“Jon Skolmen & Lasse Åberg a classic humorpar as Laurel & Half”
“Jon Skolmen has been through the ”Sällskapsresan”movies for a place in Swedish history.”
“Despite the fact that he really exists, I find it hard to imagine that any Norwegian citizen, within a reasonable period of time can become so very popular in Sweden as Ole Bramserud. “
“In the almost 40 years he has been loved by generation after generation of its way to breathe a bit of life in the Lasse Åbergs shy Stig-Helmer of the six hit movies.”
“Rolv Wesenlund (1936-2013) may perhaps be a tad more popular in their home country. But in Sweden there is no Norwegian who is more popular than Jon Skolmen. Generation after Generation has grown up with Lasse Åberg’s ”Sällskapsresan”movies, they seem to constantly roll in one or several tv channels, and there is not many who has not taken the easy mad Ole Bramserud to their hearts.”
“He and Lasse Åberg met at the tv-festival in Montreaux.”
“A festival which has lost some of its shine now-a-days, but during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the festival had and its rate of greater significance, before advertising-tv’s big break in Europe, before there was 57 Channels (and nothin’ on) Bruce Springsteen so aptly sang in the beginning of the 1990s.”
“No wonder that the scandinavian nyskaparna found each other.”
“When Lasse Åberg and his medförfattareu002Fproducent Bo Jonsson (1938-2018) would follow up the hit film ”Repmånad or How to make boys of men” (1979) with a depiction of the swedes on a package holiday, they created the character Stig-Helmer for Lasse Åberg. A shy and disoriented adult male who mentally barely even had come into adolescence.”
“Genidraget was to let the Stig-Helmer get Ole Bramserud in flygsätet beside him during the tour from Stockholm to the Canary islands. He who tricked the Stig-Helmer trying to get juice out of the button in the ceiling that you use to call the stewardess.”
“Skolmens energy rubbed off on all of the films”
“Then they became roommates. Ole was the opposite of Stig-Helmer. Sure, the Norwegian hurtig, social, humorous, prylgalen and urbane, at least according to himself. He became the ”engine” in all six of the ”Sällskapsresan”movies, the one who saw to it that the Stig-Helmer was drawn on various adventures, even with the opposite sex.”
“the Chemistry was immediate. Skolmens energy rubbed off on all of the movies and he was invited to the Swedish tv-program as the ”entertainment capital” and ”Nöjesmassakern”.”
“But it’s like Ole Bramserud we will never forget Jon Skolmen.nto us scandinavians are he and Lasse Åberg a classic humorpar ever Laurel & Half.”
