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Gustne Gensyn is a Danish satirical TV show running on the Danish TV channel TV 2 Zulu. The show consists of small sketches, which are all connected by the theme that they are supposedly 20–50-year-old shows, although they are created for the show itself.

Denmark constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

TV 2 Zulu is a Danish television station and it was originally founded in 1976 as Næsby Lokal-TV which were Denmark's very first private TV station, but was later closed down in 1978 after finishing its local-TV trial. In 1984, it was relaunched as Kanal 2 København that become popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, but it had sadly stopped broadcasting on 7 April 1997 after TvDanmark stole its frequencies. On 15 October 2000, it was later revived with a new name known as TV 2 Zulu. Eventually, the station resumed its broadcasts although it is a sister channel to TV 2 Denmark. It is primarily aimed at viewers between 15 and 30 years of age.

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy.

Contents

As its subtitle reveals: klip fra gamle tv-programmer der aldrig har eksisteret (English: clips from old TV shows that never existed). The title roughly translates to gross reruns.

Overview

Each show starts with the host Glenn Thorsboe, played by Jonatan Spang, introducing the viewer to the program, often claiming how the old days were better than the modern. Soon a small sketch, which is supposedly an old TV show, is shown. The clips usually seem real at first, but something utterly odd or awkward soon happens.

Jonatan Spang Danish actor

Jannik Kåre Jonatan Spang Olesen is a Danish standup comedian, actor and former theater director at Nørrebro Teater. Spang debuted as a standup comedian in 1998. The following year he was admitted to the School of Acting at Aarhus Theatre and won the championship in Stand-Up a talent competition for amateur comedians.

In one of the sketches under the title Lørdags Halløj (Danish: Saturday Fun), they play a game called Ved De hvor De er? (Danish: Do you know where you are?; note that the formal singular version is used in Danish), where an actor playing a professor from the Odense University is hit in the head with a sledge hammer by the host, and forgets where he is.

Odense University earlier name of a university in Denmark

Odense University was a university in Odense, Denmark. It was established in 1966. In 1998, the university was merged with two other institutions to form the University of Southern Denmark. Its campus is now known as University of Southern Denmark Odense and is the university's biggest campus.

Cast

Although only one person plays a specific role, there are regular people on the show playing different roles, and the host manages to pull off jokes in some of the sketches.

Technical features

According to the producer Thomas Glud, the show is actually recorded with equipment used during the era the sketches claim to be from. The purpose is to convey realism. Thus black-and-white and out-of-focus shots are common in some sketches.

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