 During his time as Minister of the Environment , Hareide was parodied in the television comedy program Tre brødre som ikke er brødre . The character Knut Arild Hareide , played by Harald Eia , was portrayed in several sketches as a physically weak person . These parodies were criticized by the authors in a 2005 book about different forms of mobbing ; this stirred a minor debate in the Norwegian media . Nonetheless , Hareide himself showed a video clip of one of the parodies when publicly announcing his stepdown from national politics at the 2007 party congress . 
