Ylvis Reaction - Jan Egeland - First Time Hearing - Requested

[@BastianNorW]

Jan Egeland never brags about his accomplishments or is even in the news that often. He's just a really great guy, working for human rights. This is a great song and a great tribute to a relatively anonymous diplomat/leader of NRC.

[@kunilsen2519]

Someone has already explained the origins of this song, so I'm just gonna continue from there. Ylvis had an interview with Jan Egeland after this song came out where he explained that 80 world leaders played this song for him at the end of a meeting lol

[@codexdelux]

and that was the first time he ever heard it and saw it :D

[@kunilsen2519]

@@codexdelux No, pretty sure he said he got a bunch of messages of people sending it to him together with a lot of "happy birthday" ones before he went on that meeting lol

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

Jan Egeland is the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He is kind of a super hero. :)

[@Zajuts149]

IIRC, the concert footage was a regular concert they held in Stavanger, or Haugesund. Then, during the concert, they engaged the audience in a call and response of "Egeland!"

[@norse-nilsbjasa]

It was in Stavanger and his teen kids were at the concert. They called or texted dad saying 15000 people here are screaming Your Name!

[@royw4518]

For beeing comedians, they are good singers

[@outernothingness1177]

Or the other way round.

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

Ylvis...I'm Norwegian, but rhey are GREAT!!! :D

[@SCHTRAM]

There is a video of Jan Egeland reacting/talking about the song..

[@mar97216]

Jan Egeland never asked to be recognized. It was a fan of his apparently that sent in a complaint to Ylvis show that Egeland just had a birthday and why did they not congratulate him😅. So random!

[@liseviolaks]

This song is GREATE live! I've been front-row at 22 of their concerts, and both Ylvis and the band are just insanely good! 🤩

[@LillebjørnTrønnes]

Jan Egeland is somewhon to be proud of! Ylvis interwied him on his birthdate and forgot to mention this in the interwiev led to a storm. We are sorry a songg˚?

[@ahkkariq7406]

Someone filed a complaint with Ylvi's TV show because they had not congratulated the Norwegian politician and UN bureaucrat, Jan Egeland, on his birthday. Some certainly see Egeland as a hero. I don't know if he is a hero, he is probably like most people in the system, best at flouring his own cake. In any case, Ylvis decided to make this song. They themselves say it's a tribute...but what are they going to say? I see the song as an insanely good satirical salute to self-righteous politicians.

[@In_my_own_mind]

Egeland started working with Amnesty International at high school. He was only a teenager when he knew he was going to do aid. He was always destined to be a humanitarian. One example of his willingness to help and his foolhardiness was when in 2001 he stood alone in the rainforest, with only an assistant, unarmed and full of paramilitary groups in the area around them, who had every interest in UN envoy Egeland not succeeding with his agenda, to be a bridge builder between the FARC guerrillas and Colombia's government. These groups had been guilty of kidnapping, torturing and killing people like Egeland, people who have tried to build bridges. By this time, there had been a breakdown in negotiations between the FARC and the government, and the guerrillas had retreated to an unknown location in the jungle. UN contacts had said that Egeland could reach the guerrilla leaders, if they met at a certain place in the rainforest. The Colombian Red Cross was willing to drive them to this location. They dropped Egeland and his assistant off into the jungle, leaving them there. As Egeland watched the car disappear, he thought: “This is completely wrong. No one knows where we are now. No one can come to our rescue.” After we have stood there for about 20 minutes, an old jeep drives up with a FARC soldier with a Kalashnikov over his shoulder. The soldier is there to get them. They are driven to a place far away from where they had been waiting. - And there we met the leadership of the FARC, says Egeland. - Who promised to return to the negotiating table. He has worked for over 40 years with aid, out in the field, so he is not like most others in the "flouring his own cake" system. He has taken big risks as the example above shows. As he said, he was very scared in that situation and in retrospect he sees how foolhardy this was. In the more than 40 years he has worked with aid, there has been an enormous increase in quality in the business, also in terms of risk management.

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@In_my_own_mind I take all these claims of heroism with a grain of salt. I have dug enough to understand that everyone who works in the system, including the UN, and who continues to do so, is somehow involved in matters that cannot stand the light of day. Feel free to believe them, I don't.