# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/knut-n-rum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:44.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/knut-n-rum"
name: "Knut Nærum"
slug: "knut-n-rum"
description: "Knut Nærum is a Norwegian comedian, author, comics writer and TV entertainer. He is best known for being one of the permanent panelists in the Norwegian show Nytt på nytt. On 23 April 2015, Nærum announced that he would step down from the show at the end of the season. Nærum was born in Arendal, but grew up in Halden, and attended high school in Grimstad. He later studied at the Agder Regional College and currently lives in Oslo with his wife and two children."
tagline: "Norwegian comedian and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Knut_N%C3%A6rum_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.83
  momentum:             2.068965517241379
  historical:           8.604428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639016/"
    handle:    "nm0639016"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikiquote.org/wiki/Knut_N%C3%A6rum"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d86fd1fa-01d1-4617-8a5b-1b673d7551d1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1769456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142002"
    title: "Knut Nærum"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump