Does Roelof Hemmen disappear from the Hilversum rolodex after his ridiculous performance in Renze Klamer’s talk show? He gave a very strange monologue to Lil Kleine there. “Bizarre!”
It is probably the longest monologue in the history of the Dutch talk show: the ‘question’ that Roelof Hemmen asked Lil Kleine on Monday evening in Renze Klamer’s talk show. “He was sitting with Renzo… no, Renze, sorry… and then he started asking a question, but that question was endless,” notes Wilfred Genee in Today Inside.
Dominant Roelof
Johan Derksen thinks Roelof’s talk show attitude goes beyond all limits. “Terrible. Roelof is far too dominant, too long and gets in the way of the presenter. That’s not the job of a sidekick. He has to add something every now and then, a joke, a hard question, but he took full control and that is completely wrong.”
That entire group at Renze has disqualified itself anyway, Johan thinks. “If you take Lil Kleine seriously in your talk show, then you can no longer take your talk show seriously. Little Fucking Little one, come on! That’s one nobody? A madman!”
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Wilfred Genee then plays Roelof’s monologue at an accelerated rate, placing a timer on the screen. The former newsreader appears to have spoken continuously for 1 minute and 43 seconds. “This is not possible!” shouts René van der Gijp.
Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has also missed the mark, René believes. “Well, come on! Aboutaleb said that Lil Kleine is a great artist! Hahahahaha! What’s all this, dude? What was I looking at, dude? A great artist! What a fool, man!”
Lost a job?
Table guest Valentijn Driessen, sports journalist at De Telegraaf, then comes sailing around the corner. He more or less advocates taking away Roelof’s job at the newspaper. “He is the mentor of the presenter of our podcast The Kick-off (Pim Sedee, ed.),” he explains.
That has now become untenable, Valentijn believes. “Well, we’ve really never listened to that man, because he wants to push all kinds of formats and stuff. Mike Verweij, the Ajax watcher, and I said: ‘We are absolutely not going to do that.’ If you see this, you shouldn’t take any of this man’s advice seriously, should you?”
Worthless
Wilfred is quite shocked by Valentijn’s brutal attack. “Well, he won’t come around anymore, I guess!” he laughs.
Johan has no need for that at all. “You have people and if you give them a microphone, they don’t stop talking. That is very annoying. It was a crappy broadcast.”