sentences:  Regarding the hiatus he was also noted afterward as saying that he felt down about the start of a downward trend in ratings.After returning from hiatus, he returned to television but struggled with the failure of subsequent programs,
  and saw the surrender of his early '80s spot in the "Owarai Big 3" with Beat Takeshi and Tamori to Sanma Akashiya.However, he still regularly appears on television such as on "Kinchan & Katori Shingo no Zen-Nihon Kasō Taishō" ("Kinchan & Shingo Katori's All-Japan Costume Grand Prix"), and is still a household name.