Mark Rutte found the Sinterklaas special of Today Inside a bit disappointing this year. Like many critics, he felt that Marco Louwerens did not have his strongest year. “It used to be better.”
It was a sympathetic gesture from Mark Rutte: last weekend he suddenly appeared at Den Haag FM, where Ron Fresen had a long, one-hour interview with him. Hart van Nederland reporter Jeanneau van Beurden was also there and he decided to ask the Prime Minister if he still occasionally watches Today Inside.
Not the strongest year
Yes, Mark answers. “He watches more often. I thought: did he watch the Sinterklaas broadcast? He did. He says: ‘You should always watch that.’ He also had his analysis of how Sinterklaas did it this time,” says the reporter at the bar of Today Inside.
The NATO boss agrees with critics who believe that Marco Louwerens did not have his strongest year as Sinterklaas. “He said that he sometimes thought he was stronger, but one joke made him laugh a lot: the burning eyes after sex. He says: ‘It’s a bit vulgar’, but he could still laugh about it.”
Pepper spray
Marco, as Saint Nicholas, made a spicy joke about stinging eyes after intimate contact with a woman. That was from the pepper spray, was the punch line. “The pepper spray joke, right?”, says Wilfred Genee.
Colleague René van der Gijp: “That was also good.”
Wilfred: “But at a certain point it is: the bar is so high. The bar is getting higher and higher for the director, isn’t it?”
Johan Derksen: “Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to surpass yourself, isn’t it?”
Just fun
René then reveals that Marco can try again next year. “Look, it’s not like it wasn’t anything at all… I mean: it was fun again, only it was more fun, and maybe next year it will be more fun again, you don’t know, but it’s just fun.”
Wilfred: “Yes, I think so too. It is a creation that everyone talks about.”
Johan: “It’s also part of it.”
René concludes: “I also looked at Paul de Leeuw’s, but it is a lot less.”