Fredrik Lindström

In this clip you can hear an excerpt from his radio special on P1 Sommar (see “Sommar i P1”) where he tries to order a trip using the SJ automatic phone system. 

Fredrik Lindström is something as rare as a popular, intelligent man that is universally liked. You would be hard pressed to find someone who had anything against him. His career started on a radio show where he made prank calls on air, usually with a hint of intellectualism (see “Hassan”). In one example he called a bus company’s lost and found department, asking if they had found an irregular verb that he left behind on the bus. Instead of “merely” becoming a comedian, however, he went to university, got his degree in linguistics and is currently on leave from a PHD-position at Uppsala University. He has since then written several books about the Swedish language, produced and starred in different TV-shows dedicated to the same topic. He has made caring about language somewhat hip. Right now he works as a host for one of Sweden’s most popular game shows (see “På Spåret). With his combination of humor, intelligence and humility he has become hugely popular amongst several different audiences - those who pretend to be intellectual, those who actually are and those enjoy being everything but.