Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! (めちゃ²イケてるッ!?) is a popular Japanese variety show, shown on Fuji TV. The first episode aired on 16 October 1996. The hosts of the show are the owarai duo Ninety-Nine (Takashi Okamura and Hiroyuki Yabe). The show is also known as Mecha-Ike (めちゃイケ).
The regular members of the show are:
Egashira 2:50 also appears as a semi-regular guest.
Kayoko Ookubo of Oasiz joined as a regular member since the year 2000 though her partner Yasuko Mitsuura had been a regular since the beginning.
In 2006, a scandal caused Keiichi Yamamoto of Gokuraku Tombo to leave the show and the entertainment world.
Auditions for new regular members were held in 2010, while Okamura was recovering from his illness. The winners and new regular members were Jaru-jaru (Shusuke Fukutoku, Junpei Goto), Tanpopo (Emiko Kawamura, Kumiko Shiratori), Atsushi, Satomi Shigemori, and Motokatsu Sannaka.
In 2010, Takashi Okamura of Ninety-Nine left the show for a few months in order to recover from an unspecified illness.
IN 2016, Motokatsu Sannaka or usually called by "San-chan" graduate from Mechaike to be a Geinin.
The show consists of a varied selection of games (called corners) and comedy sketches in a format that is relatively typical of popular Japanese comedy themed variety shows, though many of the games are never played more than once. Generally each show introduces one special guest, and they take a central role in most of the games.
The following is a list of a few corners that were played on the show.