Áramótaskaupið

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{{Short description|Annual Icelandic television comedy special}}
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'''''Áramótaskaupið''''' ("The New Year's Lampoon") is an annual [[Iceland]]ic television comedy special, broadcast on [[New Year's Eve]] by the state public service broadcaster [[RÚV (TV channel)|RÚV]]. Initially aired on radio in 1948, and later moving to television in 1966, it features [[Sketch comedy|sketches]] satirizing the news events of the past year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-12-19 |title=Laugh Out the Old: Iceland's New Year's Eve Comedy Tradition |url=https://www.icelandreview.com/magazine/laugh-out-the-old-aramotaskaup/ |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=Iceland Review |language=en-US}}</ref>

It is often the highest-rated television broadcast of the year in Iceland.<ref name=":0" /> In 2002, it was reported that the special had been seen by 95.5% of the country; [[Páll Magnússon]], [[CEO]] of [[RÚV]] stated that this was most likely a record in the [[Western world]].<ref>[http://www.visir.is/article/20070222/LIFID01/102220080 visir.is]</ref> Due to its high [[Audience measurement|viewership]], advertising time during ''Áramótaskaupið'' is the most expensive on Icelandic television.{{Cn|date=October 2022}} The show ends just before midnight, and those Icelanders who shoot off fireworks usually do so after ''Áramótaskaupið'' ends.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Some of its sketches have become well known in Icelandic culture, such as its portrayal of [[Ministry of Finance (Iceland)|Minister of Finance]] [[Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson]] as the [[Batman]] parody "Skattmann" ("Taxman").<ref name=":0" /> In 2009, the show featured a sketch about the [[Kitchenware revolution|protests]] following the [[2008 Icelandic financial crisis]], in which [[Jón Gnarr]] played a strait-laced middle-aged protester shouting "[[Helvítis fokking fokk|Helvítis fokking fokk!!]]". The phrase swiftly became widely used in Iceland in relation to the crisis.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik66THWLlM4 Youtube clip of Áramótaskaup sketch]; 'Helvítis fokking fokk á forsíðu Hrunsins', ''Vísir'', 5 June 2009, http://www.visir.is/helvitis-fokking-fokk-a-forsidu-hrunsins/article/2009112316069.</ref>

==Directors==
*1966: [[Andrés Indriðason]]
*1967: [[Ómar Ragnarsson]]
*1968: [[Flosi Ólafsson]]
*1969: Flosi Ólafsson
*1970: Flosi Ólafsson
*1971: [[Ása Finnsdóttir]] & Ómar Ragnarsson
*1972: [[Tage Ammendrup]]
*1973: [[Laddi]]
*1974: [[Hrafn Gunnlaugsson]]
*1975: Tage Ammendrup
*1976: Flosi Ólafsson
*1977: Tage Ammendrup
*1978: [[Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir]]
*1979: [[Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir]]
*1980: Andrés Indriðason
*1981: [[Gísli Rúnar Jónsson]]
*1982: [[Þráinn Bertelsson]]
*1983: Laddi
*1984: [[Guðný Halldórsdóttir]]
*1985: [[Sigurður Sigurjónsson]]
*1986: [[Karl Ágúst Úlfsson]]
*1987: [[Sveinn Einarsson]]
*1988: [[Gísli Snær Erlingsson]]
*1989: [[Stefán Baldursson]]
*1990: Gísli Rúnar Jónsson
*1991: [[Ágúst Guðmundsson]]
*1992: Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir
*1993: Guðný Halldórsdóttir
*1994: Guðný Halldórsdóttir
*1995: Ágúst Guðmundsson
*1996: Ágúst Guðmundsson
*1997: [[Viðar Víkingsson]]
*1998: Laddi
*1999: [[Örn Árnason]] & Sigurður Sigurjónsson
*2000: Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir
*2001: [[Óskar Jónasson]]
*2002: Óskar Jónasson
*2003: Ágúst Guðmundsson<ref>{{cite news |title=Ég vona að flestir verði búnir að fá sér í glas þegar þetta byrjar |url=https://timarit.is/page/3055017 |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=[[Dagblaðið Vísir]] |date=29 December 2003 |page=19 |language=Icelandic |via=[[Tímarit.is]]}}{{open access}}</ref>
*2004: [[Sigurður Sigurjónsson]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Sigurður Sigurjónsson leikstýrir skaupinu í kvöld |url=https://www.mbl.is/folk/frettir/2004/12/31/sigurdur_sigurjonsson_leikstyrir_skaupinu_i_kvold/ |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=[[Morgunblaðið]] |date=31 December 2004 |language=Icelandic}}</ref>
*2005: [[Edda Björgvinsdóttir]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Edda Björgvinsdóttir leikstýrir Áramótaskaupi Sjónvarpsins í fyrsta sinn |url=https://www.mbl.is/folk/frettir/2005/11/17/edda_bjorgvinsdottir_leikstyrir_aramotaskaupi_sjonv/ |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=[[Morgunblaðið]] |date=17 November 2005 |language=Icelandic}}</ref>
*2006: [[Reynir Lyngdal]]<ref>{{cite news |author1=Heiða Jóhannsdóttir |title=Þjóðin og póstmódernisminn |url=https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1122346/ |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=[[Morgunblaðið]] |date=3 January 2007 |language=Icelandic}}</ref>
*2007: [[Ragnar Bragason]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Ragnar Bragason |url=https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1181704/ |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=[[Morgunblaðið]] |date=21 December 2007 |language=Icelandic}}</ref>
*2008: [[Silja Hauksdóttir]]
*2009: [[Gunnar Björn Guðmundsson]]
*2010: Gunnar Björn Guðmundsson
*2011: Gunnar Björn Guðmundsson
*2012: Gunnar Björn Guðmundsson
*2013: [[Kristófer Dignus]]
*2014: [[Silja Hauksdóttir]]
*2015: Kristófer Dignus
*2016: [[Jón Gnarr]]
*2017: [[Arnór Pálmi Arnarsson]]
*2018: Arnór Pálmi Arnarsson
*2019: [[Reynir Lyngdal]]
*2020: Reynir Lyngdal
*2021: Reynir Lyngdal
*2022: [[Dóra Jóhannsdóttir]]
*2023: Benedikt Valsson & Fannar Sveinsson
*2024: María Reyndal

==References==
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[[Category:Icelandic comedy television series]]
[[Category:1966 Icelandic television series debuts]]
[[Category:1960s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:1970s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:1980s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:1990s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:2000s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:2010s Icelandic television series]]
[[Category:2020s Icelandic television series]]

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