ABOUT
Johnny Watson
New Jersey’s Not - So - Tough - Guy Comedian
IT START WITH
An Endless Passion for humor
For Discovery, for life and for people
Johnny Watson comes under many descriptions: “Dynamic,” “Relatable,” “Professional,” and most important of all, “Very, Very Funny.” Johnny Watson is a “nice guy” comedian who can perform anywhere and under any circumstance. Once Johnny finds his “zone” he’s all there.
Audiences love him for his charisma on the stage. Johnny creates an outstanding relationship with the crowd, easily interacting with groups large and small with his clean, sometimes goofy and sometimes edgy delivery. He excels a treading a crowd and playing to its taste. Club owners love Watson for his dependability.
“Johnny always gets the job done, regardless of the size of the crowd or the venue, ”said Gordie Mills, manager of the Comedy Nest in Montreal, Canada. Whether on stage or in front of the camera, Johnny’s charm and humor attracts attention.
“That guy [Watson] has the looks, the smarts, and the appeal to be a star,” Hollywood casting director Dean Fronk said after seeing Watson perform in Pasadena, California.
Johnny has even garnered attention
from Hollywood stars. Adam Ferrara of the acclaimed FX hit “Rescue Me” and Comedy Central fame said after a performance that “Johnny Watson always makes me laugh.” Part of what makes Johnny so funny is that he doesn’t have a need to exaggerate. Genuinely honest and self deprecating, there is no topic from his life that he is afraid to poke fun at. From a tough New Jersey neighborhood, Johnny “couldn’t fight a lick,” he says, so “I had to be funny if I wanted to stay alive!” After graduating dead last in his class, Grandma Watson implored him to try comedy because, she said lovingly, “you’re no good at anything else!”
It never ends
Passion never die. It grows
Stay Hungry and Funny
His comedy draws on his hard-knock life – his heroin-addicted father, apathetic mother, and even his own juvenile alcoholism – and turns it into something to laugh about. And audiences laugh until they cry because no one can resist the contagious energy – and smile – of the college dropout, Navy veteran, and all-around good guy Johnny Watson.
Johnny has appeared throughout the United States and Canada at many
of the biggest clubs, including The Comic Strip Live, New York Comedy
Club, Broadway Comedy Club in New York City, and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. He has appeared in numerous television, film and theater productions.