“We are going for the first time now With the knife on the table playing while the spiritual father, Joost Prinsen, is no longer among us,” said Van Ramshorst. “It feels strange.”
Frencken pointed to a glass with a drink and a bowl of grapes on the bar. “This always had to be there: grapes in the dressing room and the secret drink,” said Frencken. According to Van Ramshorst, Prinsen still watched the program.
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Joost Prinsen in Mes’s questions on the table
“He will appear a lot this week, and also later in the broadcast,” said Van Ramshorst. On Monday, one of the questions was about in which film Prinsen played the role of a coachman.
Prinsen came up with the idea With the knife on the table together with Jan Kok in the nineties. He presented the knowledge quiz with elements of poker from the first broadcast in 1997 to 2015. The 83-year-old Prinsen died at the beginning of this month.