Atle Antonsen (born 11 August 1969, in
Lillehammer
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) is a
Norwegian comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing
Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...
and
actor.
Antonsen has participated in and contributed to several
television and
radio shows, including ''XL'' and ''XLTV'' (1998–99), ''
Nissene på låven'' (2001), ''
Uti vår hage Uti vår hage may refer to:
* Uti vår hage (comic strip), Swedish comic strip and associated magazine
* Uti vår hage (song), Swedish folk song
* Uti vår hage (TV series)
''Uti vår hage'' ( en, Out in Our Garden, named after a folk song) was a ...
'' (2003), ''
Team Antonsen
''Team Antonsen'' was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which was shown on TV in spring 2004 on the Norwegian public channel NRK. The show consisted of four well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Krist ...
'' (2004), ''
Tre brødre som ikke er brødre'' (2005), ''Etaten'' (2006), ''
Uti vår hage 2'' (2008), ''
Dag'' (2010–15),
and ''Nissene over skog og hei'' (2011). He has also appeared in feature films, including starring roles in the animated feature ''Kurt blir grusom'' (''Kurt Turns Evil'', 2008) and the comedy ''
Kong Curling
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Places
* Kong Empire (1710–1895), a former African state covering north-eastern Côte d'Ivoire and much of Burkina Faso
* Kong, Iran, a city on the Persian Gulf
* Kong, Shandong (), a town in Laoling, Shandong, China
* Kong, I ...
'' (''Curling King'', 2011).
He also appeared in the music video for
Lemaitre's song We Got U.
Antonsen has cooperated with such comedians as
Harald Eia,
Bård Tufte Johansen,
Kristopher Schau,
Johan Golden
Johan Derussy Golden (born 9 June 1974) is a Norwegian comedian, musician, former politician and radio and television presenter. He became known through the radio programme XL, and later through the television programme En L.U.N. Aften med Gold ...
,
and
Espen Thoresen Hværsaagod-Takkskalduha. Atle Antonsen and Johan Golden currently host a weekly radio show called "Misjonen" ("The Mission") on Fridays on Norwegian national radio station P4. The show first aired in August 2008, and was a continuation of their previous radio show "Kommisjonen" ("The Commission") which aired on now-defunct radio station Kanal 24.
In the
Norwegian parliamentary election in 2001 Antonsen and Golden spearheaded the campaign for
The Political Party, a party formed as a
satiric statement on modern politics.
Antonsen is a member of German-language rock band
DDR, most famous for their comical music videos, along with
Johan Golden
Johan Derussy Golden (born 9 June 1974) is a Norwegian comedian, musician, former politician and radio and television presenter. He became known through the radio programme XL, and later through the television programme En L.U.N. Aften med Gold ...
.
Antonsen has been awarded a Norwegian Comedy Award (
Komiprisen) four times: Best Stand-up in 2004 and Male Comedian of the Year in 2007, 2008, and 2012. He also received
Gullruten for Best Actor for ''
Tre brødre som ikke er brødre'' in 2006.
On 1 September 2007, at the Norwegian Comedy Awards, Antonsen was awarded the Male Comedian of the Year. He started his speech by saying that the last time he won an award, his mother told him that he didn't thank people properly, and that he was going to do better this time. He paused for a couple of seconds before shouting out "Damnit! (Faen!) Didn't work this time either."
In 2010, he briefly appeared at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in
Oslo.
In 2012 he starred as King Arthur in the highly successful Norwegian staging of ''
Spamalot'', at Folketeatret in Oslo.
Since 2019, Antonsen has hosted ''
Kongen befaler'', the Norwegian version of the British TV series
Taskmaster, in the role of the Taskmaster, with
Olli Wermskog as his assistant. ''Kongen befaler'' was awarded
Gullruten for Best Entertainment Program in 2022.
In November 2022, Antonsen announced he was stepping down from the role after being reported by poet and author Sumaya Jirde Ali for racist remarks on 23 October 2022 at Bar Boca in Oslo.
Antonsen has a close relationship with his grandfather Erik Meneilly. He says he learned the base of his humor by telling him jokes.
Filmography
*
Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced
''Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced'' is a 2000 Norwegian mockumentary about a fictional boy band called Boyzvoice. Outside Norway, it has been screened multiple times on Australian television channel SBS.
Plot
The band is a three-piece vocal group dom ...
(2000)
* Tommy's Inferno (2005)
* Pitbullterje (2005)
* Kurt Blir Grusom (2006)
* Kong Curling (2010)
* Fuck Up (2012)
* Kraftidioten (2014)
* Jakten På Berlusconi (2014)
* Doktor Proktors Prompepulver (2014)
* Wendyeffekten (2015)
* Presten I Paradis (2015)
* Doktor Proktors Tidsbadekar (2015)
* Grand Hotel (2016)
* Norske Byggeklosser (2018)
TV Shows
* XLTV (1998)
* Åpen Post (1998)
* Nissene På Låven (2001)
* Tre Brødre Som Ikke Er Brødre (2005)
* Etaten (2006)
*
Uti Vår Hage Uti vår hage may refer to:
* Uti vår hage (comic strip), Swedish comic strip and associated magazine
* Uti vår hage (song), Swedish folk song
* Uti vår hage (TV series)
''Uti vår hage'' ( en, Out in Our Garden, named after a folk song) was a ...
(2003 – 2008)
* Team Antonsen (2004)
* Den Unge Fleksnes (2010)
* Solsidan (2010) (1 Episode)
* Nissene Over Skog Og Hei (2011)
* NAV (2012)
* DAG (2010 – 2015)
* Jul I Blodfjell (2017)
*
Kongen Befaler (2019 – 2022)
References
External links
*
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110716051343/http://home.eunet.no/frodech/atle/
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1969 births
Living people
Norwegian male comedians
Norwegian stand-up comedians
People from Lillehammer