You talkin' to me? Go ahead, make my day.
I saw part of the Eurovision show yesterday. It was particularly funny this year because the French have finally gotten the joke, and have stopped taking the whole thing seriously. The comments were hilarious this year!
Good for the French. Of course, they ended up being ranked even lower than the UK, which, honestly, is hard to do. So good for them to have a sense of humor!
Oh no, you beat me to it! I was going to write an entry on the hilarious ESC too, but have no time today... bah!
We, of course, watched it too. With passion, as always. But we saw NRK's broadcast, with the Norwegian comments. Also fun, he's kinda rude too. 
Kjersti, you have to post on it too! I want to read your perspective!
I'm glad to see it's not only the Brits who get the complete dorky humor of the whole broadcast.
Oh, I wish this was televised in the States. I too would have the big drinknig party to watch. Just like the Olympic Opening Ceremony party. Gotta love those country costumes especially for the summer games.
I LOVE the ESC -- and miss it terribly. I spoke to my bro-in-law (almost ex-BIL?) right before it started (he's in London) and we agreed that it is truly the perfect contest/awards show in all it's awful-tude. Did you read the minute-by-minute commentary in the Guardian? Soooo amusing!
"Anyway, it's no longer a song contest. It's a dancing contest with scantily clad girls galloping in the background...
I think I see the problem.
The scantily-clad girls should be in the foreground.
How typical of a brit to say that brits are the only ones getting the joke. I am from Denmark and believe me, NO dane takes that shit seriously!
Found my way over here from Manolo. I'd never watched the EVC either and it was too good. I've been in Scotland 6 years now and my husband has poo-pooed the very idea of watching as out of the question year after year. But I prevailed finally this year and it was a hoot! Husbunny watched with me and he hasn't seen it in years, not since Terry actually had some respect for the process, so there were some very loud gaffaws and "Did you here what he said!" coming from the other comfy chair. I liked Denmark and Ukrain. I think the Greeks should have had on Cowboy hats and boots, they seemed to have that modern country thing going...White of course and they still would have won.
I get to move home to Rockport in a couple of years and I can't wait. I read the rest of your current page and will certainly check back in the future.
Cheers
Ha! This is so funny...because I actually kind of, sort of...ok, I DID like the Hungarian outfits! The one-legged look is here for the summer, I can feel it! I think ESC is similar to war: each war is fought with the same strategy as the previous and then a new, winning, tactic forms out of the ashes. Last year, Ukraine won with the big drums and this year everyone tried to copy their success. And in the end, Greece won with NO DRUMS!
Next year, I must try to get the BBC feed. But it was priceless, PRICELESS, to hear the Swedish broadcasters snarky "Tack för det, Norge!" after y'all screwed us royally, live on international tv!
Oh, shuttup Tracey 
Sweden has never never voted for Norway (until this year, and I almost fell out of my chair out of pure shock), it's a common joke here. Besides, Sweden stunk! It didn't even deserve that one point, but at least you got one from us :P
Ahem...check...1...2...
"Is this thing on...?"
See, the SONG and the MUSIC didn't so much suck (in my opinion) as much as it was just totally and absolutely inappropriate. In that way, it did suck. But the song and the music and the singing? Not so bad...
But lordy, Karla, do you REALIZE how many readers you have? My server is going nuts with the hits. And I'm not talkin' 'bout the top-40 hits either...!
The Manolo linked to me and it's going NUTZ! I've had over 700 hits from it.
It's all about the Manolo....I swear. My usual hit count is about 125 a day. This is exceptional...and quite acceptable!
Oh and Tracey! U R A FREAK if you like the Hungarian outfits.
I triple double dog DARE you to wear one like that and send me your picture...BWAhhahahaha, yes i am evil.
And maybe a bit drunk, too?
I'm in Australia and I take great pleasure watching Eurovision. It's hilarious and Terry Wogan describes it perfectly. Great blog entry on the subject. And yeah, what is it with the French?
I was traveling in France the past week (just got back to NJ tonight), so I made sure to watch Eurovision - for the first time ever! And while the acts this year were for the most part dreadful, it was a real treat to see the spectacle. Boobies! Drums! Viktor Yushchenko! Flame throwers!
Sadly, I couldn't get Wogan, but it was enough to watch Eurovision on TV. For some reason, France Television didn't run the semifinals, but my hotel in Avignon had TVE from Spain. The Irish entry - complete with Riverdancing! - is still lodged in my head, and I couldn't imagine its effect on me if it had made it to the finals.
In my hotel in Paris, I watched the French feed, and so I didn't notice that the French got special language treatment. I also don't understand French (unless I'm spoken to verrry slowly... I only started teaching myself a few months ago), but it sounded like the French commentators were saying that the Cypriot singer was gay, and for the life of me I couldn't tell if they were assuming he was gay because of his act, or if he really was gay.
Least favorite performances: Israeli Mariah Carey and her obviously fake boobs; the Latvians who, inspired by "Napoleon Dynamite," threw in some sign language; and Spain's entry, Las Ketchup 2005 (they even sing the same way; alas, the song is not as fantastically cheesy as "Asereje").
You can watch it via the internet in
the States (or anywhere else if you
have the bandwidth). Aside from the
official stream, several countries
send it out via the net (with
comments). The BBC only offered a
low-res stream, so I ended up seeing
the Dutch broadcast.
I miss Eurovision! I was an expat Canadian living in UK and Switzerland until a couple of months ago. Eurovision was one of my favourite surreal, hilarious events. My favourite was Sechselauten (in Zuerich) in which a giant snowman stuffed full of cotton batting and explosives is set alight to predict the summer weather. Usually the third Monday in April. Definitely worth catching if you get the chance.
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