For example, he smells the Sportpaleis, but he will also prefer his familiar spot next year. Xander De Rycke (36) has filled three Lotto Arenas in recent days and tonight on your screen – his theater show ‘Keep it closed 2023’ can be seen tonight on VRT 1. The next three have already been announced. The Bart Peeters of comedy, but as a new dad louder on stage than behind it. “Ferris was there. The backstage looked like a child’s room.”
He came hard. In jokes and in tickets. Xander De Rycke lured the Lotto Arena to sell-out on no fewer than three evenings. Fifteen thousand people saw and heard him skewer the Flemish ‘showbiz’ and ‘media’ in ‘Xander de Rycke calls it a day’. And also witnessed a surprising twist. Because while the cameras of fellow comedians in the past zoomed in on beaming famous faces eager for a mention, he got a few of his favorite targets on stage. To put himself or him in the spotlight. “Who exactly, everyone has to discover for themselves,” he says. “But it is something new. In 2016 I played in cafes for 60 people. Since 2021 it became the Lotto Arena. And that is why we work on a new one every year. larger production. I don’t want the Lotto Arena to feel like a glorified parish center or a basketball hoop. We aim for something big and even a bit American.”
Children’s room backstage
Afterwards, the conference immediately announced three new shows for next year. Flanders relishes its jokes and its formula. Our reviewer even noted in this newspaper that he laughed out loud more than 150 times during the show. Although the biggest fan backstage crowed the loudest. Xander de Rycke lost his mother in 2022, but welcomed Ferris on September 29. In the run-up to his show. “I can’t thank my wife enough,” he says. “Ferris is now fourteen weeks old and we were living on a pink cloud, but it was great that he could be there. The backstage was a large nursery and there was a babysitter so that my friend Michelle was able to follow the show.” New fatherhood did not soften the popular joker. ‘The Masked Singer’ went smoothly on the chopping block. “Isn’t that just a very expensive unboxing video? A Kinder Surprise on a budget!” Just like Joyce de Troch. “It doesn’t ripen like a good wine, does it? More like a sandwich with egg salad that lies on my dashboard in full sun.”
Xander spares no one. ‘De Verhulstjes’ are now regular guests in his conference, and James Cooke also once got the full brunt. Dimitri Vegas and Jamie-Lee Six are also on the menu tonight, but perhaps his future enemy is screaming in the wings. “Ferris can do whatever he wants later,” he says. “But imagine if I spent years changing the diapers of a future television maker.”
Xander will be in Lotto Arena Antwerp on December 28 and 29, 2024 & January 3, 2025. Tickets are available now via xanderderycke.be. The show can also be seen tonight on Canvas.
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2024-01-05 05:17:05
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