More oddball than meatball, Sweden’s Carl-Einar Hackner is an antidote to the more cerebral comics on offer this festival, with a cavalcade of extravagantly stupid set-pieces, so increasingly ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. SWEDEN'S Carl-Einar Hackner comes from the same school of magic as Arrested Development's Gob Bluth ...

SWEDISH Carl delivers a series of seemingly unrelated stories - without a beginning, middle or end - employing a chaotic mix of Nordic gibberish and "Do you understand my English?" It wasn't until 20 ...

I was told that Swedish clown Carl-Einar Hackner was going to put his hand in a blender last night. In fact he put his entire act in a blender, mixing magic with quirky songs to produce an easily ...

CARL-EINAR Hackner calls his show Big in Sweden, but that is an understatement. He is huge in Sweden and very popular in Germany too. He performed to more than 60,000 people on his last European solo ...

A warm declaration of love for life with Carl-Einar Häckner. The stage show 'In a land far away' promises 'timeless magic, songs and spontaneous humour, a certain amount of anxiety but also desire, a ...

A Swedish Tommy Cooper, say the critics, with a dash of Abba thrown in, Carl-Einar Hackner is also a veteran of cult cabaret show La Clique. Now he brings his melange of slapstick and magic tricks to ...

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For anyone who has ever wanted to hurl a piece of Ikea furniture at the wall – yes, his potential audience is that large – Carl-Einar Häckner is balm to your DIY wound. The Scandinavian goon is ...