Sven Melander was one of the last truly popular comedians

Sven Melander was always on TV when I was little.

There are many who today do not understand what it was like to have only two TV channels, with a range of entertainment that corresponds to a flarn of a flarn of all entertainment programs today are offered on every conceivable channel and platform.

But we are some who remember.

Sven Melander was an entertainment profile at the end of the heyday of television.

When you became really popular.

In the 80's, I sat

on the floor in front of the TV and waited for Rulle, the children's character.

The thick glass pane crackled electrically when I stepped forward once and pressed my finger to his eye.

, said Rulle.

The adults laughed at Werner and Werner and Preben and Preben.

Together we repeated the lines.

At school, all his characters imitated.

Pupils and school staff.

said a carpet aunt.

said another.

A classmate and I loved Steve with Lloyden in Gällivare.

We were 7-8 years old and had the same watches.

we said.

When we quoted the description of Steve's wife -

the miss gave us a special lesson on the civil war in Lebanon.

In his mother's favorite sketch

, Sven Melander shows evidence of acrobatic humor of Papphammar class.

He thinks a lawn is green asphalt, and it turns out he can not walk on it.

He falls and slips around like Bambi on slippery ice.

It's as hysterical as it is funny.

And then the Company Journey.

Sven Melander's and Weiron Holmberg's charter friends Berra and Robban are still quoted healthy if you are attentive / eavesdropping when you go to the pub.

Lasse Åberg's film has been seen by millions of Swedes and many t-shirts have been sold with the classic print

That Sven Melander continued to tear down laughter on the country's revue stages and also got a new audience when he became a feminist youtube profile in his old age made him even more popular.

Tonight we take a

for Sven Melander.

But it goes just as well with celery.