It’s not flat, stupid or corny, says Dijkstra about Harm and Roelof’s jokes. “The smarter the room is, the louder people laugh. There is definitely a thought behind it, you can hear that from the audience. The dialect also plays a role. There are non-Drentians who like us, but also enough who a good example is a group from Alkmaar who organized a Drenthe week in Oosterhesselen. That naturally included a Drenthe evening, with us. But of the whole group, the caretakers and cook laughed the loudest, the rest didn’t have that much fun “, he recalls. “It makes a lot of difference if you miss small nuances of Drenthe.”
Roelof continues: “The best performances are on evenings when people really come for Harm and Roelof. Sometimes we are at company parties because the boss thinks it’s a nice idea. The staff finds us surprising, but we have the most fun as people just having a buy a ticket.”