Youp van ‘t Hek is annoyed by Tim Hofman’s ‘woke drivel’. The comedian thinks that the presenter often reacts a bit exaggerated. “He really gets into it right away.”
Tim Hofman has quite a following, but there are also many people who are very annoyed by him. They accuse him of having a messiah complex. The presenter is only too happy to say that he stands up for a good cause, and according to him there is nothing wrong with that.
“Fuck it man!”
However, it can sometimes go a bit too far, believes Youp van ‘t Hek. He points in the podcast MICHA! on the collision that Tim had with comedian Theo Maassen in January.
Theo had then spoken out against it in an interview woke: “We are hypersensitive to misuse of words, we are far too politically correct, bordering on insanity. We no longer say ‘I’m pregnant’, but ‘we are pregnant’. Shake it up man! You don’t say ‘We’re on our period, do you?’”
Woke drivel
The fact that Tim then reacted with great annoyance to this is, according to Youp, an example of ‘woke drivel’. “I had to laugh a lot at Theo Maassen. Tim Hofman immediately went wild again, while I think that’s just a good joke. We also have to laugh a little bit,” he says.
It really bothers Youp. “That awful woke that you have to answer for every glass of milk you take… Every kilometer you cycle, ride, does, I don’t know… Yes, take it easy. All day long you’re like: you can’t say that anymore, you can’t say that anymore.”
Tim and Youp
Youp, just like someone like Johan Derksen, does not participate in woke. “I often think: if a woman looks beautiful, then I’m still willing to tell her that and I also know women who really like that.”
On the other hand, Woke is also fun for comedians, says Youp. “A comedian must always be up-to-date and a performance must always crackle like freshly fallen snow. You have to get rid of jokes a little bit in time. Yes, it’s always about now. And that includes everything. Also Tim Hoffman. And also Youp van ‘t Hek.”
‘Takes itself too seriously’
René van der Gijp recently called out in Today Inside that Tim takes himself way too seriously. “Do you think that Tim Hofman takes himself seriously? Hahaha,” he yelled. “Did you follow that program that Tim Hofman gave some kind of lectures? Then I couldn’t help it! I was looking at it and couldn’t come to it!”
Table guest Rutger Castricum shares Tim’s annoyance. “It is the pedantic tone. That BOOS was really quite a sympathetic initiative and that of The Voice was also really good and then he started playing a kind of Zemblaatje.
It irritates Rutger. “With that pedantic tone and the finger.”