Before Matsumoto met Hamada, he had a friend Ito who had a relationship so good that it was suspected that he was gay, and the two often performed together at that time, so Ito was Matsumoto's original partner. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut after Matsumoto and Hamada gradually got acquainted with each other after arriving in junior high school, the time spent together gradually increased, and one day when the three of them were playing together, Hamada and Ito had a conflict, and Hamada pushed Ito down and said to Matsumoto: "Forget it, Matsumoto is gone!",

Matsumoto went with Hamada, and since then Matsumoto has been estranged from Ito, and Matsumoto has said that if that had not happened, there would have been no DO.

When Hamada was in high school, he entered a school in Mie Prefecture, where he had to live in compulsory accommodation, and although he couldn't play with Matsumoto as before, because of the harsh environment of the high school, Hamada escaped from the school dormitory on the mountain several times, and Hamada, who fled by train without money, always called Matsumoto to bring money to pay for the train ticket.

When they were young, they used to compete to see who could wear the same pair of panties the longest, and after wearing the same pair of panties for two weeks, in the end, they couldn't stand it and threw their panties out of the window in the bathhouse together; The first date between two people was to bring each other's girlfriends on a date.

These experiences made Matsumotoshi and Hamada Masako's tacit understanding very good.

At that time, Yoshimoto Kogyo's seniors, who were already active in the TV industry, worked as lecturers at NSC, such as Shimada Shinsuke, Akashi family saury, and オール giant, and when the three of them happened to chat together, they all thought that it was DOWNTO who would stand out from NSC in the future.

When the two of them were working at a restaurant, they couldn't afford to take a ride back to Amagasaki from the restaurant one day, so they shared a bottle of coffee and milk and walked all the way back to Amagasaki from the downtown area of Osaka.

Hiroshi Osaki, the current president of Yoshimoto Kogyo, was still a regular member of the Tokyo head office at the time, and with the establishment of NSC, Osaki returned to Osaka as a member in charge. After DOWNTOWN became a big hit, many of the shows that came in and out of Tokyo were produced by Hiroshi Osaki.

When performing at the Flower Moon Theater, an audience member once scolded from the audience: "Give me a serious performance!" Get your tickets back! When Hamada heard this, he scolded back: "Okay, I'll pay you back, it's not much money, Baimu", and after speaking, he took out the change from his pocket and threw it to the audience.

When he was young, Hamada borrowed 3,000 yen from Matsumoto, so Matsumoto always said, "Give me back 3,000 yen!" "在ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!' In the show, this past was used as a topic several times, but every time Hamada wanted to repay the money, Matsumoto didn't accept it, and then took it out as a topic next time.

When I first debuted, I often had the opportunity to perform at the Kagetsu Theater in Kyoto, and even performed in Kyoto Kagetsu for a whole week, when the two performed in the interval between musicals, but when they performed, sometimes the audience was only dozens, or even less than ten, and no one laughed, and it was painful just to stand on the stage, and the two who couldn't stand it once ran into the backstage before the curtain was completely lowered. At that time, the salary of the theater was less than the ticket price for two people to take the train, and the two of them could only eat the bento made by their respective mothers after the performance.

The two who debuted after the end of the peak period of mancai, faced with group guests or elderly guests in the theater, although they both received good responses, but in order to test whether their mancai also had an appetite for young people, they asked TV Asahi at that time by 'gentleman's help? Ryusuke's program 'ヤングプラザ' recommended himself to be the pre-show narrator for a show with many young people, and the show did get laughter from young audiences, so he confirmed that his manga performance was correct.

Although the two of them were praised by some of the senior artists when they first debuted, it still took a while for them to become really popular, and the April 1985 issue of the magazine 'マンスリーよしもと' published by Yoshimoto Kogyo even started with the title of "Why isn't DOWNTOWN popular?" There are many Yoshimoto artists' comments on DOWNTOWN in it, including the upcoming disbandment of the group 'Shinsuke? Ryusuke's member Shinsuke Shimada said, "It's really hard to say, if you want to say why it takes two hours to get popular", Kanhei Mama also said, "It's obvious that it should be popular!" It's the company's fault that it's not popular" and other comments.

When the two were not popular, the few seniors who took care of DOWNTOWN were 'Taiping サブロー?シロー',At that time, the radio program host was about to be unloaded from the radio program 'Taiping サブロー?シロー' to recommend a new program to the radio station to be hosted by DOWNTOWN.,The radio also took the risk of using two people who were unknown at the time.,This is also the first normal program in DOWNTOWN.。 Later, Matsumoto was also very useful for honing on the radio at that time, and said that it was the prototype of 'ガキの使い' freetalk. Although they don't have the opportunity to perform together now, the two are still full of gratitude to their predecessors who promoted them in the past.

At the time of the Ni-chome Theater, DOWNTOWN had already gained unprecedented popularity in Osaka, and some people even described it as "When Downtown walked in Dotonbori, even the Self-Defense Forces would come out to see it." ”

At that time, the means of transportation at the Umeda, Namba, and Kyoto Kagetsu theaters was the Toyota mark ii. car that Hamada bought, and when he was almost late, he was photographed by the police for speeding, but Hamada ignored the ticket for several years, and was finally arrested after the live program '4 o'clock ですよ~だ', and the photos taken clearly showed Hamada and Matsumoto.

After the two became popular, their relationship became tangled again.

I don't know if it's because the two have known each other for too long, and they often meet at work, the two people don't meet at all in private, and they don't even have each other's mobile phone numbers, Matsumoto was hospitalized in 2010, Hamada didn't visit, and they don't chat outside the workplace, and the two are quite afraid of the embarrassing state of being alone in the lounge.

However, both of them trust and respect each other, and Matsumoto also listed respected artists in his book 'Suicide Note', including Hamada. Hamada once said that if the two disbanded, they would no longer be comedy artists, and Matsumoto also said that no one could be his partner except Hamada, but also said that if the two disbanded, they should not be friends.