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Otto Jespersen
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Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian and satirist. He started in the local radio Radio Nova in Oslo. In 1988 he was, together with his collaborates Stig Holmer and Charlo Halvorsen, to launch the magazine Revolvermagasinet on Norwegian national radio. This, a night time, underground-ish show, focused on satire and weird interviews. In 1992 Jespersen, Holmer and Halvorsen teamed up for in The Show - storbymoro for enslige i Utkant-Norge on national television. The Show was the Norwegian candidate for the Rose d'Or in 1993, but several judges left the theatre even before it was over. During the 1994 Winter Olympics he was hired as stunt reporter for the national television, resulting in positive criticism and fame, prompting the creation of the first of the four O.J.series, in which Jespersen created several later well known characters like Tårnfrid, Wirrum, Den ensomme rytter, Baron Blod, Nazi-Per, Birger and Friskusen as well as interviewing celebrities. He has also made two series of Trotto Libre together with Trond Kirkvaag. In 2002 he joined fellow comedians Silje Stang and Thomas Giertsen hosting the weekly comedy show Torsdagsklubben gaining a reputation for his scathing end monologue. Stang and Giertsen had formerly run the same concept under the name Mandagsklubben. The most controversial incident came during the fall of 2002 when his end monologue targeted the Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. In the monologue he ridiculed Bondevik's use of
