Anders Matthesen
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 Anders Matthesen facts

• He is known for creating a wide array of memorable characters and stereotypes which he uses as alter-egos in performances
• After failing as a rapper, Matthesen started his stand-up career at the Danish Stand-Up Championship in 1993, where he finished in second place
• After making a name on this scene, as well as through his comedy radio stories, he also contributed to several other projects
• For example, a television "Julekalender", Jul på Vesterbro, featured fourteen characters of his invention, all of them played by himself
• These included the drunken, prostitute-addicted sailor Stewart Stardust, and his junkie son, Danny
• The story revolves around Stewart's hot dog stand, which a band of terrorists attempts to use to detonate a nuclear device during a UN meeting in Copenhagen
• Anders Matthesen has also released several CDs with his radio material, in addition to the animated movie Terkel in Trouble, based on one of these
• He has also shown himself as a capable actor in a few plays including one about the life of the Danish travel tycoon Simon Spies
• In 2006 he revisited rapping on his album Soevnloes, to great success, earning a gold record
• Recently Anders Matthesen has gone back to his stand-up roots, touring Denmark with shows like Bytte, bytte købmand (in collaboration with stand-up comedian Thomas Hartmann) from 2009 and the new one man show "ANDERS" which was released on DVD on November 11, 2013