Kristopher Schau

Kristopher Hugh Martin Schau (born 12 August 1970) is a Norwegian musician, TV host, comedian, author and songwriter, born in Oslo. He is known from several radio shows, many of them with his brother Alexander Schau, including XL, Karate, and Et Norge I Krig, and on television from XLTV, Team Antonsen, and De 7 dodssyndene. He has been part of several bands, among them Hurra Torpedo, The Cumshots, and Mongo Ninja, and created the television shows Dag and One Night with his friend Oystein Karlsen. In 2007 he launched the television show De 7 dodssyndene, in which he attempted to commit all seven deadly sins, drawing protests from some Norwegian conservative Christians who organized a petition and boycott against the show's sponsors. He is also known for performance art projects, including living in a brown Opel Rekord for a week in 1998 and a 2001 project called Forfall, in which he lived as unhealthily as possible while medical professionals examined his blood, urine and sperm. As an author, his 2009 book On behalf of friends, documenting funerals of people who died without known relatives, received critical acclaim.