Marcel van Roosmalen received a verbal punch this morning from the feared AD shark Angela de Jong. With a black eye, the media cynic now tells us what he thinks of her deadly review.
Having Angela de Jong write a column about Marcel van Roosmalen’s new TV program is the same as asking Yvonne Coldeweijer to review Samantha Steenwijk’s new album: you already know in advance what will come out. Still, it remains entertaining to read: Angela is going in her today AD column wonderfully loose on Marcel & Gijs.
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Of course, Marcel had already seen that negative column coming, but the piece is probably even tougher than he expected. The head? ‘For the first time at Marcel & Gijs, the commercial break couldn’t last long enough.’
Ai, Angela finds Marcel & Gijs even worse than Irene Moors in her blue lottery jacket. That must hurt. “For the first time, the commercial break could not last long enough for me, but it was over in no time,” said the ruthless TV columnist.
Rather go to Nadia
Angela gives a complete summary of what is wrong with Gijs & Marcel. Like many tweeting viewers, including Rob Goossens and Guido den Aantrekker, Angela just finds it extremely boring.
It doesn’t appeal to her. “There are people who pierce through the layer of intellectual irony and pretend disinterest cultivated by Marcel and Gijs and see it as unprecedentedly hilarious TV. Personally, I’d rather watch an episode of Nadia. Or to a fireplace.”
What does Marcel think?
What does Marcel think of that? In Weer Een Dag, the podcast in which Gijs laughs incessantly while Marcel gives a cynical monologue, he says battered: “I must honestly say: this morning Angela de Jong, not at all as devastating as I thought. I saw really positive things in that. She really gives us a chance.”
Marcel’s style is that he always says exactly what he doesn’t think; so he means the opposite. He continues: “She is also a woman with a heart. And he really sat there, nice and neutral on the couch. And he thinks: well I’ll give this program a chance, the gentlemen of VI aren’t that nice either. It really touched her heart.”
Collegiate
It is evident that Marcel thinks that Angela is too quick with her judgment. “He said: well, let’s see what else is in store in the coming weeks.”
“She said, let’s see how these two people develop. And let’s not settle them for the first half hour. Let’s just see how they hold up with SBS 6. And I like that, I think that’s collegial.”
Marcel & Gijs can also be seen again tonight at 21.30 on SBS 6.