Best Icelandic comedy series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy shows from Iceland, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The Night Shift 2007
Næturvaktin revolves around the lives of three employees working at the Shell petrol station in Laugavegur, Reykjavík. The three man night shift is made up of eccentric supervisor Georg Bjarnfreðarson, a committed Marxist, vegan, who has an admiration for everything Swedish. Ólafur Ragnar, a regular employee and a simple, well-meaning guy who dreams of fame and wealth. And Daníel Sævarsson, who after dropping out of medical school joins the team. What the three men don't know is due to this job how profoundly their lives will be forever linked.
68The Day Shift 2008
After the final events of Næturvaktin., Georg Bjarnfreðarson, Ólafur Ragnar and Daníel, find their paths cross again when they find work at a Hotel Bjarkarlundur in Icelands isolated Westfjords, owned and run by the formidable Gugga. Forced to work together again it's not long before Georg begins plotting ways to control everyone.
72The Prison Shift 2009
Fangavaktin is the sequel to the Icelandic television series Dagvaktin and the final series in the trilogy. The three main characters from Næturvaktin, Georg Bjarnfreðarson, Ólafur Ragnar and Daníel, have become imprisoned in the infamous Litla-Hraun prison following the murder of the hotel owner in Dagvaktin. The story is continued, and brought to a conclusion, in the feature film Bjarnfreðarson. The first episode was broadcast on Stöð 2 on Sunday, 27 September 2009, and an episode was broadcast each following Sunday until the final seventh episode aired on 8 November 2009. The series has been released on DVD.
58Fóstbræður 1997
Fóstbræður was a comedy sketch show which premiered on the Icelandic Stöð 2 in October 1997.
53Hæ, Gosi 2010
54Afturelding 2023
Years after burning out and falling from grace, a middle aged, 90s handball legend seeks to redeem himself by returning to his childhood club to coach the women's team where he clashes with a new generation of women in a post #MeToo society.
44Jarðarförin mín 2020
46Steindinn okkar 2010
40Hulli 2013
38Fólkið í blokkinni 2013
40Spaugstofan 1989
Spaugstofan is an Icelandic comedy group, formed in 1985, best known for their namesake weekly Saturday night sketch comedy show that has been broadcast, with breaks, and under various names, on the public television channel Sjónvarpið, and later on Stöð 2, from 1989 to 2014.
40I Make Sense of Humour 0
Failed TV-Personality Frimann Gunnarsson tries to revive his career and travels around Scandinavia to investigates Nordic sense of humour. He meets up with some of the best known comedians in Scandinavia, some might even call it the Champions League of Nordic comedy (Frimann himself for instance). Although he has high hopes to educate his viewers on the secrets about quality-humour, Frimann Gunnarsson fails miserably when each episode goes way off track.
40Evrópski draumurinn 2012
Auddi, Sveppi, Pétur and Steindi Jr. travel in two teams across Europe collecting points for various challenges.
33Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt 0
30Dagvaktin 2008
After the final events of Næturvaktin., Georg Bjarnfreðarson, Ólafur Ragnar and Daníel, find their paths cross again when they find work at a Hotel Bjarkarlundur in Icelands isolated Westfjords, owned and run by the formidable Gugga. Forced to work together again it's not long before Georg begins plotting ways to control everyone.
30The American Dream 2010
27Áramótaskaup 1966
26Porksoup 2003
25Andraland 0
15Venni páer 0
15Ghetto betur 2016
13Bara Grín 2013
10Auddi og Sveppi 2009
Auddi og Sveppi er íslenskur gamanþáttur sem sýndur er á Stöð 2. Þáttastjórnendur eru Auðunn Blöndal og Sverrir Þór Sverrisson. Þátturinn hóf göngu sína í janúar 2009 sem framhald af gamanþættinum 70 mínútur. Innslög þáttarins eru meðal annars hrekkir á milli þáttastjórnendanna og stjórnun Audda og Sveppa. Þessi innslög koma upprunalega frá forvera þáttarins, 70 mínútum. Í stjórnun Audda og Sveppa er gestur fenginn í þáttinn og á fjölförnum stað segja stjórnendur þáttarins honum hvað eigi að gera og í staðinn fær hann gjöf. Hrekkirnir eru á milli þáttastjórnendana en einnig gesta þáttarins þegar þeir félagar fá þriðja aðila til liðs við sig til þess að framkvæma hrekkinn. Þetta innslag þáttarins er mjög umdeilt. Dæmi um það var er þeir hrekktu Einar Bárðarson útvarpsmann sem varð sár og ósáttur við þá félaga eftir atvikið. Þátturinn hætti fyrir sumar 2011, eftir að búinn að vera í tvö ár.
10World's End 2011
Set in 1992, Heimsendir is an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as ‘World’s End’ is a last resort for many mental patients, many of whom consider it a home. Elementary school teacher, Einar, is committed against his will after a severe nervous breakdown and is critical about how things are run at the hospital and before long he has most of the patients on his side, rooting for change. Einar, along with the other patients, stages a revolution and takes over the hospital, declaring its a state within a state, a Utopia for the mentally ill.
10Ástríður 2009
10Mannasiðir Gillz 2011
10Hreinn Skjöldur 2014
10Gulli Builder 2011
10Andri á flandri 2011
10Þær tvær 2017
10Andri á Færeyjaflandri 2014
10Andri á flandri í Túristalandi 2017
10Ordinary People 2018
Comedy-drama following the ups and downs of a friendship between two young women who get offered their own TV show.
10Næturgestir 2019
10Góðir Landsmenn 2019
10BBQ Kóngurinn 2020
Glænýir og brakandi ferskir grillþættir þar sem Alfreð Fannar Björnson sýnir okkur heitustu grillréttina fyrir sumarið. Í sínu náttúrulega umhverfi eða á pallinum heima hjá sér í Grindavík ætlar hann að reiða fram rjúkandi góðar og girnilegar grillveislur með ómótstæðilegu meðlæti sem svíkja engan! Hvern hefur ekki dreymt um að mastera réttu tökin við að reiða fram ljúffenga Tomahawk steik, Svína Baby back rif, Pulled pork, Lambakórónu, gómsæta fiskrétti, Chimchurri smjörsteiktar baunir eða himneskar Hasselback kartöflur! Nú er komið að því að læra réttu taktana með sjálfum BBQ kónginum!
10PJ Karsjó 2017
10The Mayor 2016
The ten-episode series “Borgarstjórinn” (“The Mayor”) follows comedian, former real-life Reykajvík mayor, and prior Grapevine cover model Jón Gnarr, as he returns to a role he knows quite well. However, this time round, cameras are rolling. Jón co-wrote the series with Hrefna Lind Heimisdóttir, Ólafur S.K. Þorvaldz and longtime collaborator Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon. Pétur and Jón are well-known for their work together on “Næturvaktin” (“The Night Shift”), a television show focusing on employees of a Laugavegur gas station. Jón, who is set to direct five of the ten episodes, plays the Major of Reykjavík in this satirical take on politics in Iceland. “It’s a tragi-comedy, much like actual Icelandic politics,” Jón says.
10Föstudagskvöld með Gumma Ben 2019
10Satt eða logið 2017
Icelandic version of "Would I lie to you"
10Bibba Flýgur 2020
Fjölmiðlakonan Birna María eða Bibba tekur flugið á milli flugvalla landsins og kynnist lífinu í hinum ýmsu byggðum og uppgötvar sannkallaðar náttúruperlur hvert sem hún fer. Á vegi hennar um þessa skemmtilegu áfangastaða verða áhugaverðir viðmælendur sem tengjast þessum perlum á einn eða annan hátt sem búa yfir fróðleik um svæðið og upp miðla sinni þekkingu um spennandi og fallegu einkenni þeirra.
10The Soap 2020
A brand new Icelandic series where the storyline is contemporary Iceland. Our protagonists deal with the current state of society in very different ways. The private lives of all of them are very complicated and different emphases in daily life make it even more complicated. The number of nationally known individuals appears in the episodes and the audience can influence the course of events.
10Steinda Con 2020
Worlds Bizarre Conventions
10Ligeglad 2016
10Appearance 2019
Talk Show
10Suður-Ameríski Draumurinn 2018
10Steypustöðin 2017
10Eurogarðurinn 2020
Show that takes place in Húsdýragarðurinn and is about the staff and the parks owner who wants the park to be as big as Disney World.
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