Bananaman (owarai)
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Bananaman is a Japan
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duo consisting of Osamu Shitara (設楽 統) and Yūki Himura (日村 勇紀).
Their skits are very high-quality, and have received praise from many people.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Owarai
is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. The word owarai is the honorific form of the word warai, meaning "a laugh" or "a smile". Owarai is most common on Japanese variety shows and the comedians are referred to as owarai geinin or owarai tarento...
duo consisting of Osamu Shitara (設楽 統) and Yūki Himura (日村 勇紀).
Their skits are very high-quality, and have received praise from many people.
Members
- Osamu Shitara (設楽 統), born April 23, 1973, in MinanoMinano, Saitamais a town located in Chichibu District, Saitama, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 11,822 and a density of 185.85 persons per km². The total area is 63.61 km².-External links:*...
, Chichibu DistrictChichibu District, SaitamaChichibu is a district located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 61,755 and a density of 77.58 persons per km²...
, Saitama PrefectureSaitama Prefectureis a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...
, plays the boke. He has the face of the actor, and has risen in popularity in recent years. His room was burnt down in March 2007 because of a careless smoking. He was a railroad worker before.
- Yūki Himura (日村 勇紀), born May 14, 1972, in HiroshimaHiroshimais the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, and moved to SagamiharaSagamihara, Kanagawais a city located in north central Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Tokyo, Japan. It is the third most populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of Greater Tokyo. Its northern neighbor is Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been...
, Kanagawa PrefectureKanagawa Prefectureis a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
at the age of 3, plays the tsukkomi. He is famous because of his strange face. Moreover, he is skilled at imitating Takanohana KojiTakanohana Kojiis a former sumo wrestler from Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. He was the 65th man in history to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, and he won 22 tournament championships between 1992 and 2001, the fifth highest total ever...
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