Ike Nwala


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Ike Nwala is a Nigerian-American comedian, actor, and narrator based in Tokyo, Japan. He was born on June 5, 1986, in Manhattan, New York and was raised in Seattle, Washington. Nwala is a member of the comedy group Chō Shinjuku and is represented by Watanabe Entertainment.

Biography

While in college as a Japanese video shop worker in Chinatown–International District, Seattle, he was shocked by Junji Takada's early morning bazooka corner of the comedy programm Tensai Takeshi no Genki ga Deru TV!!, which became a big opportunity to seek as a comedian. When he saw "Muneo Kurii" and "Yabao Gesu" played by Hironari Yamazaki in Richard Hall, he could not understand what the dialogue, but felt it was "comical and funny!", and his interest in comedy increased. After being recommended by a clerk, he continued to watch Japanese comedians and their shows, such as Junji Takada, Untouchable, Ogiyahagi, Ninety-nine, Downtown, Cream Stew, etc. After having graduated from university with a dream of becoming a comedian in Japan one week after coming to the country, he started living in Hirano-ku, Osaka and studied Japanese and the Kansai dialect by way of self-teaching through watching more programs.
After five years passed since he came to Japan, he participated in the audition of Chō Shinjuku with the recommendation of actor Gota Watabe, and joined Chō Shinjuku, who was selected by the audition on 29 September 2011.

Personal life

Since he was nine years old he continued IT as a hobby. When he was eighteen, he entered a private institute of technology in Washington to learn about information technology and technician relations. He grade skipped for two years and graduated at the age of twenty. After that, he worked as a data centre engineer at Goldman Sachs, a major foreign-owned securities company.
Actor Gota Watanabe and singer Nana Tanimura are two of his good friends. Tomohisa Yamashita is also close to him, and says that he is "a really friendly creature," in regards to Yamashita's personality.

Style of acting

Chō Shinjuku

He has many blurs trying to conform to Japanese culture. Member Tiger Fukuda dubbed American jokes into the neta. Sometimes he imitates Dante Carver, Usain Bolt, Tiger Woods, etc. Along with Koala Koarashi and the two of them also have a combi-activity with the name Nuwarashi.

Nuwarashi

As a representative example, he is the one that made Nankin Tamasudare American style. He heavily uses "Oh!", "Yeah!", and "Come on!" in the stories. Koala Koarashi makes the neta. In addition, there was a rhythm net "Pocochin drum" that shows vocal percussion by hitting the crotch, which was exhibited at TBS Television's Arita Children, which recorded sixth place in the Yahoo search word and collected topics.

Pin activities

He performed as a bilingual MC of popular programme Oha Suta.
In 5-Ji ni muchū, he was in charge as Kurofune correspondent every Wednesday. He is a cheerful character like Eddie Murphy and it turns back on the pretend of Ryo Fukawa with American jokes and lower neta.
He has a monologue story called "announcement at the entrance of Tokyo DisneySea", and it became a topic on Twitter and so on at the moment on the fact that this was broadcast at the 21st "Komakasugite Tsutawaranai Monomane Senshuken".
He was ranked in the 2016 half-year TV programme ranking "break tarento" department tenth place, attracting attention.
After that, the number of his appearance programmes had steadily increased, the number of his appearance program was 13 in the previous year, which increased to 175 and ranked in the sixthplace of the break-thread division of 2016.

Publications

Newspapers

Participation work

Films

Television

Current regular programmes

; Regular
; Quasi-regular
; HBO
; TV Tokyo
; Nippon TV
; Fuji Television
  • Tonneruzu no Minasan no Okage deshita Hakase to joshu –Komakasugite Tsutawaranai Monomane Senshuken–
  • Sakigake! Ongaku no Jikan
  • Proyagu Chin Play Kō Play Taishō
  • Nep League
  • Love music
  • Ninki Geinōjin ni Itazura! Gyōten Happening * Renpatsu
; Tokyo MX
  • Barairo Dandy
; TV Asahi
; TBS Television
; BS-CS broadcast
; Sky PerfecTV!
; Iwate Asahi Television/Akita Asahi Broadcasting
; Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
; Mainichi Broadcasting System
; Space Shower TV

Current regular programmes

Former appearances

( In 1997, she applied to the "1st The Japan Audition" by a classmate's recommendation while studying at Kagawa Prefecture Takamatsu West High School. She passed the actor division from 190,000 people and entered the entertainment industry. The following year, she debuted as a heroine role at TBS series Pu-Pu-Pu- where V6's Coming Century starred.

Stage

Personal live

Television

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