Phil Roy

Phil Roy, born in 1988, is a Canadian humorist and actor. He took part for several years in improvisation leagues before enrolling at the Ecole nationale de l'humour in 2009. Two years later, people were already talking about his funny character with "La tournee des finissants cuvee 2011". During his studies, he was an educator at a primary school in Montreal. Several media also highlighted Phil's performance in the role of "l'ami Facebook" at the Gala Les Olivier 2011. Since then, he has been seen, among other things, as one of the Nobody columnists alongside Jean-Francois Mercier in Un gars le soir, and as a collaborator on Brassard en direct d'aujourd'hui on V Tele.

Phil Roy took part in the 2013 edition of the show En route vers mon premier gala Juste pour rire, where he was among the four finalists. The same summer, in Val-d'Or, he was doubly rewarded by winning the Concours de la releve de l'humour of the Festival d'humour de l'Abitibi-Temiscamingue and the Prix du public. In 2014, Phil Roy joined the house comedians team of SNL Quebec, the Quebec adaptation of Saturday Night Live, broadcast on Tele-Quebec. In the winter of 2016, he was the laureate of the Olivier Decouverte de l'annee at the Gala Les Olivier. In 2017, he launched the tour of his first one-man-show Monsieur. In 2018, he was offered his first television show, Phil s'invite, on V tele, renewed for a second and final season in 2019; he also made his radio debut as a Fantastique (columnist) on Veronique et les Fantastiques on Rouge FM from 2018.

Phil Roy, in 2020, proposed to his girlfriend of 2 years, Virginie Gascan Lauzon. Quickly, the couple were expecting their first child; in 2020, Billie was born, and in 2023 he was expecting his second child, whom they would call Cleo. In 2021, Phil Roy partnered with the humorist Louis Morissette to found the company TREMA, whose collaboration gave rise to the first canned latte coffee produced in Quebec. In 2024 and 2025, he hosted the Gala Quebec Cinema. In 2026, Phil Roy took part in the 4th edition of LOL : Qui rira le dernier?, and in 2026 he won the Quebec culinary show Nuls en chef.