Martin De Jonghe (foto YouTube) wordt vandaag 75. Ik vind het moeilijk om de man te omschrijven. Is hij een cabaretier? Een radiomaker? Een lolmaker? Feit is dat zijn grootste succes het singeltje “Vercruusse danst” was. Vercruusse was één van de typetjes waarachter De Jonghe schuil ging. Zelf heb ik die tekst destijds in De Rode Vaan voor de Minibrokjes (de komisch bedoelde rubriek op de laatste pagina) bewerkt tot een ontmoeting tussen onze toenmalige premier Wilfried Martens en de Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.
Juffrouw, danst u ? Wat zegt u ? Oh you are English ? Oeh ! Handicap ! Do you speak Flemish ? Ai ! Second handicap !
What is your name ? Hoedat ? Thatcher ? Ah, Maggy ! Me Liebig, you Maggy, together we gonna make good soup ! hahaha ! Yes, I’m a lolmaker.
Is it the first time you come in this place here ? Ah yes ? You are lucky : first time and already meet Wilfried ! Congratulations !
Pardon ? Oh, you want to know what I did to be so unpopular here ? Well I play with the trains, first train, second train, third train… Volmachten, yes ! You know that too ?
Maggy, are you alone here or did you come by bus ? Hahaha… Yes, I am so terribly spiritual, my father always said to me : Wilfried, if you shoot spek, you could have been a Werenfried, hahaha ! Yes, my father was a lolmaker too.
Maggy, look there in the corner sits my wife Leontine. She is so jealous ! Maggy, may I put you an indiscrete question ? I dare not. Yes, o.k., I force me : Maggy, do you like vakbonds ? Yes, trade-unions, yes. Me also not, Maggy, they give me kriebels. Do you have kriebels too ? No ? That is the only difference between you and me, Maggy, we on the continent are not made of iron but of spek. Yes, I know I’m crazy.
What are you trying to do, Maggy ? Sorry, that is my pacemaker, a present from my friend Willy. Bye bye Maggy, see you over the Channel !
Ronny De Schepper
dagelijks iets degelijks 