Pete Johansson

Awsomely funny! Irreverant, brilliant, and smooth like fine jazz. catching Johansson perform is a trip, you can’t guess where he is going, but you die with laughter when he gets there.

Pete loves performing, and his natural talent has brought him many successes in his career his down home simplicity, bent perception and brainy insights lends him a unique point of view that engages your attention, tweaks your curiosity, and satisfies your need to laugh your ass off.

A former resident of Vancouver, and Montreal, Pete made his first forays into Hollywood after a wildly successful debut at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival, where appearing in one of the smaller shows he signed a deal with Warner Brothers Television, soon after Pete made his network debut on NBC’s Friday Night and followed that with the lead in the independent film Mixed Signals with Jason London and Brook Langdon. Keeping on the road Pete performed across the country for the Improvisation comedy clubs in his spare time. The following year he made his first foray into comedy in England and Ireland performing at London’s Comedy Store and various Jongleurs clubs. Returning from the road Pete started working with HBO independent productions in a new development deal and landed a spot at the USA Comedy arts Festival in Aspen Co, as one of the new faces. Pete also starred in his first half hour special for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an episode of Comics, he followed this up the following year with an hour long special for The Comedy Channel’s Comedy Now! series.

The shows kept rolling in, he landed two Just For Laughs Gala performances in the following two years, an appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and an appearance on Comedy Centrals Premium Blend and recently he has appeared on two episodes of Comedy Centrals Remix, Open Mike with Mike Bullard, National Lampoons Funny Money, and a role in the upcoming Showtime film The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie with Gena Rowlands and James Caan. Pete headlines comedy clubs coast to coast from New York’s Carolines Comedy Club, to The Punchline in San Francisco to Austin’s Comedy Club. He can be seen almost every weekend at The Improv on Melrose or The Icehouse when not touring.

“Pete Johansson was by far the breakout performer this year at Just for Laughs, but more importantly made my list of best jokes of the fest twice!”
-Montreal Gazette
“…one of the comics to watch in Aspen is Pete Johansson…”
-Hollywood Reporter
“Pete’s relaxed and insightful performance at the Improv brought the crowd what they had been waiting for all night”
-National Post
“With very little effort, Pete Johansson’s brief set brought the night back from the abyss of commonplace.”
-LA Weekly
“Strong performances all around at the Theatre St Denis, including some standouts…Pete Johansson being one of them.”
-Variety