Editing Cabaret (section)

==={{anchor|Dutch cabaret}}Netherlands (from 1885)===
[[File:Wim Kan tijdens Oudejaarsconference 1979 Wim Kan, Bestanddeelnr 253-8142.jpg|thumb|[[Wim Kan]] gives a [[oudejaarsconference]] (1979).]]
In the Netherlands, cabaret or ''kleinkunst'' (literally: "small art") is a popular form of entertainment, usually performed in theatres. The birth date of Dutch cabaret is usually set at August 19, 1895.<ref>Willem Frijhoff, Marijke Spies (2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=PwaRGhi24qEC&pg=PA507 ''Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1900, the age of bourgeois culture''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522204637/https://books.google.com/books?id=PwaRGhi24qEC&pg=PA507 |date=2016-05-22 }}, p.507</ref> In Amsterdam, there is the Kleinkunstacademie (English: Cabaret Academy). It is often a mixture of (stand-up) comedy, theatre, and music and often includes social themes and political satire. In the mid twentieth century, "the big three" were [[Wim Sonneveld]], [[Wim Kan]], and [[Toon Hermans]].

Nowadays, many cabaret performances by popular comedians are broadcast on national television, especially on New Year's Eve, when the [[oudejaarsconference]] is broadcast. The oudejaarsconference is a cabaret performance in which the comedian looks back on the events of the past year.