Grotesco is the name of a Swedish comedy group and of a

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on SVT. It aired between 2007 and 2017. The group also participated as break entertainment in ("The Melody Festival 2009"), a Swedish festival to determine the 49th song to represent Sweden in the

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, and released a CD with different variants of the hit song "", which headlined in the break entertainment. On 15 January 2015, they had the premiere for their first stage performance ("Grotesco at Scalaa near-death revue") in the

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. On 3 September 2015, it was confirmed that Grotesco would do a third season of their TV series.

History

The group was formed in the 1990s in

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but took its current form and membership in 2006. The pilot episode of the group’s TV series aired in 2006 on SVT as part of , "The Humor Lab", a showcase of new Swedish humor where various comedy groups competed. Grotesco won the competition, and the prize was to have a full series of eight episodes produced. It began airing en October 2007 on

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. In the spring of 2010 the second season was recorded under the direction of Michael Lindgren, and it was broadcast in November and December of 2010. A complaint was made to police when the group performed ' (" t’sThe Gay’s Fault”) on , a long-running sing-along program broadcast live from Skansen in Stockholm, but the Chancellor of Justice ruled that no crime had been committed and added that the song was clearly intended as satire. The song was also performed in the series' second season.

Group members

Henrik Dorsin Per Henrik Dorsin (born 20 November 1977) is a Swedish actor, comedian, singer and revue-artist. Dorsin started his career as an extra in the 1996 film '. He started his television career in the satire show ''Detta har hänt'' in 1998. He then ...

Michael Lindgren DJ Trexx is a pseudonym of Swedish actor, producer and writer Michael Lindgren (born 14 March 1978 in Stockholm), who is a part of the Grotesco comedy collective. DJ Trexx is a satirical figure who was initially portrayed as a Croatian disc joc ...

* Per Andersson * Rikard Ulvshammar * Per Gavatin * Emma Molin * Hanna Löfqvist Dorsin *

Emma Peters Emma Karin Peters (born 10 February 1978) is a Swedish actress and comedian. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm between 2000 and 2004. She has worked as an actress at Backa teater, Östgötateatern, Uppsala stadsteater and toured ...

* Jakob Setterberg * Jonas Kahnlund * Linus Eklund Adolphson * Anna Vnuk

References

External links

Official website
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