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Lasse Rimmer Nielsen is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.
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Lasse Rimmer Nielsen is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.
He made his first appearance as a stand-up comedian in 1993 at Café Din's in Copenhagen 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's Casper & Mandrilaftalen in 1999 and later hosted the quiz program Jeopardy! for almost four years, from January 2000 to November 2003.[ citation needed ]
From 18 November 2003 he was co-host of Radio 100FM's morning show Morgenhyrderne , first along with Lars Hjortshøj (since replaced by Simon Jul) and Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph (since replaced by Signe Muusmann), and as of May 2007 [update] 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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