Carsten Eskelund

Carsten Eskelund (born 7 August 1976 in København) is a Danish stand-up comedian. Carsten Eskelund debuted as a comedian in 2000, when he took second place at the DM i stand-up-comedy. In 2002 he hosted Den Ægte Vare, a comedy show that toured all over Denmark; the other performers were Anders "Anden" Matthesen, Geo, Jacob Tingleff, Mick Øgendahl and Rune Klan. Since 2003 he has taken part in numerous club tours for the Danish comedy agency FBI. Carsten Eskelund has been a radio host on Radio 100 FM.

He has appeared in Stand-up.dk in 2002, 2005 (as host) and 2007. He has also appeared in Talegaver til børn in 2003-2008, and subsequently in Comedy Aid in 2009, 2010 and 2014. He has also written material for Parlamentet on TV3 and the programme TarTar with Rune Klan on TV 2, and helped develop the programme Zulu Bingo. He took part in Gustne Gensyn with Jonatan Spang in 2006 and Brian Mørk Show with Brian Mørk from 2011. Eskelund was also host of the QI-like DR programme Quiz i en hornlygte, the first of which premiered on 28 March 2012, with 18 episodes broadcast.

Together with colleague Michael Christiansen, Eskelund makes a kind of comedy café-quiz called "Den Hvide Lektie". He performed at the Zulu Comedy Galla in 2012 and subsequently premiered his first one-man show called Sådan én man selv griner af. During the corona pandemic he travelled around the country in the spring together with Jan Gintberg in the programme Spritnyt - med Gintberg og Eskelund on DR, looking at inventions and good ideas, followed the same autumn by the programme Gintberg, Eskelund og Den dybe Tallerken. He appeared in 2024 in the eighth season of TV 2's entertainment programme Stormester.