YlvisandCalle

YLVIS INTERVIEW MARCH 15TH 2016 FOLKETEATERET DRESSING ROOM

Interviewer: Dawnie Guests: Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker Video and co-interview: Meka

Dawnie: As this is the final show of the season, there has been a lot of speculation from fans that a season 6 is NOT going to happen. Could you put some minds at rest, even though it’s early days?

Bård: (British/English accent) Not really put any minds at rest…

Dawnie: You’re speaking with an English accent now!

Bård: Yeah..it’s (laughs)

Meka: I noticed that too

Vegard: That’s the problem with, you know, speaking English for us- because we don’t have an identity.

Bård: Yeah, it’s kinda like it is

Vegard: When I’m in Africa I speak like dis (African dialect)

Bård: (in answer to the question) We don’t know, because since we’ve made this for five years now, we wanted to take a break to decide whether we’re doing more of this- because this is like the best thing ever for us: doing this show, because we get to do whatever we want, and we really like this thing, but we need to kind of just figure out what we want to do.

Dawnie: Do you think there could be something more like a different format of Ylvis TV…?

Bård: Yeah, absolutely.. like?

Dawnie:…like a ‘Whose line is it Anyway’ thing where you two are the Improv ‘regular guys’ - have you ever seen that?

Bård: Probably not..

Vegard: Not that..but some…

Bård: I dunno, we would love to do a lot of improv, but it’s kind of hard, it’s a hard format to master.

Meka: Especially in TV

Bård: yeah there are so many examples of shitty..

Meka: I did it in theater, in college, and its like- crazy

Bård: Yeah, but theater works

Vegard: It works in theater because it’s more charming. in television you’re supposed to be a little more rigid and..

Bård: And there’s like a hundred people sitting in there.. like..

Dawnie: Absolutely, yeah. But you’re good at what you do and it’s natural with you guys

Bård: Well, thanks, yeah.. Vegard: I think you say that because it’s just Norwegians that don’’t understand it…

Dawnie: Well.. (laughs)

Vegard: It just… looks.. nice. (laughs)

Bård: I think definitely. We will make more television- we have to do something, but we just need to like…do nothing for a couple of months.

Dawnie: Well, you deserve a break because you are just .. like.. workaholics

Vegard: Yep

Bård: I think it’s smart wanting to make stuff again

Dawnie: OK.. cut to the chase.. will there ever, between now and the eve of mankind be another version of ‘SexyBack’ with Ylvis? That is from the fans..

Vegard: Ah, yeah..That was fun, that was really fun to do

Dawnie: Yeah, it was!

Bård: We like the joke, we don’t like the sexual aspect of it

Dawnie: We can understand that, absolutely, yeah

Bård: No, because, you know, so,… we thought it was funny to do, but..…

Vegard: I’ve err, I’ve missed it, I have to say-

Bård: Yeah, like…?

Vegard: ..like musically.

Bård: Oh Yeah musically..it was fun

Vegard: I think it was fun because, I mean, we start to get like…old

Bård: Yeah yeah, old …

Vegard: And yeah so we can go through with it

Dawnie: ( To Bård) I would say you were more more comfortable with it than you Vegard

Vegard: No, it’s the opposite way around

Bård: (Points to himself) More? I think it’s the other way round

Dawnie: Do you really think?

Vegard: No, Because I don’t think I’m sexy, so then it’s… then it’s funny

(Laughter)

Bård: (points to Vegard) He’s knows he’s ugly, so..

Vegard: But, I know I’m not sexy, but he (points to Bård) still thinks he’s like, still…errm

Bård: I’m holding onto it… no

Meka: I thought it was great, your parents at the afterparty in Stockholm, we talked to them for a while, your father was talking about the rehearsal in Drammen. He said HE thought you were going to pull a young lady from the audience, and he thought OK yeah, that’d be funny, the fans’ll like it. He said when you pulled a male up onstage, it took a turn for the weird really fast

Vegard: (laughs) yeah

Bård: But a girl wouldn’t be funny

Dawnie: After you did the performance there was an ‘inside thing’ on the fan groups where- you know the Monty Python part ‘Who threw that rock?’ and they are all men..

Bård and Vegard: Yeah

Vegard: Voiced in low voice as from the movie- “Did YOU do it?”

Dawnie: That’s what all the women were like, they were going to turn up at the next show dressed up as men..

Bård and Vegard: (Laughter)

Dawnie:.. with beards and stuff.

Meka: Oh, and Mike became famous throughout the fandom too. ‘Magic Mike’ is what everybody called him, yeah he got a big head over that. He enjoyed it just as much as everybody else, he was a really good sport about it.

Vegard: Yeah, it was fun.

Dawnie: I’m a musician too, I do the piano covers

Vegard: Yeah, we’ve seen that!

Bård: Yeah, they’re great

Dawnie: Do you ever have major disagreements as to which key a song should be in or how the formula should be, or how a sketch should flow? Who takes the lead?

Bård: I wouldn’t say ‘major’ disagreements but it’s like a process and we are like.. we’re all heading the same way.

Vegard: Yeah

Bård: But because we’re not very different, and that’s like, the two of us, and when it comes to music, the guys we work with musically, and also Christian (Lochstøer)- the guy who writes with us- we’re always heading the same way..

Vegard: We have like- small discussions

Dawnie: You have this ESP between you two, do you agree with that?

Bård: We have what?

Dawnie: ESP.. extra sensory perception- where you both kind of know what each other is thinking?

Vegard: No, I don’t think.. I’m too rational

Bård: It’s more.. spending time together

Vegard: Yeah, we’ve been growing up together

Dawnie: We’re hoping for a new tour

Vegard: Yeah, yeah

Bård: Yeah- so are we!

Dawnie: What are the possibilities of us coming up with a new name for the tour, like ‘Tight Leather Pants tour’ or something like that as opposed to ‘Expensive Jacket tour’?

Vegard: Yeah, I think we have to..

Bård: What, submit your..?

Vegard:Yeah

Dawnie: Would you be prepared to choose the winning name?

Bård: Absolutely, we could probably use a change of title.

Vegard: Yeah (nods head) We have to do..

Bård: Because we would have to do new songs and stuff

Vegard: But maybe not garment-based this time

Bård: Not necessarily. Originally it was supposed to be the ‘Big Blue Dome tour’, we had like a big blue..

Vegard: The Big, err..

Bård: Displace.. Displaced Blue dome tour or something like that. The big (uses hands to show) Dome

Vegard: (To Bård) Was it not something with ‘Dysfunctional..?’

Bård: ‘Displaced’ ‘slightly displaced’

Vegard: Blue Dome.. maybe yeah

(Time is up for the interview, we were asked by the producer to wrap it up)

Dawnie: Something we have to ask before we go, the Engine for Gabriel, we were discussing the melody- the first part of the song, is based on Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel)?

Vegard: Oh yeah, we… (laughs) It’s not based..no, it’s not based on it, we just.. yeah we err..

Dawnie: I played it to my husband and he walked in and went ‘That’s Cecilia’ and started singing along

Vegard: Yeah, there are some notes in the beginning (smiles, nods head)

Bård: I don’t remember any of the songs right now

Vegard: (Sings) ‘Gabriel…’

Dawnie: But the last song was Simon and Garfunkel (esque) with the Old Friends reference

Bård: I’ve never heard of Simon and Garfunkel

Dawnie: Thank you so much

Bård and Vegard: ’You’re welcome’