Kiyotaka Nanbara is a Japanese comedian known as a member of the manzai duo Utchan Nanchan along with Teruyoshi Uchimura.
Career
He is the boke of the two. In 1985, while attending the Yokohama Broadcasting Technical School, Kiyotaka was in the same class as Tetsurō Degawa, and Masato Irie. He decided to perform with Nanbara as a manzai duo and was given the name "Utchan, Nanchan" by his teacher, Keiko Utsumi.
Membership
In 1999 they crossed the English Channel on their television show, "Utchan Nanchan"s Urinari." In 2001 he became a member of Japanese musical group Memory Cats and led the comedy musical group Happa-tai, whose song "Yatta" became an internet meme.