Takashi "Waka" Wakasugi (Japanese: 若杉 昂志, Hepburn: Wakasugi Takashi) is a Japanese comedian who performs in both Australia and Japan.[1]
Wakasugi attended Doshisha University in Japan. During his studies there in 2012, Wakasugi studied abroad at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he first performed stand-up in English.[1] Having previously worked for a time as a backpacking farmworker across Australia,[2] Wakasugi moved there in 2019, where his love of comedy and desire to further practice English resulted in him deciding to pursue stand-up full-time.[3][4]
In 2021, Wakasugi presented his stand-up show Farm Backpacker (Subclass417) at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF).[2] His show Stay Home Stay, about his experience in Perth during the COVID-19 pandemic, premiered in 2022.[5][6] At the 2023 MICF, Wakasugi won the Director's Choice Award for his show Japanese Worry.[7][8]
