BJ Fox

Benjamin Fox, known professionally as BJ Fox, is a British stand-up comedian originally from London who has been based in Tokyo since 2015. Before turning to comedy, he worked in the video game industry, including a role at Rockstar Games overseeing sales and marketing for Grand Theft Auto in Asia, and had earlier lived in Japan as an English teacher. He began performing stand-up as a hobby while based in Singapore and continued after relocating to Tokyo. In 2017 he wrote, produced and starred in Home Sweet Tokyo, billed as NHK's first English-language sitcom. In 2022 he co-founded Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya, described at the time as Japan's only full-time venue dedicated to English-language stand-up comedy, where he has performed as a resident act. Fox also performs stand-up in Japanese, appearing in the club's Japanese-language stand-up shows aimed at introducing Western-style stand-up comedy to Japanese audiences.