Background
Wickström was born in Paipis in Sipoo east of Helsinki.
Wickström was born in Paipis in Sipoo east of Helsinki.
In 2003, thanks to the television show West-Tyyli, Wickström reached a broad audience in Finland. In West-Tyyli Wickström portrayed a fictional talk-show host in a documentary fashion preparing the evenings show by welcoming and pre-pepping actual celebrities for the evenings show. West-tyyli was as a format sold to multiple countries including Britain and Belgium.
Wickström has later appeared more and more on Swedish television instead.
In 2006, Wickström was one of the hosts of the television show Veckans nyheter on Kanal 5 in Sweden. Since 2007 he is also a panelist in the popular Swedish television-program Parlamentet.
In 2008 he was a frequent guest in the Swedish television comedy Morgonsoffan. Helsinki comedy clubs Club Viirus and The Comedy Kitchen are both launched by Wickström.
His debut as a stand up comedian came in 1995 and he got his degree from the Theatre Academy in 1999.