Norsemen creators Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A heads up, first: There's some talk about sexual assault in this conversation. Nothing graphic, just some discussion of the use of it in comedy, in the abstract. If you're sensitive to these kinds of topics, we figured we'd give you a heads up. It's with Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen, creators of the hit show Norsemen. It's a sitcom about vikings, set around the year 790 AD. Throughout the series we see the villagers and vikings deal with daily life. The vikings pillage. The vikings fight among themselves. They sacrifice slaves. The jokes are great, absurd but delivered bone dry. And the violence is real, and their actions have real consequences. And at the heart of the show, modernity is closing in on them. New inventions. New norms. Pillaging towns doesn't pay like it used to. Jon and Jonas will give us a behind the scenes look at the show. Plus, they'll explain Taco Friday: the latest food craze in Norway.

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0:00.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne, a heads up before we get into this episode.
0:20.9	There is some talk in this interview about sexual assault, which is one of the subjects
0:26.3	of the comedy TV show Norseman, which we're about to talk about.
0:30.5	There's nothing graphic, but there is discussion of how it is used in comedy and in a sort
0:36.4	of abstract sense.
0:38.4	So if that's a sensitive subject for you, be aware that it does come up.
0:43.4	Anyway, my guess, the creators of the TV show Norseman, John Iver Hellgaker and Jonas
0:50.6	Torgerson.
0:52.1	Have you heard of Norseman?
0:53.1	I have been watching a lot of it lately.
0:54.8	It is very funny.
0:55.8	The premise is pretty simple.
0:59.2	Basically so simple, you can sum it up in two words, funny Vikings.
1:03.2	But it's not like goofy or anything.
1:06.2	In fact, it's entirely deadpan.
1:08.6	It's set around the year 790 AD.
1:12.1	It's filmed in the wilderness of Norway, shot simultaneously in English and Norwegian.
1:18.4	They wrote it in Norwegian and translated it to English and made the same actors do it
1:23.3	in both languages.
1:25.2	The Vikings on the show, Pelage, they fight amongst themselves, they sacrifice slaves.
1:32.4	They also argue about, I guess you might say, boardroom stuff.
1:37.7	Only it's about who's going to be in charge of the village.
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