I was watching a video of a Japanese comedy show and at one point one of the
comedians accidentally spilled a hot food on his superior. After that, his
peers referred to him as "Tanaka-han" a couple of times. I figure it sounds
like something mocking, but what does that mean, exactly?
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meaning kansai-ben
What does it mean when someone says -han after a person's name?
It’s probably the comedians using [Kansai-ben for
さん](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/180737/meaning/m0u/%E3%81%AF%E3%82%93/)?
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はん is a name-suffix used almost exclusively by people from Osaka/Kyoto.

The level of politeness はん has depends on the speaker. Manzai comedians,
geisha, or stereotyped heavy Kansai-/Kyoto-ben speakers in fiction may use はん
everywhere, even when they're being very polite (e.g. お客はん, 社長はん). But I
believe most real Kansai-ben speakers consider it as a colloquial and less
polite version of さん, and use it sparingly.

Either way, it doesn't have any derogatory or mocking nuance. I guess you
heard Tanaka-han simply because some people tend to speak in dialect when
they're excited or want to make someone laugh.
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