Career
He started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1992 where he was number three in the competition to be the best Danish stand-up comedian. In 1997 he got his breakthrough with the radio-program Tæskeholdet (Danish for: The Thrashing Team) on DR"s P3, along with Casper Christensen, Mads Vangsø, and Søren Søndergaard. Since then he has been a part of many television comedy shows, either as a writer or host, and has toured Denmark with a number of stand-up shows, among them a double show with Jonathan Spang.
In early 2006 he appeared on The Daily Show on Comedy Central during the Muhammed drawings crisis.
He is currently the host of the Danish version of the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. Gintberg is especially known for talking about politicians, political subjects and other current events in his shows.
Mostly it"s the Danish Government that"s in his focus. Gintberg Verden (Gintberg"s World), a book collecting Gintberg"s best columns from a variety of newspapers, was published in the fall of 2007.
He also gave voice to Mushu in the movie Mulan.
