Youp van ‘t Hek opens the attack on Arjen Lubach in his column. The retired comedian finds the ‘childish’ how the satirist behaves at RTL. “It’s really so fussy.”
Arjen Lubach has chosen hard for the money: he left the VPRO to grab millions of euros at RTL 4, but apparently it becomes a bit of his ego that he is now hugged by commercial breaks on all sides. He has demanded an exception from RTL when it comes to the so -called billboards Prior to his show.
Light itch
RTL has agreed to an adapted text in that specific Billboard: at Arjen it is not ‘This program is made possible in part’, and then the name of the sponsor, but: ‘the late evening is made possible by’. And that is what Youp van ‘t Hek thinks very bland, he writes in his column for the Varagist.
Youp devotes his entire column to Arjen. “Why do I always feel slight itching when, just before Lubach starts, I hear a level-slippery advertising stem say that” the late evening of RTL has been made possible by … “With all the other programs that doesn’t happen. Why it is suddenly called ‘evening’ for Lubach?”, He starts.
Stipulated
The answer is of course clear: Arjen thinks that is too commercial, and he is a bit ashamed of that. “Did he talk to Peter van der Vorst about that kind of details when he was willing to make the switch? Isn’t that, isn’t that musty CDA conversations that he would have made of chopping in the past?”
Requiring something like that prior to your transfer is a bit sad, according to Youp. “I think that tuttive difference between ‘evening’ and ‘program’ is mainly childish and absolutely not to fit the presenter. In any case, not with his image.”
Disembark
Youp’s criticism is striking because he has regularly been a guest at Arjen. “Whether I find him better or worse with the commercials? No idea. That advertising break takes some getting used to and sometimes I have the feeling that the laughing band is a bit harder than the VPRO, but those are details. Maybe the RTL viewers are somewhat Dover than the NPO audience.”
So it is mainly that adjustment in that billboard that gives Youp the jitters. He concludes: “Furthermore, he must know it himself and don’t care about old comedians who no longer play in the circus.”