Youp van ‘t Hek expects to stop on his 70th birthday

Youp van ‘t Hek expects to quit his career as a comedian at the age of seventy. He said that on Sunday in an interview in the Amsterdam debate center De Balie. The conversation became today online put.

“I think: if I stop, I will have performed for fifty years,” said the almost 66-year-old Van ‘t Hek in an interview with his son Julius. “From empty halls to a full Carré. Then it is better to end up in a full Carré.” He then wants to “finally” write a book.

The comedian wants to do another New Year’s Eve conference this year. That will be his tenth. After that he wants to make a final show. “On my seventieth birthday, on 28 February 2024, I am considering being in Carré theater that evening. Then I will sing again Nobody knows what time it is. And that I know what time it is and think: this was it. “

Unwell

Van ‘t Hek is asked when he will stop since he became unwell during a performance more and more often, says Sjamke de Voogd of his Hekwerk Theaterproducties agency. “This is not an official announcement, not a major announcement. He just doesn’t want to be a senile old man on stage. Those are my words, you know.”

“But it would not surprise me,” says De Voogd, “if he says afterwards: I feel good, I will do one more.”

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