Yūsuke Inoue

Yūsuke Inoue belongs to a profession that does not really exist outside Japan in the same form: the owarai tarento, a comedian who works the stage, the variety panel, and the television studio all at once. Born in Osaka in 1980, educated at Higashiyodogawa High School and Kobe Gakuin University, he took an ordinary path into an extremely unforgiving trade. Osaka comedy is a demanding apprenticeship. The audience there is famously unimpressed by celebrity and quick to withdraw its attention, which tends to produce performers with fast reflexes and no illusions. What I appreciate about comedians in his position is that the skill is largely invisible. The visible half of a comedy duo gets the laugh; the other half chooses the exact word, in the exact fraction of a second, that makes the laugh possible. He has also been willing to be the target rather than the aggressor on variety shows, which sounds easy and is not. Staying employable in that world past forty is its own quiet achievement.

Name (English)

Yūsuke Inoue

Name (Japanese)

井上裕介

Reading

いのうえ ゆうすけ

Born

March 1, 1980 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

165 cm

Occupation

owarai tarento

High school

Osaka Prefecture Higashiyodogawa High School

University

Kobe Gakuin University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nonyusuke/
• Xhttps://x.com/inoueyusuke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E4%B8%8A%E8%A3%95%E4%BB%8B%20(%E3%81%8A%E7%AC%91%E3%81%84%E8%8A%B8%E4%BA%BA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11373222

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• owarai tarento

Last updated

2026-08-07

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