みなさん、こんにちは。今、残念ながら繁昌亭は新型コロナの影響で休館中でございますが、来るべき再開に向けて、それまで上方・落語家みんなで小噺・数珠つなぎでお楽しみいただきたいと思います。まずは、私から露の五郎兵衛師匠のコワイロでダジャレ小噺。

あんさんの旦那は、そりゃ炭酸だっか。そうだ。

はい、桂三金の弟子の桂松金です。よろしくお願いします。社長、うちの会社のサービスを利用する人がどんどん減ってきてます。たぶん飽きられたんやと。そうか。秋が来たか。ほな、これからうちの会社は冬の時代や。

どうも、上方落語界の内村航平こと月亭希游です。内村航平さんになぞらえまして、体操小噺をひとつ。あれ？向こう跳び箱の前に勢いつけて走ってるけど、あれ？男の子やのに女の子の格好してるな。あれ？助走です。東京オリンピック待ってろよ！

桂しん吉です。ある人が街中に立っておりますと、一人の人が大八車にあんどんを山盛りに積んでね。あんどん、昔の照明器具。この大八車を、がーらっ、がーら、がーら、がーらと向こうの方へ引いていく。こら、向こうよっぽど日暮れんねやなぁ

あ、米團治ですあら、こんなとこに定期券落ちてるわぁどんならんなぁ、誰のんやこれ名前書いてへんやなぁブサイクやなぁ区間は？駅名も書いてへんでぇ有効期限は？日付も書いてへんやないかいなぁわしなんでこれ定期券や言うてわかったんやろ懐かしい、枝雀さんの小噺でした皆さん、頑張りましょう！どうぞ！

Hello, everyone. Unfortunately, the Hanjo-tei theater is currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But until we can welcome you back upon our reopening, we Kamigata rakugo storytellers have come together to entertain you with a relay of short jokes! To kick things off, I'll do a pun joke in the voice of Master Tsuyu no Gorobei. "Is that carbonated water your husband's having?" "Soda!" Hello, I'm Katsura Matsukin, apprentice to Katsura Sankin. It's a pleasure to be here. "Boss, the number of people using our company's service keeps dropping." "They've probably grown tired of it—the novelty has fallen." "I see." "So autumn has fallen, huh?" "Well then, our company is heading into a harsh winter." Hello, I'm Tsukitei Kiyu, often called the Kohei Uchimura of the Kamigata rakugo world. In honor of Kohei Uchimura, here's a gymnastics joke. Wait a second. Over there, someone is running full tilt toward the vaulting horse, but... huh? That's a boy, but he's dressed up as a girl. Huh? Oh, he's taking a "run-up"—he's in cross-dress! Tokyo Olympics, here I come! I'm Katsura Shinkichi. A man was standing on a street corner when he saw another man pulling a large cart piled high with *andon* lanterns. *Andon*—those traditional paper-covered light fixtures. He was dragging this cart along, clattering and rumbling away into the distance. The man thought, "Boy, it must get awfully dark where he's going!" Ah, I'm Yonedanji. Oh, look, someone dropped a commuter pass here! What a pain, whose could this be? There’s no name on it. How inconvenient. What about the route? There are no station names written on it either! How about the expiration date? There's no date on it at all! Wait... how on earth did I even know this was a commuter pass?! That was a fond little joke by the late Master Shijaku. Everyone, let's hang in there! Over to you!