Best Swedish comedy series

High Chaparall (2003)

High Chaparall is a Swedish television program which first aired in 2003 on the Kanal 5 network. The show is an interview/adventure series featuring the Swedish comedy duo of Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. Although the pair continued to be provocative, this program proved to be less controversial than their previous television work and ultimately became much more successful. The team is known popularly in Sweden as simply "Filip and Fredrik."

Svenska dialektmysterier (2006)

Svenska dialektmysterier was a Swedish television series about Swedish dialects. It was hosted by Fredrik Lindström and produced by Marcos Hellberg and broadcast on SVT2 in January–March 2006. The programme can be seen as a continuation of Värsta språket, another series hosted by Lindström. It won the television award Kristallen in the infotainment category.

Taskmaster Sweden (2017)

Swedish version of Taskmaster.

Solsidan (2010)

The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just moved to Alex's childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County. Alex tries to get Anna to enjoy herself, and at the same time spend time with his childhood friend Fredde.

Whiskey on the Rocks (2024)

In the middle of the Cold War, a Soviet submarine runs aground outside Karlskrona and suddenly Sweden finds itself at the center of events. Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin tries to resolve the conflict and avoid a world war between two nuclear powers while struggling with a wise foreign minister and a belligerent commander-in-chief.

Ett herrans liv (2006)

Ett herrans liv is a Swedish TV series that airs on Kanal 5. The hosts are Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson. On the show, the duo interview Swedish celebrities, many of which they've made fun of on their preceding shows. In the first season, every episode starts with the guest being kidnapped by the hosts.The show's theme song is I Wish by Skee-Lo.

Historieätarna (2012)

The program follows the two presenters as they "live" in a certain time period. They dress up in period accurate clothes, and live life as you would in that certain time period with a large emphasis on the food. Each program features a guest chef who prepares period accurate food.

100 Höjdare (2004)

100 höjdare was a Swedish TV series which was produced and aired on Kanal 5. Six seasons of the show were produced and it ran from 2004 to 2008. It was hosted by the comedy duo Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson.In the first three seasons the hosts presented funny moments, often in the form of video clips, listing their 100 all-time favorites. In season two and three they also discuss the clips with celebrity guests. By season four the format changed and instead of showing clips, Filip and Fredrik made impromptu interviews with people, often in their homes.

Anders och Måns (2003)

Tongue-in-cheek infotainment show following hosts Anders Johansson and Måns Nilsson as they investigate various societal and cultural topics.

Welcome to Sweden (2014)

The fish-out-of-water story of New York accountant Bruce, who falls in love with a Swedish girl named Emma and follows her to Sweden.

Emil of Lönneberga (1975)

Emil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books

Home Invasion (2021)

Petty criminal Mick has to pay a debt back to some scary people, so he and his partner Tom decide to break into a house... which they discover is inhabited by aliens.

Anxious People (2021)

A bank robber holds the visitors of an open house hostage and then promptly vanishes, leaving the police baffled — and suspicious of everyone.

Fråga Anders och Måns (2006)

Swedish comedy-duo Anders Johansson and Måns Nilsson reads viewers' mail and answers questions about various topics.

Robins (2006)

Robins is a Swedish late-night talk show which premiered on SVT2 on August 23, 2006. The host is the young stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson from Malmö. The show's format is similar to that of other late-night shows, Robin makes jokes about recent news, shows sketches, and talks to a guest in the studio.One of the most popular sketches in the show features Robin appearing as Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Wallander (2005)

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden.The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television.The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four.A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Sunes jul (1991)

Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.

LOL: Last One Laughing Sweden (2022)

Ten of Sweden's best comedians compete to make each other laugh, without bursting into laughter themselves. Anyone who can't keep up goes out of the competition where 500,000 SEK for charity is at stake. All under the direction of Eva Röse.

Summer with the Family (2017)

Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.

Hur fan hamnade vi här? (2025)

Comedian Messiah Hallberg examines various parts of our Swedish society and asks the question: how the hell did we end up here?

NileCity 105.6 (1995)

Percy Nilegård has gotten in to the commercial radio business. The radio station rents premises of the fire station and its chief, the self willed Greger who's in charge of six well built firemen. One of them gets a presentation first in every episode, when we get into their special and relaxed relationship to each other. Percy is always after money and his ways to entice sponsors get more and more unconventional. We also follow the main radio host Glenn Killing with various (and often peculiar) guests. And also other shows like a reggae program, a Friday party program, teenage psychologist (and stereo fetishist) Farbror Barbro and Percy's own "Management Profile".

Bert (1994)

The first appearance on screen for Bert Ljung, a normal teenager who's diary Swedes have been able to follow in well over ten books now. As in the books, he fights spots, looks for girls, runs his moped, plays with his weird friends Ake and Erik, and a lot of other stuff teenagers are supposed to do.

Love & Anarchy (2020)

A married consultant and a young IT tech kick off a flirty game that challenges societal norms — and leads them to re-evaluate their entire lives.

Respondendo em Voz Alta (podcast) (2019)

Swedish Dicks (2016)

Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.

A Magnificent Journey with Morgan and Ola-Conny (2012)

En stark resa med Morgan & Ola-Conny is a Swedish documentary series that premiered on Channel 5 in spring 2012. The series will follow Morgan Karlsson and Ola-Conny Wallgren, known from the television series Ullared on their travels around the earth.

Kvarteret Skatan (2003)

"Kvarteret Skatan" was a Swedish comedy-series depicting a few characters living in a fictional block called Skatan (the magpie) in an unnamed suburb of Stockholm. Here we meet characters such as Paul and Tord, Horny Gun, Gert and the talibans Conny and Britt. It was aired between the years 2003 and 2006.

Landet brunsås (2010)

Macken (1986)

Macken is a Swedish 6-part musical sit-com that ran on SVT in 1986. The local authority wants to close down Roy and Roger's gas station and instead build a motorway where it is positioned. Roy and Roger try to stop it, of course. Will they succeed? Will they find the mysteriously lost white Opel?

Hipp hipp! (2001)

Hipphipp! is a Swedish comedy sketch show that ran for two seasons on SVT - First in 2001 and then in 2003. It also spawned a live-show and a four-part Christmas special. A film about Morgan Pålsson and Robert Flycht had its premiere in late February 2008.The show was created by and primarily stars the duo of Anders Jansson and Johan Wester. Many characters and concepts evolved from stage shows that the pair performed during the 1990s.