Mette Lisby

Mette Lisby has been the leading female comedian in her native Denmark for more than a decade.

She was host and head writer on the Danish version of “Have I Got News For You”, hosted the Danish “Room 101”, toured Denmark with a 110 minutes solo show, which was also released on bestselling dvd. She first reached TV mega stardom in Denmark hosting the chat-show “Walk the Line”. She successfully managed to transform her sharp, intelligent tone that made her the leading female stand up, to a broad TV audience that voted her “Favourite TV Personality” for years in a row. She was nominated for a “Robert” (Danish equivalent of BAFTA) for “Best Actress in a Leading Role” for her part in "The Two Penny Dance"

Mette now lives permanently in London where she has been gigging for the past year and a half. She did The Edinburgh Fringe in 2006, was invited to “Amsterdam International Comedy Festival” and has lately participated in “The World Stands Up” which airs in the UK, Australia and the US. Check out www.mettelisby.com

Snorri Kristjansson

Icelander Snorri Kristjansson was born a while ago. He's been at various times a journalist, web designer, computer programmer, caretaker for ill people, teacher, cement packer, longshoreman, musician, writer, actor and, most recently, a comedian. He is fresh off a well-received Edinburgh Fringe run with his first full-length show "Dog Day King", the first comedy show ever to combine puffins, Icelandic revolutionary history and Jude Law. Well - the first one in recent history, at any rate.

Henrik Elmer


Unlike most people,Swede Henrik Elmer was born on 5 Nov 1966.In 1996 he took his first steps on the Swedish stand-up comedy scene. Three years later he made a successful appearance on the TV show "Släng dig i brunnen" (Throw yourself in the well), A tabloid declared him "Babe of the week" (In Swenglish, a babe can be of any gender).
Since then he has performed all over Britain, as well as in Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Kosovo. He has also performed in Finland, Norway and Denmark, but he doesn't really count these countries as abroad. (But don't tell his fellow Scandinavians this... They might take it the wrong way)

Daniel Simonsen

Norwegian Daniel Simonsen was born in Bergen and has performed in Norway and Paris.
He moved to London to do stand up a year ago, on the advice of Stewart Lee.

He has survived countless 'Gong Shows', is a regular on the London Comedy Circuit and was the winner of Channel 4's 'So You Think You're Funny, 2008'

Ismo Leikola

Ismo Leikola first performed stand-up in his native Finland in 2002. He was named the country's best newcomer in 2003 and appeared in the TV series Act!One the following year. For three years running , he was voted best comedian of the Finnish festival Tomaatteja!Tomaatteja! And yes that does mean Tomato, Tomato

In 2006, he performed his first gigs in English and made his Edinburgh debut the following year with his show Rogue State Finland.

In 2008, he was a finalist in the Laughing Horse Competition.