Daisuke Muramoto

Daisuke Muramoto, born in 1980 in the small town of Oi in Fukui Prefecture, sits in an unusual spot in Japanese comedy. Most comedians here work by consensus: find the shared joke, keep the room warm. He does close to the opposite, walking straight into subjects that make a broadcast producer sweat, and doing it on camera. What interests me more is his commitment to stand-up, a format that still has shallow roots in Japan compared with the two-person manzai tradition. Stand-up leaves you nowhere to hide. No partner to bounce off, no rhythm to fall back on, just one person and whatever they actually believe. Choosing that as a serious pursuit, rather than a novelty side project, says something about temperament. He also works as an actor, which fits the same pattern of refusing to stay in one lane. You do not have to agree with him to notice how few people are willing to be disliked on purpose.

Name (English)

Daisuke Muramoto

Name (Japanese)

村本大輔

Reading

むらもと だいすけ

Born

November 25, 1980 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Origin

Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

owarai tarento / actor / stand-up comedian

• Official sitehttps://profile.yoshimoto.co.jp/talent/detail?id=2851
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/muramotodaisuke1125/
• Xhttps://x.com/WRHMURAMOTO
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E6%9C%AC%E5%A4%A7%E8%BC%94%20(%E3%81%8A%E7%AC%91%E3%81%84%E8%8A%B8%E4%BA%BA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28931125

Tags

• Fukui Prefecture
• owarai tarento
• actor
• stand-up comedian

Last updated

2026-08-07

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