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Swedish comedy scene? Ja!

If you aren’t depicted on Kamikaze, well, you probably can’t call yourself a Swedish comedian. We exaggerate, but probably not by much.

There are 11 ståuppares or ståuppare/konferenciers– For those of you who don’t do Swedish, that’s standup comic or standup comic/emcee– listed on the front page of Kamikaze.se, which seems to be a Swedish standup portal. We figure for a country that size, they can’t have too many more ståuppares than that. Unless, of course, Sweden has a disproportionately large standup scene.

Note: Before you start the snickering, we’re fairly certain that konferencier (literally translated as Master of Ceremonies) has a somewhat higher status in Sweden than it does in most of the U.S. If not, “du var lämplig, även” is a phrase heard often by self-proclaimed konferenciers.

We found them while rooting around in our stats. We figured that we’d give them a blog-holler back. (Blog holler? Sounds like something from West Virginia! You heard the term here first!)