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Also known as Kazuyoshi Morita, Morita Kazuyoshi

, known by his stage name (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese comedian and television presenter. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya.

Person · Open Library

Born
1946
Works
5

Top works

  • Dictionary of iconic expressions in Japanese
  • Onomatopia
  • Nihongo onomatope no kenkyū
  • Kenji onomatope no nazo o toku
  • Onomatope gion, gitaigo o tanoshimu

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
81
Total plays
873

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Key facts

Comedian.name
Tamori
Comedian.birth_name
Kazuyoshi Morita (森田 一義)
Comedian.native_name_lang
jpn
Comedian.birth_place
Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
Comedian.medium
Television
Comedian.employer
Tanabe Agency
Comedian.years_active
1975–present
Comedian.genre
Owarai
Comedian.footnotes
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Comedian.agent
Tanabe Agency -->

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Programs on which Tamori appears
  • Current
  • Past
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

, known by his stage name (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese comedian and television presenter. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya.

Since taking over the role in April 1987, Tamori has hosted the weekly music television program Music Station for over 34 years. For 32 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo!, a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from October 1982 until March 2014. Waratte Iitomo! earned Tamori the Guinness World Record for "Longest continued hosting of a live television program", while Music Station earned him the world record for "Longest running live TV music show hosted by the same presenter" in 2021. His likeness is the basis for the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros..

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamori” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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