Pedro Ruminot

Pedro Humberto Ruminot Araneda (Santiago, 4 February 1981) is a Chilean comedian and writer. He was a member of El club de la comedia from 2007 to 2013, serving as general director between 2011 and 2013. He currently works in stand-up comedy and takes part in the podcast Hablemos de comedia. He studied comunicación audiovisual at the Instituto Arcos and at the Escuela de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba, also studied ejecutive production at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and has been studying Law at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado.

He began his career as a writer on programs such as Morandé con compañía and worked at the children's channel ETC TV. In 2006 he was a reporter and writer on Duro de domar, broadcast in Chile by Chilevisión, where he performed his character "El notero pobre." After that he worked as a creative advisor for Chilevisión on programs such as REC and joined SQP in 2007. He continued as an advisor for Chilevisión, under which he led the project El club de la comedia, whose first episode aired on 27 June 2007 and which became an audience phenomenon. He was part of the group "La nueva comedia chilena," along with Fabrizio Copano, Sergio Freire and Rodrigo Salinas. In 2008 he created the podcast Vendetta Radio and also hosted the podcast Tierra 2, one of the most downloaded in Chile. In 2010 he played Jesús in a sketch on El club de la comedia that caused great controversy, leading the Consejo Nacional de Televisión (CNTV) to file charges, though it ultimately decided not to fine Chilevisión or the program.

In 2011 he traveled to Cuba to study film scriptwriting at the Escuela de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), and that year took over as general director of El club de la comedia from its seventh season. In 2012 he debuted with El late con Fabrizio Copano and began filming Barrio universitario, the first film he wrote and starred in, produced by Fábula and released in the second half of 2013. El club de la comedia ended in 2014, and Tierra 2 ended the following year after 69 episodes. During the pandemic, in 2020, he started the group SOCIOS together with Jorge Zabaleta, Pancho Saavedra, Stefan Kramer and Rodrigo Barañao. In 2014 the channel Comedy Central Latinoamérica broadcast Comedy Central Presenta: Stand-up en Chile, which featured his routine. In 2016 he won the gaviota de plata at the LVII Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar, in 2017 he premiered the show Socios with Felipe Avello, and in 2020 he again performed at the Festival de Viña del Mar, winning both the Gaviota de Plata and the Gaviota de Oro.