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Tamori
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, 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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Film & TV
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori, is a Japanese television celebrity. 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. For more than 30 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo! ("It's OK to laugh!"), a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from…
Known for
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2026 Summer Special2026
- Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special — Tamori2025
- Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special — The Storyteller2025
- 知的探求フロンティア タモリ・山中伸弥の!?2025
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2024 Summer Special — Tamori2024
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2024 Winter Special — Tamori2024
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Summer Special2023
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special2023
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2022 Fall Special2022
- Tamori Station2022
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Minami-ku
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Waseda University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Student of
- Fujio Akatsuka
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Number of children
- 0
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- date of birth
- 1945-08-22
- birth name
- 森田 一義
- Commons category
- Tamori
- name in native language
- タモリ
- nickname
- タモさん
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- 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..
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