Kristopher Schau

Kristopher Schau - despite never considering himself a comedian - has done quite a lot to entertain others. From shows like XL and XLTV, to the recent success of Team Antonsen, he has contributed a lot of new and innovative entertainment. Enjoy these highlights that showcases Kristophers whims and performances.

Crusaders: The Black Pig is the second of two films about the urbanized aristocratic boy Rolf Bakken and his childhood friend, the pig farmer Einar. Rolf's father mysteriously disappears in the forest, and the two friends decide to revive the "Bakken & Brenno detective agency" from their childhood to investigate the case further. Together they are drawn into a dark and horrifying mystery of epic proportions.

Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.

Team Antonsen became one of the great comedy success stories of all time for Norwegian broadcaster NRK, which in the end gave comedians Atle Antonsen, Bård Tufte Johansen, Harald Eia and Kristopher Schau the opportunity to stage an arena show at Oslo Spektrum. Over two sold out nights they performed for more than 14.000 people, a feat never before accomplished by comedians hailing from Norway. The show was very well received by the Norwegian press.

Team Antonsen was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which was shown on TV in spring 2004 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show consisted of four well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Kristopher Schau performing various sketches. The show typically made fun of spoken nynorsk and sami, as well as regional dialects from all over Norway—most commonly from Northern Norway and the cities of Bergen and Trondheim. Celebrities often appeared on the show—among others famous writer Anne Holt and accomplished singer Bertine Zetlitz. Team Antonsen had an average viewer-rating of over 700 000 viewers, a high figure for a late-night TV show in a country with 4.6 million people. The show also spawned a stage comedy show called Team Antonsen Live: One Night Only, which was performed in Oslo Spektrum in May 2004. The comedians originally only planned one showing, but when tickets sold out they decided on performing one more, called Team Antonsen Live: One More Night Only. The series won several Norwegian comedy awards, most notably the 2004 Gullruten for best humor show, Komiprisen for best show, as well as Komiprisen viewer's award for their sketch Hjemme hos Haakon Børde.

Over the course of eight episodes, the famed Norwegian musician and performer Kristopher Schau sets out to commit all the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. By using himself as his chief researcher’s tool, Schau holds a mirror to modern society and asks: What does the concept of religious dogma and the Seven Deadly Sins mean in a largely secularized world?

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."