Renze Klamer likes to be socially critical in his talk show on RTL 4. For example, last weekend he asked for a minute of silence for the shareholders of Shell. “He gets Lubach-esque allures.”
Renze Klamer’s talk show was opened in a striking way last weekend. “We will start the broadcast with a moment of silence and I would like to do that for all Shell shareholders. In the previous quarter, this oil company still made 11.5 billion euros in profit, but this quarter it is a bit of a shock for them,” he said.
Silence for Shell
Last quarter, profit fell to a ‘mean’ 9.4 billion euros, Renze explained. “That just sucks and that’s why we wish all the shareholders involved a lot of strength. We hope that despite this meager profit they can still enjoy a little bit of their private yacht in Ibiza.”
Renze then asked the studio for silence. “I would like to ask for a few seconds of silence out of sympathy for all Shell shareholders.”
Arjen and Tim
Media Inside presenter Gijs Groenteman thinks it is clear who Renze wants to resemble. “Renze is starting to get a bit Arjen Lubach and Tim Hofman-esque allures, isn’t it?”
Colleague Marcel van Roosmalen sarcastically: “Yes, he started with a minute of silence for the shareholders of Shell. I personally think that… I don’t know how funny I think it is, but how he delivered it was incredibly funny. A minute of silence was held in a silent studio.”
Uncomfortable
Marcel thinks that Renze does not excel at this. “This makes me uncomfortable.”
Table guest Alexander Klöpping: “It was quite funny. All those talk shows come from a kind of factory hall and now he does something different from the rest. I think we should applaud this.”
Gijs surprised: “Should we applaud this?!”
Alexander: “Yes, of course. A little originality in it, that’s okay. I think it’s quite funny to do this in a talk show on RTL 4, yes.”
Jolande moment
TV maker Bas Heijne is not that impressed with Renze. “You can feel that it seemed like a lot of fun during the meeting, but you also see a bit of hesitation in him when he does it. Then it feels a bit like Jolande Sap with that plug moment.”
He continues: “It sounds really nice, but when you do it, you have to do it with conviction and you see him falter a bit halfway through.”
What does Angela think?
AD opinion diva Angela de Jong is not really enthusiastic either. “RTL has brought him in with a lot of fanfare, he wants revenge for the deletion of De Vooravond, but then everyone has forgotten that his new talk show also has to be filled,” she writes in her letter. column.
“What do you get then? A funny minute of silence for the shareholders of Shell.”
