''Gula Hund'' (English title: ''Yellow Dog'') is a
Swedish
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variety show that had its première the 5 June 1964 on
Chinateatern in
Stockholm
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. It was written by
Hans Alfredsson and
Tage Danielsson and directed by Tage. Both of the writers starred in various roles.
It was the second of "three dog-revues" (so called because they all have "dog" in their name). The first one being ''
Gröna Hund
''Gröna hund'', complete title ''Gröna Hund på Gröna Lund'' (Green Dog on Gröna Lund, also a reference to "Röda hund", literally "Red dog", but also Swedish for "rubella"), was the first variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. After that the ...
'' (Green Dog) and the third and last one was ''
Svea hund
''Svea hund'', complete title ''Svea Hund på Göta Lejon'' (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage ...
''.
Overview
The show also starred
Monica Zetterlund,
Birgitta Andersson,
Lissi Alandh,
Sonya Hedenbratt,
Gösta Ekman, Mille Schmidt, Stefan Böhm, Arild Eriksen,
Gals and Pals
Gals and Pals was a Swedish vocal group founded in 1962 by Lasse Bagge. The group was active until 1967. The ensemble's first members were, besides Bagge: Kerstin Bagge, Ulla Hallin, Pia Lang, Svante Thuresson, Leppe Sundevall and Beppo Gräsman ...
and
Gunnar Svenssons kvartett.
The show was built up by sketches and songs, often with satirical humour. Among the more famous sketches are ''Flykten från Ålderdomshemmet'' (The escape from the Old Folks Home) in which Hans Alfredsson played a
senile old man, the "''Pitt''" number, where Birgitta Andersson took her husband, played by Gösta Ekman, to the doctor because he couldn't stop saying the word pitt (Swedish
slang for penis) and the ''Mahatma Ekman'' number, in which Gösta Ekman portrayed a kind of
guru who claimed that we "have to be friends with the things" only to have every object on stage work against him in a
slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such a ...
number.
The show also contained a number between Tage Danielsson and Lissi Alandh called ''I Friska Naturn'' (In The Healthy Nature) also known as Nature Morte. Dressed in 18th-century style clothing they sing a song about a picnic they have in the nature who has been destroyed by
toxic and different kinds of
pollution, among them a
Nuclear Powerplant. Later in his life, Tage would become a spokesperson against pollution in general and Nuclear Power in particular.
It was filmed for
television in 1966 and has since then been released on
DVD and it is considered a
Hasseåtage
Hasse & Tage ( sv, Hasse och Tage) were a popular Swedish comedy duo featuring Hans "Hasse" Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. They are sometimes known as ''Hasseåtage'', a spelling created by the Swedish press in the 1960s, but never used by the du ...
classic.
A shortened, English version called "''Yellow Dog''" was shown as Sweden's contribution to
Montreux in 1965.
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