In the satirical television program Dit Was Het Nieuws Jan Jaap van der Wal is best known as an original joker, but in his full-length theater programs, the comedian also shows his serious and moralistic side. With his New Year's Eve conference 2007 entitled Onderbewust, Van der Wal honoredly followed in the footsteps of his great predecessors Wim Kan, Freek de Jonge and Youp van 't Hek. In his
… CO2-neutral speech, the climate hype, Paris Hilton, Bokito and Willem Holleeder are reviewed and politics and the cabinet are particularly affected. Geert Wilders was mentally ill and Rita Verdonk made herself impossible with her 'straightforward' mentality. Van der Wal was further disappointed by the PvdA members Bos, Plasterk and Vogelaar and the way in which the cabinet expressed its motto 'Living together, collaborate'. Populism was rampant in politics and fear is cultivated among the population through the media: fear of Muslims and terrorism. Van der Wal turns against this oversimplified doomsday thinking and concludes that it is actually not so bad: we are still here! (SvdP)more
