| André Wickström | |
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| Born | 11 February 1976 Sipoo, Eastern Uusimaa, Finland |
André Wickström (born 11 February 1976 in Sipoo, Eastern Uusimaa, Finland) is a Finland Swedish comedian and actor, performing in both the Swedish and the Finnish language.
Wickström was born in Paipis in Sipoo east of Helsinki. His debut as a stand up comedian came in 1995 and he got his degree from the Theatre Academy in 1999. In 2003, thanks to the TV show W-Tyyli, Wickström reached a broad audience in Finland. In W-Tyyli Wickström portrayed a fictional talk-show host in a documentary fashion preparing the evenings show by welcoming and pre-pepping actual celebrities for the evenings show. W-tyyli was as a format sold to multiple countries including Britain and Belgium.[1]
Wickström has later appeared more and more on Swedish television instead. In 2006, Wickström was one of the hosts of the TV show Veckans nyheter on Kanal 5 in Sweden. Since 2007 he is also a panelist in the popular Swedish TV-program Parlamentet. In 2008 he was a frequent guest in the Swedish TV comedy Morgonsoffan.
Helsinki comedy clubs Club Viirus and The Comedy Kitchen are both launched by Wickström.