Jensen!

I was pleased to hear there was going to be a Talkshow with Robert and Jan back in 2002. Before that they were radio DJ's in the mornings for the same company that brings us the Talkshow Jensen.

Most of the time before going to school the radio was my friend and Jensen in the morning was I think the only radio program I wanted to listen and have a laugh. Prank calls to famous Dutch people, top class jokes, games, music, interviews, you name it, it had it all and gave the listeners a great morning before they start the day.

They combine being on the radio and doing their Talkshow. But I enjoy the Talkshow slightly more. I love the expressions on their faces when they make jokes, fun of people or the guests that appear on their fantastic Talkshow. They start the show with "the Breaking News" mostly hilarious news that are real but slightly changed to make it funny and they end their show with a nice song from a band or singer. The guests that appear on Jensen are mostly terrified knowing Jensen and his jokes towards famous people and always talk about topics the guests usually don't want to talk about. But at the end we all can enjoy it, it's fun, fresh, addicted and they are not planning to stop anytime soon.

Some memorable shows from the last 2 years are those with Herman Berghuis(Dutch Idols 2 and 3) Kelly van der Veer(Dutch Big Brother 3) and Bassie(Bassie and Adriaan, kids show)

*Robert Jensen is comparable with Howard Stern and David Letterman along with his *prank calling* hypocritical but funny friend Jan.

:: LAUGH OR DIE

Jensen! is a show which is, simply put, simple-minded comedy in a Daily Show sort of fashion. Structured as it is, Jensen usually divides his show into two parts: an 'overwhelming' entrance as himself as the show host, where he usually pretends to calm the audience down because they are way too enthusiastic. If you look carefully, producers at the side try to make the audience go wild by sign language for 'this is the time you need to applaud'.

With my studio experience, it wouldn't surprise me if, just like other television shows, they pre-recorded the laughs. The recording of the laughs can be divided into three parts: a little laughing, lots of laughing, and laughing your ass off. This gets carefully mixed in between the shows, which gives you the impression that all jokes that are made are indeed funny.

:: DAILY NEWS

This is followed by some lame jokes, usually based on news and popular affairs. Jensen his daily news usually consists of badly edited videos of other television show and extremely poor quality videos ripped off of YouTube. This is amateuristic at most.

:: INTERVIEWS AND GUESTS

Jensen then fills his time with interviews, where it seems he tries to be as little compassionate as possible. On top of this, lame sex jokes about the length of his penis, the amount of women he has slept with, kinky stuff that goes on in the backstage room, are most likely to pop up every once in a while. As far as the guests are concerned, they vary from international stars to temporary famous people, such as the "Vegan Streaker", Dutch Idol candidates, "Boer Zoekt Vrouw"-candidates and in some cases politicians. Due to the fact the Dutch show-business is not comparable to that of the United States, the supply of truly interesting people is limited. This combined with the size of the country, the influence it has on political scale and the rather boring political situation in the country itself, makes the interviews rather dull.

In the situation where there is an actual celebrity, Jensen tends to ask rather simple questions, rather than having an in-depth interview. Unlike a normal interviewer, Jensen is quite politically incorrect. This could be seen as a definitive plus. Dutch TV tends to be rather conservative, influenced by religion and prudish. Jensen is none of that - however, he crosses the lines sometimes.

:: LIVE MUSIC

Artists that coincidentally perform on the show, usually lipsynch. A good reason for this may be that the studio sound was never meant to be used as an artists audio-decor. That might very well be. If artists really play live though, the act itself is worthless. Camera positions are poor, sound quality usually hits the extreme low points. Not to mention that the people who actually do sing live, are parodies (Dutch Idols rejects, for instance) or one hit wonders.

:: GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE SHOW + Very easy to watch, no brain activity involved + Progressive as opposed to the quite conservative Dutch television + Great guests coincidentally + The disappearance of the 'co-host' (I'd rather call him part of the studio decor) Jan Papparazi

:: BAD THINGS ABOUT THE SHOW - Repetitive jokes - Harsh language - No respect for people with disabilities - Prerecorded laughs - Uninteresting guests most of the time - Poor artists

OVERALL RATING: 5/10

I think the Dutch people are very down to earth and thank god we do not suffer from having a freaking big ego like Brian Sewell who wrote the comment above. Let me guess, you're American... Yeah, yeah, we know that everybody in the USA is f***king better and everything is f***king bigger than the rest of the world, so let alone the Netherlands. Not everybody enjoys the Jensen show and he's not pretending to be like your precious American talk show hosts (barf) but if you don't like it, just don't watch it and that also goes for the rest of the Dutch TV as well as the Dutch radio! There's an on/off button on a TV or radio for a reason.... In fact, why don't you just leave the country all together if all you can do is claim that the Dutch are inferior and cannot do anything? There is absolutely no reason to say that we have to try and stay ourselves because we do NOT pretend to be someone we are not! So stop insulting the people of the country that you are living in at the moment and look at your own pathetic country before you start insulting some other country! And for the international American guests, they do NOT need to go on, but they do because they have some show, album or whatever to promote so who is the dumb ass here now?

The man firmly belongs on a 1980s prank radio show, I doubt it but I hope he reads this. 'In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king'' and this is so true, the quality of Dutch TV is so poor so it is no wonder that the Dutch rave about this inept imbecile. I had the gross misfortune to see this fool patronising two Primordial Dwarfs, it was so sickening to watch this man asking stupid questions to these brave people. The name ''lul'' is Dutch insult (look it up if you must) and this firmly applies to this man, he has the interviewing technique of a horny male rhino chasing a female. He must go home at night, check his bank balance and and widen his eyes in disbelief. Too many people rage on about these instant fame seekers (Idols, Fame Academy, X factor) and how they should work to get to the top, well Jensen has had years to perfect his profession, but he is still a useless figure head for the inept. Get him off TV for the sake of the few intellectuals that scan the Dutch channels. You can see it on the faces of his International guests, they think to themselves ''is he the best that this land has to offer''? He thinks, as do his many viewers, that the guests are worried that he may pull one of his totally non funny pranks, it's not that, they just think he is a total fool. Dutch people please please please, stop trying to be like other people of the world and just try to be yourselves, you cannot rap, you are musically bereft and your TV sucks donkey do and you certainly cannot do American style talk shows, there is only one thing you can compare Jensen to, it's inanimate, it smells and it comes out of the non talking end of a bull.

I can't believe there are people that rate this show higher than a 4.

It's the worst thing on Dutch television ever. Mr. Jensen has to be the most obnoxious person in the Netherlands, an he's the host. So the program isn't watchable. There are a lot of mediocre shows on TV here, I can live with that, but "Jensen!" has to be the lowest in what is already a pretty low standard. It's a lame attempt to copy the late night shows that are so popular in other countries. However they failed to put in humor and forgot about the fact that people don't like throwing up after watching two minutes of horrible television like this.

Unfortunately Dutch television has a history of selecting awful hosts for shows like this, but Mr. Jensen sets another low, and that's why this show deserves the lowest of ratings.