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◆211「ゲストにビスケットブラザーズ登場！アニメキャラなりきりオーディション開催！」
Junior comedy duo Biscuit Brothers (ビスケットブラザーズ, Kin and Harada) guested on Stand By Mitorizu the week after the 2026 King of Conte, with Harada revealing he had just ¥63 in his bank account despite being a reigning champion. The episode covered his tabloid paparazzi incident at a pachinko parlor, the weeks-long fake "I might be a KOC judge" act that backfired spectacularly, and childhood memories that left the studio in stunned silence.
What this episode answers
What is the relationship between Biscuit Brothers and Mitorizu?
Mitorizu are NSC Osaka's 29th class and Biscuit Brothers are four years their junior at the 33rd class; the duos share a regular slot on Kansai MBS's 'Are Mita' and meet frequently at the theater. Moriyama says watching them laugh feels like seeing a nephew laugh.
What was the 'judge move' that Harada kept up around KOC 2026?
After hearing that two extra judges would be added to KOC, Harada spent weeks dropping cryptic hints to juniors and colleagues that he might be one of them — until Toro Salmon's Kubota-san sent a supportive early-morning LINE message, exposing the whole thing as a bluff.
What were the circumstances of Harada being photographed by a tabloid before his marriage announcement?
Before announcing his marriage, Harada visited a pachinko parlor with his partner and was teaching her to play slot machine Garo 6 when Flash magazine photographers — who had been staking out the location for about a month — captured everything, including a high-five at the jackpot moment.
How did the guests evaluate the 2026 King of Conte?
The champion was Geradon (ジェラードン); guests praised the simplicity of their 'drunk person' sketch premise and noted that their slot in the running order after a string of complex acts amplified the impact, with Harada suggesting the era of needing a straight man may be ending. Yahohi (やほい) also received high marks, and Spicy Garlic (スパイシーガリック) won the losers' tournament.
What childhood stories were shared in the 'Heart-Squeezing Corner'?
Moriyama crashed into the most popular girl in his grade while running sweaty from a soccer game and was made to apologize in front of the whole class; Lily overheard distant relatives say his eyes should have been bigger when he was three or four, and that was the first time he realized he wasn't good-looking.
Biscuit Brothers Appear — Their Relationship with Mitorizu
Mitorizu (盛山・リリー, Moriyama and Lily) welcomed their juniors Biscuit Brothers (ビスケットブラザーズ, Kin and Harada) as guests. Mitorizu are graduates of NSC Osaka's 29th class; Biscuit Brothers came four years later in the 33rd class. The two duos share a regular slot on Kansai MBS's *Are Mita* (アレみた) and often cross paths at the theater. Moriyama described watching them laugh as feeling like "when a nephew laughs — it just makes you happy," while Kin replied that every time he sees Moriyama he thinks, "Wow, a cool guy just walked in," drawing laughs all round.
The episode opened with a story about fellow 29th-class comedian Imai Raipachi's (今井ライパチ) ingratitude. When Raipachi moved to Tokyo, Moriyama let him stay at his apartment for about a month and even bought a Donjara (どんじゃら) board game to welcome him. Moriyama's wife later invited Raipachi's family to dinner, only to receive a noncommittal "I'll try to make it" followed by a last-minute no-show. "You can't feel any sincerity in it," Moriyama lamented.
Harada's Tabloid Shoot and the "No-Bath" Legend
Harada shared the story of being photographed by weekly tabloid Flash (フラッシュ) while visiting a pachinko parlor with his partner before their marriage announcement. He was busy teaching her how to play slot machine Garo 6 (牙狼6) when a photographer settled into the adjacent seat and captured everything — including a high-five at the jackpot. The stakeout had lasted about a month. Harada noticed someone pointing a camera at him from behind a utility pole midway through but pretended not to see.
As for Harada's reputation for skipping baths — a quirk that briefly went viral — it turned out that Moriyama had been single-handedly keeping that fire alive in the Kansai comedy circuit for two full years. "On *Are Mita*, I was the only one who kept bringing it up. I never let the flame die," Moriyama confessed.
A Deep Dive into KOC 2026
The 2026 King of Conte champion was Geradon (ジェラードン). Moriyama admitted he hadn't watched the show by the time they recorded the episode and learned the result from spoilers on X. He praised the winning set — built around the universally legible premise of a drunk person — as "the kind of simplicity that goes back to the very roots of sketch comedy." The panel also noted that Geradon's slot in the running order, coming after a string of complex acts, played a crucial role in the impact. Harada added that audiences are increasingly able to enjoy a sketch without a straight man, suggesting "the ecosystem of the sketch comedy world may be changing."
Harada then came clean about his own "judge move." After hearing that two extra judges would be added to KOC, he convinced himself he might be one of them and spent weeks dropping cryptic hints to juniors in the backstage smoking area in Osaka — "I can't say anything right now, just watch the broadcast." He kept up the act at a drinking party too, until Toro Salmon's (トロサーモン) Kubota-san sent him an early-morning LINE: "Even if you end up being a judge, I fully support you — looking forward to it." "I'd just turned myself into a total liar," Harada said, visibly mortified.
He also spotlighted a moment from Nihon no Shacho's (日本の社長) pre-set interview: Tsuji-san (辻さん) said, "Could someone pour just a tiny bit of alcohol into the judges' water?" His partner Ketsu-san (ケツさん) immediately whispered, "Water-cut style, yeah." Harada called it "the national debut of the supplementary-joke art form."
A Champion with ¥63 in the Bank
Despite being a reigning champion, Harada is flat broke. He headed to the venue to enter the M1 Grand Prix second round, only to realize he didn't have the ¥2,000 entry fee in his wallet, so he turned around and rode the escalator back down. He recently showed the others his banking app, which displayed a balance of ¥63 — accompanied by a cartoon beckoning-cat mascot with the message "I'm sleepy, meow." The studio fell silent.
Moriyama also shared a baffling text exchange: between recording sessions he sent a LINE to Biscuit Brothers asking, "Which one of you is on today?" Hours later the reply arrived: "Anal lick lick" (アナルペロペロ). Presumed to be a misdirected message, the incident was never explained and dissolved into laughter.
The Heart-Squeezing Corner
The show's regular childhood-memory segment delivered two gems. Moriyama recalled running at full speed down a hallway after a sweaty lunchtime soccer game in elementary school, only to collide around a corner with the most popular girl in his grade. His sweat ended up on her arm, and she burst into tears crying, "Moriyama's sweat got on me!" At the end of sixth period, his homeroom teacher made him stand up and apologize in front of the entire class.
Lily (リリー) recalled a moment from when he was three or four years old. He was sunbathing in a hallway when two distant relatives walked past, talking to each other: "It's a shame his eyes couldn't have been just a little bigger." "That was the first time I realized I wasn't good-looking," Lily said, before adding quietly, "I still know exactly who those aunties were."
Takeaways
- KOC 2026 champion Biscuit Brothers' Harada revealed a bank balance of ¥63 and that he couldn't afford the ¥2,000 M1 Grand Prix entry fee, painting a stark picture of life as a broke champion.
- Harada's weeks-long fake 'I might be a KOC judge' act snowballed across the Kansai comedy scene until Toro Salmon's Kubota-san sent an unwittingly encouraging LINE that exposed him as a bluffer.
- Guests argued that Geradon's KOC 2026 win — built on a simple 'drunk person' premise with no straight man — signals a shift in the ecosystem of sketch comedy.
This article is edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. It is not an official summary — please listen to the episode itself.