‘Evening Show’ with Arjen Lubach brings back an old feel: VPRO’s envy

Current affairs in the Netherlands are not always interesting to a Belgian, even if you live in a border area like the one below and have a lot of friends across the border. Prime Minister Mark Rutte visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: I am convinced that not even Dutch families will immediately gather around their television screens, let alone the Flemish spectator who stumbles upon him when they unexpectedly stumble upon it. Dutch public broadcasters. But not when Arjen Lubach commented on the events.

The 43-year-old presenter became famous for his weekly satirical show Sunday with Lubach There is a general notion among our northern neighbours, and also among a not inconsiderate part of Flemish viewers, a general feeling of jealousy that we possess no such thing. Or you must be a huge fan of Cooke & Verhulst Show.

to Sunday Lubach and his team still have the luxury of getting the week’s news through the wringer with some distance. But what if a daily dose of this satirical madness will continue to work in the long run, even if presented by a TV phenomenon like Lubach? When you consider that at the beginning of April, barely a month and a half after the start, he and his editorial team actually wanted to take a week off, as they put it, “so that you can carry on with a new, sharp activity again,” you might be asking yourself questions about this.

Not everything is equal in hardness Evening show with Arjen Lubach† Like the in-depth element, where jokes are briefly limited to interjections and the focus is primarily on a social stumbling block. This idea undoubtedly comes from Last week tonight with John Oliver on American TV, but there they go deeper than what’s going on evening showAn item about the municipal reclassifications I’ve been following for a while. And the daily guest – definitely something for the American too daily offer Supermodel – is more casual conversation with no strings attached than the eye-catching short interview that viewers have across the big pond.

However, Lubach should have taken this step earlier. It works with the seasons, making it easier for himself and his editors to stay sharp all the time. Moreover, the adoration of Lubach in the entire Dutch-speaking region is fully justified: he is sharper than a platoon of razors, and displays his subjects with enthusiasm, humor, compassion and flair.

a few episodes of Evening show with Arjen Lubach It even brought back a feeling the undersigned hadn’t experienced since their school and student days: VPRO envy. Just as I and many of my colleagues turned with me a little over a quarter-century ago of corrupt friends on Dutch television to set the pinnacle of a beacon of creativity and depth, like jisefet† I looked at the week And the Rimbo and Rimbo†

evening show with Arjen Lubach, Monday through Thursday at 10.10 p.m. on NPO 1.