Jörgen Raymann receives many enthusiastic responses to the announcement that his TV character Tante Es is returning to the air, but not everyone is enthusiastic. “It’s become a bit stale now.”
For some program from Omroep Zwart, TV personality Jörgen Raymann revives his well-known character Tante Es. He is given a modest role in this. “We are working on a new comedy program and Aunt Es sometimes squeezes herself into the sketches every now and then,” the presenter agrees in front of the camera of Show news.
Not planning to
Jörgen did not put much effort into it, he emphasizes. “I didn’t plan it at all, but people keep asking: ‘Yes, but Aunt Es is so nice, let’s do that.’”
He continues: “All stations are calling now, everyone starts talking about Aunt Es. It’s not like: ‘It’s nice that Jörgen is back’, but: ‘Aunt Es!’ Yeah, that bitch is still as popular as I am. I have to learn to live with it.”
Trite
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker finds it very easy. “Don’t you think it’s a bit corny now? That you, as a man, dress up as a woman… You used to have Snip & Snap, then you got the Mounties and in the end I think there is one person who really did that fantastically and to perfection: Barry Humphries as Dame Edna.”
“Afterwards you see that people often go back to it. Greet Dolmans also did that very nicely, but I think it is a bit of an easy trick. Isn’t it time for something new?”
Hot bath
Ronald Molendijk thinks differently. “It’s a bit of a warm bath. Aunt Es was always a warm bath, like: just come and join us! Precisely because he does it in a funny way, you quickly make yourself heard in such a conversation.”
Show expert Eline de Ruig concludes: “It has been gone for a while and I think we are ready for that cheerfulness and lightness.”