Jacob Haugaard

Jacob Haugaard

Jacob Haugaard as the compère at Grøn Koncert, 2010.
Born Daniel Jacob Haugaard
12 May 1952 (1952-05-12) (age 59)
Tvøroyri, Faroe Islands[1]
Occupation Comedian
Actor
Politician

Daniel Jacob Haugaard[2] (born 12 May 1952 in Tvøroyri on the Faroe Island) is a Danish comedian, actor and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Denmark from 1994–1998. He ran without a party, and still got 23,253 votes, enough for a seat.

Haugaard ran for every election as a joke from 1979 onwards until he won in 1994. After his term expired, he decided not to seek re-election. Among his outrageous campaign promises were: 8 hours of free time, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours of sleep, more tailwind on bicycle paths, promises of better weather, right to impotency, Nutella in field rations (was actually implemented) and shorter queues in supermarkets.[3][4]

Asylum rated his win in the Parliamentary election the 11th greatest prank of all time.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). CMC. http://www.cmc.dk/artist.php4?id=43. Retrieved 14 July 2009. 
  2. ^ "Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). Folketinget. http://www.ft.dk/BAGGRUND/Biografier/Jacob_Haugaard.htm. Retrieved 14 July 2009. 
  3. ^ "Løsgængeren Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). Jakob Nørgaard-Petersen, stud.scient.pol., Aarhus Universitet. http://samfnu.systime.dk/fileadmin/filer/Tekster/Emne5/c_jnp_haugaard_02.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  4. ^ a b "The Greatest Pranks of All Time". Asylum.com. http://www.asylum.com/2009/04/01/the-greatest-pranks-of-all-time/?icid=aimDBDL2_link2-a. Retrieved 2010-09-23. 

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