Matthijs van Nieuwkerk is currently not yet able to laugh at jokes about his misconduct, says Angela de Jong. “I don’t believe he can,” said the AD tiger shark.
On Monday evening it led to oh-cries in Arjen Lubach’s studio: a spicy joke about Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s aggression. “Wow, I’ve never seen someone rake in so much money so furiously,” the comedian said of star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. His sidekick to that: “You have never watched De Wereld Draait Door, I notice.”
Hard jokes
Manuel Venderbos speaks in the AD Media podcast of a ‘very hard joke’. Colleague Dennis Jansen wonders: “Do you think those jokes are also made in Matthijs’s internal circle? These hard Lubach jokes, would they also be made?”
It causes some doubt in the podcast studio. Manuel thinks so. “Well, I read that interview and it contains a fragment that he did not dare to go to his favorite café at first and that it was all a hassle. The Head Farmer. I think that if he is back there and he comes there every day, it will happen at some point.”
Making jokes
Not in the beginning anyway, says Manuel. “But at some point you start joking about it. I think with everything everyone has experienced in their lives, where they themselves also think a bit: yes, what have I actually done… That eventually jokes will be made about it.”
Media journalist Marcus den Blanken thinks it’s because of your ability to put yourself in perspective. “If Angela has been on TV and something happened to Johan Derksen for example… Yes, two days later we joke about that too. “
Career collapsed
Angela de Jong, the big star of the podcast, has doubts. “Of course something happened. I mean, his whole career has collapsed. So I don’t know, reading that interview like this, whether he’s ready for jokes about it yet. That if someone knocks over a glass of water and then crawls under the table like: ‘Don’t scold, don’t scold.’ I don’t believe he can.”
Manuel: “Perhaps his very best friends are in De Hoofdige Boer?”
‘Do not know’
No, these kind of Lubach-like jokes will come too soon for Matthijs, Angela thinks. “Don’t know. I’m not going to worry about whether he can or not.”
Angela herself thinks that Matthijs should not play the victim role too much. “I really come across enough people who still tremble at the mention of his name, so something really happened there.”