落語

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 落語, read らくご, is a single traditional performance name whose whole spelling 落語 denotes Japanese comic storytelling.
• Basic usage: It denotes traditional Japanese comic storytelling in which one performer portrays multiple characters through speech and gesture, as in 生の落語を聞く.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Scope and context
  • It is a performance genre with a storytelling form, not merely one ordinary joke 冗談.