The Eurovision Song Contest. Moody crime dramas. Is there anything we do better than the Swedes? It gives me pleasure to report that at least our best comedians can still make herring paste of Swedish ...

Betraying none of the ingratiating "love-me" shtick of most comedians, he spent much of the opening 20 minutes of last night’s gig urging his audience to leave. The couple in front of me eventually ...

Magnus Betner’s flying three-night visit to London is rather an odd one. Although a comedy superstar in his native Sweden, at the Leicester Square Theatre he’s sold so poorly on the opening Monday ...

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Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. Magnus Betnér, Dag Sørås and Lasse Nilsen head up Scandinavian ...

The most successful comedian in Scandinavia, with numerous TV specials and sold-out tours playing concert halls in Sweden, Norway and Finland, accepts The Stand's invitation to play Edinburgh. See for ...

If comedy is the new rock 'n' roll, then Magnus Betner may be its Lou Reed: deadpan, downbeat and determinedly difficult. The Swede tells us he is a "fucking superstar" in his home country, though ...

Magnus Lennarth Betnér, born August 16, 1974 in Sankt Göran's parish in Stockholm, is a Swedish comedian and actor. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Betnér has built up a national audience through ...

Rack your brains for a comedian who is political, sometimes controversial, and a household name. Chris Rock, there's one. Louis C.K there's another. But here in the UK? Since Russell Brand swapped the ...

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