It was hard to choose, wasn’t it, Wednesday evening? At five to eight: folk singer and his friends are looking for a new après ski hit. At half past eight: another folk singer is considering opening a chip shop in Croatia. I decided to follow Johan Derksen’s tip. I don’t know why, but he is a great advocate of The Beavers, the reality show of John de Bever and his husband and manager Kees Stevens. This year they competed for the Televizier-Ring, they were one of the three nominees, but did not win it.
The first episode of the second season was last night, and apparently Johan Derksen had a sneak preview had. He told the day before yesterday at Today Inside that John de Bever would visit Annie Schilder, the former BZN singer, in Volendam in episode one. And Annie would tell John she had a dream that she had diarrhea, but it wasn’t a dream, it was real. Yes, of course you can. Anyway, look then. The person John de Bever got a little more depth in the new intro of the series. Did you know that he was once discovered by Father Abraham as a child singer? Not me. When he grew a beard, his singing career ended and he became a futsal player, and when that career ended, he became a singer again. And professional grumbler. Because that’s the lion’s share of what you’re looking at. John de Bever grumbles and complains and in principle wants as little as possible. Man Kees plans his agenda full (ten performances on one King’s Day) and giggles nervously at all his struggles.
Furthermore, the program follows a fixed pattern. John and Kees do something. Let’s say: playing golf, or singing on the center spot at Volendam, drinking coffee at Annie Schilder. Bring your camera, us with you. And then immediately after the scene where John and Kees tell us what we just saw. Brilliant. That dream and the diarrhea, that was right, by the way. Annie, she said, gasping with pleasure, “got there just in time.”
Laugh twice
Because you don’t want to miss too much, after that I have Mart on the slopes looked back. Singer Mart Hoogkamer may not tell you anything, but listen to his summer hit ‘I’m going swimming in Bacardi Lemon’ once, and you won’t be able to get it out of your head. The mission of this program: to come up with a winter hit. To this end, the singer travels with a few well-known friends (including footballer Wesley Sneijder, singer’s son Maxim Froger) to the ski resort of Val Thorens. New ski clothing is bought there for a godsend – I am very curious whether everything is on account of AvroTros. Most of them can’t ski, but that’s laughable, because then they fall. Twice even laugh, once when it really happens, and again when they each individually retell in front of the camera what we just saw happen.
Bee The Beavers we see cottage happiness and Dutch glory. It may be a gay couple, but a Dutch straight couple will recognize themselves in it just fine. John eats nuts in bed – which Kees complains about again. Kees is crazy about buying – he recently ordered six pairs of shoes at the same time. John has never not worked a day and now they are considering opening a chip shop in Croatia, because it is swarming with Dutch people.
Filter coffee and apple pie at The Beavers beer crates and shots at Mart on the slopes. Well-known Dutch people come to sing. A Dutch song, a new beat underneath and maybe it will be the après ski hit. Also, long live the fun. Farting and yelling for the doorbell to ring. Now to choose between the giggle with The Beaversor the whistling laugh of Mart Hoogkamer.