Youp van ‘t Hek sat at the table at Op1 with astonishment on Wednesday evening. He almost wanted to shout to host Tijs van den Brink on live television that it was a ‘c*t evening’.
The reason Youp van ‘t Hek sat at the table at Op1 was to talk about the death of Paul van Vliet. However, it would not surprise the comedian if people have zapped away en masse at this ‘good mumble show’, he writes in his NRC column. “I don’t know if it was the boring questions or the even slower answers.”
Crematorium TV
It was, according to Youp, “a kind of crematorium television.” “It starts behind the scenes. You will be received in a basement in the media park that is reminiscent of the family room of a hospice. Everyone is sitting in a civilized silence until the signal comes that we are going to start.”
Then it starts ‘polite and neat and correct and neat and slack and slow talking, according to Youp. “I had to constantly bite the inside of my cheek to stay awake.”
‘K*tnight’
Youp had to restrain himself from falling out against host Tijs van den Brink. “For a moment I had the urge to say to that nice Tijs van den Brink: ‘Goddamn Tijs, what do you think the Creator thinks of these kinds of k*t evenings?’ But I’m an adult now. I no longer puberty and calmly bleated along.”
The comedian came home ‘broken’. He finds Op1 extremely boring. “Can it be a little more?”
Youps column
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