Raoul Heertje

Raoul Heertje

Raoul Heertje (Bussum, 1963) is a Dutch comedian. The notable international appearances he made were in the tv-shows of Ruby Wax, Clive James, Jeremy Clarkson and in the British satirical programme Have I Got News For You (on series 9) in 1995 [http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00034257846/] . 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 Comedytrain, the stand-up comedy collective that introduced stand-up comedy in the Netherlands in the year 1990. In 2007 he is one of the members of The Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective.

His father is the economist Arnold Heertje.

External links

* [http://www.raoulheertje.nl Official site]


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