Atle Antonsen is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 comedian

Comedian

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. He has participated in and contributed to several television

Television

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 and radio

Radio

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 shows for NRK

Norsk Rikskringkasting

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , which is usually known as NRK, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway...

 including XL and XLTV (1998–99), Uti vår hage

Uti vår hage

Uti vår hage |folk song]]) was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show starred the three well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The format of the show was one main...

(2003), Team Antonsen

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...

(2004), Tre brødre som ikke er brødre

Tre brødre som ikke er brødre

Tre brødre som ikke er brødre is a Norwegian comedy television show which ran for six episodes during the autumn of 2005 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. It featured noted comedians Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Atle Antonsen....

(2005), Etaten (2006) and Uti vår hage 2 (2008). He has cooperated with such comedians as Harald Eia

Harald Eia

Harald Meldal Eia is a Norwegian comedian.-Career:Together with Bård Tufte Johansen, he has been author of, and participated in, several successful Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen Post , Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre ,...

, Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen is a Norwegian comedian.Together with Harald Eia, he has authored and participated in several successful NRK TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen post ,Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre , Ut i vår hage 2 and Storbynatt...

, Espen Thoresen Hværsaagod-Takkskalduha, Kristopher Schau

Kristopher Schau

Kristopher Hugh Martin Schau is a Norwegian musician, TV host, comedian, author and songwriter.-Radio and television shows:...

 and Johan Golden

Johan Golden

Johan Golden is a Norwegian comedian, musician, politician and radio and television presenter. He became known through the radio programme XL, and later through the television programme En L.U.N...

. Atle Antonsen and Johan Golden currently host a weekly radio show called "Misjonen" ("The Mission") on Fridays on Norwegian national radio station P4. The show first aired in August 2008, and was a continuation of their previous radio show "Kommisjonen" ("The Commission") which aired on now-defunct radio station Kanal 24.

In the Norwegian parliamentary election in 2001

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001

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 Antonsen and Golden spearheaded the campaign for The Political Party, a party formed as a satiric

Satire

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 statement on modern politics.

Sings in a rock band called DDR

DDR

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, most famous for their comical music videos with "sleazy styled East Germans", also with Johan Golden

Johan Golden

Johan Golden is a Norwegian comedian, musician, politician and radio and television presenter. He became known through the radio programme XL, and later through the television programme En L.U.N...

.

On 1 September 2007, at the Norwegian Comedy Awards, Antonsen was awarded the Male Comedian of the Year. He started his speech by saying that the last time he won an award, his mother told him that he didn't thank people properly, and that he was going to do better this time. He paused for a couple of seconds before shouting out "Faen (taboo Norwegian word meaning 'The Devil')! Didn't work this time either."

Sources

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0031483/
• http://home.eunet.no/frodech/atle/