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 ...

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 ...

CARL-EINAR Hackner commands attention. A long-haired Swede, resplendent in flared trousers, his wild-eyed appearance is enough to invoke giggles before he utters a word. Carl-Einar Hackner is a big ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...