Humor appears to be indispensable for the Drent: ‘There is always something to laugh about’

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.”

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