Simo Juhani Frangén (born 6 September 1963 in

Ulvila Ulvila (; sv, Ulvsby) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is one of the six medieval cities of Finland, as well as the third oldest city in the country. Ulvila was granted charter as a town by King Albert of Sweden on 7 February 1365. How ...

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) is a

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and

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, living in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

History

Frangén

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in 1982 and graduated as a Master of

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at the

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in 1990. His jobs include

Nakkila Nakkila () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region, southeast of Pori. The Kokemäki River flows along the center of Nakkila. The municipality has a population of () and c ...

city dump watchman in 1982, University of Tampere students' union journalist (on the magazine Aviisi) in 1987, journalist on the Tampere

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magazine in 1988, assistant journalist on the humour magazine

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from 1983 to 1990 and assistant journalist on the magazine

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in 1985.

TV and radio work

Since 1990, Frangén has worked with

Pasi Heikura Pasi Eino Heikura (born 14 April 1963 in Karvia, Satakunta) is a Finnish humorist, musician, writer, television actor and presenter best known for his work on Alivaltiosihteeri. Heikura hosts the radio program ''Aristoteleen kantapää'' (Aristo ...

and

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on the show

Alivaltiosihteeri Alivaltiosihteeri ("Undersecretary of State") is a Finnish comedy group currently consisting of Simo Frangén, Pasi Heikura and Jyrki Liikka. It started as a band in 1985 but has since made both the weekly radio show Alivaltiosihteeri and a few T ...

on the

YLE Yleisradio Oy (Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founde ...

radio stations. He has also directed and written the

Radiomafia Radiomafia was a Finnish radio station owned by Yle and mainly directed to teenagers and young adults. It was established on 1 June 1990 and decommissioned on 12 January 2003. It was followed by YleX, with some of the programmes moved to other cha ...

show Kaupparatsu Frangén, appeared on the show Ekoisti on

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in "Master Frangén's tip shop" and most recently, on two Finnish TV

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s: * '' Maailman ympäri'' from 2000 to 2004 * '' SF-Studio'' from 2004 to 2006 Frangén has received the following awards: *

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for best TV performer in 2001 *

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for best male TV performer in 2002 * Musiikki & Media for TV personality of the year in 2001 * Tamperean of the year in 2001

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frangen, Simo 1963 births Living people People from Ulvila Finnish male comedians