I manegen med Glenn Killing ("In the ring with Glenn Killing") was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 television show broadcast by SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

 in 1992. It marked the television debut of Swedish comedy group Killinggänget

Killinggänget

Killinggänget is a Swedish comedy group, started in 1991. It is named after Glenn Killing, a character played by Henrik Schyffert who has appeared in many of their shows....

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The show's basic formula is (according to Killinggänget) borrowed from Vic Reeves Big Night Out

Vic Reeves Big Night Out

Vic Reeves Big Night Out was a cult British comedy stage show and later TV series which ran on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as a New Year special...

, with some sketches stolen almost verbatim, but mostly different content and a set of original characters including Percy Nilegård

Percy Nilegård

Percy Nilegård is a fictional character played by Johan Rheborg, and one of the primary staples of the Swedish comedy-group Killinggänget.A vain, snobbish, and possibly insane capitalist with a noticeable underbite, he does almost everything to earn money while also promoting his own ideas of good...

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