Raoul Louis Heertje (; born 11 March 1963) is a Dutch

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. Being

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himself, his comedy performances include Jewish humour.Maas en mensen weet ook niet meer wat typisch joods is
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Biography

From 1983 till 1984 Heertje studied International Relations and Theatre Studies at the

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. After that he studied in

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till 1986. The notable international appearances he made were in the TV shows of Ruby Wax,

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and in the British

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programme '' Have I Got News for You'' (on series 9) in 1995. A year later he became a panelist in the successful Dutch version of the same show: '' Dit was het nieuws''. Raoul, and his brother Eric, founded comedyclub Toomler and

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in the

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in the year 1990. In 2007 he is one of the members of The Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective. Heertje also wrote columns for '' Het Parool''. His father is the

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Arnold Heertje.

Comedytrain

''Comedytrain'' was the first

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collective in the

. It was founded in 1990 by Raoul Heertje. Comedy club Toomler in Amsterdam is its home theatre. The word Comedytrain is a combination of comedy and training. Its main goal was to give talented comedians, who did not succeed at once in making an hour and a half one-man show, a place to perform and develop, to try out, fail and succeed; to evaluate others and be evaluated by them. Over the years Comedytrain has become the home of famous Dutch comedians, like Hans Teeuwen, Theo Maassen, Najib Amhali, Hans Sibbel, Thomas Acda, Ronald Goedemondt, Jan Jaap van der Wal, and Sanne Wallis de Vries. Comedytrain is still a place where young comedians find a stage for developing as performers. Twice a year auditions are held for new talents to enter Comedytrain. The comedians do not only play the Toomler stage weekly, but also tour the Dutch theatres together, perform for companies and parties and play the many stages in theatre café's and bars all over the country.

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