History Series / Parlamentet

** Quite literally with André Wikström, who simply happens to be a foreigner (specifically a Fenno-Swede) who's a comedian - and a fairly good one at that.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: André Wikström tends to do this:

* HomoeroticSubtext: Occasionally invoked; there are a lot of situations where a kiss would provoke the largest audience response or be the funniest punchline, and it just so happens that most of the comedians are male. Some examples below:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zuhEfnGHa8 Johan Glans getting the prompt "Now or never...",]] leading to him awkwardly flirting with and eventually throwing himself at his team member André Wikström. The same episode also ends with the host Anders deliberately taking some things Fredrik Reinfeldt said in a then-recent interview out of context to imply something happened between him and Jan Björklund.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked by André Wikström, while boasting about his sex-texts. (ItMakesSenseInContext. But not much.)

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of three, two until 2018, comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]] The series is an imported version of the British series ''Series/IfIRuledTheWorld'', which [[BritishBrevity ran for just two series]] in 1998-99; ''Parlamentet'' started in 1999 and continued since (with a hiatus between 2011 and 2014).

The different conditions (or simply rounds) have changed over the show, some being lost to the sands of time, but the four most notable are:

* '''Klart Man Hänger Med ("Of Course I Keep Up")''': In this round (usually comes after "Tips Från Coachen", and also usually introduced by a series of [[JustForPun puns]]), the host asks a series of pretty normal questions. The comedians usually respond with a spectacularly wrong answer or pun or weirdly logical (yet still wrong) response, [[RuleOfFunny because it's funnier that way]]. Subverted once, when Kristoffer Appelquist suddenly answered a question correctly. The audience broke out in astonished laughter, and an extremely smug Kristoffer got awarded one point.

* FoeYay: Invoked a few times, and not just during ''Tips Från Coachen'':
** [[https://youtu.be/DDEU_NU-pP8?t=96 Soran Ismail getting the prompt]] "You're horny and angry..." Which leads to him shouting at his opponent Pia to show him her breasts (she just winks at him in response) and yelling at Anders for his allegedly sexy Scanian accent.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfU9sAeAmsc One round of Duellen between Henrik Dorsin and Magnus Betnér]] about Tiger Woods' then recent cheating scandal starts with both sides insulting another before eventually devolving into Betnér accusing Dorsin of stalking him. Dorsin retaliates by confessing his love and asking "Please... Can't you be unfaithful/cheat with me?" before they hug awkwardly and leave the stage.

** To a lesser extent Soran Ismail, who has lived in Sweden for most of his life but was born in Iraq; sometimes he will refer to this background as part of his jokes.

* HoYay: Occasionally invoked; there are a lot of situations where a kiss would provoke the largest audience response or be the funniest punchline, and it just so happens that most of the comedians are male. Some examples below:

* ItMakesSenseInContext: The teleprompter text scrolling past the screen quite quickly (and instructions often being followed for several minutes) has led many a confused Swede to tune in to a comedian acting like, for example, a sceptical junkie or using their shoes as ventriloquist dolls.

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of three, two until 2018, comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]] The series is an imported version of the British series ''Series/IfIRuledTheWorld'', which [[BritishBrevity ran for just two series]] in 1998-99; ''Parlamentet'' has racked up ten times that number.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:

'''Competitor:''' Eggs.

'''André:''' Yeah. ''[doing the same thing]'' RUOKAKERMA.\\

** [[https://youtu.be/DDEU_NU-pP8?t=96 Soran Ismail getting the prompt]] "You're horny and angry..." Which leads to him shouting at his opponent Pea to show him her breasts and yelling at Anders for his allegedly sexy Scanian accent.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEU_NU-pP8 A debate between Henrik Dorsin and Magnus Betnér]] about Tiger Woods' then recent cheating scandal, devolving into "Please... Can't you be unfaithful/cheat with me?"
* FunnyForeigner: Quite literally with André Wickström, who simply happens to be a foreigner (specifically a Fenno-Swede) who's a comedian - and a fairly good one at that.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: André Wikström has a tendency toward this:
** In the same clip where André talks about his former hardrock band, he is given the prompt "get angry in a foreign language" and promptly launches into very poor German.
** When given the prompt "[[https://youtu.be/cLTPaW9u5Ww?t=96 You are a Finnish rally racer...]]" he instead ends up telling most of his story (about his friend Timo who got an "ass transplant") in English with a heavy Finnish accent.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zuhEfnGHa8 Johan Glans getting the prompt "Now or never...", leading to him awkwardly flirting with and eventually throwing himself at his team member André Wickström.]] The same episode also ends with the host Anders deliberately taking some things Fredrik Reinfeldt said in a then-recent interview out of context to imply something happened between him and Jan Björklund.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: The teleprompter text scrolling past the screen quite quickly and the instructions being followed for quite some time has led many a confused Swede to tune in to a comedian acting like, for example, a sceptical junkie, before the next instructions scrolling past clears things up. Although then again, the amount of randomness that ''Parlamentet'' is known for might make this less common than it should be.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked by André Wickström, while boasting about his sex-texts. (ItMakesSenseInContext. But not much.)
-->'''André:''' Oooh, heh heh heh... "Thanks for yesterday night, it was nice"... Well, ''[typing]'' "You're welcome"! ... Oh, and look at this one... "Wish you were home"! ... No, wait, that was from my mother...

-->'''André:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b82jMIkZMv0 But what not many people know is that I used to be in a rock band.]] ''[audience chuckles]'' It's true -- in the late 80s, back home in Finland. We were called ''[throws up the horns, growls ominously, gets a crazy look in his eyes]'' RUOKAKERMA.\\

'''Anders:''' And, what--what does that mean, in Swedish?\\

* FunnyForeigner: Quite literally with André Wickström. He simply happens to be a foreigner who's a comedian (a Fenno-Swede to be exact). And he ''is'' quite funny.
* HoYay: [[invoked]] Understandable, as there are a lot of situations where a kiss would provoke the largest audience response or be the funniest punchline. It just so happens that most of the comedians are male. HoYay has been showcased three times:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkMWJXp5ns With André Wickström and Johan Glans.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEU_NU-pP8 With Soran Ismail and Magnus Betnér.]]
** With Henrik Dorsin and Magnus Betnér.

-->'''André:''' Oooh, heh heh heh..."Thanks for yesterday night, it was nice"...well, ''[typing]'' "You're welcome"! ... Oh, and look at this one..."Wish you were home"! ...no, wait, that was from my mother...

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of two comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]] The series is an imported version of the British series ''Series/IfIRuledTheWorld'', which [[BritishBrevity ran for just two series]] in 1998-99; ''Parlamentet'' has racked up ten times that number.

* '''Tips Från Coachen ("Hints From The Coach" -- [[WordSaladTitle no, that title doesn't make sense to me either]])''': The host asks fairly regular questions to one or more of the comedians. However, instructions from a teleprompter flash past for the comedians, causing them to behave anything but regularly, for instance "You are drunk" or "You are a spoiled brat". Arguably the most famous round.
* '''Ja & Nej ("Yes And No")''': In this round (usually introduced by a reading of the rules, and [[{{Metaphorgotten}} metaphors]]), the host asks typical yes-or-no questions to the competitors...who aren't allowed to answer "yes", "no", "what", or hesitate. [[ButtMonkey Johan Glans and Johan Ulvesson]] are infamously bad at this.
* '''Klart Man Hänger Med ("Of Course One Keeps Up")''': In this round (usually comes after "Tips Från Coachen", and also usually introduced by a series of [[JustForPun puns]]), the host asks a series of pretty ordinary questions. The comedians usually respond with a spectacularly wrong answer or pun or weirdly logical (yet still wrong) response, [[RuleOfFunny because it's funnier that way.]]
** Subverted once, when Kristoffer Appelquist suddenly answered a question correctly. The audience broke out in astonished laughter, and an extremely smug Kristoffer got awarded one point.

-->'''Anders''': What [thing] makes it simpler when boiling eggs?
-->'''Competitor''': Eggs.
** Another example:
-->'''Speaker''': What does one usually say about a year with a lot of rowan berries?
-->'''Contestant''': Gee, we sure have a lot of rowan berries this year!
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything's More Hardcore In Finnish]]:
-->'''André''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b82jMIkZMv0 But what not many people know is that I used to be in a rock band.]] (''audience chuckles'') It's true -- in the late 80s, back home in Finland. We were called--(''throws up the horns, growls ominously, gets a crazy look in his eyes'') RUOKAKERMA.
-->'''Anders''' (''suppressing chuckles''): Ruokakerm...
-->'''André''': Yeah. (''doing the same thing'') RUOKAKERMA.
-->'''Anders''': And, what--what does that mean, in Swedish?
-->'''André''': "[[spoiler:Cream]]."
* FunnyForeigner: Quite literally with André Wickström. He simply happens to be a foreigner who's a comedian (A Fenno-Swede to be exact). And he ''is'' quite funny.
* FranchiseZombie: Widely regarded to have become this towards the end.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: The teleprompter text scrolling past the screen quite quickly and the instructions being followed for quite a long time has led many a confused Swede to tune in to a comedian acting like, for example, a sceptical junkie, before the next instructions scrolling past cleared things up. Although then again, the amount of randomness that ''Parlamentet'' is known for might make this less common than it should be.

-->'''André''': Oooh, heh heh heh..."Thanks for yesterday night, it was nice"...well, (''typing'') "You're welcome"! ... Oh, and look at this one..."Wish you were home"! ...no, wait, that was from my mother...

-->'''André''': Oooh, heh heh heh..."Thanks for yesterday night, it was nice"...well, (''typing'') "You're welcome"! ... Oh, and look at this one..."Wish you were home"! [[FreudWasRight ...no, wait, that was from my mother...]]

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of two comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]] The series is an imported version of the British series ''If I Ruled the World'', which [[BritishBrevity ran for just two series]] in 1998-99; ''Parlamentet'' has racked up ten times that number.

-->'''Contestant''': Wow, what a lot of rowan berries!

Swedish humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of two comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]] The series is an imported version of the British series ''If I Ruled the World'', which [[BritishBrevity ran for just two series]] in 1998-99; ''Parlamentet'' has racked up ten times that number.

* FunnyForeigner: Quite literally with André Wickström. He simply happens to be a foreigner who's a comedian. And he ''is'' quite funny.

Swedish humoristic improvisation GameShow satirizing political debate in which two teams (called "parties", in keeping with the politics theme) have battles of wit against each other throughout different conditions. The teams are the red party and the blue party, consisting of two comedians (usually different every episode) each, and at the end, the audience votes on whoever they thought were the funniest. [[HilarityEnsues In other words, hilarity simply MUST ensue.]]