First episode date 18 October 2005 Network Japan News Network | Final episode date 10 September 2013 Genres Variety show, Comedy | |
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Cast Hitoshi Matsumoto, Masatoshi Hamada, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Masakazu Mimura, Kazuki Ōtake Similar Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya, Variety show, Ame Talk, Bakushô! Dai Nippon akan keis, Downtown DX | ||
Lincoln (リンカーン) was a Japanese variety show. It premiered on October 18, 2005 and ended on September 10, 2013, and aired on TBS every Tuesday night. Hosted by the comedy duo Downtown, it featured seven other comedians in its regular cast, and had several recurring younger, up-and-coming comedians as guests.
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The show used Abraham Lincoln as its mascot, and its slogan was: "The program of the geinin, by the geinin, for the geinin", parodying a line from his famous Gettysburg Address. The object of the show was to have the younger comedians watch and learn from the more experienced comedians through fun and games.
The opening used the song "The Revolution" by BT and featured the regular cast as superheroic anime characters in a futuristic setting. The animation was done by Studio 4°C, a studio well known for The Animatrix.