Yan Reidar Friis is a Norwegian comedian, writer, music journalist and radio host.

Friis startet his writer career at the Norwegian Labour daily newspaper Arbeiderbladet

Dagsavisen

Dagsavisen is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999, and it is now fully independent...

. After that he worked years at the youth magazine Det Nye

Det Nye

Det Nye is a Norwegian magazine that comes out every three weeks. The target group is women from 18 to 35 years. It contains feature articles, as well as material on careers, fashion, sex and relationships. Its circulation was 68,765 in 2004. The editor is Elisabet Skårberg. It is owned by Hjemmet...

where he established him self as one of Norway's best music article writers. Since 1993 he have written articles and interviews for the magazine Vi Menn

Vi Menn

Vi Menn, is Scandinavia and Norway's largest weekly lifestyle magazine for men, with a circulation of 96,000 and 593,000 weekly readers , with articles on a wide range of topics, including: adventure, travel, hunting, sports, cars and women. It is owned by the Hjemmet Mortensen AS publishing house...

, where he has been reporting editor since 2007. In 2000 he got the prize "Friends of Thailand" from Tourist Authorities of Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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Friis also works as a humourist in NRK P1

NRK P1

NRK P1 is one of three nation-wide analogue radio channels operated by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation . It is the direct descendant of NRK's first radio station which began broadcasting in 1933...

, where he since 1996 has been a co-host at the popular radio program Herreavdelingen

Herreavdelingen

Herreavdelingen is a radio talkshow at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. It is hosted by Yan Friis and Finn Bjelke - together with a female guest host Ingrid Bjørnov. It first aired in 1996 when it took the slot of the former show Irma 1000....

together with Finn Bjelke

Finn Bjelke

Finn Bjelke is a popular Norwegian humourist, writer, music journalist and radio host.Finn Bjelke is known as program host at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for their radio shows Reiseradioen, Popquiz, and Herreavdelingen...

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In 2003 Friis started the publishing house Saranya Forlag together with coin dealer Jan Olav Aamlid to re-release the scientist Carl Bock's work Temples and Elephants from 1884.

At the local election in 2007

Norwegian local elections, 2007

Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on September 10, 2007, with some areas polling on September 9 as well. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently...

Friis was candidate for the Coastal Party

Coastal Party

The Coastal Party is a Norwegian conservative and centrist political party. The party has district, fishing and coastal issues among its primary policies and is a staunch opponent of Norwegian EU membership. It was represented in the Norwegian Parliament from 2001 to 2005, and its predecessor, the...

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External links

• Nettradio - Listen to Herreavdelingen
  Herreavdelingen
  Herreavdelingen is a radio talkshow at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. It is hosted by Yan Friis and Finn Bjelke - together with a female guest host Ingrid Bjørnov. It first aired in 1996 when it took the slot of the former show Irma 1000....