History Music / Ylvis

A Norwegian music/comedy duo, consisting of brothers Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker. Internationally, they are most famous for their hit single "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" which went viral on Website/YouTube after being created for the talk show they host in Norway.

* ClusterFBomb: Calle once made a "travel segment" in which we went to New York and asked locals for tips, all while swearing profusely. Because, as he claims, in order to sound like a real American you've got to swear.

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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Vegard once gave an interview while impersonated Josh Groban. He baited the interviewer into bringing up Ylvis and then mentioned how hilarious they were.

* PainfulRhyme: [[invoked]] PlayedForLaughs in "Stonehenge":

A Norwegian music/comedy duo, consisting of brothers Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker. Internationally, they are most famous for their hit single "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" which went viral on YouTube after being created for the talk show they host in Norway.

* TheUnfavourite: There are actually ''three'' Ylvisåker brothers -- Bård and Vegard have a younger brother, Bjarte. The fact that he's excluded from his brothers' comedy team is parodied in the song I Will Never Be A Star, which he unexpectedly [[MomentOfAwesome sang in front of a massive crowd in Oslo Spektrum]] at the opening of Ylvis's concert tour.

->''Dog goes "woof",
Cat goes "meow",
Bird goes "tweet" and mouse goes "squeek",
Cow goes "moo",
Frog goes "croak",
And the elephant goes "toot",
Ducks say "quack",
And fish go "blub",
And the seal goes "ow ow ow",
But there's one sound,
That no one knows,

Besides ''I kveld med Ylvis,'' the Ylvisåker brothers have also hosted the program ''Norges herligeste'' (Norway's Most Wonderful), in which they visited unusual people around Norway. They also had a radio show called O-fag (in Norwegian, ''fag'' means "school subject") and did several live shows before they made it onto TV.

This show, ''I kveld med Ylvis'' (Tonight with Ylvis) is currently in its fourth season on the Norwegian channel [=TVNorge=]. In addition to the Ylvis brothers, the show also features comedians Magnus Devold and Calle Hellevang-Larsen. (In the second season, Calle was temporarily replaced by Swedish comedian David Batra due to conflicting obligations to his other comedy group, Raske Menn.) As well as songs and guest interviews, the show includes sketches and pranks like:

!Tropes present in their work:

* BigLittleBrother / LittleBigBrother: Vegard is the older one but also the shorter one.

* RiddleForTheAges: What does the fox say? The question remains unanswered in the song.

This show, ''I kveld med Ylvis'' (Tonight with Ylvis) has run for three seasons on the Norwegian channel [=TVNorge=] and also features Magnus Devold and Calle Hellevang-Larsen. (In the second season, Calle was temporarily replaced by Swedish comedian David Batra due to conflicting obligations to his other comedy group, Raske Menn.) As well as songs and guest interviews, the show includes sketches and pranks like:

* TheUnpronounceable: The name Ylvis gets mispronounced a lot by foreigners, understandably so since English doesn't have the sound that Y makes in Norwegian. (The closest approximation is ILL-vis or ULL-vis, with the real vowel sound being somewhere between those two.)

* TheUnpronounceable: The name Ylvis gets mispronounced a lot by foreigners, understandably so since English doesn't have the sound that Y makes in Norwegian. (The closest approximation is ILL-vis.)