Last year’s comedian famous for exactly one phrase and exactly one move:

This year’s:

It’s kind of like the early career of Jim Carrey, if he had been a different comedian each year each playing only that role, and his act had consisted entirely of getting on stage and saying “(varying preamble) Alllllllrighty then!” and making a funny face for the camera at the end.

It’s hard to tell if the people behind these acts really only have that one ace up their sleeve and no proverbial hand of cards to play what most people would call “comedy”, which to me involves at least the pretense of and potential for improvisation; or if marketing forces have simply sheared off all save whatever is memorizable to everyone in Japan ages 4-whoever is currently the oldest person in the world.