Jake Johnson Biography

Jake Johnson was born in the Chicago IL suburb of Evanston and raised by a single mother. He grew up a unwavering fan of the Cubs as well as another Chicago institution the Second City Improv which boasted talents such as John Belushi Tina Fey and Chris Farley.
Johnson started his post-secondary education at the University of Iowa. While in Iowa City he wrote a play which wound up earning him admission to NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts buoyed by the 2002 John Golden Playwriting Prize and the Sloan Fellowship for Screenwriting. The New York off-Broadway group The Ensemble Studio Theater produced the play titled Cousins.
While in New York Johnson and fellow Midwest transplants started the sketch comedy troupe The Midwesterners modeling their material and approach after HBO's goofy sketch comedy Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995-98) and took their shows to comedy festivals around the U.S. Johnson also worked with the innovative guerrilla comedy company the Upright Citizens Brigade and continued to participate in UCB's Los Angeles company after moving there additionally performing at Second City's L.A. venue.
For a time Johnson supported himself as a waiter and a production assistant as well as scoring a series of bit feature and guest TV roles. In 2007 he landed a more semi-regular gig with the quirky TBS mini-show Derek and Simon: The Show produced by Mr. Show creator-star Bob Odenkirk. In 2009 he appeared in writer-director team Nick Jasenovec and Charlene Yi's meta mockumentary comedy Paper Heart in which Johnson actually played a funny onscreen version of Jasenovec as he filmed Yi's investigative ruminations about coupling. He would curiously reprise Jasenovec in another inside-showbiz meta film Kevin Hamedani's Junk (2011).

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