Grotesco

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Grotesco is a Swedish comedy group and the name of a comedy series that the group recorded 3 seasons for, under SVT, it aired between Autumn of 2007 and 2017. As well as this, the group also participated as break entertainment in Melodifestivalen 2009 (The Melody Festival - A Swedish festival to determine the 49th song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest), and released a CD with different variants of the hit song Tingeling, which headlined in the break entertainment.

On 15 January 2015, they had the premiere for their first stage performance "Grotesco på Scala - en näradödenrevy" (Grotesco at Scala - a near-death revue) in the Scala Theatre in Stockholm. On 3 September 2015, it was confirmed that Grotesco would do a third season of their TV series.

Controversy[]

On 5 November 2010, Grotesco released a music video, Blanda Upp (meaning "Mix It Up"), which involved foreigners dancing to a rapper and a singer performing the national anthem while dancing in a sexual manner atop a Black man, as a parody of media reports over the increasing foreign minorities in the country.

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External links[]

• Official website