The Queen's meatballs

[Barklessdog]

So he is the Dutch Mr. Bean?

[Dave W]

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.

[Barklessdog]

I bet you dislike South Park & Family Guy as well?

[Dave W]

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.

[Rocker949]

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.

[Blazer]

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.


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."