On the occasion of the 2007 Book Week motto - Praise of Folly: Banter, Satire and Irony - Van Kooten & De Bie compiled the DVD Schertz, Zatire En Yronie, with material from their long television career that has never been released on video or DVD. The sketches from the period 1973-1998 are about books, writers, book weeks, language and / or (non) verbal communication. Cor van der Laak gets
… excited about the progressing language deterioration, mother and son Carla and Frank van Putten buy books with (against) their liking during the book week, Mehmet Pamuk proves his integration by buying Salman Rushdie's Devil Verses and Book Week theme India drives a wedge between the Veenendaal sisters. Dutch specialist doctor EI Kipping advocates the non-discriminatory pancake, chicken fucker, tailor-sewer, mosquito-sifter and pit creator. And the Positivos founded the Chrislam with Gallah as supreme being. A nice extra is the Vieze Man at a signing session by writer Simon Carmiggelt. (SvdP)more
