Willy Alfredo


Willy Alfredo, pseudonym of Willem Jue (Gouda, November 15, 1898 - Rijswijk, March 13, 1976), was a Dutch intelligence officer. Career

He used to be a baker. Around 1935 he began to act for public, parties and parties. During the performances, the audience in the room could name keywords and then made a simple rhyme on the spot. He was furore with the challenging cry: "Call me!" Some of his services were used at the sinterklaas party. He was active up to high age.

Alfredo died at a 77-year-old at a heart attack. He was buried on 18 March 1976 at the Old Eik and Duinen Cemetery in The Hague. Anecdote

Alfredo did not read newspapers and did not know that a new prime minister had been appointed: De Quay. When that name was called to him, he said, "The crow that is a bird, on top of the roof, feels the most comfortable animal." The hilariousness was great. Alfredo, annoyed: Do not cry so much, I've heard, I'm still singing on the given word. After explaining the accompanying pianist Dick Harris, who was the prime minister, Alfredo added something further: The Quay, a guy who knows no one, yet such a man in this country will become minister-president.

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Frans Halsema made a parody on Willy Alfredo, with Willy Alfredo's common phrases like "We are here cozy and we are here O.K." used. Frans Halsema did that in the theater program "With joy we give knowledge" that he brought in the Dutch theaters together with Gerard Cox and Adèle Bloemendaal in 1969. In that the keyword "De Quay" was also relegated to "De Kraai". When the Dutch singer Willy Alberti died in 1985, the radio presenter Ivo de Wijs rushed to the VARA radio with a wink to Alfredo: "There was once a woman in Toledo, who would like a torpedo, Padadam Tadadam, Padadam Tadadam, ... God, what do we miss Willy ... Alfredo "

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