We European are fully aware of how ridicolous the Eurovision is, that's exactly why we like it! Most of the songs are immediatly forgotten, is the madness of the exhibition that is remembered forever!
I completely agree with you. I see it every year since I was a child, sometimes I don't even get to hear the songs, I only see the votes. It is the funniest part, because it is a summary of the politics of each country in the year. Greetings from Spain.
@@donnielp3 well the show can be very cringe, but it can is also be very entertaining. Hosting the show can be a pain in the butt and is very expensive, and can prove beneficial for a countries overall econemie, the local residents suffer for it, although you could argue that this is small sacrifice
Americans"????... From what COUNTRY on the AMERICAN CONTINENTE aka the MASSIVE LANDMASS that runs from Tierra Del Fuego (EARTH OF FIRE en ESPANOL) near the South Pole. ALL THE WAY UP NORTH TO KISKA ISLAND ON THE BERING SEA NEAR The homeland of CURRENT U.S.A. PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, IN RUSSIA....THIS IS A M E R I C A
When I learned how many real Eurovision competitors appeared in the "song-a-long" I totally got it! I was not completely unaware of Eurovision before the movie but it was likely the only Eurovision competitors I could have confidently named would have been ABBA... :D
I like how most Americans sees it as something exotic, like from a different planet or something. Will Ferrell is one of few Americans I know that totally gets it and describes it accurately..
As a US Eurofan I go well beyond this, I appreciate the languages folky entries, the cross-culturalization and don’t forget the fans and their memes and their vent lives...and the whole reason ESC exists. Also be mindful of the unique National Finals (Melodifestivalen- Sweden, San Remo - Italy, Vidbir-Ukraine, etc). As these are unique onto themselves. Poland NF had their contestants compete on Beatles songs for one of the semifinals... and also listen to the classic entries like Monaco 1971 and the 1965 France Gall Luxembourg... this contest is more than even this
What he said is perfectly put but he didn’t mention the way it’s presented: The awkward presenters speaking stilted English, telling goofy jokes; the tourist board intros to each singer visiting the host city that year; the predictable voting system in favour of ancient national alliances and against old foes, the flag waving in the boozy green room waiting for the results in French over a crackly telephone line from a former Eastern Bloc Capital....Pure Eurotrash! We love it.
I've never heard about this movie before, didn't know the origin of this joke, but I really enjoyed this moment of Iceland voting (after that of course I did the research :)). I love how Icelanders stay so humble and down-to-Earth, allowing themselves to be funny and wear sweaters when everybody else is wearing their best shiny clothes :D
Not to mention doesn't he pretty much have the key to Finland? There's no way he doesn't know about Eurovision that's all that schtick for the interview.
Big Eurovision fan from US. Having 40-50 countries sending songs each year, there’s a big variety of genres with pop and ballad songs being the most common but genres like hard rock and punk have made appearances aswell. Countries sometimes send ”serious” songs that are musically of great quality and sometimes ”joke” songs that are meant to just entertain or actually send a political/social message. There is less traditional music being sent to Eurovision than like 20 years ago but it’s not completely finished. In a nutshell, you can expect pretty much anything
Eurovision is an event which is best with friends. It takes 3 - 4 hours, you eat and drink and all have fun watching the weird performances. You discus who will win and enjoy beeing together.
You're just used to seeing him when he has his hair done, is wearing makeup and a carefully selected wardrobe, and through a professional camera. That looks quite different from this: in a T-shirt, probably hot (that's probably why he's a bit red, seems sweaty too and it's the middle of summer), through a shitty webcam, and ruffled greying hair.
Realistically, it's because the US isn't in it. Ask a random Chinese or Brazilian or most other non-esc person and you'll get confusion, people don't watch things that don't effect them. Though eurovision is becoming more well known every year in the us. But I don't believe your criticism boils down to anything other than hating on America for the sake of it.
"they fully believe they are looking as cool as possible." Americans will never get Eurovision, if even a comedian who watched it for research and made a whole movie about it has no clue what he is talking about.
Nope, he is on point. Of course those performers think they look awesome, but some really don't. That is why worst dress award is given each year. And of course some scenes turn up totally bonkers. But sometime that is what wins the votes. Like that chicken women... ahhh I love ESC.
For real though, someone only needs to watch dustin the turkey (ireland), rodolfo chikiliquatre (spain), les fatals picards (france), and NUMEROUS other entries to know Eurovision is concidered a silly joke by the Europeans. It almost seems loke Europeans are trolling the non-Europeans really... 😆
Ty Will Ferrel for including that bit with Salvador Sobral, as a portuguese I was really proud that you acknowledged the winner with the most points ever awarded !!
Lordi were dressed as Troll Demons, in fact I think they are Troll Demons...shh keep that under your hat, also Lordi the best winners ever.....you have to say that or the Troll Demons will come and get you....................aaaaaaaaassrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..........I am running..... running.....
:)) Yes, Ferrel said that Americans think that they look the best. :)), but look at performances by Gaga, Cher , Beyoncé, Madonna and most of all other. What is "normal" in their extravaganza shows? Just because they are Americans they declare themselves the best by default. :)
The thing about Eurovision is that us Europeans already know it is silly but as an act you want to stand out as much as possible and be memorable to the audience that is where all the crazy stuff comes in. You want people to say "hey I am voting for the one with the hamster wheel" or "I want to vote on that Ring girl doing the hammertime" and that is why we love it so much hehe ;)
After I moved to Ireland it took me a few years to get into it, but once I watched my first Eurovision I was completely in love. The spectacle, the camp, the talent and the drama of the scoring are just so much fun to get completely absorbed in!!
For me as a german it is just crazy, that so many americans never heard about eurovision... This is a very big part of music culture in europe. Even australia is being a part of eurovision since a few years.
Do you know that in Italy to say that something is exaggerated, spectacularized and it has no sense of elegance we say "è un'americata", which means "it's an american thing/it's an american way"...just to let you know that sometimes it's just a question of perspective haha
I discovered Eurovision about 10 years ago and I had a similar reaction to it. My mother came to Europe to visit me and we watched it together. It was glorious and weird
I liked the movie even if I don't particularly care for the contest. I liked that it wasn't a mockfest, what it very easily could've been. It was quite a good spirited movie, actually.
I watched the "song along" segment of this movie over and over ... it was so amazing. I'm a smidge taken aback by the wood-paneled background, Will. Time for a makeover. One of the best things my hubby and I ever did was paint our wood-walled TV room.
@@metrofilmer8894 and that was on like a very small streaming platoform until 2021 where NBC/Peacock got the rights to the 2021 contest. Both the semi finals and final is on there with NO commentary.
Riverdance was originally a 7 minute fill in put on by RTÉ between the performances and the voting. No one really remembers who won that year, just Riverdance.
@@JadedKate and they didn't get nearly the amount of votes from the public as they were expecting. The days of singing in your own language is coming back.
what you're missing is that eurovision contestants and viewers rarely ever take it seriously either. Or at least, some do and some don't. Anything goes really, which is the beauty of it
Eurovision was where (in the 70s) ABBA won it, with their outrageous costumes, but it showed how good they were - they went on to do lots of popular tracks etc.
I don’t think many Americans knew that there were many popular artistes who had some success in Eurovision. Cliff Richard’s song Congratulations was a Eurovision song, Julio Iglesias represented Spain one year, the song Eres Tu by Mocedades which hit #9 in the US in 1974 was a Eurovision song, Celine Dion actually won for Switzerland in 1988, and last but not least Katarina & the Waves of Walking on Sunshine fame also managed to win in 1997 for the UK.
With luck this will give the Eurovision Song Contest more exposure. I'd LOVE to see a major network here pickup all three broadcasts. No more having to VPN to another country. No more having to put up with commentators I can't understand. Been watching the contest for about 7 years now and look forward to it every year. Was real sad when it was canceled this year. Really wanted to see Little Big preform.
It’s amazing, isn’t it? And it gets better each year. Usually there are 1-2 songs I like but this year I liked 5-6 songs and most years I have a favourite contestants and they eventually release albums and grow even more as an artist. People think the UK doesn’t take it seriously but I think the UK takes it too serious and we keep sending songs that might do okay on the radio but far too bland for Eurovision. I knew we would come last with such a boring song and dull performance! Love Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Greece, Iceland!
My favorite thing about Conan is that he doesn't fake laugh unlike some other host. Will Ferrell made the joke about getting the prop guy Omaha Steaks and nothing from Conan. Just moves on. I love how genuine he is. Then we have people like Fallon who laughs uncontrollably if you sneeze.
It might have been Letterman who said that, and not Leno. I can't remember. It might have been Letterman on an episode of Norm McDonalds podcast/interview show/thing.
The next movie should be about The Game without boarders. "Jeux sans frontières". Aired in some european countries like mine, Portugal. It was like the Olympics but with ridiculous games. It was fun though, spent my childhood watching that crap.
Greetings from Spain. The film is very good, I laughed a lot and I think it captures very well the essence of the Eurovision festival, it even winks at the political connotations of the contest, which is the funniest part.
From when Eurovision started 1956 until 1974 the artist were dressed in nice suits and eveninggowns. But 1974 Abba won the whole competition dressed in some kind of crazy outfits with their conductor dressed like Napoleon. After that the show changed from being kind of sophisticated to what it is today. A glam, fun, crazy show just for the amusement
Finland has always been a kind of laughing stock at Eurovision, always finishing last. Then, one year, a group from Rovaniemi far up north, came and totally dominated. Google Lordi and Hard Rock Hallelujah. They crushed the opposition and as hell froze over, Finland had finally won the Eurovision after years of ridicule. 😄🤘🤘🤘
Denisse Aguirre yes! My mom's uncle used to babysit Tomi, Mr Lordi himself, when Tomi was little. They're from Rovaniemi, my mom's family. So that's pretty cool! 😄
@@claravitoriaortega9016 I never understood why spain never gets points. You guys are always good in my opinion. (Except that surfer dude, but apparently that was because he only got in because his daddy pulled some strings or something ? 🤔🤷🏻♀️) But the problem is you always come up with the exact same thing. That's like the donkey that keeps hitting his head against the same stone and keeps repeating and gets nosebleeds every time. I hope one day the spanish song will be special and we will vote for it. Like we did this year with switzerland (who are always awful but this year top 3)
Abba is really famous in the Philippines. When you key in their songs in the karaoke machine, everyone can sing along. I think most of us is aware of Euro vision, but we don't know how dramatic the performances are.
Loved the movie, but let's not call it "the Ukraine", especially since you've lifted their prop, and had the winner who was from Ukraine as a cameo in the movie.
American here! I fell into a Eurovision wormhole last year after finding the first ever performance of Riverdance and I can say I’ve been converted. :)
This is rather late reply (lol been watching this year's entries so YT recommends me all Eurovision stuff) Past few years so many Americans have fell to it..it started before this movie, but feels like during pandemic it really escalated. The reaction youtubers has always some European whispering "pssst. React to this eurovision thing" It goes from "wtf I am watching. What is this madness" to "omg i cannot stop this, this is awesome " within week. I have personally converted one American.
I thought the film captured the essence of the Eurovision perfectly. I have loved Will in various films but he marries this very well with his brand of comedy. He is in my favourite films, top man.
As an Icelander: He and Pierce Brosnan did slightly believable Swedish accents in the movie. As far from Icelandic accent as if you tried to sound Chinese with a cartoonish Japanese accent. Geographically close, different languages.
The Eurovision contestants ARE cool. It's just that America's definition of "cool" is sex and violence. Music has to be aggressive to be "cool". In Europe not so much. In Europe we like the traditional rhythms of different countries and cultural stuff. So singing vikings, like last year Norway, or before last year Denmark, ARE cool.
'Cool' can mean any number of things, it's just in the US 'cool' is also also be applied to hip-hop and rap - a music that isn't always violent and has influenced music world-wide. Pop, the type of music that is typically featured in Eurovision contests pretty much comes from the US. The Eurovision song contest is very cool, clearly, US citizens are obsessed with it right now and even admire/envy you guys for having such a contest. It's awesome. That said, please don't crap on our influential musical genres.
Saw the movie last night and it was such a great parody! Really enjoyed it. Yah yah Ding Dong, hilarious!!! Eurovision is a sort of never ending freaky circus show. Very entertaining because you never know what’s next. Did I mention we won last year? I didn’t? Well, we did after 40 years. And although everybody claims they hate the show it was kind of a national celebration.
I'm from Brazil and the first time I ever heard of Eurovision was when I visited Sweden in 2016. It's interesting how something so big in Europe is almost unheard of in the rest of the world.
I feel like the song What is Eurovision, that Måns and Petra sang in the second semi final 2016, is better for beginners. ruclips.net/video/v6qSt8Qp9ck/видео.html
Watched this movie with my whole family who I usually watch Eurovision with anyway, and it was genuinely a better replacement than actual Eurovision itself xD They captured the craziness of the competition so perfectly it’s uncanny
We European are fully aware of how ridicolous the Eurovision is, that's exactly why we like it! Most of the songs are immediatly forgotten, is the madness of the exhibition that is remembered forever!
Oh I don't know, I keep listening to the songs and remember a lot of them afterwards.
It's a thing of wonder and beauty!
Theres good songs in Eurovision. Sadly are the ones that are forgotten and just the ridiculous over the top are memorable.
I completely agree with you. I see it every year since I was a child, sometimes I don't even get to hear the songs, I only see the votes. It is the funniest part, because it is a summary of the politics of each country in the year. Greetings from Spain.
Immediately forgotten or remembered forever ... depending on the song.
His wife's family have broken the holy oath to never tell the Americans about the "competition"
I agree! However, I don't think Americans will believe it's real, us Europeans have to suffer through it every year.
@@helveeta You mean suffer through waiting for the contest every year.
@@donnielp3 well the show can be very cringe, but it can is also be very entertaining. Hosting the show can be a pain in the butt and is very expensive, and can prove beneficial for a countries overall econemie, the local residents suffer for it, although you could argue that this is small sacrifice
As an American I can honestly say that i had not heard to Eurovision. Just goes to show how myopic our view can be sometimes
@@TuckerDale89 now you shall commit seppuku.
Play "Jaja Ding Dong"!!!!!
JAJA DING DONG!!!!!
"Tell me when will it be enough for you?"
@@Ndroy1 IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH !!! NOW GO BACK THERE AND PLAY "JA JA DING DONG" !!!
JA JA DING DONG!!!
@@whitewolf_vp "I'll play it, but I'm going to tell him to f-off during the song".
Eurovision started as a symbol to unite the European countries in friendship after we nearly destroyed us in WWII.
And this is freakin BEAUTIFUL.
Like Eurovision's "Jeux sans frontieres", let's see a Hollywood movie about that!
And will be destroyed again, with some songs😅🤣😂
It amazes me that most Americans haven't heard of Eurovision.
The first time I saw it, I was in Finland with my fiancee at her friend's house and Finland won. Hard Rock Halleluia!
Raul Cantu: Nah, you're just ignorant to anything that happens outside of America.
@Raul Cantu LoL nice bait
@Raul Cantu better than listening to singers? Alroght mr Caveman
Americans"????... From what COUNTRY on the AMERICAN CONTINENTE aka the MASSIVE LANDMASS that runs from Tierra Del Fuego (EARTH OF FIRE en ESPANOL) near the South Pole. ALL THE WAY UP NORTH TO KISKA ISLAND ON THE BERING SEA NEAR The homeland of CURRENT U.S.A. PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, IN RUSSIA....THIS IS A M E R I C A
As a European, Eurovision is legit one of the highlights of my year
Americans probably think that the movie is a parody of the Eurovision, but if anything the movie wasn't half as ridiculous as the actual thing
When I learned how many real Eurovision competitors appeared in the "song-a-long" I totally got it! I was not completely unaware of Eurovision before the movie but it was likely the only Eurovision competitors I could have confidently named would have been ABBA... :D
@@solracer66 Celine Dion (won 1988), Olivia Newton-John (1974) and Julio Iglesias are som very famous people that also competed in Eurovision.
...ABBA
It was better than the real thing 😂
I like how most Americans sees it as something exotic, like from a different planet or something. Will Ferrell is one of few Americans I know that totally gets it and describes it accurately..
12 points from germany!
10 points from Croatia!
As a US Eurofan I go well beyond this, I appreciate the languages folky entries, the cross-culturalization and don’t forget the fans and their memes and their vent lives...and the whole reason ESC exists. Also be mindful of the unique National Finals (Melodifestivalen- Sweden, San Remo - Italy, Vidbir-Ukraine, etc). As these are unique onto themselves. Poland NF had their contestants compete on Beatles songs for one of the semifinals... and also listen to the classic entries like Monaco 1971 and the 1965 France Gall Luxembourg... this contest is more than even this
@Swords Chant ur not wrong but also don't generalize lol
I mean, he describes it as something alien that was entrancing...
What he said is perfectly put but he didn’t mention the way it’s presented: The awkward presenters speaking stilted English, telling goofy jokes; the tourist board intros to each singer visiting the host city that year; the predictable voting system in favour of ancient national alliances and against old foes, the flag waving in the boozy green room waiting for the results in French over a crackly telephone line from a former Eastern Bloc Capital....Pure Eurotrash! We love it.
Aw I missed it this year!
many of those "remote shots" are actually done in the facility, in front of a Green Screen
@@ZakhadWOW it's easy to see, because at least half of them show daytime images at midnight
As a portuguese I appreciate Will Ferrel gave a special place in the movie for our Salvador Sobral’s winning song “Amar pelos dois” 💖🇵🇹
And then Salvador behaved like a child on set.
@@danielborges69 [citation needed]
@@danielborges69 não, só não quis fireworks 😂😂😂😂 por isso ele aparece a tocar piano na rua
I found it hilarious that he was homeless xD
@@MM-fg8gs and he only won eurovision here in portugal because of his sister
So Conan's hair deflated nicely, and now we know where all the volume went - Will's right side.
the play Jaja Ding Dong guy presented the Icelandic votes and just derailed it all by staying in character screaming "play ja ja ding dong"
I've never heard about this movie before, didn't know the origin of this joke, but I really enjoyed this moment of Iceland voting (after that of course I did the research :)).
I love how Icelanders stay so humble and down-to-Earth, allowing themselves to be funny and wear sweaters when everybody else is wearing their best shiny clothes :D
He was honestly the best part of the jurors vote results
@@coolcrazygal1 he has gained EUROVISON immortality
When the presenters try to be funny it's always so corny and cringeworthy, but the Icelandic was just awesome 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸
@@tvs3038 it was surreal when greece showed a 10-year-old to give the jury votes
How could Conan, as a comedy writer and highly educated person, not be aware of Eurovision???
Not to mention doesn't he pretty much have the key to Finland? There's no way he doesn't know about Eurovision that's all that schtick for the interview.
Univision
I also didn’t know about it until I moved to Europe
I used to follow Sweden's Melodifestivalen.. because all Swedish music is the best. 2006 in particular was a fantastic year.
American media doesn't cover international news unless they're involved.
Who told the Americans about the Competition? Eurovision is a secret.
Stop hating on Americans. They made RUclips and Netflix so shut up PLEASE. -Australian
Don't worry they are making their own! They'll stay out of ours...
Vazdon ' No one said they hated Americans...
@@deepmop6817 we invited you to Eurovision once and the entitlement comes out 🙄
@@alexc9985 wdym "we"?
Big Eurovision fan from US. Having 40-50 countries sending songs each year, there’s a big variety of genres with pop and ballad songs being the most common but genres like hard rock and punk have made appearances aswell. Countries sometimes send ”serious” songs that are musically of great quality and sometimes ”joke” songs that are meant to just entertain or actually send a political/social message. There is less traditional music being sent to Eurovision than like 20 years ago but it’s not completely finished. In a nutshell, you can expect pretty much anything
Ukraine 🇺🇦 2021 💛💛💛💙💙💙
Only intellectuals know ABBA got famous from winning Eurovision with Waterloo
Also celine dion
Wait what?!
No, there are plenty of stupid people who know that
The entirety of Europe knows that. Nice shade
and justin beiber
Somewhere there is a hair, makeup and lighting guy who needs work and here we have Will Ferrel. Oh the cruelty of this pandemic.
Dude's look 75 will being slightly over 50...
He’s run out of adrenochrome
misha nahhhh, give em a cut and dye and he’ll be fine
The fluffy white hair makes him look like 80 years old 😂
Eurovision is an event which is best with friends. It takes 3 - 4 hours, you eat and drink and all have fun watching the weird performances. You discus who will win and enjoy beeing together.
very boring and sad to watch it alone haha.
That's exactly what Eurovision is all about!
I thought "Maaaan, Will Ferrel is so old now, gonna be sad when he dies..." and then I looked up his age and he is 52? How stressed is he?
Well he looked already like a dad when he was young. 28 at his SNL audition.
You're just used to seeing him when he has his hair done, is wearing makeup and a carefully selected wardrobe, and through a professional camera. That looks quite different from this: in a T-shirt, probably hot (that's probably why he's a bit red, seems sweaty too and it's the middle of summer), through a shitty webcam, and ruffled greying hair.
I forgot that Americans don’t even know what Eurovision is😂
Most of them do not know where is Europe.🙈🙊🙉
Most Americans do not even know which US state is next to them either.
Americans are too afraid Europeans will convince our children to be communists. I wish I could say that was sarcastic 😆
Realistically, it's because the US isn't in it. Ask a random Chinese or Brazilian or most other non-esc person and you'll get confusion, people don't watch things that don't effect them. Though eurovision is becoming more well known every year in the us. But I don't believe your criticism boils down to anything other than hating on America for the sake of it.
@@SuperCatman to bad that european know about popular us events. So that argument is actually invalid.
"they fully believe they are looking as cool as possible." Americans will never get Eurovision, if even a comedian who watched it for research and made a whole movie about it has no clue what he is talking about.
for real lmao
Eurovision was so awesome this year though, holy crap
@@alenanela1743 yeah, until they started giving zeros in the televotes😜
Nope, he is on point. Of course those performers think they look awesome, but some really don't. That is why worst dress award is given each year. And of course some scenes turn up totally bonkers. But sometime that is what wins the votes. Like that chicken women... ahhh I love ESC.
For real though, someone only needs to watch dustin the turkey (ireland), rodolfo chikiliquatre (spain), les fatals picards (france), and NUMEROUS other entries to know Eurovision is concidered a silly joke by the Europeans. It almost seems loke Europeans are trolling the non-Europeans really... 😆
Ty Will Ferrel for including that bit with Salvador Sobral, as a portuguese I was really proud that you acknowledged the winner with the most points ever awarded !!
"...dressed up as vikings singing rock metal... ....could actually happen..."
Did Will miss out on Lordi somehow?
Lordi were dressed as Troll Demons, in fact I think they are Troll Demons...shh keep that under your hat, also Lordi the best winners ever.....you have to say that or the Troll Demons will come and get you....................aaaaaaaaassrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..........I am running..... running.....
@@ProbablyTheBestUkuleleDadEver running? As in a giant hamsterwheel?
Amon Amarth
I was thinking more about Amon Amarth 🤣
@@renissimoalemanha5493 Definitely. Though perhaps not strictly a power ballad. I loved it though.
We Americans are obsessed with looking as cool as possible - says Will Farrell.
Andrei Kriakushyn let him, he has to stroke the audience’s ego, doesn’t he? 😂
But he also somehow thinks he looks as cool as possible 🙄
Which is why he was able to properly pay tribute to Eurovision
When he said this, I don't think he meant it as a good thing.
:)) Yes, Ferrel said that Americans think that they look the best. :)), but look at performances by Gaga, Cher , Beyoncé, Madonna and most of all other. What is "normal" in their extravaganza shows? Just because they are Americans they declare themselves the best by default. :)
Will Ferrell is rockin' the Einstein look.
And Conan looks like his own aunty by now ...
Mugatu
@@mart_en 😂 🤣😂 Brilliant 👏
The thing about Eurovision is that us Europeans already know it is silly but as an act you want to stand out as much as possible and be memorable to the audience that is where all the crazy stuff comes in.
You want people to say "hey I am voting for the one with the hamster wheel" or "I want to vote on that Ring girl doing the hammertime" and that is why we love it so much hehe ;)
After I moved to Ireland it took me a few years to get into it, but once I watched my first Eurovision I was completely in love. The spectacle, the camp, the talent and the drama of the scoring are just so much fun to get completely absorbed in!!
Will's explanation of the Eurovision is pretty accurate
And for this post you get 12points from Germany
Most unrealistic part of the movie was hosting it in the uk.... suggesting the UK had actually won it hahahaha
They say it probably means Australia won and as in reality they can't host it there
@@bushki It is suprising to me that the UK are not hosting it because they had the best musicians in history
@@bushki UK didn't won in a long time 'cos they didn't have man running the hamster wheel on the stage
Sometimes having crazy costumes is cool and that's the beauty. Hope Eurovision never changes
For me as a german it is just crazy, that so many americans never heard about eurovision... This is a very big part of music culture in europe. Even australia is being a part of eurovision since a few years.
Eurovision is more important to me than the Olympics and World Cup combined!
That's because we couldn't care less what happens in Europe especially if you can sing or not haha why would we?
@@bruderschweigen6889 Woooo.... edgy :)
Any satire of Eurovision is a perfect description of Eurovision
This movie was so wholesome, and I haven’t even watched Eurovision for years. So bravo Will Ferrel 👏
Will Ferrell aged like 50 years since 2019
Adrenochrome
eurovision week is like Christmas for me... I love everything about it, the songs, technical production, everything is amazing
He looks like the queen of england
he looks like Amy Schumer
She prefers Liz
@@eldesso We call her Betty Windsor - (little known sister of Barbara!)
Do you know that in Italy to say that something is exaggerated, spectacularized and it has no sense of elegance we say "è un'americata", which means "it's an american thing/it's an american way"...just to let you know that sometimes it's just a question of perspective haha
I’m an American, and I’ve been watching Eurovision for the last few years or so. I find it very enjoyable.
I discovered Eurovision about 10 years ago and I had a similar reaction to it. My mother came to Europe to visit me and we watched it together. It was glorious and weird
I liked the movie even if I don't particularly care for the contest. I liked that it wasn't a mockfest, what it very easily could've been. It was quite a good spirited movie, actually.
The difference here could be that the makers are actual fans of Eurovision. They get what it means and don’t think it’s just some stupid thing.
I especially liked how they mocked Americans in it. :D
Will Ferrell's only a three-cornered hat away from the Quaker guy.
Lmao😂
This made me laugh haha
Can you europhobic americans please stay away from europe?
Thank you
That includes will ferrell by the way
@@fyfyi6053 because it's going so smoothly over here?
I watched the "song along" segment of this movie over and over ... it was so amazing. I'm a smidge taken aback by the wood-paneled background, Will. Time for a makeover. One of the best things my hubby and I ever did was paint our wood-walled TV room.
It's just the biggest TV show in the world, running every year since *1956.*
A small demonstration of the well known fact that Americans don't get irony maybe?
Dumb. What a dumb thing to say.
I am an American that moved to Norway mid 1990s and Norway won (Secret Garden - Nocturne) so I was hooked.
Let's give a round of applauds to the make-up departments in Hollywood.
They are truly magicians!
Let's not get it twisted, we're fully aware here in Europe that Eurovision is the most kitschy thing on earth. Nobody thinks it's "cool" :D
I think it's cool😀
@@rovli816 Me too, I love it!!!
cool sucks
And that's why it's so great. Imagine if people took Eurovision deadly seriously. It would be awful.
Indeed, I was gonna say. It's cool AND kitchy! The best possible combination :D
It's funny how it took the US more than half a century to discover Eurovision
Yep. It wasn’t broadcasted to us until 2016
@@metrofilmer8894 and that was on like a very small streaming platoform until 2021 where NBC/Peacock got the rights to the 2021 contest.
Both the semi finals and final is on there with NO commentary.
i never thought i'd see a person more reflective of light than conan, will ferrell shines
Australia have taken part in recent Eurovision song competitions as they are such big fans!
2:00 Vikings singing metal, yes that has happend actually.
Eurovision is insane, hilarious, and a lot of fun!
Okay but what does Ja Ja Ding Dong mean?
@@localandonlinepreciousmeta3575 nothing nada nix its not even icelandic haha
Like Will Ferrell!
@@localandonlinepreciousmeta3575 in Swedish it translates to 'yes yes ding dong'. Any help?
@@localandonlinepreciousmeta3575 Nothing. Just like "na na na" in American songs.
Being a swede, I can't really grasp what is so crazy about Eurovision. But I guess that's because I grew up with it and so forth.
I'll never forget that bearded girl winning Eurovision with a tune straight out of a James Bond movie. I think her name translated to Sausage.
Conchita Wurst😉
That was a man.
I wish my beard was as full and great looking as hers 😕
McCleave it's Fake so you can have it too 😜
Margareth Messerli Damn i thought it was real! It looked so good! Props to the makeup department 👍 I’ll take one for each day please 😁
Will Ferrell reminds me of a senior koala 🐨
OMG Now, THAT is funny!
I immediately thought Señor Koala 🇲🇽🐨
Riverdance was originally a 7 minute fill in put on by RTÉ between the performances and the voting. No one really remembers who won that year, just Riverdance.
Will is so engaging, even on a video call, it comes through.
I miss the times when participants in the ESC were obligated to sing in their country's language. Nowadays most songs are in English.
But the top 5 this year only had ONE song in english.
@@JadedKate and they didn't get nearly the amount of votes from the public as they were expecting. The days of singing in your own language is coming back.
In 2017 Portugal won with a portuguese jazz-based ballad, and Italy won this year woth an italian glam rock song. I think times are changing
for anyone curious - act he was referring to was Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick - Tock, had to look it up
what you're missing is that eurovision contestants and viewers rarely ever take it seriously either. Or at least, some do and some don't. Anything goes really, which is the beauty of it
Yes, please please do an album Will!!! Really great voice and a lot of charisma which are more important part.
Eurovision was where (in the 70s) ABBA won it, with their outrageous costumes, but it showed how good they were - they went on to do lots of popular tracks etc.
I don’t think many Americans knew that there were many popular artistes who had some success in Eurovision.
Cliff Richard’s song Congratulations was a Eurovision song, Julio Iglesias represented Spain one year, the song Eres Tu by Mocedades which hit #9 in the US in 1974 was a Eurovision song, Celine Dion actually won for Switzerland in 1988, and last but not least Katarina & the Waves of Walking on Sunshine fame also managed to win in 1997 for the UK.
Play Ja Ja DingDong,
PLAY IT 😂😂😂
I WON’T PLAY IT
With luck this will give the Eurovision Song Contest more exposure. I'd LOVE to see a major network here pickup all three broadcasts. No more having to VPN to another country. No more having to put up with commentators I can't understand. Been watching the contest for about 7 years now and look forward to it every year. Was real sad when it was canceled this year. Really wanted to see Little Big preform.
It’s amazing, isn’t it? And it gets better each year. Usually there are 1-2 songs I like but this year I liked 5-6 songs and most years I have a favourite contestants and they eventually release albums and grow even more as an artist. People think the UK doesn’t take it seriously but I think the UK takes it too serious and we keep sending songs that might do okay on the radio but far too bland for Eurovision. I knew we would come last with such a boring song and dull performance! Love Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Greece, Iceland!
My favorite thing about Conan is that he doesn't fake laugh unlike some other host. Will Ferrell made the joke about getting the prop guy Omaha Steaks and nothing from Conan. Just moves on. I love how genuine he is.
Then we have people like Fallon who laughs uncontrollably if you sneeze.
It might have been Letterman who said that, and not Leno. I can't remember. It might have been Letterman on an episode of Norm McDonalds podcast/interview show/thing.
I’m American and I’m obsessed with this song contest!
That Conan had never heard of Eurovision is so shocking to me.
i never heard of eurovision . It's unfortunate that we never hear bout all these other great artist and shows from other countries
The next movie should be about The Game without boarders. "Jeux sans frontières". Aired in some european countries like mine, Portugal.
It was like the Olympics but with ridiculous games. It was fun though, spent my childhood watching that crap.
Used to watch it in Greece .it was sooo good
This wasn’t well know in the Uk and maybe not even on TV but we had a similar show called It’s A Knockout which was probably on a much smaller scale.
Greetings from Spain. The film is very good, I laughed a lot and I think it captures very well the essence of the Eurovision festival, it even winks at the political connotations of the contest, which is the funniest part.
It's May, Eurovision is on soon, we need a follow up movie!
Eurovision started very seriously 65 years ago and has gradually descended into madness.
"Rock power ballads dressed as vikings, that's something that really could happen on Eurovision."
This was literally the Danish entry in 2018.
Strangely even when he’s being serious he’s still kinda funny he has a entertaining personality
Will should represent Sweden in Eurovision, then I would watch.
From when Eurovision started 1956 until 1974 the artist were dressed in nice suits and eveninggowns. But 1974 Abba won the whole competition dressed in some kind of crazy outfits with their conductor dressed like Napoleon. After that the show changed from being kind of sophisticated to what it is today. A glam, fun, crazy show just for the amusement
Will looks like my grandmother and it’s freaking me out 😂
Wilma is Grandma Ferrell?! 😳 😯 🤯
great to see both of them came back to life two years ago!
Imagine going to Eurovision and sitting next to Will Ferrell
Eurovision is beautiful, I love the movie so much. I've seen Eurovision song contest my whole life with my grandma and my mom ❤
Finland has always been a kind of laughing stock at Eurovision, always finishing last. Then, one year, a group from Rovaniemi far up north, came and totally dominated. Google Lordi and Hard Rock Hallelujah. They crushed the opposition and as hell froze over, Finland had finally won the Eurovision after years of ridicule. 😄🤘🤘🤘
Lordi is SO AMAZING! 👐👐
Denisse Aguirre yes! My mom's uncle used to babysit Tomi, Mr Lordi himself, when Tomi was little. They're from Rovaniemi, my mom's family. So that's pretty cool! 😄
Finland was robbed in the eightiees though, they were amazing pretty much that whole decade and did'nt get any cred for it.
Don't worry man. Spaniards nearly don't care about Eurovision anymore cause we always lose.
@@claravitoriaortega9016 I never understood why spain never gets points. You guys are always good in my opinion. (Except that surfer dude, but apparently that was because he only got in because his daddy pulled some strings or something ? 🤔🤷🏻♀️)
But the problem is you always come up with the exact same thing. That's like the donkey that keeps hitting his head against the same stone and keeps repeating and gets nosebleeds every time.
I hope one day the spanish song will be special and we will vote for it.
Like we did this year with switzerland (who are always awful but this year top 3)
Abba is really famous in the Philippines. When you key in their songs in the karaoke machine, everyone can sing along. I think most of us is aware of Euro vision, but we don't know how dramatic the performances are.
Same is australia we love abba we have always loved abba.
The hamster wheel thing makes sense... the singer is singing "Don't stop... something something... running for your love" or something like that.
Not a big fan of Will and never heard of Eurovision before, but I really enjoyed this movie.
Will looks like Effie Trinket and Rick had a love child with that hair
Yeah we germans know we will never win again still it's soo much fun to watch and hear all those songs
Bless you all
We literally won 2010
@@denisenova7494 i know
Loved the movie, but let's not call it "the Ukraine", especially since you've lifted their prop, and had the winner who was from Ukraine as a cameo in the movie.
American here! I fell into a Eurovision wormhole last year after finding the first ever performance of Riverdance and I can say I’ve been converted. :)
Did you watch Eimear Quinn ?
@@JadedKate Yes I have! Loved it! :)
This is rather late reply (lol been watching this year's entries so YT recommends me all Eurovision stuff)
Past few years so many Americans have fell to it..it started before this movie, but feels like during pandemic it really escalated. The reaction youtubers has always some European whispering "pssst. React to this eurovision thing"
It goes from "wtf I am watching. What is this madness" to "omg i cannot stop this, this is awesome " within week.
I have personally converted one American.
I thought the film captured the essence of the Eurovision perfectly. I have loved Will in various films but he marries this very well with his brand of comedy. He is in my favourite films, top man.
I love Eurovision!
Will actually did a great Swedish accent
In the movie he was going for Icelandic I guess. =P
As an Icelander: He and Pierce Brosnan did slightly believable Swedish accents in the movie. As far from Icelandic accent as if you tried to sound Chinese with a cartoonish Japanese accent. Geographically close, different languages.
Yeah I heard his accent and thought he literally sounds like a Swede from Stockholm and I was like isn't he supposed to be Icelandic? lol
The Eurovision contestants ARE cool. It's just that America's definition of "cool" is sex and violence. Music has to be aggressive to be "cool". In Europe not so much. In Europe we like the traditional rhythms of different countries and cultural stuff. So singing vikings, like last year Norway, or before last year Denmark, ARE cool.
'Cool' can mean any number of things, it's just in the US 'cool' is also also be applied to hip-hop and rap - a music that isn't always violent and has influenced music world-wide. Pop, the type of music that is typically featured in Eurovision contests pretty much comes from the US.
The Eurovision song contest is very cool, clearly, US citizens are obsessed with it right now and even admire/envy you guys for having such a contest. It's awesome.
That said, please don't crap on our influential musical genres.
Elitist much?
This guy has the world figured out. Nothing is a secret to him.
She sings "don't stop"... the hamster wheel has sense in this context.
I’m from an island in the middle of the Pacific, and I knew about Eurovision. How does Conan not?
Saw the movie last night and it was such a great parody! Really enjoyed it. Yah yah Ding Dong, hilarious!!! Eurovision is a sort of never ending freaky circus show. Very entertaining because you never know what’s next. Did I mention we won last year? I didn’t? Well, we did after 40 years. And although everybody claims they hate the show it was kind of a national celebration.
I'm in love with the real eurovision song contest it's awesome
I'm from Brazil and the first time I ever heard of Eurovision was when I visited Sweden in 2016. It's interesting how something so big in Europe is almost unheard of in the rest of the world.
Sitting waiting for this album Will
Americans: If you have never heard of Eurovision - search for Love Love Peace Peace.
You're welcome...
It's great, but I feel like you have to know some of the references or it's just a silly pop song
I feel like the song What is Eurovision, that Måns and Petra sang in the second semi final 2016, is better for beginners.
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Watched this movie with my whole family who I usually watch Eurovision with anyway, and it was genuinely a better replacement than actual Eurovision itself xD They captured the craziness of the competition so perfectly it’s uncanny