Reaction To Galenskaparna och After Shave - The organisation for the slow witted (Swedish Comedy) 

Galenskaparna is a comedy group. After Shave is a singing group. They joined forces in the early 80s and became quite popular in Sweden. The word "Galenskaparna" is a combination of "Galenskap" (madness) and "skaparna" (the creators), so it could be interpreted as "creators of madness".

YES! One of my absolute favs. Galenskaparna is Swedens version of Monty Python.

This skit was written and aired around the year 2000, voicing the anger and frustration many people felt against the economic establishment following the banking/housing crisis of the 1990's. Galenskaparna created a lot of really funny left-leaning political satire during this era. "Trögfattad" doesn't translate directly as "Slow-witted", there'a touch of "obstinate" as well in the word, as in someone who doesn't really WANT to understand. Which many people felt back then about the establishment elites, myself included (and still do). Much of what Claes Eriksson wrote is difficult to translate, as many other commenters here have noted.

Galenskaparna and After Shave were two local music/theatre groups that combined to do both live- and TV-shows and a few movies back before the millennium. The guy at the podium writes most of their material and they do a lot of song numbers. Their most famous production is a TV show called "Macken" about strange people in and around a rural gas station, also including many now classic song numbers.

Thank you for reaction to another video i translated. I noticed several typos which I have now mended.

You have to see their sports event! The best sketch ever

galenskaparna & after shave paved the way for grotesco🥰🥰

One of my favourite movies as a kid was "Leif". I liked the songs and the tempo. When later seing this as an adult I see the sharp satire against the Swedish weapon industry. When completing the movie Sweden had one of its worst scandals involving "Bofors" and weapon smuggling. When marketing "Leif" they did not distance themselves from the simularities but instead left the text "The events in this movie is more true than they should be..."

Being a result of a fusion between music and comedy, they often include musical numbers. They have few classics that often show up in childrens shows "Gött å Leva", "Husvagn", "Pappa jag vill ha en italienare" brings nostalgic summer vibes to most Swedes. :) They follow and strengthen the tradition of Swedish West Coast comedy. Very clean but sharp satire. No swears, no vulgarity often plays with words.

It was my childhood in the 90’s. My dad showed me everything by them and I love everything they’ve done. You can’t go wrong. Some stuff are very Monty Python-esque and some stuff are just raw and straight forward political satire!

Galenskaparna (The crazy creators) is probably the best comedy team in Sweden since many years..! They have done a lot.... but not translated to English I guess. The creative person in this group of men and one woman is the person, that leads the meeting here. He is writing everything... and that's a lot trhough all years....

Now you´ve come across a goldmine.

Galenskaparna och After Shave are (I would say) the closest thing to Brittains Monty Python. Huge comedy group in the 80's and 90's. Great chanel btw.

My favourite sketches from Galenskaparna och After shave is by the guy playing the chairman in this video, where he does a long monologue where every word starts with the letter B. And another favourite is a sketch where the group does olympics in gymnastics. Sadly I don't think any of those are translated into english

Galenskaparna och After Shave was originally two groups formed in the late 1970's. In 1982 they started to work together and the shows "Träsmak" (1983), "Cycklar" (1985) and "Macken" (1986) was on Swedish TV and became extremely popular. All of their shows are in Swedish and are mainly written by Claes Eriksson. My favourite is the sketch "Mor i Skutan", originally from 1993. An old woman (played by Claes Eriksson) is visited by a local policeman (played by his brother Anders Eriksson) sometimes in the late 1800's. The language is a parody of oldfashioned Swedish with lots of invented faux words and centers around accusations of prostitution. The concluding line is the hillarious "Kärringen väver myror i gubbens byxor" (litt. "the hag is weaving ants into the old man's pants") indicating that the policeman has an itch down below. Sadly this type of comedy is almost impossible to translate into English.

Omg! 😂 this group has been around for ages!! It should absolutely be possible to find more clips (even though they have been doing this since the TV’s were Black and White!😁) maybe we can find some at the libraries VHS sections! 🤣

I love this sketch. My brother is an economist, thought retired now, and I pestered him about this 😅

Galenskaparna are one of the greats in Sweden. A lot of their sketches and bits rely on clever word play though, so I imagine they can be difficult to translate.

Galenskaparna & After Shave are among the biggest and most popular comedy groups in Swedish history. Since the two groups merged into one in 1982, they have done: 28 stage productions (both musicals, revues, restaurant shows, tours, 8 movies, 5 TV series and over 30 music albums. Their second TV series "Macken" (Swedish slang for "The Filling Station") which came in 1986 was seen by almost 4 million viewers (at that time Sweden had 8 million inhabitants). Their stage production the musical "Stinsen brinner" ("The Station master is burning") was played 432 times and was seen by almost 300,000 theatergoers (when the tickets were released there was a kilometer long queue through Gothenburg for the theater's ticket sales). Most of their productions have been successful in Sweden. However, they are quite old now (Claes Eriksson is 74, Kerstin Granlund 73 and the others are between 68 and 69). Jan Rippe and Per Fritzell still go around together and do pub shows, Claes Eriksson has done solo shows, played theater with Per Andersson (also directed Donizetti's opera "Viva la mamma", for which he wrote new Swedish texts). Peter Rangmar died of cancer in 1987, Kerstin Granlund retired from the stage in 2004 after a doctor's report on exhaustion syndrome (but has continued to work with the group behind the scenes as, among other things, as a director's assistant), Knut Agnred retired in 2018 due to heart problems. The humor group Grotesco with, among others, Henrik Dorsin and Per Andersson probably wouldn't have existed without Galenskaparna & After Shave, the vast majority of them there are pronounced huge fans. Henrik Dorsin and Per Andersson even invited Claes Eriksson (the one who wrote almost all the scripts and music in the group) on a weekend trip to London because they so badly wanted him to teach them about humor.

More of galenskaparna! "hattaffären" would be nice to see you react to!

I love this skit. And Galenskaparna.

Galenskaparna & After Shave was the big comedy group of Sweden in the 80's and early 90's. The "biggest" show was Macken that became very popular and was aired when Sweden basically only had 2 TV channels back in the 80's.

This group was extremely popular during the 80’s and 90’s (and a lot of their stuff is still very popular). They did big musicals, movies and tv-shows with skits. (This skit was probably in one of those tv-shows).

I dare someone to try to translate their scetch "Mor i skutan"... close to impossible 😁 Love that you make these videos btw.

i LOVE these. you should try the gymnastic episode or anything with sports with these ppl, like monty python

Galenskaparna means The Mad Makers in english. I have been their fan for almost 50 years :-)

Galenskaparna and After Shave have made a lot of funny sketch shows and films over the years, and a lot of it is confusing humor and satire like this. A lot of slapstick at well.

Awee!!! My favourite comedy group of all tltume! I grew up with them and they created many funny shows/movies and songs that have survived many uears. :) Im ao happy you were able to react to them, hope you'llget to see more 😊

If anyone can give "Hajen som visste för mycket" the part with "Jag vet att du vet", some subtitles. That would be amazing

To me this one step further from the constant battle between economic students and science students. This group originated from a group of science students.

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Galenskaparna were huge when I was a child, so I'm very fond of them. I really like their film "Stinsen brinner" and found the first song (it's a musical) with English subtitles here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rua8rqDP68.html

Dalsland! Snälla översätt / please translate the sketch ”Dalsland” any någon! Or ”Perkile” about the folk spirit of our dear neighbors the finnarna!

Even economists would laugh if they'd been econometricians.

I saw Galenskaparna live in Gothemburgs theater 2017 (maybe it was 2018 Im not sure)

Hahaha 🤣

They are a combined musical and comedy group who made many many sketches, often performed live (Revue). They have also made some pretty stinging comedical satire films from the 80s to the 00s. They concern swedens arms exports and corruption (Leif), the stock market (hajen som visste för mycket/the shark that knew too much), the downsizing of the railway system (Stinsen brinner... filmen alltså/the stationmaster is on fire... the movie.), the demonopolizing of the swedish TV system and fears that it would be used for stupifying propaganda (monopol/Monopoly), and their last and more toned down satire movie about an insurance company which raised the boards bonuses by several hundred millions. (Den enskiljde medborgaren/The singular citizen) I dont know if you can find them translated, but they are real fun gems of their time. They also broke through with "Macken"/The gas station where they play sketches as two haphazard mechanics/gas station attendants in bumfrick sweden. It is also lovely, though it might be colored by my nostalgia. =)

I recommend you watch Yrrol. It's the best swedish comedy film ever made with some of the best swedish comedians. It makes zero sense and yet totally profound. You can probably find it with english subtitles somewhere

This is very old comedy show. Galenskaparna was big in 80s 90s

You could translate "Galenskaparna" to "The Crazy Makers"

I translated one of their sketches, uploaded it more than a decade ago. Might be difficult to read though, because he talks so fast. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hPalhTWNpbk.htmlsi=4YVKySujMCZ8vqwP

Crazy good 😂

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#4:25 - Satire? I think you misunderstand. It is a documentary.

But why the flattening of the video? I can't stand skewed ratios!

A lot of their comedy lays in the choice of words and word jokes. The best joke on the planet is totally lost in translation Bara b:n by Galenskaparna After shave.

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5:12 Addition to Your comment "having no common sense", would be "and lack of real life"!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EaeMLOaWV8w.htmlsi=PSHsNUdCu5BWKq_b Can someone please translate this one. It is so weard and funny!! 😂

The ratio of what you are watching always seem off? Can it be fixed? I like the content otherwise :).

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Galenskaparna = The madness & After Shave. In english : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galenskaparna_och_After_Shave "Galenskaparna and After Shave, from Gothenburg. In 1982 the two groups joined in order to collaborate on a revue show ".... "The group is influenced a lot by the humour of both Monty Python" "Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Claes Eriksson is also a sharp political critic, and uses humour to comment on Swedish society and politics."