Longest-running weekly TV comedy panel show
- Who
- Sho-ten
- What
- 60 year(s)
- Where
- Japan
- When
- 15 May 2026
The longest-running weekly TV comedy panel show is Sho-ten which has been broadcast weekly by Nippon Television Network Corporation (Japan) for 60 years as of 15 May 2026
Sho-ten is a long‑running TV comedy panel vairety program that began broadcasting on 15 May 1966 on NTV. The program features a panel of rakugoka, or Japanese storytellers, giving witty improvisational responses to prompts in a style called ogiri.