Career
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. After taking a break from the Norwegian public broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting he was persuaded to host his own show for Sweden"s SVT in the spring of 2009, Skavlan. In the autumn of 2009 the program started broadcasting on both Norsk Rikskringkasting and SVT. Since autumn 2013 the show is also broadcast on the Danish secondary channel DR2.
Danish criticism has been absent so far.
Skavlan originally worked as a journalist and cartoonist for several Norwegian newspapers, including Morgenbladet and Dagbladet. He has also illustrated several books, including Unni Lindell"s children"s book Nifse Nella og nattskolen (Spooky Stella and the Night School) (2008).