List of Japanese comedians by year of debut
This is a list of Japanese comedians—known in Japanese as owarai geinin, owarai tarento, or simply geinin—and their group names. This page uses the word "comedian" in its broadest possible sense. For more information on modern Japanese comedy, see owarai. Names on this page are listed by the year of their debut or entrance into the entertainment industry. The list covers only notable comedians. Comedy groups that were formed years after the members debut will not be listed as the members will be listed individually.
For a list of Japanese comedians by alphabetical order, see List of Japanese comedians
1951
- Masaaki Sakai
1952
- Danshi Tatekawa
1954
- Jirō Sakagami
- Chōsuke Ikariya
1962
- Cha Katō
1963
- Kiyoshi Nishikawa
- Toshio Sakata
1964
- Kinichi Hagimoto
- Pe Hayashiya
1965
- Obon Kobon
1966
- Katsura Bunshi VI
1968
- Pakko Hayashiya
- Kanpei Hazama
1971
- Emiko Kaminuma
1972
- Takeshi Kitano
- Tsurube Shōfukutei
- Tsurube Shohei
- Ken Shimura
- Daisuke Miyagawa
1973
- Tsurutaro Kataoka
1974
- Sanma Akashiya
- Shinsuke Shimada
- Tsutomu Sekine
- Hanako Miyagawa
1975
- Tamori
- All Hanshin・Kyōjin
1977
- Kazuki Kosakai
- George Tokoro
- Shoji Murakami
- LaSalle Ishii
- Masayuki Watanabe
- Junji Takada
- Lou Oshiba
1979
- Kimimaro Ayanokōji
1980
- Tunnels
- Corokke
1981
- Masami Hisamoto
1982
- Downtown
- High Heel
- Hideyuki Nakayama
- Jimmy Ōnishi
- Hoikenta
1983
- Hidehiko Ishizuka
- Naoko Nozawa
1984
- Hikaru Ijūin
- Kenji Moriwaki
1985
- Koji Imada
- Koji Higashino
- Itsuji Itao
- Hon Kon
- Dachō Club
- Utchan Nanchan
- Tetsurō Degawa
1986
- Yūichi Kimura
- Lytton Chosadan
- Hiromi
1987
- Toshiaki Megumi
- Kunikazu Katsumata
- Ijiri Okada
- Kannazuki
1988
- Hōsei Tsukitei
- Tamayo Shimada
- Hanako Yamada
- Bakusho Mondai
- Summers
- Takahiro Azuma
- Kunihiro Matsumura
- Edo Harumi
- Matazō Mimata
1989
First Gen
- Ameagari Kesshitai
- Gokuraku Tombo
- Jun Nagura
Second Gen
- FUJIWARA
- Chihara Kyōdai
- Buffalo Goro
- Takeshi Nadagi
- Ken Horiuchi
1990
- Ninety-Nine
- Hanamaru・Daikichi Hakata
- Yoiko
- TKO
- Daisuke Miyagawa
- Hidetoshi Hoshida
- Yasushi Kawabata
- Taizō Harada
- Yūki Himura
- Udo Suzuki
- X-GUN
1991
- Cream Stew
- Teruyuki Tsuchida
- Katsura Sando
- Hiroyuki Amano
- Daimaou Kosaka
- Yasu
- Kazuki Iio
1992
- Hiroiki Ariyoshi
- Oasiz
- Hitori Gekidan
- Cocorico
- Kenji Tamura
- Kendo Kobayashi
- Takashi Fujii
- Nakagawake
- Hollywood Zakoshisyoh
- Tomonori Jinnai
1993
- Kazutoyo Koyabu
- Kazuya Kojima
- Cowcow
- Othello
- Masuda Okada
1994
- London Boots Ichi-go Ni-go
- Tomomitsu Yamaguchi
- Osamu Shitara
- Penalty
- Ken Watabe
- TIM
- America Zarigani
- Untouchable
- Jicho Kacho
- Yoshimi Tokui
- Shampoo Hat
- Ryuichi Kosugi
- Takashi Yoshida
- Yasei Bakudan
- Ryo Fukawa
- Savanna
- Sugi-chan
- Koriki Choshu
- Shinji Maggy
- Satoshi Iizuka
1995
- Bakarhythm
- Ogi Yahagi
- Garage Sale
- Terumoto Gotō
- Nozomu Iwao
- Kentarō Kokado
- Jun Itoda
- Kazuhiro Ozawa
- Taka and Toshi
- Shinagawa Shōji
- Bibiru Ōki
- Akinaga Toyomoto
- Akihiro Kakuta
- Hiroshi
- Tetsuo Sato
- Tokyo Dynamite
- Kōji Nishida
- Akimasa Haraguchi
- Yasuda Danchō
1996
- Sayaka Aoki
- Drunk Dragon
- Shuhei Shimada
- Rahmens
- Hosei Hachimitsu
- Dandy Sakano
- License
- Viking
- Sōichi Nakaoka
- Tetsuo
- Rozan
1997
- AMEMIYA
- Yuki Hirako
- Asako Ito
- Pa-kkun Ma-kkun
- Hanawa
- Bad Boys
- Jun Kurose
- Razor Ramon
1998
- Akira Kawashima
- Hiroshi Tamura
- Hiroki Konno
- Masashi Kumada
- Sandwich Man
- Mitsunori Fukuda
- Oniyakko Tsubaki
- Tetsu and Tomo
- Impulse
- Robert
- Morisanchū
- Chūei
- Shinichirō Takiue