Is a celebrated comedy-writer, TV-host, award winning cartoonist and an
author.
Met his future wife on stage in his youth. He played a man chasing a
butterfly in the staging of Karel and Josef Capek's "Insect Life". She
played the butterfly.
Born in Arendal, Norway, he grew up in Halden, then studied and lived
in Kristiansand before finally ending up in Oslo where he is living
today with his wife and two children (born 1992 and 1994).
I'm boring at parties. Mainly because I never get invited. I'm not even given the opportunity to be boring at parties!
(On his marriage) "A wise man once said: love isn't two people looking
at each other, it is to people looking in the same direction. So we
watch a lot of TV."
[when picking the best movie he saw in 2003]: Sen to Chihiro no
kamikakushi: No fighting, no dubbing, no merchandising. So rare it left
me happy and dizzy!