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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Blazer on February 25, 2009, 06:54:03 PM
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For the last couple of weeks a true Carnaval song has been hogging the number one spot of the Dutch pop charts.
(http://www.ansie.nl/images/andrevanduin.jpg)
André Van Duin has been one of the premier Dutch humorists for over thirty years and counting. He has a very flexible face and an equally flexible voice. In the low countries he's famous for his timeless humor and his ability to make an audience burst out in laughter by just raising one of his eyebrows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tflTkQPvrA
André Van Duin doing an imitation of Elvis.
Over the course of his career Van Duin has managed to score number one singles with very silly (to the point of getting stupid but not yet, still good) songs and Holland's traditional "Carnaval" holiday has given him plenty of opportunity to sell those song and sell them well. Which also is the case this year.
(http://onskoningshuisenbabys.web-log.nl/onskoningshuisenbabys/images/melloriopalure_juliana.jpg)
This is Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, the mother of our Current Queen Beatrix.
Juliana wasn't really what you could call a typical monarch. Her father Prince Hendrik, taught her how to ride roller skates through the long halls of the royal palace and later when Beatrix was born she insisted on changing the diapers of her baby girl herself. And later when she stepped down and Beatrix became Queen, Juliana happily rode to the local drug store on her bicycle to get groceries, insisting that people address her as "Madam" and not as "Majesty"
She was the Queen among Queens for us Dutch people. She died in 2004 and is still missed by the Dutch people who saw her as the grandmother or a wise aunt they never had.
So given that Juliana had such a character trait of "I might be a Queen but I'm your normal every day woman too." gave André Van Duin the inspiration to write a song about the Queen on her birthday party going "I have had enough of that silly elaborate food served on royal parties, I'm going to serve them meatballs this year."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjSESaDWhc
With us Dutchmen having enclosed the memory of Queen Juliana and her quirks so deeply inside our hearts, it wasn't really a surprise that Van Duin had struck gold once again. From what I understand Queen Beatrix has received a copy of the song and was quoted saying that it was "Charming"
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Blazer,
I saw your thread title and thought you were making some kind of reference to my anatomy................ :D
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Blazer,
I saw your thread title and thought you were making some kind of reference to my anatomy................ :D
Trust me, I don't have any knowledge on that Mark and I'm thankful for that... ;)
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Sounds like she was a pretty cool lady. The video looks cute even though I have no idea what's being sung!
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Sounds like she was a pretty cool lady. The video looks cute even though I have no idea what's being sung!
The song is about the Queen serving meatballs at her formal royal birthday party and actually going back into the kitchen to make more when they run out.
The chorus is basically saying
"The warm meatballs that the Queen made
so everybody dig in, dig in, dig in
we love the warm meatballs that the Queen made
They leave a good taste in your mouth and the grease dripping from your chin."
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Blazer,
I saw your thread title and thought you were making some kind of reference to my anatomy................ :D
;D :mrgreen: ;D
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Andre Van Duin is someone that only the Dutch can fully appreciate. I've been around people watching him several times and never have the slightest idea at all of what is going on. He must really be funny, though.
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He isn't. Trust me.
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He isn't. Trust me.
I'll have to take your word for it. It's fairly rare that I think something is funny anyway, "Seinfeld" being the main exception.
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I'll have to take your word for it. It's fairly rare that I think something is funny anyway, "Seinfeld" being the main exception.
Isn't it interesting how humor hits different people differently? Seinfeld was a smash TV show, and on the rare occasions I watched part of a show, I never saw anything I thought was funny. I just don't "get" Seinfeld at all.
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Isn't it interesting how humor hits different people differently? Seinfeld was a smash TV show, and on the rare occasions I watched part of a show, I never saw anything I thought was funny. I just don't "get" Seinfeld at all.
"Seinfeld" tends to have a polarizing effect; people tend to either love it or hate it. I'd say that in general it seems to appeal more to introverts than extroverts, though.
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He isn't. Trust me.
Oh no? Then how do you explain the fact that he sells out every single show he does and has kept a career going for so long?
Okee, Basvarken, was dat Varkentje maar eens.
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Because most people have no taste/humor.
Frans Bauer is Holland's most succesful singer. That doesn't mean he's the best. (IMHO at least he isn't)
Last few weeks Tineke Schouten was on TV almost every day. I think she is horrible. But apparently lots of people think she's funny.
Do the words "platvloers" and "stompzinnig" ring a bell?
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Isn't it interesting how humor hits different people differently?
And guitarists , music, art, cars....
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"Seinfeld" tends to have a polarizing effect; people tend to either love it or hate it. I'd say that in general it seems to appeal more to introverts than extroverts, though.
That would explain a lot. My wife puts me firmly in the extrovert category. My favorite humor show of the past few years is "Whose Line Is It Anyway". Insanity.
BTW - as Dave Barry would say, isn't "The Queen's Meatballs" a great name for a rock band?
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So he is the Dutch Mr. Bean?
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So he is the Dutch Mr. Bean?
Another one I didn't get.
We all ought to know by now that popularity doesn't prove quality.
I've always found most sitcoms to be unfunny. Seinfeld included, even though I always liked him as a standup comedian.
Watching the wooden acting on Jerry Bruckheimer crime dramas is funnier to me than most sitcoms.
I do love good standup comedy.
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I bet you dislike South Park & Family Guy as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvOEvjTSTI
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I definitely don't care for the Family Guy. I watched South Park a few times and couldn't even understand what some of the characters were saying.
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Another one I didn't get.
We all ought to know by now that popularity doesn't prove quality.
I've always found most sitcoms to be unfunny. Seinfeld included, even though I always liked him as a standup comedian.
Watching the wooden acting on Jerry Bruckheimer crime dramas is funnier to me than most sitcoms.
I do love good standup comedy.
Jerry's standup comedy is actually the core of the show. The sitcom is just an amplified version of his standup comedy with, of course, an ensemble cast. When I used to watch the show in the 90s, I felt that Jerry was actually the weakest and least funny character. But if you watch the same episode several times, you realize that this isn't true at all. In fact, Jerry is the funniest and most talented person on the show. In general, though, I find most sitcoms to be a waste of time. I'm glad that I have found at least one thing on TV that is funny, though.
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In my opinion, the best kind of comedian is somebody who can make you laugh but also somebody who can move his audience to tears with a heartfelt song or a sad story.
Andre Van Duin is one of those artists that's able to do so. For example with this song about losing his father, you can tell that he sings this one from the heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSty-GLhQc
To translate what he sings.
"He was my biggest fan I know for sure
there was no better comedian out there than me
but then again, he was my own father
he never doubted my success for a single moment
As a child I pretended to be an artist
Making a stage from old bed sheets
and the audience were my mother and my father
I do admit that their critics didn't help that much
But as I grew older and my audience grew with me
I found my father sitting on the front row
applauding and laughing at my jokes so loudly
That every saw "He must be related"
He send many letters to the broadcasting company
They never played enough records of his son
And the Televsion never showed enough footage
"That's an outrage" he used to shout around our home
When my star was rising with my father as promotor
He gave away so many pictures of me
And woe on the person who dared to tell him
That he didn't like my jokes at all.
And also the critics I received in the papers
He always took that very personally.
"Are they nuts to write that?
I'll drag that dude away from his desk."
He was so proud of me when I had another show coming
in Rotterdam, The Hague or (famed Dutch theater) Carré
He would glad tell people that he was my father
He was the father of André
Fortunately he had years to tell people that
And I'm very pleased with that
Because when the day came, and I will never forget it
That I lost him, I also lost my biggest fan."