Henrik Schyffert

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Per Henrik Schyffert (born February 23, 1968) is a Swedish comedian, actor, musician and radio and TV personality.

Schyffert is best known for being a popular comedian in Sweden, where he started his career on the radio, doing prank phone calls, and later moved on to TV. For a while he worked at MTV in London. He has also been a musician in the rock band Whale along with Cia Berg and Gordon Cyrus. Schyffert is a leading member of the Swedish comedy group Killinggänget. He started doing stand up comedy in 2003.

Schyffert played the part of Richard in the 2004 fourfold Guldbagge Award winning movie Four Shades of Brown.

In 2005, he made a documentary for Swedish national TV about humor around the world in which he interviewed John Cleese, Eddie Izzard, Conan O'Brien, Dylan Moran and more. He also went to Japan to perform stand up comedy in Japanese. In 2006, he hosted Veckans nyheter on Kanal 5.