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!

  • Poster for The Night Shift

    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.

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  • Poster for The Day Shift

    The 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.

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  • Poster for The Prison Shift

    The 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.

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  • Fóstbræður 1997

    Fóstbræður was a comedy sketch show which premiered on the Icelandic Stöð 2 in October 1997.

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  • Hæ, Gosi 2010

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  • Poster for Afturelding

    Afturelding 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.

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  • Poster for Jarðarförin mín

    Jarðarförin mín 2020

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  • Steindinn okkar 2010

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  • Hulli 2013

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  • Fólkið í blokkinni 2013

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  • Spaugstofan 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.

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  • Poster for I Make Sense of Humour

    I 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.

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  • Evrópski draumurinn 2012

    Auddi, Sveppi, Pétur and Steindi Jr. travel in two teams across Europe collecting points for various challenges.

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  • Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt 0

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  • Poster for Dagvaktin

    Dagvaktin 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.

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  • Poster for The American Dream

    The American Dream 2010

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  • Áramótaskaup 1966

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  • Porksoup 2003

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  • Andraland 0

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  • Venni páer 0

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  • Ghetto betur 2016

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  • Bara Grín 2013

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  • Auddi 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.

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  • Poster for World's End

    World'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.

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  • Ástríður 2009

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  • Mannasiðir Gillz 2011

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  • Hreinn Skjöldur 2014

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  • Gulli Builder 2011

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  • Andri á flandri 2011

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  • Þær tvær 2017

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  • Andri á Færeyjaflandri 2014

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  • Andri á flandri í Túristalandi 2017

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  • Poster for Ordinary People

    Ordinary People 2018

    Comedy-drama following the ups and downs of a friendship between two young women who get offered their own TV show.

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  • Næturgestir 2019

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  • Góðir Landsmenn 2019

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  • BBQ 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!

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  • PJ Karsjó 2017

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  • The 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.

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  • Föstudagskvöld með Gumma Ben 2019

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  • Satt eða logið 2017

    Icelandic version of "Would I lie to you"

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  • Bibba 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.

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  • The 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.

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  • Steinda Con 2020

    Worlds Bizarre Conventions

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  • Ligeglad 2016

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  • Appearance 2019

    Talk Show

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  • Suður-Ameríski Draumurinn 2018

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  • Steypustöðin 2017

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  • Poster for Eurogarðurinn

    Eurogarðurinn 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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