Favourite comedy entry

[Mickey]

There's more than one way to skin the Eurovision cat. Eurovision wouldn't be the same without the comedy entries and I sometimes think they get a bad press on this forum. So which comedy entry made you smile?

I've mentioned before my love for Teapacks' Push The Button (Israel 2007). It had clever wordplay, satirical bite and a quirky (though not bafflingly odd) performance.

I think it also helped that it was in a mix of languages. For a comedy entry, I think it's important that people understand what the song is about. Otherwise you feel you're being left out on the joke. Serbia 2009 springs to mind.

 

[Matt]

I agree with you. Just because some songs have the "fun" factor doesn't make it a bad song. Now it is true that there are quite a few WTF songs where there is nothing positive I can say about them.

But to point out a few songs that may be considered a comedy entry are:

- Ukraine 2007
It was pure fun, it was catchy, memorable and everyone talked about it. There is a reason it almost won. I even would have been okay with a victory (although I loved the winner, too).

- Latvia 2008
The vocal performance overall were pretty bad but the song was catchy and so klischee...total guilty pleasure of mine.

- Germany 1998
That was the song that reintroduced me to the contest. Guildo Horn was the first artist ever to leave the stage during his performance run into the audience. He climbed ladders and wore a terrible outfit. The song was a major hit in germany and I've been a fan of the contest ever since.

Just a few examples but there are a lot of more great entries.

 

[Anjeza]

Agree with Matt about Germany 1998. I remember my grand-parents almost fainting when he started his perfomance

I would also mention Germany 2000 and Austria 2003. For me both song were completely nonsense, but I enjoyed watching Stefan and later Alf on stage. But nobody can beat Verka in the comedy category

 

[Megasalt]

I personally love 2001. The lyrics might be nonsense but his movements (mostly the hands, the twitchy things he did) and his facial expressions were hilarious. It's also the best eurovision song I've heard.(No kidding!)

 

[Milos-BC]

Well, in my opinion Verka is absolutely #1 I liked Verka's entry that much that it was one of my faves of the year, and that rarely happens with gimmick entries. Also the German entry from 1998 (Guildo Horn) was great to me. I don't understand German ( ) but I liked the music a lot, and the whole act was great for that time.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

1. United Kingdom 2007

2. Ireland 2008

3. France 2007

4. Finland 2006

5. Ukraine 2007

 

[94ayd]

Well, there are a LOOOOOOOOOOT great comedy songs - Ukraine 2007, Ireland 2008, Belgium 2009, France 2008, Spain 2008, Czech Republic 2009, France 2007 and so on, and so on... Some I don't like are Lithuania 2006 and United Kingdom from the same year if they're considered as such...

 

[goktengri]

1 - 2008
2 - 2007
3 - 2009

 

[Turkish97]

2007

 

[Mickey]

Some I don't like are Lithuania 2006 and United Kingdom from the same year if they're considered as such...

This just shows how divisive comedy songs can be, because I love both of these. I'm not entirely sure how much Daz was playing it for laughs, though. There's a chance he was being serious, but the incongruous nature of someone his age rapping about his school days made it very funny to me. I also enjoyed the song as a piece of music.

I love LT United's brash, in your face confidence. There's a real rebelliousness in them to come out and say We Are The Winners. It's a song with balls. And great dancing.

 

[Milos-BC]

I didn't get Daz's entry as a joke song, and I think it was a good song actually, very catchy tune.

 

[Matt]

I don't consider Daz's song as a joke entry either. It's more in the style of Jay Z's "Hard Knock Life" which is not a joke entry either.
Actually I enjoyed the concept of the song, too. Unfortunately the studio version is so much better, live it was just meeehh.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Imo Daz's song was a joke song; a middle aged man rapping about school days with school girls around him - I found it funny anyway . It wasn't my fave British entry but I still liked it and it deserved to do much better than 19th.

 

[Milos-BC]

Actually, I think the song had a different meaning. I think that the subject were not the school girls, but the teenage spirit that is built in all of us, or in other words, he's singing about how the older people (including the teachers of course) very often do not realize the teens, and they forget that they were just like them before as well.

The concept may look "kitchy" but I also liked the whole idea and the message, it had potential, and IMO, it deserved a better place.

 

[r3gg13]

Nothing could beat Verka Serduchka's 2007 entry, it's so random that I can't stop listening to it.

I'm probably the only one who'll say this but I loved Kreisiraadio's Leto Svet!! I loved the three old guys and their cut out images

 

[MrJadeEwen]

Dustin & Verka top this easily oh and for the record i don't think Daz was a joke entry, like Milos i believe he was singing about teenage spirit

 

[grovee]

Ukraine 2007 - Verka forever!!!!!

 

[Stella]

I would add Mihai Alexandru-Bang bang from our nf-it's very funny

 

[PeterLPZ]

1998 Germany with Guildo Horn and of course Verka Serducka

 

[Jukica]

Definitely Verka