[4] He became widely known to Swedish audiences from his role as Roger in the 1986 television comedy series Macken which was broadcast on SVT.

[5] He also voiced the part of Pumbaa in the Swedish language version of the Disney film The Lion King.

Rippe often plays characters that are confused, slow people that make everything the wrong way and have low self-confidence as a result of this.

[7] Amongst Rippe's roles are Kennet Aalborg in the TV-series En himla många program, the producer Viggo Florin in the film Monopol, and Ernst Ivarsson in Stinsen Brinner.

[8] Jan Rippe participated in SVTs television broadcasts of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin as a tittarombudsman.