Kakan Hermansson

Kakan Hermansson
Kakan Hermansson (2013)
Born	Karin Signhild Hermansson (1981-08-07) 7 August 1981 (age 35) Lund, Sweden
Occupation	Television presenter Radio host Comedian Artist
Known for	Kaka på Kaka, Idol 2013

Karin Signhild Hermansson (born 7 August 1981), better known as Kakan Hermansson, is a Swedish television presenter, radio host, comedian and artist. She has had her own television show on Sveriges Television (SVT) called Kaka på Kaka and has worked on shows for both Sveriges Radio and TV4. A graduate of the Stockholm art academy Konstfack, she works with a feminist art collective and has exhibited her (mostly ceramic) art in various places. She calls herself a radical feminist.

Kakan Hermansson was first featured in the comedy show Locash, first broadcast on the Swedish ZTV television network in 2008. She played a "hip hop-slacker" version of herself for three seasons. Along with Swedish model and musician Julia Frej, she started making comedy music videos under the name "Kaka och Julia". The videos appeared on the SVT show SVT Humor in 2010. Due to the popularity of their videos, SVT offered them their own television show, Kaka på Kaka, which continued for two seasons. The show mixed comedy and serious interviews with a variety of celebrities.

Hermansson was an assistant to Pär Lernström on the radio progamme PP3 at Sveriges Radio. In 2013, Hermansson was a travelling reporter for the TV4 show Veckans Svensk on which Lernström was the presenter, and was also his assistant on TV4's Idol 2013.

In early June 2014, Hermansson was announced as one of the "Summer Talkers" (Swedish:Sommarpratarna) for the popular Sveriges Radio P1 show Sommar i P1. Hermansson criticised the lack of diversity in Sveriges Radio's selection of hosts for the show, saying "It makes me terribly angry to see how very white we are sitting here. We do not represent Sweden," referring to those attending the press conference for the show. Hermansson also said that she was shocked at how "Swedish" the whole event was. Journalist Mustafa Can criticised Hermansson's comments in an article in the Aftonbladet newspaper.