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Shichi Henge (Seven Variations) is a regular segment in Gaki no Tsukai. The first segment aired on October 1995 and continues to the present, with the 49th segment airing in April 2016.

In a Shichi Henge segment, one performer must change into seven different characters (hence seven variations), enter the production meeting room and induce laughter from the people inside (the targets). For each variation, anyone who laughs are required to take out ¥1000 (equivalent to $10) from their wallets and deposit them in a box. At the end of the seven variations the money is totaled up and the performer is ranked by how much he procured from the others. The cash goes to charity.

Normally all five members (barring one of them is doing the variations), as well as the top production staff participate as targets, with the setting of being in the middle of a production meeting. The performer consists of the five members and the staff in the early episodes, and later on guests, usually other comedians. Nobody has performed the Shichi Henge twice, without variations.

Several variations exists. In one variation, the role of performer and target is reversed - the performers each try to get the one target person to laugh. Another variation involves the same role reversal, but to scare the single target. These special variations do not enter the ranking.

List of segments[]

Ep Air date Performer Amount
earned (¥)
Rank
1995-10-15 Matsumoto Hitoshi * - -
1995-11-05 Yamasaki Hōsei 10000 50
1995-11-25 Suga Kenji (Producer) 14000 47
1996-03-03 Tsuttsumimoto Yukiou (Director) 10000 50
1996-06-09 Nakamura Yoshinobu (Producer) 9000 52
1996-09-29 Isomata Takuo (Former DT Manager) 25000 43
1997-02-02 Takasu Mitsuyoshi (TV Scenario Writer) 7000 53
1997-06-08 Otomo Yuichi (Director) 29000 36
1997-09-21 Endō Shōzō 16000 46
1997-09-28 Tanaka Naoki 40000 24
1997-11-23 Koshifuri Obaachan 37000 27
1999-03-14 Hotohara Toru (Ameagari) 19000 45
1999-05-16 Miyazawa Hiroyuki (Ameagari) 26000 40
1999-11-07 Ryuusen Horibe (TV Scenario writer) 44000 16
2000-03-12 Itao Family * - -
2001-06-17 Yamashita Shigenori (Jyarism) 11000 49
2002-02-17 Kimura Yuichi 27000 37
2002-09-08 Fukawa Ryo 31000 34
2002-11-24 Bob Sapp 53000 4
2003-10-19 Shinagawa Hiroshi (Shinagawa Shoji) 12000 48
2004-04-24 Yamasaki Hōsei - Reverse Shichi Henge* - -
2004-10-15 Arita Teppei (Cream Stew) 38000 25
2004-11-07 Chihara Seiji (Chihara Kyoudai) 43000 18
2004-12-12 Chihara Junior (Chihara Kyoudai) 26000 40
2005-04-17 Koumoto Junichi (Jichou Kachou) 63000 1
2006-02-06 Iwao Nozomu (Football Hour) 33000 32
2006-04-02 Goto Terumoto (Football Hour) 38000 25
2006-04-30 Tenjyourakara (Hot spring) * - -
2006-09-10 Heipo - Horror Shichi Henge * - -
2007-02-25 Fujimoto Toshifumi (Fujiwara) 35000 30
2007-04-29 Haranishi Takayuki (Fujiwara) 45000 14
2008-01-13 Kosugi Ryuichi (Black Mayonnaise) 48000 9
2009-02-15 Tetsuo Nakanishi (Warai Meshi) 53000 4
2009-03-08 Nishida Kouji (Warai Meshi) 27000 37
2009-11-01 Kendo Kobayashi 41000 23
2010-02-28 Himura Yuki (Bananaman) 46000 13
2010-05-09 Shitara Osamu (Bananaman) 37000 27
2010-09-12 Tomochika Yukiko 47000 10
2011-02-06 Kawashima Kunihiro (Yasei Bakudan) 35000 30
2011-08-07 Kurosawa Kazuko (Morisanchuu) 55000 3
2011-12-11 Nakagawa Reiji (Nakagawa Ke) 42000 19
2012-10-07 Kondo Haruna (Harisenbon) 36000 29
2013-02-17 Yamamoto Daigo (Chidori) 52000 7
2013-11-03 Horiuchi Ken (Neptune) 42000 19
2014-04-27 Kinoshita Takayuki (TKO) 44000 16
2014-08-31 Tsukaji Muga (Drunk Dragon) 42000 19
2014-11-23 Gekidan Hitori 44000 14
2014-08-16 Tamura Kenji 26000 40
2016-04-03 Hollywood Zakoshisho 27000 37
2016-07-17 Kano Eiko 25000 43
2016-11-13 Saito Shinji (Jungle Pocket) 51000 8
2017-04-09 Akiyama Ryuji (Robert) 47000 10
2017-06-11 Watanabe Naomi 60000 2
2018-01-14 Kotoge Eiji (Viking) 33000 32
2018-11-11 Yuriyan Retriever 30000 35
2019-04-14 Yamauchi Kenji (Kamaitachi) 47000 10
2019-09-15 Seiya (Shimofuri Myojo) 53000 4
2020-03-15 Osada Shohei (Chocolate Planet) 42000 19

* Special

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