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Norway duo’s rapper heist skit goes viral

Two Norwegian comedians got Chicago’s fastest rapper and his sidekick to improvise a bank heist film on the spot, then used the recording for a film they acted out themselves back in Oslo. Amazingly, it works.

Published: 3 November 2015 07:28 CET
Norway duo's rapper heist skit goes viral
The title page for Under Sixty Seconds. Photo: Screen Grab
The film, titled “Under Sixty Seconds – Unexpected Sh!t” comes off a lot better than you could possibly have hoped, partly thanks to the brilliance of rappers Anthony Dagher, a.k.a 'Young Certified' and Qasim 'Ruthless' Khan, but also due to the uncanny ability of comedians Erik Solbakken and Hasse Hope.
 
The film has already been seen more than 400,000 times on YouTube. 
 
“It is always a positive surprise when a video starts to go 'viral', as I believe they call it now, Solbakken, told Dagbladet newspaper.
 
But the two comedians aren't hoping to follow the success seen by rival comic duo Ylvis with their viral song The Fox, the YouTube video for which has been seen more than 500 million times. 
 
“We're not jumping on a plane tomorrow to make it a double,” Solbakken laughed. “We're sitting here quietly at home.” 
 
The duo's comedy show Karl Johan is normally shot from the Oslo’s Karl Johans Gate, picking people off the street to form the basis of improvised comedy. 
 
But last week’s episode was shot from Venice Beach in California, with only the bank heist film shot back in Oslo. 
 

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Norway Uni pulls coronavirus message citing ‘poorly developed’ US health system

One of Norway's leading universities has been forced to change a message warning overseas students of the US's "poorly developed health services", after it was dragged into a storm of criticism on social media.

Published: 17 March 2020 09:24 CET
Norway Uni pulls coronavirus message citing 'poorly developed' US health system
Norwegian University of Science and Technology is one of Norway's leading universities. Photo: NTNU
Over the weekend, the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology posted a message on its Facebook page for its students on international postings,  advising them to heed the latest advice from Norway's foreign ministry on the coronavirus pandemic, and return back to Norway. 
 
“This applies especially,” the message said, “if you are staying in a country with poorly developed health services and infrastructure and/or collective infrastructure, for example the USA.” 
 
But on Monday, after a storm of social media criticism, the message was changed, stripping out all mention of the US. 
 
Anne Dahl, communications advisor for the university's rector, told state broadcaster NRK that the university had decided to change the post because the furore was distracting people from the serious underlying message. 
 
“We do not want the expression of a single phrase to overshadow important information, so the specific wording about the US was removed,” she wrote in an email. 
 
The original wording was quickly picked up by Twitter commentators in the US. 
 

It then got viral news coverage, with both conservative outlets like Fox News, and left-of-centre newspapers like the UK's Independent picking up the story. 
 
Several people flocked to the original post to attack the university in the comments. 
 
 
 
 
The post was then changed on Monday to remove all reference to the US. 
 
 
 
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