Carl Stanley

Carl Stanley, born on 1 December 1996, is a Swedish stand-up comedian. In 2015 he took part in the second season of Mystikhörnan, where he played the troll hunter Axen Johnsson. He grew up in a villa area in Helsingborg with both parents and a younger brother. He has mentioned that as a child he saw Eva Rydberg in a TV performance and wished he could do as she did. He later began doing magic, specializing in close-up card magic, also after seeing a TV performance by Seth Engström. As a magician he began performing at local events and mixed stand-up comedy into his shows. In 2011, at the age of fourteen, he competed in the Swedish magic championships in both the junior and senior classes, winning the junior class and coming second in the senior class, and later also won the senior class in 2013.

After finishing secondary school he moved to Stockholm and focused entirely on stand-up comedy. At the same time his YouTube channel grew, and he was nominated for Årets löfte at the YouTube gala Guldtuben 2015, where he came in second. He achieved a wider breakthrough with the YouTube video Sytemkollaps the following year. This led, among other things, to him becoming a panel participant in the humor program Parlamentet in autumn 2016, as the youngest participant ever. The same year he won the Svenska standupgalan in the category Årets nykomling. He has collaborated extensively with Marcus Berggren, including the Tombola Podcast and the show Motorcykelkriget for SVT.

In autumn 2017 he went on his first tour as a comedian with the show Ärligt talat, and in 2019 he went on the tour Född 1996. In 2022 he did his third tour, Akta huet. Performances from all three tours were recorded and shown by Sveriges Television. In spring 2024 he began a new tour to test new jokes ahead of a regular tour. His awards include Bästa nykomling at the Svenska Stand up-galan in 2016 and Årets manliga komiker at the Svenska Stand up-galan in 2022.