Biography

Fredrik Skavlan (born 2 September 1966) is a Norwegian journalist, cartoonist and TV personality. From 1998 to 2007 he hosted Norway's most popular talk show Først & sist (First & Last), which attracted more than one million viewers every Friday evening. He won the 1999 Norwegian Television Award for best host. After taking a break from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK he was persuaded to host his own show for Sweden's SVT in the spring of 2009, Skavlan. Skavlan won the Swedish Television Award for Best Television Host, the first Norwegian to do so.