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“This is not a comedy podcast!“
“I didn’t want to be like a normal person and just ask my comedian friends to hang out. I want the attention, so I decided I needed cameras and microphones,” David Í Dali says in the intro of his new ‘Serious Comedians…
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The Hatching Of The New Icelandic Horror Film
Elvar Gunnarsson’s first feature is not your typical horror comedy Director Elvar Gunnarsson had never thought he would do a horror film. And yet, his directorial debut, horror comedy ‘It Hatched’, is out now in Icelandic cinemas. “I like horror films. But…
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Húrra Hosts First Smokey Bay Comedy Show With Unexpected Twist
Húrra hosted the first-ever Smokey Bay Comedy show Friday night, featuring headliner Arnór Daði and several other prominent comedians performing in English. [su_pullquote]The Volcano is on (again) at Fagradalsfjall! Check out our volcano merch in the Grapevine shop: books, T-shirts, posters even…
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Making Light Of Madness: ‘My Voices Have Tourettes’ Goes Digital
“So the show actually started out of frustration of me not getting gigs,” explains Dan Zerin, the man who conceptualised ‘My Voices Have Tourettes.’ The award-winning weekly event at the Secret Cellar showcases comedy by those who have tourettes, schizophrenia, and other…
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Just A Small Town Boy: Meet Grapevine Fringe Award Winner Arnór Daði
Silhouetted against the red velvet curtain, mic in hand, Arnór Daði Gunnarsson exudes an irresistible awkward charm. Though you’d never guess it from his easy stage presence, he’s in the midst of his Reykjavík Fringe Festival debut and the premier of his…
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Culture Pick: My Voices Have Tourettes
My Voices Have Tourette’s, the wildly popular show conceptualised by comedians Dan Zerin, Elva Dögg Hafberg Gunnarsdóttir and Hannah Bryndís Proppé Bailey, has become a regular thing, and moved to Tuesdays. The show centres around comedians with disorders and syndromes. The show…
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Creating Their Own Space: Soulflow Brings Women And Queer Comedy Nights To Gaukurinn
At Soulflow Comedy, a new show happening every Monday night at Gaukurinn, everyone is included. The weekly event, which will showcase exclusively women and queer performers, is causing a shockwave in the Reykajvík comedy scene. “Comedy can feel really intimidating,” says Kimi…
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Make Us Laugh, Clown: Ari Eldjárn’s Life Of Laughter
It is impossible not to laugh while talking to Ari Eldjárn. The ebullient and vivacious comedian constantly breaks into dead-on impersonations, reenacts comedy sketches and enthusiastically quotes his friends to a point that you feel you are part of the story. This…
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It’s Here! Check Out The First Episode Of ‘An Evening With Jono Duffy’
We’ve been hyped for this for months, and now it’s finally here! The Australian-Icelandic comedian Jono Duffy has made his name around Reykjavík for quite a few years with his stand-up. Last year he started an interesting project, where he hosted a…
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Icelandic Comedian Appears On Australian TV To Teach Hosts Some Icelandic
When Icelanders head abroad for either work or pleasure, they often find themselves at the mercy of foreign curiosity when it comes to their country and language. Asked to entertain with funny words and repeated rolls of Rs (try to roll that…
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Impromptu, Pronto! Improv Comedy Hits The Stage In Iceland
If there’s stereotypes for the audience members at a comedy show, like for people on the dating scene, I would be the one who plays hard to get. No matter how cringe the situation is, you better go out of your way…
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Blast from the Past: The Comedy Ban of 1940
Like most countries, Iceland has a long and illustrious history of censorship. A fun example can be found in the annals of 1940, when chief of police Agnar Kofod-Hansen announced that after having spoken to witnesses who had attended the dress rehearsal…
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Ricky Gervais Coming To Iceland
Writer, actor and comedian Ricky Gervais (seen above, right) will be coming to Iceland to perform stand up in April. Gervais, on his official Facebook page, lists Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík as one of his stops on his Humanity World Tour.…
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Happening Tonight: Icetralia Comedy Show
A promising evening with “Icetralia,” back on stage and taping LIVE. The two comedians, Jonathan Duffy from Australia Icelandic local Hugleikur Dagsson, will tell you everything about something, or maybe something about everything. Be ready for “smashing taboos and revealing some secrets”— the…
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Happening Tonight: Icetralia
Icelandic comic and cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson has teamed up with Aussie ex-pat Jono Duffy to put together this recurring comedy event in Café Rosenberg. Their comedy, as they promise, is like themselves: the former “filthy and friendly,” the latter “gay, Australian, and…
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First Páll Óskar, Now Eurovision And Hugleikur Dagsson, The Professional Triumphs Of Jono
If you watched Iceland’s Eurovision Finals, you saw Greta Salóme chosen to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest. The two hosts of the show, the frighteningly fit blonde duo–who are either robots or assassins, but most likely robot assassins–kept stumbling over…
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Garbageman
Being an anarchist can be a thoroughly depressing exercise. On the one hand, your principles yearn for a perfect world—a “system” where violence isn’t necessary, where people have the means to work together and live with dignity, and where individual people are…
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RÚV Apologises For Making Fun Of PM And Finance Minister
National broadcasting service RÚV has apologised for a comedy sketch that satirises the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. The sketch, a screenshot of which you can see above, was aired on RÚV’s Stundarskaupið, the children’s version of the annual “year…
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The Universal Language Of Laughter And Dance
If you don’t speak Icelandic, your access to the arts in Iceland is limited and superficial. You can enjoy music, watch movies with subtitles, or, if you’re like me, sit through stand up comedy and poetry listening for tone, cadence, and emotion.…
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Stand-up Comedy At Airwaves: Jóhann Thinks You Can Do Five Minutes
For the first time at Iceland Airwaves, there will be English-language, stand-up comedy every night, at the venue Gaukurinn. There will be two comedians every night at 18:30. The Icelandic comedy scene has been growing steadily for a year, but it was…
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The Reykjavík Comedy Festival Starts Tomorrow!
OMG, the second annual Reykjavík Comedy Festival is about to HIT THE FAN, with the opening ceremonies starting at 20:00 tomorrow at Harpa. Hosted by Sena, this year features big names in comedy from around the globe, but the real surprise treats…
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Tinder On The Toilet: It’s A Hit!
Composer Páll Ivan frá Eiðum has finally delivered the type of massive mega-hit we all knew he was capable of! With Tinder On The Toilet, Páll Ivan offers a stunning, heartfelt and, ultimately, heart-breaking meditation on This Modern World as it relates to The…
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A Tedious Joke Of A City: Cloud Of Ash Is Back.
Brogan and Atli return for three more episodes of the web series, Cloud of Ash. The second batch is tighter than the last. They seem to have really figured out the pacing needed for a three minute episode. The German Tourist introduces…