As a freaky, geeky wannabe cool teenager, Mette desperately dreamed of emulating her musical heroes on stage. Yet tragically her great love of music fell short when it came to singing in tune. It was a brutal discovery – especially for her audiences. However, Mette’s determination to own the stage forced her to tell jokes in between songs simply to retain interest from the crowd and avoid the subtle signs of furniture being thrown by dissatisfied audiences. The method in her madness paid off and audiences grew fond of her sense of humour and talent as a comic raconteur.

A Career Was Born
Mette debuted as a stand-up comedian in Copenhagen in 1992 and turned professional within months. After a few years of performing all over her native Denmark, and writing for television and radio, she was offered the highly sort-after role as team-captain of the Danish version of “Have I Got News For You”. She seemed to nonchalantly bypass the transition from stand-up to TV personality and was soon offered her own talk show: “Walk The Line”. This earned her the first of many awards, as “Favourite TV Personality”, voted for by readers of “Se og Hoer” and “Billedbladet”, Denmark’s biggest weeklies.

Sadly, Denmark soon ran out of celebrities for her to interview and Mette was offered the job as host and head writer for “Have I Got News For You”. This role earned her Denmark’s “Favourite TV Personality” award for a further two years. However, her ambitions did not end there, and she never allowed complacency to enter her vocabulary (she can’t even spell the word!). She took the huge leap to the “Big Screen”, playing the lead in “The Two Penny Dance”, for which she received huge critical acclaim, and a nomination for a “Robert” (the Danish equivalent of a BAFTA), in the category “Best Actress in a Leading Role”. 

A Star Was Observed
This successful venture into mainstream acting led to her lead role in the movie “Juliane” and its subsequent TV spin-off series of the same name, which achieved the highest ratings for a television drama for the year. Mette’s next project, the sketch show “FC Lisby”, took her career full circle combining her TV experience with her roots in stand-up. The show, which Mette created, co-wrote and starred in, combined spoofs of TV shows like “Ricki Lake”, “Who Wants To Be A Millionare”, “Jeopardy” as well as news and crime shows, all linked together by extraordinary stand-up routines.

Eventually, Mette found time to fulfil a long-term dream and tour her beloved Denmark with a full 110-minute solo show titled “One Woman Comedy Tour” The show presented entirely new material and was particularly well received. A by-product of the endeavour was a best-selling DVD which topped the sales charts for numerous weeks.

When Danish broadcasters wanted to produce a domestic version of “Room 101”, Mette was the natural choice as host. Again she received vast acclaim for her style as a talk show host, but while safe in her success, she also started to feel the urge for a change of scenery.
And so it came to Mette’s boldest move to date…

She uprooted herself from the comfortable urban bliss of Copenhagen and took off for London, in order to spread her comedy wings - an overly romantic metaphor for doing open-mike spots at sleazy venues.

Her first paid gig in England was at the notorious Comedy Café in London in April 2006. In July, she was invited to The International Comedy Festival in Amsterdam, and in August 2006 Mette performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival alongside her Danish-Egyptian colleague Omar Marzouk, in the stand-up show “Cartoon Heroes – Drawing A Line”. The show  was covered by BBC Breakfast, The Independent and The Times. Mette also showcased in Lynne Parker’s “Funny Women at the Fringe” and it’s late-night spin-off “Rude Girls” alongside, amongst others, Janey Godley.

In 2007, Mette participated in the UK tapings of “The World Stands Up”, which aired in the UK, Australia, Netherlands and US.

In London, Mette has gigged at The Comedy Store, Tattershall Castle, Storm, Comedy Tree, Brou-Ha-Ha, Leicester Square Theatre, Comedy Café, Club 99, Electric Mouse, Latchmere Theatre, King’s Head Theatre, Comedy Camp, Phil Nichols’ Old Rope venue and many more…

Mette was handpicked as one of 40 comedians that got invited by NBC to the exclusive International Auditions for Last Comic Standing, so in February 2008 she went to Miami along an impressive line up of primarily English top comics (“International” meaning “British” in America). Apparently her material wasn’t “America-bashing” enough and neither did she fit the “odd foreigner” box. But she did get a really nice tan while in Florida and would like to thank NBC for sponsoring that.

In 2008 Mette co-wrote Stephen K. Amos’ shows - both his Australian Tour “Stephen K. Amos Gets Next To You” and his sell out Edinburgh Show “Find The Funny” which is embarking on a National tour of the UK. She also co-produced Stephens “Weekend Chatshow”.
While in Edinburgh Mette did various spots, amongst others at “Old Rope at The Fringe”, “BBC Comedy Presents” and she also got to do a spot at the prestigious “Comedy Gala 2008” at the Festival Theatre, a show produced by Off The Kerb Productions.

Mette is founder and owner of VIVE Productions, a production company that specializes in the development of formats for the entertainment industry. VIVE Productions has produced and developed concepts for radio, TV, board games and mobile and Internet platforms.

Mette is a gal for all seasons and a star that having risen has a seemingly permanent place in the comedy firmament. As Shakespeare once wrote, “Past is Prologue” and by this rational audiences should wait eagerly for Mette’s next acts – because they’re hardly likely to disappoint.


Written by A. Sonin.

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