Niels van der Laan (1981) and Jeroen Woe (1981) met each other in 2000 at the
Academy of Theatre and Dance. In 2004, they both graduated and decided to form a duo together, then under the name Geen Familie (English: No Family). The duo participated in the
Amsterdam Cabaret Festival in 2005, where they won the
Wim Sonneveld Prize for best cabaret talent. From 2006 to 2008 the duo played their first theater performance
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Their second show,
Help ons, was performed by the duo from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, the duo participated in
Erik van Muiswinkel's oudejaarsconference, which they also participated in later in 2012. In 2011, they won the Neerlands Hoop prize for their show
Superlatief.
De Kwis In 2011, the duo was asked by presenter
Paul de Leeuw if they wanted to participate in the section
De Kwis in his Saturday evening show
PAU!L. In
De Kwis, a guest of Paul is asked questions about the news of the past week, by means of parodies of songs. Van der Laan & Woe agreed and then, together with
Joep van Deudekom and
Rob Urgert, became part of
De Kwis. When the television program stopped, the section
De Kwis was transformed into an independent television program, which started in 2013. From 2012 to 2014, Van der Laan & Woe toured with their show
Buutvrij, which received good reviews and was nominated for the Poelifinario price. From 2014 to 2016, the duo toured with their fifth show
Alles eromheen. The duo also collaborated on the animated film
Triple Trouble: Animal Sinterklaas, for which they wrote and sang the songs. In 2017, their sixth theatre show
Pesetas premiered, which ran until 2020. In 2018, it was announced that
De Kwis would stop after five years. The reason for stopping was that Van Deudekom and Urgert no longer had the motivation to make the programme. In addition, Paul de Leeuw switched from broadcaster
BNNVARA to broadcaster
RTL, which is why he also stopped with the programme. Unlike Van Deudekom and Urgert, Van der Laan and Woe still had the motivation to continue making television satire. After the program stopped, the duo started making the successor to
De Kwis, which would later result in
Even tot hier.
Even tot hier In their new television program
Even tot hier, the current events of the past week are dealt with through music and parodies of existing songs that are sung by the original artists. In addition, the program helps people who are victims of a social problem or an incident.
Even tot hier started on March 16, 2019. The program attracted an average of one million viewers per episode. The popularity of
Even tot hier grew especially during the
COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, when the program made many parodies about the virus. For example, the program did this based on a parody of the song
Flappie by comedian
Youp van 't Hek, which was transformed into
Wappie, a Dutch swear word for a conspiracy theorist. Even after the corona crisis, the popularity increased and
Even tot hier received many positive reviews. For example, the program received a lot of praise in May 2024, because of a parody of the song
Europapa by
Joost Klein, following his disqualification from the
Eurovision Song Contest that year. In 2022, the program won the Gouden Televizier-Ring for best television program and was presented with the Ere
Zilveren Nipkowschijf in 2023. In 2025, the duo was named Media Persons of the Year by Broadcast Magazine. In 2022, their seventh theater performance
NG premiered. The performance received man.y positive reviews and was well received. As voice actors, they recorded the Dutch versions of
The Smurfs and
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. In 2026, Van der Laan & Woe will begin touring again with their new theatre show
Dinsdagmiddag. The duo also operates independently. For example, Niels van der Laan has played the role of Hoofdpiet in
Het Sinterklaasjournaal since 2018 and Jeroen Woe released his album
Woe Weg Was in 2021. == Style ==