The monument commemorates Urbanus (born 1949), a comedian famous in Flanders. His real name is Urbain Servranckx. As Urbanus van Anus (yes, the word is the same as in German) he started his career in the seventies with absurd, sometimes vulgar humor.
Together with the draftsman Willy Linthout, he developed the comic series Urbanus in 1982, in which the fictional youth of the young Urbanus is presented. The memorial shows this same comic hero Urbanus together with the hummingbird Amedee and his two-legged dog Nabuko Donosor.
At the back of the statue you will find an empty niche with a small lever. When you pull it, a rooster will appear inside. This commemorates the rooster kidnapping some 200 years ago when the rooster was stolen from the local church tower.
The kidnappers would only give him back if the farmers let them have their best chickens. But they preferred to look for the culprits. That's why the inhabitants of Tollembeek are also called "Hanenzoekers": Rooster seekers. But the word also has another, more shabby meaning - but we'll explain that to you another time...