Paul Römer, the Talpa bobo who is very bad with the men of Today Inside, takes some pleasure in the fact that Angela de Jong has been ‘offended to the core’ in Marcel & Gijs.
The men of Today Inside invariably call him ‘Baantjer junior’: Talpa bobo Paul Römer. He is the only director of John de Mol who has publicly spoken negatively about the VI trio and was not particularly sorry when they seemed to stop after the candle riot. According to Johan Derksen it is a man with long toes.
Incredibly funny
It is therefore no wonder that Paul now praises their summer replacement Marcel & Gijs. “It is actually a program disguised as a talk show. It is, of course, a kind of parody on a talk show. It’s actually cabaret. They actually call it a crusade against dissection and a sniffing internship,” he says NPO Radio 1.
Paul is a big fan. “I personally look at it with great pleasure. You know in advance: it is disruptive, something crazy is always going to happen. I really laughed myself crazy: I didn’t know who the first guest was, but when I saw that it was Jan Slagter they have insulted to the bone for three years … Every week. And he’s there. That is so unbelievably funny.”
Art of insult
Where Paul is disgusted when the VI men start insulting, that is precisely what he praises Marcel & Gijs for. “Then you are watching a kind of cabaret where they have taken the art of insulting to a higher level. And they get away with it and they don’t really take anyone or anything seriously.”
He continues: “They don’t take themselves seriously, they don’t take their guests seriously and neither do the viewers. It is different than usual and apparently there are half a million people in the Netherlands who like to watch it. (…) That is extremely good for SBS in the summer.”
insult Angela
Angela de Jong’s performance in the talk show this week was disappointing, because Marcel van Roosmalen does not seem to talk so scathingly about her when she is sitting next to him. At the end of the show he did read a mean column about her, about Angela’s ‘thick-wood-saw-your-boards opinions about television that she pours into crooked sentences’.
Hilarious, says Paul. “So they just sat next to her for an hour, had a conversation with her and made a program and then you actually insult someone to the very fibers of her body. She is also there with a bit of a smile, and yet they get away with it because you know that it naturally has a cabaret undertone.”
Tears over cheeks
Yes, Paul is a huge fan of it. “If you watch it in combination with the podcast the next morning, in which they look back, tears of laughter sometimes run down my cheeks.”
If it is up to him, the gentlemen will return next summer with their talk show on SBS 6. The viewing figures are in any case perfectly fine: yesterday, with 557 thousand viewers (14 percent market share), the second best score to date was put down.
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. Journal 20:00 (NPO1) 1,467,000 | 01. RTL4 / 22.2% |
| 02. Half past seven news (RTL4) 1,063,000 | 02. NPO1 / 21.3% |
| 03. The Perfect Picture while traveling (RTL4) 995,000 | 03. SBS6 / 12.6% |
| 04. I Know All About It (RTL4) 953,000 | 04. NPO2 / 8.0% |
| 05. Journal 18:00 (NPO1) 853,000 | 05. RTL5 / 4.9% |
| 06. EenVandaag (NPO1) 770,000 | 06.NET5 / 3.5% |
| 07. Most beautiful girl in class (NPO1) 763,000 | 07. NPO3 / 3.2% |
| 08. Op1 (NPO1) 722,000 | 08. Vero / 3.2% |
| 09. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 718,000 | 09. RTL7 / 2.7% |
| 10. Edition NL (RTL4) 625,000 | 10. RTL8 / 2.2% |
| 11. Heart of the Netherlands (SBS6) 597,000 | 11. Discov / 1.8% |
| 12. Renze (RTL4) 592,000 | 12. BBC / 1.2% |
| 13. Journal late (NPO1) 571,000 | 13.TLC / 0.9% |
| 14. Nieuwsuur (NPO2) 565,000 | 14. SBS9 / 0.9% |
| 15. Marcel & Gijs (SBS6) 557,000 | 15. Paramount / 0.8% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. RTL Netherlands 32.9% |  |
| 02. Public Broadcasting 32.5% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 20.2% |
Programs that did not make the top 15 include Children buy a house (531 thousand), Over Leven (452 thousand), Shownieuws (447 thousand) and 112 Today (392 thousand).