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 Japanes
Television personalities in Japan, known as tarento in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows.
Owarai
…prefix), 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. Presently Japan is considered to be in an "owarai boom", and many minor talents have been finding sudden fame after a gag or skit became popular…
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi hosts a daytime talk show Tetsuko's Room (徹子の部屋, Tetsuko no Heya). This program, as of 2022, has been broadcast for 47 years and more than 11,000 times, repeatedly winning Guinness World Records.