Team Antonsen
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 700000 viewers.
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 (
At Home with Haakon Børde).
