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Icelandic comic Ari Eldjárn announces first UK tour - Visiting six cities in April

The April fools don't have to stop after the first day of the month when you have Netflix's standout library of stand-up comedy to watch.

With established names and experimental acts, plus plenty of atmosphere and a dash of anarchy, Jay Richardson explains why he’ll be spending much of his Fringe with the upstart primate

Iceland is known for several things: its small population, Ari Eldjárn (who will make this list a little longer for us), and volcanos. But it's the last point

OUTBURN ONLINE April 16, 2021 BY KEVIN STEWART-PANKO Coming off a triumphant album cycle for 2018’s Gateways that saw the finest power trio from the suburbs of Reykjavik tour the Old World as headliners, then as direct support to Opeth, 2020 was originally designed to keep the momentum churning with a new album, a new deal with Napalm Records, and more bolt loosening and scaffold rattling as they conquered stages here, there, and everywhere. It’s an increasingly tired and frustrating st...

Latin in Mainstream TV Series and The Newly-Thriving Mass of Ages January 28, 2021 MANHATTAN — Latin is everywhere. It might be in a joke by Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn in “Pardon My Icelandic” — his Netflix special released on Dec. 2 — or in the epic series “Barbarians” (Netflix) and “Romulus” (Sky Italy) — both filmed in Latin — which premiered late last year. In recent months, we might have consumed the highest doses of mainstream Latin in ages. And when anyo...

“Isn’t that an oxymoron?” my father-in-law said when I told him I was reviewing Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn. I told him the assumption that Nordic people are humorless was unfair and my husband agreed with me, citing an incident when he was at a hostel in Budapest and an Icelandic man drunkenly ripped a toilet straight off the bathroom wall. Eldjárn’s comedic antics on Pardon My Icelandic are nowhere near as Apatow-esque, but instead dwell in the strange and laugha...

(...and makes a dolls house comedy club) John-Luke Roberts has recorded a new comedy album, It Is Better, which he hopes to release on vinyl. The show – his ninth – was designed to be performed without a live audience, and features its own score. Plans to record a live LP were scuppered by the pandemic, but Robert explained: ‘I realised my favourite comedy records didn’t have an audience. ‘So I sat down thinking of albums like Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and Ivor Cutler’s Dandruff an...