Just about Peter Pannekoek

In the newspaper, on social media, printed on precious magazine paper and even on the couch with Linda: Peter Pannekoek was everywhere last month. I found it a miracle that he didn't slide into my home through the mailbox in person, he was so everywhere. In case you missed it, which seems quite unlikely to me, the comedian was responsible for the New Year's conference this year. Honestly: with such a crappy year, you need little inspiration, but it seems to me an art to make something funny out of it. So, Peter Pannekoek.

After Linda de Mol delicately explained to him on her couch that every woman in the audience at Carré briefly wanted him during his show, he actually doesn't need any more compliments. But hey, I'm not the worst. I find Peter Pannekoek funny without exception. But annoyingly funny. As in: you actually don't want to laugh, but you do anyway. NRC describes it as ‘Pannekoekiaans’, which seems to me a fitting description. Pannekoek's jokes are vile and brutally hard, a nice little cocktail for New Year's Eve. In any case, he had all of church-going Netherlands on his heels before it even started; we can conclude that the insulting was successfully done prematurely.

Scroll through Peter Pannekoek in the media this month and you get to know him as the man who called Linda de Mol a TROS-bimbo, the man who pees eight times before a performance (?), and the man who finds it incredibly annoying when his friends constantly drag a new girlfriend to the pub. He himself is not infallible either: he once grabbed the wrong woman by the buttocks in a supermarket. His ex got upset about that, because those buttocks were much thicker, right? It immediately explains how complex we are ourselves.

Furthermore, Peter Pannekoek is 35 years old (for those who were at his show and now suddenly want to know), he grew up in the depths of the Gooi and never wastes a second just idly wandering around. Why would you, when you can also take a trampoline course? But he also lost his best friend and his father at a young age in a short time, is hesitant to get attached because he is afraid of losing people, and cannot feign interest in people.

On New Year's Eve, I am usually too tipsy to attempt the New Year's conference, so I am now settling in for New Blood. Let's see what he makes of 2021.

Image: Hans-Peter van Velthoven