Trio Van Gogh is a Danish sitcom, created by Rune Tolsgaard and Esben Pretzmann of Drengene fra Angora-fame. The series stars Mia Lyhne, Brian Lykke, Hjalte Flagstad, Jesper Rofeldt, Esben Pretzmann, Rune Tolsgaard, and also Simon Kvamm makes a short guest appearance.
The series is set as a documentary following the classical musical trio, Trio Van Gogh (a play on the name of the controversial Dutch director, Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered.) The trio struggles to break through, and they are faced with one disaster after another, due to all three members of the group being either incompetent, having troubles controlling their anger, or just plain stupid.
The series was broadcast in 11 episodes on DR2, the network that also broadcast several other Danish comedy successes like Casper & Mandrilaftalen, Wulffmorgenthaler, Dolph & Wulff, Drengene fra Angora etc.
Famous quotes containing the words van gogh, van and/or gogh:
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet the meanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)