Biografía

3 de marzo de 1961 · Arendal, Noruega

Is a celebrated comedy-writer, TV-host, award winning cartoonist and an author.

Met his future wife on stage in his youth. He played a man chasing a butterfly in the staging of Karel and Josef Capek's "Insect Life". She played the butterfly.

Born in Arendal, Norway, he grew up in Halden, then studied and lived in Kristiansand before finally ending up in Oslo where he is living today with his wife and two children (born 1992 and 1994).

I'm boring at parties. Mainly because I never get invited. I'm not even given the opportunity to be boring at parties!

(On his marriage) "A wise man once said: love isn't two people looking at each other, it is to people looking in the same direction. So we watch a lot of TV."

[when picking the best movie he saw in 2003]: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi: No fighting, no dubbing, no merchandising. So rare it left me happy and dizzy!