Tobias Persson

Lennart Tobias Persson, born 1 September 1975 in Göteborg, is a Swedish comedian. As a stand-up comedian and actor, Tobias Persson has appeared in a number of TV programmes, including "Morgonsoffan" on SVT with Petra Mede and David Batra, "SNN news" with Robert Gustavsson and Mikael Tornving, "Robins", "Hårdvinklat", "Lotta på Liseberg", Stockholm Live and Babben & Co, among others. He has done impressions on P3's "Carpe diem" and "Livh i P4", and has performed in several farces with Thomas Petersson, including the theatre farce Var är Zlatan?, which was shown on TV4 and TV4 Plus. He has staged his own solo shows such as "Kränkt var det här" (2014), Du måste skämta (2016) and "Man på prov".

In addition to his own television appearances, Persson has also written scripts for, among others, "SNN" on TV4, SVT's Robins and TV4's Time out. Together with Roger Gunnarsson and others, he is the creator of the Gyllene Tider parody film "Join the flumeride", which aired on ZTV in 1999. Tobias Persson was named best male stand-up comedian in 2008 at the Svenska Stand up-galan held at Södra Teatern in Stockholm.

Since 2009 he has frequently performed at top clubs across the United Kingdom, including with solo shows at the Fringe festival in Edinburgh. In 2009 he published the humour book Himlen hatar skinka, featuring rhyming poems that question religion, and in the autumn of 2014 he published the book Den ofrivillige ordvitsaren. He has also appeared in (and directed) commercials for ÖoB.