Are You Funny? Win a Trip to Sweden To Hang With Greg Poehler (Exclusive)
Do you want a free trip to Sweden to hang out with Greg Poehler and the cast of NBC’s Welcome to Sweden? Of course you do. Can you be really funny for sixty seconds? Probably.
All you comedians, aspiring comedians, or people who have ever brushed up against a comedian and think some funny might have rubbed off on you, NBC and “Welcome to Sweden” are announcing an incredible contest that you have to enter. If you are funny and like free trips you could win this summer’s “Laugh Your Way To Sweden” comedy video contest.
Greg & Amy Poehler’s NBC Comedy Welcome to Sweden is back this summer for season two, and they are kicking things off with a contest that could land you a free trip overseas to hang with the cast in Sweden.
And because you read The IBang, you have a jump on everyone else so get filming!
Submit a 60 second video to LaughYourWayToSweden.com with a “Fish-Out-Of-Water” themed sketch.
If Greg Poehler and his celebrity castmates think your video is funnier than everyone else’s you could win a Trip to Sweden for Two, an Exclusive Set visit to meet the cast.
Videos will be voted on by the public at LaughYourWayToSweden.com, and you will be allowed to share your videos on social media. The top ten videos with the most votes will move on to the final round where they will be judged by the celebrity panel. You’ll need to impress Greg Poehler, star and creator of “Welcome to Sweden” and his costars, Neve Campbell, Jason Priestly, Patrick Duffy, Illeana Douglas and Shannon O’Neill, the Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Are you submitting? Let us know so we can share your video with our readers!
The grand prize winner will be awarded a trip to Sweden for two and an exclusive visit to the Stockholm-based “Welcome to Sweden” set to meet the cast, valued at $5,000. Additionally, the winning video will appear as a special bonus feature on the “Welcome to Sweden Season Two DVD.”
One of last summer’s highest-rated broadcast comedies and described as “the best thing to happen to broadcast-network comedy since ‘Modern Family’ , “Welcome to Sweden” is based on Greg Poehler’s true life story. Bruce (Poehler) is a successful New York money manager to the stars who falls in love with a Swedish girl, Emma (Josephine Bornebusch, top-rated Swedish drama “Solsidan”), and follows her back to her native Stockholm. Culture clashes and hilarity abounds as Bruce, with no job, friends or clue, is forced to survive as a stranger in a very strange land. The cast also includes Lena Olin (Chocolat, The Ninth Gate), Claes Månsson, and Illeana Douglas (Easy to Assemble, Grace of My Heart) and Patrick Duffy (“Dallas”) as Bruce’s parents.
Guest stars in the second season include newcomers Neve Campbell (“Party of Five”, the Scream franchise), Jason Priestly (“Call Me Fitz”, “Haven”, “Beverly Hills, 90210”), Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda, School of Rock) and Paul Simon, as well as returnees Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza and others.
The Second Season of “Welcome to Sweden” will premiere on NBC on July 19 at 8pm ET/7pm CT. The day following the premiere and each successive episode, series co-producer Entertainment One will release each individual episode for purchase on all leading digital platforms, including: iTunes and Amazon Instant Video.
”Welcome to Sweden” is created by Greg Poehler. It is a co-production of eOne, TV4, FLX and Syskon and executive producers include Amy Poehler and Greg Poehler; Fredrik Arefalk for TV4; Carrie Stein eOne; and veteran Swedish TV helmer /creator Felix Herngren (Solsidan) for FLX.
