Kitano Takeshi (きたのたけし Kitano Takeshi (pronounced Kitano Takeshi in Rome),1June+94718 10 was born in Tokyo. Graduated from Meiji University Engineering Department, worked as a taxi driver and a striptease comedian. 1973 and Jian Ziqing formed a cross talk group "Erpai", which is active in television and broadcasting and popular with spicy and black humor, and became the soul figure of Japanese cross talk craze in 1980s.