Lasse Rimmer Nielsen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 stand-up comedian

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 and television and radio host.

He made his first appearance as a stand-up comedian in 1993 at Café Din's in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 and participated in DM i Stand-Up (Danish Championship in Stand-up) in the same place in October 1993.

He wrote and took part in DR2

DR2

DR2 is a Danish television station. It is part of Danmarks Radio, the public service broadcasting company of Denmark.It was launched in 1996 as a satellite-/cable-only channel. This was highly controversial at the time, as it was considered close to a breach of public service principles that the...

's Casper & Mandrilaftalen

Casper & Mandrilaftalen

Casper & Mandrilaftalen was a Danish cult TV program aired on DR2 in 1999.-Background:Casper & Mandrilaftalen was a surrealistic comedy sketch and talk show hosted by Casper Christensen. The show was created by Christensen and two other Danish comedians Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj. Frank Hvam...

 in 1999 and later hosted the quiz program

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! around the world

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for almost four years, from January 2000 to November 2003.

From November 18, 2003 he was co-host of Radio 100FM

Radio 100FM

Radio 100 is a Danish radio channel. The name refers to the fact that the station used to broadcast on 100.0 MHz on the FM spectrum in the Greater Copenhagen Area....

's morning show Morgenhyrderne

Morgenhyrderne

Morgenhyrderne was a morning show on the Danish radio channel Radio 100FM. The show featured Lasse Rimmer, Lars Hjortshøj and Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph and broadcasted every weekday morning....

, first along with Lars Hjortshøj

Lars Hjortshøj

Lars Hjortshøj is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.He has taken part in many Danish shows, including Casper & Mandrilaftalen and in the sit-com Langt fra Las Vegas....

 (since replaced by Simon Jul) and Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph

Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph

Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph is a Danish TV and radio host. She was previously a co-host in the morning show Morgenhyrderne on Radio 100FM along with Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj...

 (since replaced by Signe Muusmann), and still is.

Lasse has been a presenter for events such as the Danish stand-up charity show Talegaver til børn and Studenterlaugets Commerciel Awards 2004

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