Cream Stew (くりぃむしちゅー) is a Japanese comedy unit (kombi) consisting of two comedians (お笑い芸人, owarai geinin), Shinya Ueda and Teppei Arita. Originally from Kumamoto, the pair first met in high school when Arita and Ueda caught wind of their common interest in pro wrestling.
More than 15 years later, Ueda and Arita are considered two of the most popular personalities on Japanese television, and can be seen performing daily, often on multiple shows in one day, sometimes on different channels simultaneously.
As with many Japanese kombi, one of the comedians is referred to as the boke, and the other the tsukkomi. As the boke, Arita is loud and prone to strange comments, while Ueda (sometimes called tempa, see note[1]) is the more reasonable of the two, often criticizing Arita's remarks while setting up further jokes and often providing Arita with a one man audience (even when nobody else is laughing).