This program is a one-off show, produced by the entertainment dept. of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) to compete in the Montreux Festival Rose D'Or in 1979. My parents are credited with the idea, and both my father Knut (1943 - 2016) and I can be seen in various "roles" throughout the show (he is the viking chieftain thrown off a horse (the pain is still there); I "play" the author Henrik Ibsen as a child, complete with snowsled and whiskers). John Cleese was riding high at the time on the back of "Fawlty Towers", and I believe the agreement to use him for this was made prior to his second round of global fame; hence a viable expense.

I love how almost everyone in Norway wears a backpack at all times xD

As a Swede, I approve this message.

The cut to the laughing Egyptian is comedy gold!

For those who don't read the credits: this was a Norwegian production. The only non-Norwegian in it was Cleese, and he didn't write it.

As a Norwegian I can confirm that Norway is a fictional country, allthough fictional our national sport is skullbumping, preferably after some drinking.

As a Norwegian I cracked and went to the floor in cramps

9:48 "Gravlax - Cured Salmon. What it was cured of, we'll never know."

What a shame it was a 'one off' project. What a pleasure to stumble across it 41 years later having never heard of it. Loved the daily ski activities - emergency forces ha ha.

"Even now, the committee is in the process, go away, of reaching a final decision" 😂

"Tørrrfisk, a delicatly fish flavoured baseball-bat." Lol

as a norwegian and I find this incredibly funny lol

Briliant production, as always, by John Cleese! Very 'pythonesque', shall we say. All the best to everyone reading this! Skål and may Odin be with you!

This is me every time I return home, happy and excited then i you land😮

As a Norwegian, i can confirm this

John Cleese is Epic.

I'm from Norway and this is probably the best way and describe us. Viking power

The critique of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is on point and still accurate

having never been. i am now thoroughly compelled.

This was really funny. Thanks for uploading and sharing. I laughed all the way through. And Yes, this is all true. It's how Norway really is - every person, every day.

I live in Norway, and its sad how true this is.

thank you! i remember watching this in the late 70s/early 80s when it was on tv after the holy grail. i haven't seen it since...until now of course.

How tremendous. Omg never seen this before. Teas ready!

It's true, we all wear backpacks, all the time.

Thank you very much for this little gem

God bless Cleese!!

6:47 - I hate it when that happens! Three times this week I've ended up going home with someone else's staff! I've been cursing Odin all evening, I'm so upset!

Norway in a nutshell. Loved this video. Thanks for the upload.

Love this video ! Cheers from Norway !

Skullbumping. Brilliant.

I have not seen this since it first aired. Thank you!

Pure gold, i ve never seen this, men det var jævlig gøy :)

Hahaha, I'n Norwegian and I find this hillarious! :) Have some humor people!! :)

Thanks for putting this up! I think it was made as the Montreux festival entry for Norway that year.

I Love it. And I'm from Norway !

That advertisement poster for smoke said "every blow is a pleasure".

Good one john! I really enjoyed that!

I must strongly protest for the gross inaccuracies of this nonetheless compelling documentary - the spray can shall not to be accredited to Raghebell in 1928 but to the more appropriate Eric Rotheim in 1926.

Great Feature.

This is some of the most trippy shit I've ever seen.

Aww, and the first thing we see is a Fjord horse... 💕🐴 They're so lovely.

Haha, didn't know Cleese and the guys made a video about Norway, at least not this good! They actually got some real cultural stuff in there :)

!!!!EPIC!!!! 🤣😂🤣

Elsker at ALLE har ryggsekk!

Jeg liker hvordan alle går med ransel. I love how everyone walks with a backpack.

Ahahahahha I'm laughing so hard now hahahha!! Yes this is exactly how we are especially the ski part hahaha I love it

Thanks for uploading, I am enjoying it. (In days long ago, before youtube and such, I made tapes for others, always writing on the cover: Enjoy

Im from norway, and i find this movie very funny! haha! to bad i was not alive in the good old days

my wife is norweigan, this video makes sense.

Finally found it. A friend told me about this years ago.

No culture is off limits with john and the pythons.I love it.I have french blood and i make fun of them too!

I remember seeing this in 1979. Hilarious. The bit with the Nobel Peace Prize is inspired.

silliness at it's finest

that is just very funny. im not norwegian but living in there and that is just so true:D. in the beginning was also laughing about many of those things, now doing it myself:):). for example the backbag is the most comfortable bag to have:):). locals should probably also enjoy that clip, though some of them do not have a sense of selfirony:D

I remember just the section on food airing on a Nickelodeon program called Turkey TV. To this day, there's a certain item at the local Chinese buffet that I refer to as "Terrrrrfisk".

The bikers on skis in the drive thru! The skis made for going up stairs! LOL😂

Pythonesque :-) ! Thanks for uploading!

As a Viking I'd just like to applaud this documentary. I thought for a moment it was only a British comedy.

The ski gags are good

3:35-5:47 The chanting is hilariously memorable.

"It was on a ship like this that my ancestors sailed to Britian and raped my forefathers...foremothers sorry" hahahahahaha

If he made it 10 years later it would have had black metal i suppose... I loved this doco ever since it came out.

This is so surreal

As a Norwegian American, I fully endorse this.

Makes ya want to go on a cruise!

ah.. memories! {sigh}

I'm glad I was born in the late 90's. It looked so dull back in the day.

Norway & Cleese did fake news before it was cool!

those backpacks! :D

Hahaha at 12:54 you can actually see a typical Norwegian coming home from a vacation.

It took me 14 min 2 understand that this is a joke.

As the uploader, I must say that I am surprised to discover this video is so popular, or at least, so hotly debated! Was it mentioned on some other website perhaps? (Yet the analytics don't show it to be widely embedded.)

Iceland has a viking festival in June in Halfnafjordir south of Reykjavik.

Small details are really cool. Every Norwegian has a backpack 😅

Herlig absurd slapstickonacid humor. Aud Schøneman som formann i nobelkomiteen, Jorun Kjeldsberg som Nora. Strålende.

Finland , Finland , Finland The country where I quite want to be.

Hahaha i love the humor!!!!!

Wat d hell! Makes me laugh in the middle of the night :-) :-) goodnyt..

Hello, is there not any other of this serie? I liked this very much and I would like to check the others

Veldig morsom !

I wanted to share this video with a Norwegian friend, but couldn't find it. I thought it was a Monty Python skit. "Skit?" sounds like a Norwegian word to me and I should know, I've never been there. Trolls, etc.

John, .. Please. :-)

I knew a lot about my ancestors but had no idea that they were so funny, or that they all wear backpacks.

Oh My...

I would say america is the home of the giants, if you catch my drift!

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!! ;^}

Can anyone please tell me the name of the song played when "Nora" flies with her umbrella? (I know it's from Mary Poppins but I don't know the name)

Who put that tab of acid in my tea?

wish I could live in Norway..

Hindsight being what it is I very much hope this was made with love. Nora's departure(s) in the Ibsen Doll's House sequence made me laugh out loud. But lest I laugh too loudly the sequence at 17:23 very nearly happened to me...in Pittsburgh.

He forgot the famous Holmenkollen Contest, rolling a boat-like thing down a track, to be able to ring the bell, placed on a pole in the lake!!! The lake sadly disappeared with the new - Danish Constructed Skijump, being built!! Combining flatlander Danes with skies, is a bad thing!

At the 4:20 mark, it's hard not to be confronted with a serious Jawa vibe, given the high pitched speeded up gibberish voiceover admixed with the brown robed and hooded figures.

Norway: Home of the New York Giants

0:28 I'm giggling already :) The Russian guy named the wrong side of the Atlantic, and the sub makers got the wrong side of the equator!

Were did they get "scollbumping" from?

Where the Minions got their language!

I've heard it said, Norway has the highest absenteeism from work than any other European country. . .when it's a nice day, many people go to their log cabins in the woods and mountains. If this is true. . . .I'm coming!. . . .

:D ..in keeping with the theme of the program -- I've seen parts of this before(bits of this has been recycled), and genuinely believed up until now that it was actually made by a Norwegian comedy trio in the 80's, in isolation from everything else around the world up here in the cold north. I'm sorry. I truly am. Also, angry. A little bit. Not too much.

Som Norsk ELSKER jeg dette !

well that almost put me to sleep