Best Icelandic comedy series

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Worlds Bizarre Conventions

Talk Show

Icelandic version of "Would I lie to you"

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.

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.

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.