The TV Week Logie Awards is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards.
Team Antonsen was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which was shown on TV in spring 2004 on the Norwegian public channel NRK. The show consisted of four well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Kristopher Schau performing various sketches.
Atle Antonsen is a Norwegian comedian and actor.
Odd Nordstoga is a folk singer, musician, actor and editor from Vinje in Telemark, Norway. In 2004, he went from relative obscurity to becoming the country's biggest selling recording artist, with the phenomenal success of his first solo album proper, "Luring". The album, a fusion of pop and Norwegian folk music, has sold more than 160,000 copies in Norway to date and earned him several Spellemannsprisen awards. For the album Strålande Jul, released together with Sissel Kyrkjebø, he won an unprecedented 11 Norwegian platinum trophies.
The Amanda Award is an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. The award originated in 1985, and has since 2005 been exclusively a film award. Winners are awarded a trophy by the Norwegian sculptor Kristian Kvakland, and the name—and theme—of the sculpture comes from a legendary local woman from the 1920s. The award ceremony is marked every year by a major, nationally televised event.
The Canadian Comedy Awards (CCA) is an annual ceremony that awards the Beaver for achievements in Canadian comedy in live performance, radio, film, television, and Internet media. The awards were founded and produced by Tim Progosh in 2000.
Jon Almaas is a Norwegian TV-host and actor, best known from the weekly comedy Nytt på nytt which he hosted for 17 years.
Siw Anita Andersen is a Norwegian actress and comedian, from Oslo. She is probably best known to Norwegian viewers through her role as "Målfrid" in the TV sitcom "Mot i brøstet". In addition to this she has also acted in other TV-shows such as "Nissene på låven" (2001), as well as movie roles. She had her big screen debut in 1989 with the movie Showbiz, and later also had a role in The Polar Bear King (1991). Andersen has also done stand-up and variety shows, and in 2002 won the Leif Juster honorary award, named after legendary Norwegian comedian Leif Juster. In 2002 she was also awarded Komiprisen as best female comedian. She has had several roles in plays at Oslo Nye Teater.
Gullruten is an annual award for the Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, NRK, TV 2, TV3 and TVNorge. In 1998, the show was hosted by Nadia Hasnaoui, and from 1999 to 2012, by Dorthe Skappel. From 2013, the show has been hosted by Henriette Steenstrup and John Brungot.
Karpe is a Norwegian rap group from Oslo, consisting of Magdi Omar Ytreeide Abdelmaguid and Chirag Rashmikant Patel.
Linn Skåber is a Norwegian actress, singer, comedian, text writer and TV personality. She made her stage début on Oslo Nye Teater (Centralteatret) in 1997, playing the title role in Goldoni's comic opera Mirandolina.
Haddy Jatou Njie is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, writer and journalist. Her father is Gambian and her mother is Norwegian. She grew up in Kolbotn near Oslo and is the eldest of five siblings. Her younger sister is illustrator and picture book writer Lisa Aisato.
Åsleik Audgar Engmark was a Norwegian comedian, actor, singer, director and stage writer, best known for his work as one of the co-founders of the Norwegian cabaret group Lompelandslaget, and as Timon in the Norwegian version of The Lion King.
Seefood TV is a Norwegian production company for television and film. Seefood produce for the Norwegian broadcasters TV2, TVNorge and NRK. The company was founded in 2001 by Kristian Ødegård and Espen Eckbo and their first production was the reality parody Santas In A Barn. Aleksander Herresthal joined the company as a partner and CEO in 2007 and is working today as Chief Creative Officer. The company has produced several award-winning and critically acclaimed comedy series for television. Their productions have been nominated for a total of 46 Gullruten awards and have won 8 Norwegian Comedy Awards.
Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen is a Norwegian jazz singer, songwriter, cabaret artist and songwriter, known from her own releases and appearances.
Norsemen is a Norwegian comedy television series about a group of Vikings living in the village of Norheim around the year 790. It originally premiered in Norway under the name Vikingane on NRK1 in October 2016. It is produced for NRK by Viafilm. The series is written and directed by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen.
The 6th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2004. The awards ceremony was held on 22 October 2005 during the five-day Canadian Comedy Awards Festival in London, Ontario. The ceremony was hosted by Bruce Hunter as Rocko the Dog.
The 7th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2005 and was held on 27 October 2006 in London, Ontario. The ceremony was hosted by Debra DiGiovanni.
Pernille Sørensen is a Norwegian comedian, actress and screenwriter.
Selda Ekiz is a Norwegian presenter on NRK and is a trained physicist. She grew up in Sande in Vestfold and her parents immigrated from Turkey in the 1970s.
