Buruma Konno

Buruma Konno works in a corner of Japanese comedy that almost never gets exported, which is exactly why I find her worth pointing at. She is a pin geinin, a solo stand-up comic, born in 1986 in Shizuoka, and she performs under a stage name that no Japanese audience can hear with a straight face. That is a bet on yourself: pick a name that already sounds like a punchline and you had better be funny every single time. Her signature form is nazokake, a traditional riddle-pun structure that sets up politely and then lands somewhere considerably less polite. Wordplay comedy is unforgiving work; the joke either clicks in a second or dies in silence. Her entry here is thin on credits and awards, but live comedy careers rarely leave a tidy paper trail, and that absence tells you nothing about the craft.

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Name (English)

Buruma Konno

Name (Japanese)

紺野ぶるま

Reading

こんの ぶるま

Born

September 30, 1986 (age 39)

Origin

Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

172 cm

Occupation

owarai tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Blood type

B

Agency

松竹芸能

Works summary

Appearances

85 (2010–2025)

By year

2010: 1, 2011: 3, 2012: 1, 2013: 5, 2015: 10, 2016: 14, 2017: 17, 2018: 4, 2019: 5, 2020: 5, 2021: 1, 2022: 2, 2023: 3, 2025: 1

Debut work

ぷっ

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/buruma_konno/
• Xhttps://x.com/burumakonno0930
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%BA%E9%87%8E%E3%81%B6%E3%82%8B%E3%81%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11606237

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• owarai tarento

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.