“Show” is really the wrong word. Insisting he would rather die than do the same material every night, Betner places himself firmly as a comic outsider: there is, early on, a colossal slap down of ...

Magnus Betner’s flying three-night visit to London is rather an odd one. Although a comedy superstar in his native Sweden, at the Leicester Square Theatre he’s sold so poorly on the opening Monday ...

Son of a pastor - Magnus Betnér - returns to the Fringe with an hour of searing, no-holds-barred stand-up, that roots out the absurdities and contradictions that lurk within many of our contemporary ...

The Eurovision Song Contest. Moody crime dramas. Is there anything we do better than the Swedes? It gives me pleasure to report that at least our best comedians can still make herring paste of Swedish ...

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If comedy is the new rock 'n' roll, then Magnus Betner may be its Lou Reed: deadpan, downbeat and determinedly difficult. The Swede tells us he is a "fucking superstar" in his home country, though ...

The most successful comedian in Scandinavia, with numerous TV specials and sold-out tours playing concert halls in Sweden, Norway and Finland, accepts The Stand's invitation to play Edinburgh. See for ...

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Betraying none of the ingratiating "love-me" shtick of most comedians, he spent much of the opening 20 minutes of last night’s gig urging his audience to leave. The couple in front of me eventually ...

Magnus Betner (Swedan's only ever person to win best Swedish comedian twice) Fun and friendly Stand Up Comedy in Ireland's happiest comedy club. It is a friendly intimate club hosted by Aidan Killian ...

Magnus Lennarth Betnér, born August 16, 1974 in Sankt Göran's parish in Stockholm, is a Swedish comedian and actor. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Betnér has built up a national audience through ...