Orgel Joke is quite lengthy during the broadcast of Today Inside and that leads to some hilarity in the studio. “I’m going to pee!” René van der Gijp even shouts at one point.
It took a while, but Orgel Joke is still fit enough to perform during the Football World Cup. The 77-year-old musician was asked by FIFA to perform, but due to a fall on her balcony, her journey to the United States was uncertain for a long time. She suffered a small fracture in her elbow.
Bandage off
Organ Joke tells in the Today Inside from yesterday how she is doing now. “Today the bandage came off. I knew I could move my hand, but luckily I can also straighten it. I didn’t know that. Today they looked at it completely. I have to do exercises. I also received my passport.”
She never had a passport before. “No. I never wanted to fly further than six hours. I’ve never been further than that. My husband once went to Cuba with my son. I didn’t want to go then, because I didn’t want to fly far, but my son called me on Sunday that he had received an email and the next day it turned out to be true.”
“That’s what you do, right?”
Orgel Joke’s son pushed her to go. “He said, ‘Ma, you’re doing that, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘I don’t think so, I think it’s so far gone.’ But then I thought: this is also bizarre, because there are much better artists than me. I don’t think I’m a superstar, but I probably have the goodwill factor.”
“I told my son on Tuesday morning at about 8 a.m., ‘Just tell me I’ll do it.’ But an hour later I want to hang my laundry, I put down my clothes rack and I tip it upside down. I was sitting against a flower pot, so I had stitches in my ear and a fracture in my elbow.”
Just pee
René van der Gijp thinks that Joke speaks for a very long time. “I’m going to pee! Organ Joke will continue talking, hahaha!”, he laughs.
Wilfred Genee: “Organ Joke fills the entire program!”
Johan Derksen: “I think Orgel Joke could also come and play here for an evening. We are all a bit of a fan.”
Joke: “I think that’s sweet. Thank you.”
Johan a little later: “It’s someone from my generation and I think it’s a nice thing too.”