Henrik Schyffert

Per Henrik Schyffert (born 23 February 1968) is a Swedish comedian, actor, musician and radio and television personality. Schyffert was a VJ for MTV Europe in the late 1980s. In 1992 he hosted the comedy TV show I Manegen Med Glenn Killing, also starring Robert Gustafsson and Johan Rheborg, and the program was later turned into a successful stage show. In 1993 he created the radio show Hassan with Kristian Luuk in Stockholm.

Also in 1993 he released the single "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" with Gordon Cyrus and ex-girlfriend Cia Berg, under the name Whale. Whale's first album, We Care, was released two years later, and the next album, All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones, followed in 1998. He and the rest of the "Killing" gang made three more hugely successful TV series - NileCity 105.6, Percy Tarar and Fyra Sma Filmer - before hitting the big screen with Fyra Nyanser Av Brunt, which won four Guldbagge Awards in 2005, including Best Film and Best Leading Actor. Schyffert co-wrote the film and played the role of Richard.

He started doing stand-up comedy in 2003, and became the third host of the political satire show Parlamentet, a Swedish adaptation of If I Ruled the World. In 2005, he made a documentary for Swedish national TV, about humor around the world called Dokument:Humor, in which he interviewed John Cleese, Eddie Izzard, Conan O'Brien, Dylan Moran and others. In 2008 and 2009, he had a very successful run with touring one-man show The 90s - Ett Forsvarstal. In 2020, he directed his first feature film, Run Uje Run, which won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film, while Schyffert received a nomination for Best Director.