Åpen Post was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 television program

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

 that ran on the Norwegian state channel NRK from 1998 till 2002. It was created and hosted by Harald Eia

Harald Eia

Harald Meldal Eia is a Norwegian comedian.-Career:Together with Bård Tufte Johansen, he has been author of, and participated in, several successful Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen Post , Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre ,...

 and Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen is a Norwegian comedian.Together with Harald Eia, he has authored and participated in several successful NRK TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen post ,Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre , Ut i vår hage 2 and Storbynatt...

. The show started in a talk show format with interviews and guests but later leaned more towards being a pure sketch show. The show became one of Norway's most popular TV productions though it was the center of criticism due to controversial episodes such as Bård Tuft Johansens "Chicken stunt", involving the then Norwegian Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

 leader Thorbjørn Jagland

Thorbjørn Jagland

is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, currently serving as the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe...

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After the show was taken of the air Harald Eia

Harald Eia

Harald Meldal Eia is a Norwegian comedian.-Career:Together with Bård Tufte Johansen, he has been author of, and participated in, several successful Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen Post , Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre ,...

 and Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen

Bård Tufte Johansen is a Norwegian comedian.Together with Harald Eia, he has authored and participated in several successful NRK TV series, such as Lille Lørdag , Åpen post ,Uti vår hage , Team Antonsen , Tre brødre som ikke er brødre , Ut i vår hage 2 and Storbynatt...

 continued to created new successful NRK shows such as Uti vår hage

Uti vår hage

Uti vår hage |folk song]]) was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show starred the three well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The format of the show was one main...

 (2003), Team Antonsen

Team Antonsen

Team Antonsen was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which was shown on TV in spring 2004 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show consisted of four well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Kristopher Schau performing various sketches...

 (2004), Tre brødre som ikke er brødre

Tre brødre som ikke er brødre

Tre brødre som ikke er brødre is a Norwegian comedy television show which ran for six episodes during the autumn of 2005 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. It featured noted comedians Harald Eia, Bård Tufte Johansen and Atle Antonsen....

(2005), Ut i vår hage 2 (2008) and Storbynatt (2010).