In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn't seem so funny to the country's leading politicians .?.?.
JgNaGNARR was born in 1967 in ReykjavYk. He formed the Best Party
in 2009 and became the mayor of ReykjavYk in 2010. His acting work
includes the movies The Icelandic Dream and A Man Like Me and the
television series The Night Shift, which aired on BBC4. In 2014, at
the end of Gnarr's mayoral term, the Best Party will be dissolved.
Its members, however, have formed a new political party- Bright
Future, which in 2013 won six seats in the Icelandic
parliament.
ANDREW BROWN'sarecent translations include works by Proust, Zola,
Flaubert, Stendhal, Rabelais, and Baudelaire.
“Jón Gnarr, the greatest accident in politics...Integral to Gnarr’s
ethos was the idea that politics is a crap job, just like any other
crap job – so we all have the right to become involved just because
we feel like it."
—New Statesman (UK)
“It should have been a disaster. Gnarr had no background in
politics...While rival politicians ruthlessly went for him...voters
were by and large charmed."
—the Guardian's G2 magazine (UK)
“Gnarr! is an entertaining reflection on life, politics, and human
nature by an original and creative individual...It’s a tribute to,
and manifesto for, participatory democracy in the 21st century. And
above all, it’s a call for us all to be nicer to each other."
—PopMatters
“I love the mayor of Iceland.”
—Lady Gaga
“Certainly my favorite mayor. No competition, in fact.”
—Noam Chomsky
“Jón Gnarr has given the mayor profession a new human earnesty with
radical stand-up style, and has chiseled away the stagnancy in that
post with explosive humor.”
—Björk
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