Kamaitachi (かまいたち) is a Japanese comedy duo consisting of Kenji Yamauchi and Ryūichi Hamaie.
Kenji Yamauchi (山内健司), not to be confused with a playwright and film maker sharing the same name, was born in Honjo, Matsue City, Shimane prefecture on January 17, 1981.
His hobbies include shogi and horse racing and also has an Instagram and YouTube channel dedicated to domestic cats.
[13] Around the same time, they decided to create separate YouTube accounts, which became known as the "Hamaitachi Channel" and "Kouchi-san's House of Nyan-Tuber" respectively.
In April 2020, their first regular main TV program, dubbed Kamaitachi’s Castle of Pie in the Sky (かまいたちの机上の空論城) hit the airwaves.
Their most common style follows the standard shabekuri manzai convention of separating roles into a boke and a tsukkomi foil.
Yamauchi generally plays the role of boke, often a quarrelsome crazy man, and Hamaie rebuffs him.
[16] Both Yamauchi and Hamaie have been fans of the Japanese rock bank Radwimps for some time and they used their music in their appearances.
Later, an exchange on Twitter led to a friendship with lead vocalist Yojiro Noda, and a joint event was held in 2019.