AceAttorney'' ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' line of games. Your sensible but put-upon attorney plays the tsukkomi for their usually CloudCuckoolander boke sidekick. Additionally, the same dynamic carries into the courtroom with the judge and loony witnesses, and the roles trade off fluidly between the prosecution and the defense in each game.
