Dora Dora Mislim da smo mi Balkanci jedan od glavnih razloga sto ljudi ne shvataju Eurosong ozbiljno. Tesko da nas je moguce nadmasit u komsijskom glasanju.
+Natalie Di Contrary to the popular belief of illuminati conspiracies about Eurovision,it is,after all, "a SONG CONTEST". United Kingdom has won Eurovision 5 times already,the reason why they did not do good in last years is due to song,not politics or conspiracies. Take Germany for example.They had a good pop song one year,they won it. Last years they had bad songs,they did not do good.I can give you as many examples as you like.
chessplayer nah I know it's not some illuminati conspiracy. I just think we aren't particularly liked across Europe. Understandably! So yeah if we have an amazing song then we'll do well, but we'll never get any points from loyalty/love.
People, search "Eurovision love love peace peace". A far better parody produced by the people of eurovision. We aren't unaware. We just fucking love it.
Инна Агапова- They’re not laughing because they’re happy the people died, obviously. They’re laughing because they weren’t expecting such a serious topic to be included in the song. Stop concluding that American society as a whole is wrong based of an audience at one late night talk show lol
Or you can look at it beyond the box. So maybe something wrong with you ? He was talking about how the winner should be the top summer happy go pop song. So they laugh because that song is so out of context.
The last country that I want to be part of Eurovision is the USA. Please, don't let this happen. They think, that they are the best and greatest when it comes to music. Pffh. They would ruin the contest. It's EUROvision. Not WORLDvision. Australia? Ok, why not. It's a nice country/continent and they are pretty alone down there. USA? That's way too much.
+Annika Elstermann I'd be alright with the USA entering providing this was the entry every single year. Which I know goes against the rules of the contest (the song must be a unique song, never heard in Europe before), but still ... it's right up there with most everything else that comes out of Eurovision.
+wyl Kan There is no rule that prevents the countries from singing in any language. In fact, there have been some entries that have been sung in languages that have been completely made up just for the contest. So, theoretically, we could have the entry for the UK singing in Swahili. Or the entry for Russia singing in Elvish. Also, to my knowledge, the reason it's called the Eurovision Song Contest is because it's a song contest broadcast by Eurovision (eurovision.net, not eurovision.tv, which is for the ESC), which is a department under the European Broadcasting Union; the same reason the show "Comedy Central Presents ..." was called that - it was broadcast by Comedy Central.
GeorginaEFK mk, you do realize he was making fun of Americans with those statements right? He's a comedian for the most part. It's his job to poke fun at stuff, literally. You need to keep it in perspective here.
+Ian Tester In 2015 the European Broadcasting Union voted for Australia's participation in 2016. The contest has been screened in Aus since 1983, and Aus is also an associate member. There is a UA-cam video of the spokesperson of the EBU who makes its' intentions known re: expansion around the world. Australia's participation is only the first step
I'm European and I watch eurovision. And I totally get it that this is a joke. We ourselves love making fun of eurovision, because often it is very silly. But I didn't really think this was funny, simply because it feels a bit weird that he's making fun of something he doesn't know anything about. He hasn't watched Eurovision and probably didn't read up on the history behind it either (which was about bringing the European nations together after WWII). It's like if someone would joke about traditions in Uganda without having any connection or experiences with the culture. The best comedians joke about something from their own experience, not from ignorance and about cultures they don't know much about or are not involved with.
Joking about Uganda's traditions and culture was once turned into one of the most popular memes ever (Uganda Knuckles). Even ugandans themselves considered it funny. It's not about joking about topics you know little about. It's all about the perfomance and his was simply a bad perfomance, that's why it's not funny. A lot of people are ignorant about the qualities of my prick yet if a good comedian made a good joke about it, everyone would laugh, right? Don't put too much heat into it.
Thanks for saying this I totally agree I got so agitated watching this, it mocks everything I stand for like unity, freedom, equality and peace. I feel like his viewers are brainwashed into thinking we’re of a lower ‘caste’ than america!
***** Well, I don't think it's really fair to compare a large country to an entire continent of dozens of countries. The difference between American states is smaller than the difference between European countries and cultures. And you know that the USA is known for its tackiness and cringe-inducingness, right? :P They're also known for their years of extravagance, while Europe seems to have stayed more sober over the decades. Besides that, Europe doesn't really have continent wide 'media events'. It's just every country for itself. In every country there is a small part of the population watching the ESC, though :P Though I agree, the ESC has been a laughing stock for us Europeans for ages. Which is why it's nice to see that my country (the Netherlands) finally gets it and started putting normal songs up, which is why we became 2nd in 2014 I think, people thought of it as a breath of fresh air between all the madness :P But you also must admit that there have also been great world hits came from the ESC. Such as ABBA with Waterloo, but more recently Loreen's Euphoria. It's like 50% just wants to make a fool out of themselves, 40% are trying but failing (hard), and there's always this 10% of songs and countries at the ESC that try to make a good song and a nice show and actually produce some pretty cool stuff :D
***** Ik weet niet hoe oud je nu bent, maar de laatste jaren is het inderdaad weer wat beter aan het worden :P Ik kijk het inmiddels om beide redenen: voor de belachelijke acts van belachelijke deelnemers, en om te kijken of er wellicht toch nog iets leuks tussen zit wat me blij maakt :P Was alleen in het buitenland de afgelopen tijd, dus ik moet die van 2016 nog wel terugkijken :o
the commentators didnt even know how the voting works! one would think before commentating on an event, you know, you would do a cursory level of research about said event. Michelle Collins knew a thing or two. Carson was just ridiculous. At least Graham Norton is hilariously witty.
@Lelkuchenpferd Nah mate, we should let Canada enter, even if it's just to piss the US off, we should let Mexico enter too, to really make them furious.
I'm an American and super offended by this. Who laughs at 1944? Not funny and tacky, and my family is all curious to why I want to get the hell out of the country ASAP.
You probably wouldn't win, the winner is decided 50% by public vote, I'm not one of these people but too many people hate america. Plus it would take at least 8 years for them to 1 up the country that won the most times.
Of course we Europeans can take a joke, and I’m not mad ESC is being ridiculed. I mean, every year there are some pretty ridiculous acts in the mix. However, 1944 was not one of them. No need to explain the joke over and over to me (“they laughed because they didn’t expect it! That was the point omg”), I get it. But what makes it troubling for me is that the joke was made by somebody who clearly doesn’t know that much about it and is effectively an ‘outsider’ to the culture and history of Europe and Eurovision. Furthermore, the only reason the audience didn’t expect the serious song is because of the INCORRECT description of Eurovision beforehand. Yes it’s fun, yes it’s campy, yes it’s full of pop songs. But that’s not all that it’s about and it never has been. It’s been a platform for social and political issues for ages (even though that’s not officially allowed), so for any European watching ESC a serious song winning wasn’t that surprising at all. The song was quite alright. No problems with it. The only issue I personally have with this is the distasteful way they joke about a mass murder they know too little about to write jokes to begin with.
The comment I was looking for. The whole way he went about it felt wrong to me. If he was going after russia from that year or some of Eurovisions truly campy entries, I would get it, but this whole thing felt in poor taste
you're presenting all the reasons people are upset about this, there is a social disconnect that was clearly defined in this skit. we need to be more better and more accepting.
@@sillygoose635 It's one thing if a Ukrainian presented the joke, it's not ok for an American. It's not American history and the fact that Jamala herself lost family in that tragedy makes the joke very disrespectful.
You want a united Europe? Just enter U.S.A. into Eurovision. No douze points for you! Pretty much all of Europe would, for the first time in decades, be united in one common goal. That America does not win our thing!
+Ceci La la la he wasn't just mocking the shallowness of Eurovision songs, and my.. are they often shallow (except when they go all political like with '1944'). He was also mocking the fact that many Eurovision song lyrics are written in English by non-native English speakers, and are often riddled with... 'interesting' turns of phrase. As in... things you'd never, ever expect to hear from a native English speaker.
no, they laughed at the fact that a pop song had such a serious theme, you don't make pop songs about things like that, pop music is frivolous entertainment.
Barney they are laughing cause they thought the winning song would be an upbeating pop song but it was instead a deeply depressing historical song (greatly performed though). That's easy to see. It's not like they are laughing for what happened to these people. Who would believe that?
+Amber Rose We're laughing about people jamming out to such a tragic and dark song. Not the tragedy. It would certainly feel strange dancing to that song :-\
Let me explain why they are laughing. First, when they *kill you all* there is nobody left there to *say sorry*. It's a paradox. And second, the songs should not be written about war either. They just sound so wrong. Case and point has been made. Yes war is brutal and terrible but you cannot sing about it and expect everyone to be so serious about it. And politics play a crucial part in Eurovision. Points are given based on political ideals and interests. Ukraine won because most country's from EU based their votes thanks to sanctions that EU imposed against Russia because of civil war that happened in Ukraine. *Politic should be banned from any competition. If you fail to understand that, you fail pretty much at understanding true values in life*.
Yeah we wanted the guy with almost no hair but he had to find the perfect Toilet station for the songs Picture on spotify en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_On_(Nano_song), You know, Since we vote in sweden
Making fun out of this Jamala's song is like making fun out of forced deportations and country's very sad and frightening historical years. Making fun of killing people, literally. Can't believe people in America actually laughed at lyrics of Jamala's song - go educate yourselves a little bit. It's disgusting.
+Fionn Devaney Who are you to say that you speak for 'all of Britain'? You are a nobody. The song was bad and I won't stop anyone from taking the piss out of it but it did not go against any of the Eurovision rules. The song was mostly about the individuals experience, a government that doesn't exist anymore and a very generic story of invasion. It was perfectly fine. If anyone saw links with the current situation in Crimea, that is there own association. Also, European countries aren't destroying one another and half of this country don't want to leave the EU, myself included. And to top it all off, you end with a clearly elitist form of thinking; self declaring this country as the 'civilised' one. We are not a better country than many of those in the EU. Just thought I'd make it clear that you do not speak for all of us.
+deanrocks1000 "If anyone saw" ???? :DD Haha, dude, this song was sang by her back in 2015 May in national language and it was ABOUT THE CRIMEA ANNEXATION. She broke all the rules she could. Song shouldn't have been heard by mass auditory earlier than in September 2015 and it is all about politics.
+Fionn Devaney I can say, MOLLY's song was great and at the same time so underrated, but you can leave UE even now. The wave of immigration will not stop any time soon and they are determined to live in UK (and Germany) in or out of EU. If you close the borders, some people will find a way to get them in either way. And you are just too lazy to work as hard as your Eastern European or Asian and African immigrants. That is a fact.
Why dont you ask why they were deported? They sided with Hitler and got the order from Hitler and Bandera to "clean" Crimea! They killed 70k people there! So that song is trying to wash away their own crimes! Stalin just deported them, while Tatars killed actually people! Sry but this song is pro Nazi!
+stressedandsleepless The show didn't expect anything, the áudience expected a happy pop song, because stephen deliberately told them it was going to be a song for the summer. He purposely set them up to be fooled and áfter they recovered from the surprise, they stíll laughed at 'kill you all' (even though it was clear this was not a happy song.) I'd also like to add that it did not escalate quickly...it started with "strangers are coming, they come to your house' and scary music. The follow up is obviously not going to be 'they will offer you an applepie.' The moment it díd escalate, was when the murder *happened.* Which is why the song and the victims deserve more credit. Álso...try googling the full song, because I feel like you have no clue how the full thing sounds. +carschmn I would honestly feel that her message deserves to be on the radio more than Justin Biebers; 'My momma don't like you and she likes everyone."-shit. And that song has been played hów many times? That's a fucking revenge-song with a love-censored "fuckyou'-message. *THAT* is alright for the Americans to listen to on the Radio by Biebs, but thís song *agáinst* ethnic cleansing is just *weird* ? I'd also like to advice yóu to google the full song.
Widdekuu91 uh. He’s Canadian. Don’t play stupid. Lol. It’s American television. Made to be funny. It’s funny to Americans. Broadcast to Americans. Don’t get salty or mad. Lol. I love Eurovision. But dayum it’s funny seeing y’all get mad. We don’t. People make fun of us. It’s cool. I love other cultures. You just can’t take a simple joke.
I kinda find this offensive because Eurovision was made to unite Europe after world war 2 to make peace with each other. So we shouldn't be making fun of Eurovision!
Tamara Breimer There's a difference between laughing at yourself/laughing *with* people, and laughing *at* people. I think Mr Colbert falls on the wrong side only when he says "we'd win if we were in it". That's not even a joke, that's the kind of nationalism that Eurovision is fighting! The rest is satire. The jokes about '1944' are distasteful, but they are at least attempting humour.
Lin Manfu He was being sarcastic because a lot of Americans are like that. Honestly if this were Americavision we'd be catching so much shit about it from every other country
Eurovision was NOT created to unite Europe. You do not even have to be a European country to enter (which is why Australia and Israel both participate). To compete in Eurovision, your national broadcast association simply has to join the European Broadcast Union. Australia has been a member since 1955 (because it uses the European television broadcast format).
he wasn't and he obviously understood the inner message since he stated what the song was about. He wasn't mocking the song either. Just mocking how of all the music presented, one with such an extremely depressing meaning won
i dont get what is there to mock? If it were the other way around (a meaningless song winning over dozens of deep meaningful songs) I'd understand but like this? Seems like he's trying too hard to fulfill an image of a person who thinks Eurovision is below them
In all honesty, that bit of the lyrics that was shown absolutely sucks. Just because it can be meaningful, it still doesn't make it a good work of art. Either way, in Steven's defense, he was just making a joke about the depressing tone of it all.
Well, it IS kind of interesting how it is actually against the rules to bring politically, nationalistic or otherwise charged subjects to the contest. However lately songs or acts like that that seem to win. The song or its quality doesn't seem to matter, because the song and its singer are objectively speaking really of appaling quality. Yet they win .. why? Because of the charged topic: "OMG she is soo brave!" or "OMG that is sooo sad!". The Crimean peninsula being recently annexed had ofcourse nothing to do with it .. yeah right. This is the joke here. It is supposed to be a SONG contest, instead it's all gimmicks and political posturing.
Also from wiki: "To be an active member, broadcasters must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union, or be in a Council of Europe member country. Eligibility to participate is not determined by geographic inclusion within the continent of Europe, despite the "Euro" in "Eurovision". So basically US can participate, but after this video I think it'd be better for them not to.
@@walkingintheairr yes, but Australia is politically closer with the U.K and the U.K is located in Europe..and both the U.K and Australia are commonwealth countries...idk...
As an American who loves Europe, and how they VALUE, and LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY, how they HIGHLIGHT THE ARTS. I am disgusted by this. Eurovision was founded to unify the European Nations after WWII. To mock an artists song without context especially a song with such a powerful message is not only wrong, but appalling.
thank you Angela Michele for this comment - that is exactely the point why this video got so many dislikes ....you can make fun out of Eurovision but do it with respect - because it has a deeper meaning for us here in Europe + Israel + Australia
@@JessKalinow That's exactly part of the reason. They're not as disconnected from Europe. Also they showed a huge interest in Eurovision with high viewership for several decades before being allowed to join. So they 'get it'. But even if they win it still won't be hosted there.
@@Iva744 funny how you use viewership as an example of how they're better than America, when you forgot that it wasn't allowed to be broadcasted here till recently. funny how that works.
Ok, come on, look, it's Eurovision, something like 70% of the fun laughing at it, and most of the competing companies know it. Babushka grannies, Ireland sending a turkey puppet Butter churning song Ireland sending Jedward Epic Sax Guy Ireland Ballerina on a unicycle, I have a monacle now, your argument is invalid. Verka Saduchka Ireland sending Jedward again Lordi Moldova having a man in a space suit for no real reason Montengro having two men in space suits for no real reason Sweden's hosts even did a whole bit about how absurd Eurovision is. Hell, Australia's broadcasters once interviewed the wind machine operator, just because they knew about the drinking game and wanted to fuck with their audience. But Cesar from Ukraine is perfect in every way and will be my husband and I will fight anyone who disagrees and you are wrong.
Ain Kyori The Amateur Hetalian Artist This is just one guy on one show. It was filmed in LA or New York, which are both shitty cities so please don't think the entire country is like this.
+Ugh, not you again: Notice that Ain Kyori said "I totally lost my trust", meaning it was already going down the drain. Now please go sue your elementary school for implementing Betsy DeVos' standards well before her time.
_That's_ what made you finally lose trust in the the US? Damn, I'm American and I stopped trusting this country around the year 2003. You know, the invasion of Iraq, learning about all the shitty things the government has done both domestically and abroad, etc. But sure, a boring comedy segment is way worse.
Stephen: Why can’t we join Eurovision Europe: You will likely ruin it Australia: HA Ha, Europe like us more than u! Europe: Yah, we would rather have Canada join than the US Canada: Yeahhhh!!!!
The reason Love Love Peace Peace is infinitely better than this trash is because it was done with love, by people who loves Eurovision for what it is. This is made by people who know nothing about it, and wish to ridicule the concept! And laugh about a song about mass murder? It's just tasteless.
They weren't laughing at the history behind the song or even the song, just that it is so depressing. And everyone and their cat takes the mick out of Eurovision, it's more like comedy than music. Particularly as it is all about political and geographical voting.
they're just retarded. can't believe they laugh at such a deep, emotional song. oh of course cause they don't even know what happened in WW2 and how people suffered cause they learn zero of it in their schools.
It's so rude, we should respect each others instead of making fun of the song which is based on true events. How can you laugh at that? Learn some history of the world America. Eurovision is different, but it doesn't mean it's bad.
Matthew Revell My mistake, I didn't want it to sound stereotypically. I was a little bit too mad about this joke, because I don't think it was funny at all.
You would kind of have a point if he didn't make fun of the US constantly. I say "kind of" as, aside from ABBA, no artist from the ESC really had a big and lasting impact on the music scene. Most of the songs presented there are pretty generic.
Adam Carleton I agree fuck glasses he's just a shit mouth he doesn't know anything about Eurovision the wolf man was freaky and a weirdo but he is just stupid as he is completely mocking Eurovision I'm never watching him agian
+Hazza White Lol, I love how you get so butthurt over a freaking song competition. Why the hell are you even watching an American late night talk show? It's a joke. I guess you don't know what that is though. You Europeans are always so uptight.
Young Discord Eurovision is the most funny thing of the whole year, some countries send some songs which just shouldn't be taken seriously etc. Montenegro, Romania (talking about 2017)
As a Dutch non-American, if you think that bicycles work that way (or if you dare wear a helmet on one), you might have to hand over that "Dutch" prefix.
I think it's best for everybody if europeans studied US history instead of repeating this tired garbage. Colbert is a very smart man. He knows world history. He's highlighting the incongruity of talking about genocide and war while at a silly pop song contest. For Americans like me, yeah, that's weird. Obviously not for euros. Vive la differance!!
Omg, seriously America? Laughing at Jamalas' song? It is such a poor taste. This is a song about war and personal experiences of her family. It is just disrespectful. Okay, I get the rest of the video (even though I think it didnt show the true ESC, but just the fun things and I get that it is a talk show, so it probably should be like that).
If it's not half-naked girls grinding their pelvis singing about "doin' it" while gold chain clad muscle men throw dollar bills and make weird gestures then it's of no interest to Murricans.
It is ridicle that a song about a masacre wins a musical festival, one more awful winner because of the horrible musical taste of voters ..that put in victory awful songs like Toy, Satelite, 1944, Hard rock alleluyah, I wanna .... it is absolutely tasteless.
mktuag i really don’t think you get Eurovision. It’s more than just vocals, it is about performance and lyrics, it’s about history, and all these song you write were great. The songs are what Eurovision is about. Unity.
@@mktuag I don't think tasteless is the right word here; it's not to your taste and that's a really big difference, because obviously the majority of voters liked those songs. Some of them even really very much...
+Hello April Only if you haven't really watched Eurovision and only seen the smaller embarrassing parts. But I guess that is the view most UK people have.
Ok parody.. but Sweden's was much better. I was there and the whole experience is fantastic. So typical that it took over 60 years for the US to even show this event on American TV! I wonder how many Americans ( including Colbert) can find Belarus on the map? Remember folks, ABBA and Celine Dion got their starts from Eurovision. Celine performed for Switzerland and won by only 1 point ( over the UK). Check her out and her infamous dress in the 1988 edition from Dublin!
+Michel Sennett Colbert is a Northwestern grad, he not remotely as dumb as you think. Dude Eurovision stinks, it's idiots dressed in ridiculous clothing singing poorly translated lyrics in English in an attempt to mimic American Pop. It would be an amazing event if you attempted to represent genuine European culture, instead generic trash pop.
+Joseph Martinez Thank you so much for your humble opinion. At least you didn't curse or telll me to go to hell like so many on this channel. Most of these somgs are written first in English and yes there are some bad ones of course! This is a contest. How many times has Miss Maine won Miss America? The experience is crazy and I like it. I know Mr. Colbert's type of humor and unfortunately it doesn't translate that well here in Europe.
+Joseph Martinez ridiculous clothing? idiots? mimic american pop? have you ever hear hear american music, that shit is rubbish. Like come on Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Rihanna... and so on.
+Joseph Martinez Okay I'm sorry but "an attempt to mimic American Pop"? Do you know that 3/4 of your so called "American Pop Hits" are produced in Sweden?
They don't need to ruin it. It is already ruined since they turned it into a circus. There is nobody anymore who is famous or gets famous through it as in the beginning.
When's Canada joining? I hope the answer is NEVER. Canada as a whole is barely more into Eurovision than most Americans are - it's just not part of the general culture. [Canadians like to think they are superior in some fashion to Americans, but really, we Canucks are much more like Yanks than we care to admit]. Even if we got hyped up for it and made a serious go at participating [assuming we'd ever be invited], I imagine us getting low scores or dead-last place a lot, like the UK. Plus, you have Australia. That's enough non-Europe/Middle East/Asia in Eurovision, lol. As a Canadian myself, I'm perfectly happy to watch the show from the sidelines.
@@Serviervorschlag- So youre defining a successful show as a show, where you can get very popular. I dont know wether I should by laughing or crying...
Oh my God, US people, you have so much weird stuff going on in your country that barely gives you the right to say anything rude to the show that connects all the countries in Europe for a few days, and makes us all forget that we may be having an 'enemy' standing on that stage. You don't know the feeling when the country your country has problems with gives some points to us. It all about that. About forgetting what country that is, and focusing on the song, all the fun going on up there.
Lmao I was completely fine and then when the 1944 song started playing and the line from it "They kill you all" appeared and the audience started to laugh I was like, okaayyyy......😳
@@pixeled9683 Cause voting a little kid, trapped in the body of an aged senior, doesnt just influence America at its own. Denying climate change for example, like you do, infects the whole world, cause America is one of the economically strongest countries. The surface is pretty big, the population as well, and all other countries, that have rethought can not influence your wrong behaviour of endless consumption in any way. Americans just always think of their own wellbeing. Values like responsability dont exist in general. (Of course there are also a lot of Americans, who have those values; Im talking about the majority) You can easily recognize in your non-existing social policy. And when they see Europe is doing a certain contest and they are not involved, they get jealous and react by laughing at Europes traditions. Thats childish, unsocial and disrespectful. And you cant compare justified criticism on politic decisions of yours with a popsong-contest, that doesn't affect you at all.
Most Americans I know don’t even like Trump, but there are a lot of ignorant conservatives that voted for him. And btw Trump won the electoral college vote not the popular vote. There’s a difference and both of our candidates were very problematic. Even our 2020 ones are, all the good ones dropped out, now we have to choose between a candidate that was accused of sexual assault and can’t speak correctly most of the time or a candidate that was accused of sexual assault, made racist remarks, can’t accept that he’s wrong and has doomed our country. Bring Bernie back 😭
@@enyaaa7921 ofc. who ever got the money win the vote.. quest who win next time :OO the republic.. know why? we support Black life Matter web pages.. the world Enormic depending on it - but i cant speck for evrey one.. ofc. we are mix culture.. there for many will say all life matter because so many life got lost..
+mica532 No, we won't get it at all. There's just something so fresh about it, even though the songs pretty much sound the same year after year. I like listening to the winners from 1956 all the way to 2016. The message is the same, but the style changes over the years.
+Ruth Elmendorf Well that's the thing - the songs are the same but quite different. And all there is fresh, but also a bit old and dusty. But you know what - listing to the winners from 1956-2016 repeatedly might actually do the work :)
It's nice to make fun of other cultures... but at least Europe has culture and history. I know it's called humour and sarcasm and trust me I am the most sarcastic person of the universe but people need to know that Eurovision is not a circus... it's fun and the combination of different cultures!! it's not stupid or a waste of time!! it's all about how music can unite all countries no matter what!!!!
@@JessKalinow hey I wrote this like three years ago so maybe I was angry or something. I definitely don't think that America doesn't have history or culture! I actually love America and I want to go there to work when I get the chance. I just didn't like the way this video portraits Eurovision because someone that doesn't watch Eurovision may believe that it is a stupid circus. Even some europeans believe that. But it's because they don't actually sit to watch it. Anyway, I hope I made my self clear 😊
@@JessKalinow bruh, USA has like 500 years of culture and some of them act like they are first and most advanced civilization. But the comments point was that eurovision is had in its first years a purpose, to unite warthorn europe. Thats why we dont want USA in this, ot would just ruin all of it.
Not just for Europeans, the Eurovision is consistently one of the most watched broadcasts in the world every year. It is also the longest running televised song contest in the world.
It's called Eurovision because it is short for "Le Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision", Eurovision originally being the word for the first international television shows.
+krakrakrala Eurovision is just such a cringeworthy kitshfest. And then when an actual good song comes by (Spain), it barely registers on the scoreboard and the win goes to what may well be the most atrocious song played at Eurovision in years, which says something.
+krakrakrala rofl.. 300 milion people watches eurovision songcontest every years. So that means, there is majority people who loves to watch esc and there is another minority people hating esc so they can pretend to be a 'cool hipster'.
Its called Eurovision, because its an event for members of the EBU. The US could technically participate if they became members, just like Australia, Israel, Morocco, etc.
+Marc Liljeqvist that countries participate because they really like Eurovision. For example Australia has participated this year because many people wake up at night and watch it, but the Americans don't really care about Eurovision.
All those countries except Australia and Israel are in Europe. Israel is part of the European Broadcasting Union (producer of Eurovision) and Australia is a guest and an associated member :)
+Johann DIaz So you say that he is a wannabe shane dawson just because he has long hair ? Oh boy.....thank god there is natural selection to get no-brainers like you off the earth.
This is why America isn't allowed to participate. Australia is easy to justify being in the competitiom. They've enjoyed the competition for a long time, we envited them as a friendly gesture, and now we keep inviting them back because they're entries are so well loved by the fans of the contest. They're respectful, take the contest seriously, and they give us some amazing songs for the competition. America makes fun of stuff like this too much and they'd take over the whole contest and make it about them. Don't get me wrong, there are some brilliant Americans out there that could bring some new cards to the table, but America is already salty enough that they're not in the competition. Imagine how salty America would be when they didn't win.
America is not all the same, there's 50 states, each state is different, no one gets this and it shows ignorance, you're thinking of california and new york
I find this amusing since you missed the part where he said this was the first year it was broadcasted in America. So you twits excluded the US for decades from even watching the damn thing. Never even gave us a chance, so why would we give a shit? Honestly, it's cool you guys have it, just doesn't make any sense to include Australia. Is it reparations for sending all your criminals there?
Crazy Man well they didnt make fun of us its just so embarrassing how americans can be so stupid and dumb. like talk about your own shit country. talk about how to not get fat or something. america needs to fix their problems first and the day they are perfect they should try to make fun of other countries.....well thats never happening anyways.
Kristi Schoenhaar so that means it is not funny to make jokes about the orange but it is fine for you to laugh about when it comes to Europe's history? No offense, I actually want your real opinion.
I never said it was okay to laugh at Europe's history. In spite of my affection for Colbert I found this segment disappointing, mainly because his writers had no idea what they were talking about. That aside, I also can tell you the audience members were laughing in surprise at the mood shift, not at the subject matter of the song. I fully support jokes about the bigoted orange manchild human disaster that is the POTUS. It's comments like Florenna's that push the blame on the U.S. majority for putting him in office that are insulting. Millions of people that did not vote for him are already suffering. Trump lost the popular vote (the vote of U.S. citizens), so in a better world where the U.S. voting system was fair and balanced Trump would have lost.
Kristi Schoenhaar first of all the "bigoted orange manchild human disaster" is the best thing I've been reading the whole day. :') Thank you for not going personal as well. Just to ask - how big is it the opportunity, that Trump is getting actually kicked out of the white house? Our news reported about it a while ago but it seems quite unlikely.
And it was paid back, when America helped defeat the Nazis in ww2, and helping rebuild Europe after the destruction of ww2. Through rebuilding and Loans, search up Marshall plan.
The Seer yeah and America is in hella debt to Eu, is a laughing stock and so much more. Plus you didn’t save shit before the war came knocking on your door. Until then you just threw refugees out and put Americans in concentration camps
Even if this was a joke, it's not funny. Actually, i'm kinda offended? This is a competition that has been going on since WWII and it's about bonding. You making fun of it is just dumb and arrogant.
+Adam Nilsson if it's in a stupid and in appropriate pop song then yeah. Not the place to discuss serious business. Plus we already have memes about it like "Bush did 9/11" and "dank memes can't melt steel beams" so there's no shortage of laughing off such a heavy matter (to be able to move on with normal life while still never forgetting)
OMG I can't believe that someone who doesn't live in Europe can make such fun of Eurovision! And they LAUGHED when Jamala sang "they kill you all"! I'm literally speechless!
they're laughing because it's set up as a light hearted continent wide singing competition, in America associated with the likes of American Idol or perhaps the Voice USA or whatever. The contrast of a super heavy depressing subject like the song subject is funny. _Obviously_ they're not laughing at people being killed.
I've only just come across this. I'm a huge Eurovision fan and have never missed one as long as I can remember. I even watched one year whilst in hospital! Us Europeans know it's terrible. That's what makes is so magical! Don't take the piss because you don't understand what it is. Don't be all American about it. Embrace the weirdness. Enjoy the bonkers. You have to invest yourself in it. It also helps to invent a drinking game whilst watching too!!!
I'm sorry but no one comes close to making fun of Eurovision as well as the Europeans do. Love Love Peace Peace was a masterpiece.
Agree! Love love, peace peace was hysterical.
Love Love Peace Peace should've won 😂 It was indeed a masterpiece
istina istina
Dora Dora Mislim da smo mi Balkanci jedan od glavnih razloga sto ljudi ne shvataju Eurosong ozbiljno. Tesko da nas je moguce nadmasit u komsijskom glasanju.
+Amar Burić I laughed my ass off and suddenly had mad respect for the Swedes when that happened! Holy shit! :D
If America entered Eurovision there'd finally be a country that gets less points than the UK.
It's impossible.
+Tom Stanley Ouch, let's not put Germany and 'bombed' in the same sentence.. for historical reasons..
+Natalie Di Spain hasn't won since the '60s
+Natalie Di
Contrary to the popular belief of illuminati conspiracies about Eurovision,it is,after all, "a SONG CONTEST".
United Kingdom has won Eurovision 5 times already,the reason why they did not do good in last years is due to song,not politics or conspiracies.
Take Germany for example.They had a good pop song one year,they won it.
Last years they had bad songs,they did not do good.I can give you as many examples as you like.
chessplayer nah I know it's not some illuminati conspiracy. I just think we aren't particularly liked across Europe. Understandably! So yeah if we have an amazing song then we'll do well, but we'll never get any points from loyalty/love.
All due respect, the Eurovision hosts themselves did a Eurovision parody that was 10000% funnier and more on point.
There also was a parody in 2000 by Germany which got them the 5th place. "Wadde hadde dudde da?" from Stefan Raab. We should do it more often...
+Heu ballen
And the 1987 Israeli contribution Hoola hoola hoepa getting 2nd place. Pure genius.
+Paul Schuurmans
And "We Are The Winners" in 2006 by Lithuania.
I agree!
Love Love Peace Peace 😂😂😂
“Why can’t we compete?” This video answers your own question boi
5 people on stage instead of six allowed?
Yeah undertakers, stay in US of A.
People, search "Eurovision love love peace peace". A far better parody produced by the people of eurovision. We aren't unaware. We just fucking love it.
+abnormallyfunny The best song was the number Mans and Petra did "What is Eurovision?"
The Revue song is also great! "Watch as you bankrupt the host nations broadcasting company" and "You'll never be as good as Riverdance"
I did. Lame
Actually this year Eurovision got really classy.
Love Love Peace Peace is amazing :D
America: why can’t we be in Eurovision
Australia: * laughing on the other side of the world*
Jaja lol is true, they are usually invited xd
Israel: 😋
@Tesla-Effect Australia deserves Eurovision America doesn't
@Tesla-Effect Annnnd now we do.
@@sillygoose635 Except it’s on Peacock and NBC is also broadcasting some terrible knockoff
That awkward moment when eurovision already made a eurovision parody and it was 100% more funny than this one.
yasss
When audience laughs on the line from Jamala's song: "they kill you all...." - you know something is wrong with this society .....
Did you ever hear about context?
Инна Агапова it’s disgraceful, this is why people don’t like Americans, they’re ignorant and don’t understand
NinjaMapping- Lol just because a studio audience laughed at one joke causes you to not like Americans and call them all ignorant?
Инна Агапова- They’re not laughing because they’re happy the people died, obviously. They’re laughing because they weren’t expecting such a serious topic to be included in the song. Stop concluding that American society as a whole is wrong based of an audience at one late night talk show lol
Or you can look at it beyond the box. So maybe something wrong with you ? He was talking about how the winner should be the top summer happy go pop song. So they laugh because that song is so out of context.
The last country that I want to be part of Eurovision is the USA. Please, don't let this happen. They think, that they are the best and greatest when it comes to music. Pffh. They would ruin the contest. It's EUROvision. Not WORLDvision. Australia? Ok, why not. It's a nice country/continent and they are pretty alone down there. USA? That's way too much.
+Annika Elstermann It 's not really a "Eurovision" since everybody just sings in english,
+wyl Kan *coughs* france, italy, austria, ukraine ...etc
+Annika Elstermann I'd be alright with the USA entering providing this was the entry every single year. Which I know goes against the rules of the contest (the song must be a unique song, never heard in Europe before), but still ... it's right up there with most everything else that comes out of Eurovision.
+wyl Kan There is no rule that prevents the countries from singing in any language. In fact, there have been some entries that have been sung in languages that have been completely made up just for the contest. So, theoretically, we could have the entry for the UK singing in Swahili. Or the entry for Russia singing in Elvish.
Also, to my knowledge, the reason it's called the Eurovision Song Contest is because it's a song contest broadcast by Eurovision (eurovision.net, not eurovision.tv, which is for the ESC), which is a department under the European Broadcasting Union; the same reason the show "Comedy Central Presents ..." was called that - it was broadcast by Comedy Central.
wyl Kan Yes, I wish it was different.
Off course the US can't participate. The average American has never heard of half the countries in the Eurovision Song Contest.
When I went to New York they thought that Spain was somehow under Mexico so yeah they probably don't know about the existence of Moldova or Montenegro
@@diecicatorce6259 that was probably one person who never took a 9th grade world history class. The rest of us are a lot smarter
I'm sure the average european hasn't heard of half of the us states.
see how stupid both of our statements were?
@@sillygoose635 lol yeah
@@sillygoose635 heard of them? most probably we have, you can't imagine the amount of usa propaganda we have over here in movies and such
Would have been disqualified! Stephen you are only allowed 6 people on stage, gosh don't you know anything!!!
Lol😹😂😀😀
Not unless the astronaut was actually an eerily realistic animatronic puppet. 😉
Look at you William Kekacs working your way round the rules :')
GeorginaEFK mk, you do realize he was making fun of Americans with those statements right? He's a comedian for the most part. It's his job to poke fun at stuff, literally. You need to keep it in perspective here.
why tf is the audience laughing at the line "They kill you all."
they are trained.. if the red lamp light up .. remember to clap and have fun they might get 100dollers.. mad by US..
Because everything needs to be happy in the US (even if it’s fake)
at least we have something without America.
TAKO JE BRE😂😂😂
yet you use american genres
aight
@@pixeled9683 lol, what genres?
@@pixeled9683 I need context
Pixeled American music mainly has Swedish influences.
0 points for The USA from... whole of Europe.
Someone hahahhahahah escatlyy!!!
Thats so true
Hey only we,Europeans can make fun of Eurovision!!!
And Australia!
+Ian Tester NO, NEVER AUSTRALIA! GO AWAY!
+MirrorMei YES! Why are they in it? It's so weird
Amar Lovesbooks Because Sony Music Australia is paying for their talent to appear. This year's entry was good. Last years, not so much.
+Ian Tester In 2015 the European Broadcasting Union voted for Australia's participation in 2016. The contest has been screened in Aus since 1983, and Aus is also an associate member. There is a UA-cam video of the spokesperson of the EBU who makes its' intentions known re: expansion around the world. Australia's participation is only the first step
I'm European and I watch eurovision. And I totally get it that this is a joke. We ourselves love making fun of eurovision, because often it is very silly. But I didn't really think this was funny, simply because it feels a bit weird that he's making fun of something he doesn't know anything about. He hasn't watched Eurovision and probably didn't read up on the history behind it either (which was about bringing the European nations together after WWII).
It's like if someone would joke about traditions in Uganda without having any connection or experiences with the culture. The best comedians joke about something from their own experience, not from ignorance and about cultures they don't know much about or are not involved with.
+Anna
I think he should've changed the laughing and joking around about the war-song. That one just seemed so ignorant it was painful to watch.
Widdekuu91 Yes. I agree. That was inappropriate.
Joking about Uganda's traditions and culture was once turned into one of the most popular memes ever (Uganda Knuckles). Even ugandans themselves considered it funny. It's not about joking about topics you know little about. It's all about the perfomance and his was simply a bad perfomance, that's why it's not funny. A lot of people are ignorant about the qualities of my prick yet if a good comedian made a good joke about it, everyone would laugh, right? Don't put too much heat into it.
Thanks for saying this I totally agree I got so agitated watching this, it mocks everything I stand for like unity, freedom, equality and peace. I feel like his viewers are brainwashed into thinking we’re of a lower ‘caste’ than america!
Am I the only Europoen person reading the hate comments about eurovision?Even though you guys don't know eurovision lol
For the first time in 60 years - it's a shame that when they finally broadcast it "over there", all they can do is make this unfunny mockery of it.
It's a mockery of itself.
+Frabjous Beamish What's poor about Europe? Ever seen Africa?
***** Well, I don't think it's really fair to compare a large country to an entire continent of dozens of countries. The difference between American states is smaller than the difference between European countries and cultures.
And you know that the USA is known for its tackiness and cringe-inducingness, right? :P
They're also known for their years of extravagance, while Europe seems to have stayed more sober over the decades.
Besides that, Europe doesn't really have continent wide 'media events'. It's just every country for itself. In every country there is a small part of the population watching the ESC, though :P
Though I agree, the ESC has been a laughing stock for us Europeans for ages. Which is why it's nice to see that my country (the Netherlands) finally gets it and started putting normal songs up, which is why we became 2nd in 2014 I think, people thought of it as a breath of fresh air between all the madness :P But you also must admit that there have also been great world hits came from the ESC. Such as ABBA with Waterloo, but more recently Loreen's Euphoria.
It's like 50% just wants to make a fool out of themselves, 40% are trying but failing (hard), and there's always this 10% of songs and countries at the ESC that try to make a good song and a nice show and actually produce some pretty cool stuff :D
***** Ik weet niet hoe oud je nu bent, maar de laatste jaren is het inderdaad weer wat beter aan het worden :P Ik kijk het inmiddels om beide redenen: voor de belachelijke acts van belachelijke deelnemers, en om te kijken of er wellicht toch nog iets leuks tussen zit wat me blij maakt :P
Was alleen in het buitenland de afgelopen tijd, dus ik moet die van 2016 nog wel terugkijken :o
the commentators didnt even know how the voting works! one would think before commentating on an event, you know, you would do a cursory level of research about said event.
Michelle Collins knew a thing or two. Carson was just ridiculous. At least Graham Norton is hilariously witty.
On behalf of all european, please don't join the Eurovision Song Contest. Australia is the only one outside of Europe that can enter.
**Israel joins the party**
@Lelkuchenpferd Nah mate, we should let Canada enter, even if it's just to piss the US off, we should let Mexico enter too, to really make them furious.
Jan Neisius *Turkey Leaves the party*
@@Mild_Hysteria Israel is technically in europe
@Manuel Krupp they are european technically
I'm an American and super offended by this. Who laughs at 1944? Not funny and tacky, and my family is all curious to why I want to get the hell out of the country ASAP.
CGwarrior12 Thank you! Finally an American understands why we're pissed
The Esc is not supposed to be a competition for the best summer hit.
It's about culture and history, but sorry "Muurica" for not getting this.
Lol, why don’t the other countries get participation trophies then.
Murica doesn't know what culture and history means. :D
Love Love Peace Peace is better than this
+Vaulson Neoleon More tricks in a hamster wheel !
+Birdy Fly And a burning fake piano
Or women baking bread.
Don't forget the made-up folk instruments and the topless drummers!
Better than this? That was absolutely diamond!
"More tricks in a hamster wheel. "
America would ruin eurovision
agree
like yeah
No we would just win
You probably wouldn't win, the winner is decided 50% by public vote, I'm not one of these people but too many people hate america. Plus it would take at least 8 years for them to 1 up the country that won the most times.
Well you wouldn't win with what you just showed us
Finally, a country who would take UK’s lastplace.
True
That hit harder this year 😬😬
The UK would need to score some points to do that.
They can share the last place. This year we have 4 zeros in a row in the televote
Hey I'm from the future you made it! With Blonde Jesus
Of course we Europeans can take a joke, and I’m not mad ESC is being ridiculed. I mean, every year there are some pretty ridiculous acts in the mix. However, 1944 was not one of them. No need to explain the joke over and over to me (“they laughed because they didn’t expect it! That was the point omg”), I get it. But what makes it troubling for me is that the joke was made by somebody who clearly doesn’t know that much about it and is effectively an ‘outsider’ to the culture and history of Europe and Eurovision. Furthermore, the only reason the audience didn’t expect the serious song is because of the INCORRECT description of Eurovision beforehand. Yes it’s fun, yes it’s campy, yes it’s full of pop songs. But that’s not all that it’s about and it never has been. It’s been a platform for social and political issues for ages (even though that’s not officially allowed), so for any European watching ESC a serious song winning wasn’t that surprising at all.
The song was quite alright. No problems with it. The only issue I personally have with this is the distasteful way they joke about a mass murder they know too little about to write jokes to begin with.
The comment I was looking for. The whole way he went about it felt wrong to me. If he was going after russia from that year or some of Eurovisions truly campy entries, I would get it, but this whole thing felt in poor taste
@@royami8627 I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to do something in poor taste.
you're presenting all the reasons people are upset about this, there is a social disconnect that was clearly defined in this skit. we need to be more better and more accepting.
@@sillygoose635 It's one thing if a Ukrainian presented the joke, it's not ok for an American. It's not American history and the fact that Jamala herself lost family in that tragedy makes the joke very disrespectful.
HEY. IF SOMEONE IS GONNA MAKE FUN OF EUROVISION IT GODDAMN HAS TO BE EUROPE THEM SELFS!
You need to start living the living life! I say it gets 12 points from Ireland.
squire forhire 0 points from Sweden
10 points from Greece , i mean its the only thing i can give you cause we dont have money
500 points from U.S.A.
Suck it.
We're America. We can do anything we want. 600 More points from America to America. And we're taking some of your points.
"Translated from the original European."
Nobody in the audience laughed. No-one. Did they think that that was actually a serious statement?
You want a united Europe? Just enter U.S.A. into Eurovision. No douze points for you!
Pretty much all of Europe would, for the first time in decades, be united in one common goal. That America does not win our thing!
Nil Point
America
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Yeah, because we hate the U.S.A
because of course, singing a song is very political...
Did you guys do that with Australia to?
*THIS IS WHY US AMERICANS CANT HAVE NICE THINGS...... WE WILL JUST RUIN IT.*
Self awareness is nice ty
because american pop lyrics are waaay more deep right?😂
Yes of course they are us number one
+Ceci La la la he wasn't just mocking the shallowness of Eurovision songs, and my.. are they often shallow (except when they go all political like with '1944'). He was also mocking the fact that many Eurovision song lyrics are written in English by non-native English speakers, and are often riddled with... 'interesting' turns of phrase. As in... things you'd never, ever expect to hear from a native English speaker.
+Guillermo St of course,we're not English neither American people 😂 we just HAVE to use english because otherwise we wouldn't be able to understand...
google Hard Rock Haleluyah by Lordi who Won contest about 10 years ago)
Eurovision is not the pop song contest, it accepts all kind of songs and shows.
Unbelievably ignorant. The fact that Stephen and his audience laughed at the suffering of Ukrainians under Stalin's regime is disgusting.
no, they laughed at the fact that a pop song had such a serious theme, you don't make pop songs about things like that, pop music is frivolous entertainment.
I was so angry. That was a serious song, and you laugh at it like the idiots you are? Get your head out of the gutter America!
Barney honestly most Americans have no idea about history, they aren't taught any of it outside a few basic concepts that focus on usa.
Barney they are laughing cause they thought the winning song would be an upbeating pop song but it was instead a deeply depressing historical song (greatly performed though). That's easy to see. It's not like they are laughing for what happened to these people. Who would believe that?
+Karanick
I still would expect them to stop laughing once they realised it was about war.
I would.
Im Asian, and seeing this I really understand why nobody in the WORLD say that they love US, except themselves
ummmm...Am i the only one from Europe who thinks that America is jealous asf....🔫🔫
angel. moys no
angel. moys you're right we're 100% jealous
Have you heard of satire?
Hauyne Geek no
angel. moys think,? They are
'They kill you all and say we`re not guilty" - audience is laughing. Are they ok?
+TK-ESC-love We're a strange people :)
I know. Song about deporting people and they are laughing? And making fun of it?
+Amber Rose We're laughing about people jamming out to such a tragic and dark song. Not the tragedy. It would certainly feel strange dancing to that song :-\
Are you laughing about 11/9..... ???
Let me explain why they are laughing. First, when they *kill you all* there is nobody left there to *say sorry*. It's a paradox. And second, the songs should not be written about war either. They just sound so wrong. Case and point has been made. Yes war is brutal and terrible but you cannot sing about it and expect everyone to be so serious about it. And politics play a crucial part in Eurovision. Points are given based on political ideals and interests. Ukraine won because most country's from EU based their votes thanks to sanctions that EU imposed against Russia because of civil war that happened in Ukraine.
*Politic should be banned from any competition. If you fail to understand that, you fail pretty much at understanding true values in life*.
2016: America does this
2017: Sweden gets treadmills for Eurovision
the magic toaster I was thinking about that too. Lmao
USA has always have had a good touch on what works on the outside, but never understood the deeper things on making ESC hits.
Yeah we wanted the guy with almost no hair but he had to find the perfect Toilet station for the songs Picture on spotify
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_On_(Nano_song), You know, Since we vote in sweden
Making fun out of this Jamala's song is like making fun out of forced deportations and country's very sad and frightening historical years. Making fun of killing people, literally. Can't believe people in America actually laughed at lyrics of Jamala's song - go educate yourselves a little bit. It's disgusting.
+Fionn Devaney Who are you to say that you speak for 'all of Britain'? You are a nobody. The song was bad and I won't stop anyone from taking the piss out of it but it did not go against any of the Eurovision rules. The song was mostly about the individuals experience, a government that doesn't exist anymore and a very generic story of invasion. It was perfectly fine. If anyone saw links with the current situation in Crimea, that is there own association. Also, European countries aren't destroying one another and half of this country don't want to leave the EU, myself included. And to top it all off, you end with a clearly elitist form of thinking; self declaring this country as the 'civilised' one. We are not a better country than many of those in the EU. Just thought I'd make it clear that you do not speak for all of us.
+deanrocks1000 "If anyone saw" ???? :DD Haha, dude, this song was sang by her back in 2015 May in national language and it was ABOUT THE CRIMEA ANNEXATION. She broke all the rules she could. Song shouldn't have been heard by mass auditory earlier than in September 2015 and it is all about politics.
+Fionn Devaney I can say, MOLLY's song was great and at the same time so underrated, but you can leave UE even now. The wave of immigration will not stop any time soon and they are determined to live in UK (and Germany) in or out of EU. If you close the borders, some people will find a way to get them in either way. And you are just too lazy to work as hard as your Eastern European or Asian and African immigrants. That is a fact.
Why dont you ask why they were deported?
They sided with Hitler and got the order from Hitler and Bandera to "clean" Crimea! They killed 70k people there! So that song is trying to wash away their own crimes! Stalin just deported them, while Tatars killed actually people!
Sry but this song is pro Nazi!
So I guess Stain was right to kill all those people. (see previous comment) Maybe a song needs to be made about that.
I'm the only one that don't get why they laugh on the Jamala video?
Twice방탄 because she’s singing about ethnic cleansing and might get radio play. It’s weird.
+stressedandsleepless
The show didn't expect anything, the áudience expected a happy pop song, because stephen deliberately told them it was going to be a song for the summer.
He purposely set them up to be fooled and áfter they recovered from the surprise, they stíll laughed at 'kill you all' (even though it was clear this was not a happy song.)
I'd also like to add that it did not escalate quickly...it started with "strangers are coming, they come to your house' and scary music. The follow up is obviously not going to be 'they will offer you an applepie.'
The moment it díd escalate, was when the murder *happened.* Which is why the song and the victims deserve more credit.
Álso...try googling the full song, because I feel like you have no clue how the full thing sounds.
+carschmn I would honestly feel that her message deserves to be on the radio more than Justin Biebers; 'My momma don't like you and she likes everyone."-shit.
And that song has been played hów many times? That's a fucking revenge-song with a love-censored "fuckyou'-message. *THAT* is alright for the Americans to listen to on the Radio by Biebs, but thís song *agáinst* ethnic cleansing is just *weird* ?
I'd also like to advice yóu to google the full song.
Widdekuu91 uh. He’s Canadian. Don’t play stupid. Lol. It’s American television. Made to be funny. It’s funny to Americans. Broadcast to Americans. Don’t get salty or mad. Lol. I love Eurovision. But dayum it’s funny seeing y’all get mad. We don’t. People make fun of us. It’s cool. I love other cultures. You just can’t take a simple joke.
TheRisingSalas exactly, facts 🤦🏽♀️
@@TheOmarsalas coming from an american
I kinda find this offensive because Eurovision was made to unite Europe after world war 2 to make peace with each other. So we shouldn't be making fun of Eurovision!
Eurovision is making fun of itself though, have you ever watched it?
Tamara Breimer There's a difference between laughing at yourself/laughing *with* people, and laughing *at* people. I think Mr Colbert falls on the wrong side only when he says "we'd win if we were in it". That's not even a joke, that's the kind of nationalism that Eurovision is fighting! The rest is satire. The jokes about '1944' are distasteful, but they are at least attempting humour.
I think Colbert is mocking the American competitive spirit with that statement, he wasn't being serious.
Lin Manfu He was being sarcastic because a lot of Americans are like that. Honestly if this were Americavision we'd be catching so much shit about it from every other country
Eurovision was NOT created to unite Europe. You do not even have to be a European country to enter (which is why Australia and Israel both participate).
To compete in Eurovision, your national broadcast association simply has to join the European Broadcast Union. Australia has been a member since 1955 (because it uses the European television broadcast format).
There's no need to get rude towards Jamala because of the fact that the presenter seems not to understand the inner message of "1944"...
he wasn't and he obviously understood the inner message since he stated what the song was about. He wasn't mocking the song either. Just mocking how of all the music presented, one with such an extremely depressing meaning won
i dont get what is there to mock? If it were the other way around (a meaningless song winning over dozens of deep meaningful songs) I'd understand but like this? Seems like he's trying too hard to fulfill an image of a person who thinks Eurovision is below them
In all honesty, that bit of the lyrics that was shown absolutely sucks. Just because it can be meaningful, it still doesn't make it a good work of art.
Either way, in Steven's defense, he was just making a joke about the depressing tone of it all.
That's because this is axactly his act for this show... He has a certain persona, wich makes jokes about how america thinks it's better.
Well, it IS kind of interesting how it is actually against the rules to bring politically, nationalistic or otherwise charged subjects to the contest. However lately songs or acts like that that seem to win. The song or its quality doesn't seem to matter, because the song and its singer are objectively speaking really of appaling quality. Yet they win .. why? Because of the charged topic: "OMG she is soo brave!" or "OMG that is sooo sad!". The Crimean peninsula being recently annexed had ofcourse nothing to do with it .. yeah right.
This is the joke here. It is supposed to be a SONG contest, instead it's all gimmicks and political posturing.
and that's why we don't want America to participate
And also the fact that they're not in our f*cking continent. There's that too. (Yes, that also means Australia doesn't belong either)
Also from wiki: "To be an active member, broadcasters must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union, or be in a Council of Europe member country. Eligibility to participate is not determined by geographic inclusion within the continent of Europe, despite the "Euro" in "Eurovision". So basically US can participate, but after this video I think it'd be better for them not to.
@@walkingintheairr yes, but Australia is politically closer with the U.K and the U.K is located in Europe..and both the U.K and Australia are commonwealth countries...idk...
As an American who loves Europe, and how they VALUE, and LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY, how they HIGHLIGHT THE ARTS. I am disgusted by this. Eurovision was founded to unify the European Nations after WWII. To mock an artists song without context especially a song with such a powerful message is not only wrong, but appalling.
thank you Angela Michele for this comment - that is exactely the point why this video got so many dislikes ....you can make fun out of Eurovision but do it with respect - because it has a deeper meaning for us here in Europe + Israel + Australia
@@muddyfeet69 It's a joke, y'all need to harden up 😂😂😂
@@muddyfeet69 honestly, why is Australia allowed? They're not Europe. They have a smaller history than the US. They're just England v3.0
@@JessKalinow That's exactly part of the reason. They're not as disconnected from Europe. Also they showed a huge interest in Eurovision with high viewership for several decades before being allowed to join. So they 'get it'. But even if they win it still won't be hosted there.
@@Iva744 funny how you use viewership as an example of how they're better than America, when you forgot that it wasn't allowed to be broadcasted here till recently. funny how that works.
the most fun thing about eurovision is that america isnt a part of it 😆😂😈
Haha yes
Agreed 😂
and that nobody but europe cares for it.
@@sillygoose635 nah, I'm from america and there is a very specific reason why we arent in it, I'm not salty about it, its still an amazing event
@@ChadIsYourDadlol
Yeah the specific reason is because is only for Europeans
EUROvision
why is he trying to make fun of Jamala?
Sorry America but that performance only gets 10 points from me. The 12 points goes to Love Love Peace Peace
+Flazh Colbert's effort might do well in the Televoting, but i don't see the jurys going crazy.
love love peace peace will always be the most eurovision song ever
I like Stephen Colbert but now I get why Lars Erickssong hated Americans so much.
typically american style to mock something that america isn't involved in
If you think this was good, you should have heard our hour long stand up special about the Crimean War.
Ok, come on, look, it's Eurovision, something like 70% of the fun laughing at it, and most of the competing companies know it.
Babushka grannies,
Ireland sending a turkey puppet
Butter churning song
Ireland sending Jedward
Epic Sax Guy
Ireland
Ballerina on a unicycle, I have a monacle now, your argument is invalid.
Verka Saduchka
Ireland sending Jedward again
Lordi
Moldova having a man in a space suit for no real reason
Montengro having two men in space suits for no real reason
Sweden's hosts even did a whole bit about how absurd Eurovision is.
Hell, Australia's broadcasters once interviewed the wind machine operator, just because they knew about the drinking game and wanted to fuck with their audience.
But Cesar from Ukraine is perfect in every way and will be my husband and I will fight anyone who disagrees and you are wrong.
ok then, don't say shit about the Superbowl. you're not involved in it so you can't mock us
First time in my life I slam the dislike button so hard. Well, I think I totally lost my trust for the United States of America now
Come on, take a joke.
Ain Kyori The Amateur Hetalian Artist This is just one guy on one show. It was filmed in LA or New York, which are both shitty cities so please don't think the entire country is like this.
+Ugh, not you again: Notice that Ain Kyori said "I totally lost my trust", meaning it was already going down the drain.
Now please go sue your elementary school for implementing Betsy DeVos' standards well before her time.
TheYasmineFlower If it is joke that pushes someone over the edge to not trusting an entire country that's pretty pathetic
_That's_ what made you finally lose trust in the the US? Damn, I'm American and I stopped trusting this country around the year 2003. You know, the invasion of Iraq, learning about all the shitty things the government has done both domestically and abroad, etc. But sure, a boring comedy segment is way worse.
What's funny or scary is that this act would fit right in.
+jdlaw001
Colbert really nailed what Eurovision songs tend to be.
+jdlaw001 I m thinking this could even easily win.
+jdlaw001 Yes it would fit into eurovision 2000 - 2008
+jdlaw001 So true!
+jdlaw001 u kidding me, this is absolutely legit, those who think the act in itself is a farce are soooo wrong
Stephen: Why can’t we join Eurovision
Europe: You will likely ruin it
Australia: HA Ha, Europe like us more than u!
Europe: Yah, we would rather have Canada join than the US
Canada: Yeahhhh!!!!
We should let Canada join it, just to piss the Americans off :}
lol, why are you all so butthurt over the U.S.
Stephen Colbert is the best thing to happen to television since electricity.
im really hoping that you are kidding
+christos stylianou sadly, that is true
Stephen Colbert is the best thing to happen to tv since cesium
+Nina D. You mean since Nikola Tesla,... well sorry to disappoint you but he is not , George Carlin was
+Nina D. Compared to Jon Stewart or George Carlin, Colbert is a mean a-hole. Neither of them would have made a point of laughing about a tragedy.
The reason Love Love Peace Peace is infinitely better than this trash is because it was done with love, by people who loves Eurovision for what it is.
This is made by people who know nothing about it, and wish to ridicule the concept! And laugh about a song about mass murder?
It's just tasteless.
They weren't laughing at the history behind the song or even the song, just that it is so depressing. And everyone and their cat takes the mick out of Eurovision, it's more like comedy than music. Particularly as it is all about political and geographical voting.
Siri Davidsen Devoid of humour much?
they're just retarded. can't believe they laugh at such a deep, emotional song. oh of course cause they don't even know what happened in WW2 and how people suffered cause they learn zero of it in their schools.
No were laughing at the astronaut song and howling wolf song. We were just shocked by the mass genocide song.
One of the best things about Eurovision is that the USA isn't invited! So they can't spoil it :)
HolandaChiquita lol true
As an American, I can confirm this.
"They kill you all and say: We're not guilty" XDDDDD Very funny XD very funny. To be fair 911 and school shooting is a bit funnier then this.
+PBal00
Never give the Americans 9/11 points, they'll suddenly realise how unfunny masssmurder is.
The funniest thing Americans did was invading Middle East and creating dictatories and terrorist groups like isis
Ooooof but true.
As much as I enjoyed this I have to say that only 6 people are allowed on stage at a time so the astronaut's got to go
I was looking for this comment!! hahaha
Hahah, this thread is so much fun!
We have Eurovision, they've got Trump. Karma...
r8448 OCCIDENATILIS karma
r8448 I’m not sure which I’d rather have!
Jake Low LOL
Your problem also. He has nukes.
ahhahah... Top! :D
If the USA joined Eurovision I would stop watching. they would ruin yet anouther a good thing.
+liamtsh96 As an American Eurovision fan, I agree.
+liamtsh96 A good thing? Eurovision has never been a good thing it has always been a joke. Except for the year when Lordi won.
+liamtsh96
>good
>thing
choose one
+liamtsh96 You watch Eurovision?
Trueee
Don't talk about serious things if you don't understand the meaning behind it... Simple af.
It's so rude, we should respect each others instead of making fun of the song which is based on true events. How can you laugh at that? Learn some history of the world America. Eurovision is different, but it doesn't mean it's bad.
This is a comedy show, by the way...just in case you didnt notice
I see you are already speaking in absolutes, to "America". How not stereotypical. Explains the down-votes, at least.
Matthew Revell My mistake, I didn't want it to sound stereotypically. I was a little bit too mad about this joke, because I don't think it was funny at all.
dan heb je gewoon geen gevoel voor humor
It's supposed to be a non POLITICAL contest. So why not hahaha
Americans really can't accept that we have something great that doesn't include them in any way so of course they have to make fun of it...
Don't think you get it :/
Darth Nihilus lol please teach me the ways of the dark side, for I seek to show America the FULL POWER of the ESC
t'jana Europe makes fun of the US for American football. I don't see why we can't make fun of this.
t'jana how about Asia? I mean like I think Europe has more because of Paris and stuff
You would kind of have a point if he didn't make fun of the US constantly. I say "kind of" as, aside from ABBA, no artist from the ESC really had a big and lasting impact on the music scene. Most of the songs presented there are pretty generic.
I think this mockery of the Eurovision (comedic or not) means America won't be invited for a good few years.
Adam Carleton I agree fuck glasses he's just a shit mouth he doesn't know anything about Eurovision the wolf man was freaky and a weirdo but he is just stupid as he is completely mocking Eurovision I'm never watching him agian
Idiot they cant enter anyway
+Hazza White Lol, I love how you get so butthurt over a freaking song competition. Why the hell are you even watching an American late night talk show? It's a joke. I guess you don't know what that is though. You Europeans are always so uptight.
Adam Carleton it's European, plus Americaare full of fatness
Learn how to speak English before you even try to argue.
2:40 "we eat way more pizza than Italy", but the one that you eat is non even pizza 😂😂
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA YASSSSSSS
The italian don't call that pizza, they call it cholesterol bombs
yeah well I get it why you'd laugh at eurovision, I mean its a culture thing, you wouldn't understand :)
Young Discord Eurovision is the most funny thing of the whole year, some countries send some songs which just shouldn't be taken seriously etc. Montenegro, Romania (talking about 2017)
As a Dutch non-American, if you think that bicycles work that way (or if you dare wear a helmet on one), you might have to hand over that "Dutch" prefix.
Oooohh BURNNN
rufmeister yolanda hadid!!!
What was so funny about Jamala's song? Some americans are sick
non sono d accordo prima di jamala almeno due erano prima di lei metti tu l ordine da roma ho visto questo
It's as funny as 9-11 you know.
It's funny because in America something that doesn't show asses is not even considered a song
Petra Agnes Szalontai yes😢😢
+Jordan P If you think that the ESC has ever been a non-political contest, then you are the only clown here.
They are jealous because they do not have history.. 😂
Bwahaha, top comment xD
Haha ;)
I think it's best for everybody if europeans studied US history instead of repeating this tired garbage. Colbert is a very smart man. He knows world history. He's highlighting the incongruity of talking about genocide and war while at a silly pop song contest. For Americans like me, yeah, that's weird. Obviously not for euros. Vive la differance!!
That is a very ignorant comment.. Every country in the world has history, duh.
No, no, they do have history (which they are often trying to cover up), they just don't have a real culture :'D
Omg, seriously America? Laughing at Jamalas' song? It is such a poor taste. This is a song about war and personal experiences of her family. It is just disrespectful. Okay, I get the rest of the video (even though I think it didnt show the true ESC, but just the fun things and I get that it is a talk show, so it probably should be like that).
If it's not half-naked girls grinding their pelvis singing about "doin' it" while gold chain clad muscle men throw dollar bills and make weird gestures then it's of no interest to Murricans.
It is ridicle that a song about a masacre wins a musical festival, one more awful winner because of the horrible musical taste of voters ..that put in victory awful songs like Toy, Satelite, 1944, Hard rock alleluyah, I wanna .... it is absolutely tasteless.
@@mktuag I, as a Dutchman, can definitely tell that you don't understand anything about Eurovision. :-)
mktuag i really don’t think you get Eurovision. It’s more than just vocals, it is about performance and lyrics, it’s about history, and all these song you write were great. The songs are what Eurovision is about. Unity.
@@mktuag I don't think tasteless is the right word here; it's not to your taste and that's a really big difference, because obviously the majority of voters liked those songs. Some of them even really very much...
Eurovision makes fun of Eurovision much better than Americans. this is just obvious mockery and not even funny.
People say Americans don't get Eurovision, Judging from this, they really do!
+Hello April Only if you haven't really watched Eurovision and only seen the smaller embarrassing parts. But I guess that is the view most UK people have.
+Hello April no, but Colbert does
+Hello April Judging from this they really dont
Ok parody.. but Sweden's was much better. I was there and the whole experience is fantastic. So typical that it took over 60 years for the US to even show this event on American TV! I wonder how many Americans ( including Colbert) can find Belarus on the map? Remember folks, ABBA and Celine Dion got their starts from Eurovision. Celine performed for Switzerland and won by only 1 point ( over the UK). Check her out and her infamous dress in the 1988 edition from Dublin!
+Michel Sennett Colbert is a Northwestern grad, he not remotely as dumb as you think. Dude Eurovision stinks, it's idiots dressed in ridiculous clothing singing poorly translated lyrics in English in an attempt to mimic American Pop. It would be an amazing event if you attempted to represent genuine European culture, instead generic trash pop.
+Joseph Martinez Thank you so much for your humble opinion. At least you didn't curse or telll me to go to hell like so many on this channel. Most of these somgs are written first in English and yes there are some bad ones of course! This is a contest. How many times has Miss Maine won Miss America? The experience is crazy and I like it. I know Mr. Colbert's type of humor and unfortunately it doesn't translate that well here in Europe.
+M Thorne Great keep watching!! 200million plus viewers can't be wrong!
+Joseph Martinez ridiculous clothing? idiots? mimic american pop? have you ever hear hear american music, that shit is rubbish. Like come on Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Rihanna... and so on.
+Joseph Martinez Okay I'm sorry but "an attempt to mimic American Pop"? Do you know that 3/4 of your so called "American Pop Hits" are produced in Sweden?
We would never let america ruin eurovision
When's Canada joining?
They don't need to ruin it. It is already ruined since they turned it into a circus. There is nobody anymore who is famous or gets famous through it as in the beginning.
No, Europe already ruined the best musical platform in the world (as it used to be) and making it a freakies show
When's Canada joining? I hope the answer is NEVER. Canada as a whole is barely more into Eurovision than most Americans are - it's just not part of the general culture. [Canadians like to think they are superior in some fashion to Americans, but really, we Canucks are much more like Yanks than we care to admit]. Even if we got hyped up for it and made a serious go at participating [assuming we'd ever be invited], I imagine us getting low scores or dead-last place a lot, like the UK. Plus, you have Australia. That's enough non-Europe/Middle East/Asia in Eurovision, lol. As a Canadian myself, I'm perfectly happy to watch the show from the sidelines.
@@Serviervorschlag- So youre defining a successful show as a show, where you can get very popular.
I dont know wether I should by laughing or crying...
my favorite part is how committed he was to this performance
I concur
+RandeezyFoSheezy check out when he tried to outdo the Korean performer, Rain, in a dance-off....
Mans already performed the ultimate Eurovision song 'Love Love Peace Peace' :D
Someone had to say it! Best Eurovision song of all times!
At least in Eurovision people sing normal songs unlike in America almost every popular song is about sex.
ɪ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴜʀᴛʟᴇs are you a "Slavic girl"?
Doctor Batman
No.
ɪ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴜʀᴛʟᴇs Sex, Drugs, Bitches, Booty and some other shit
European songs are the same
well...-no. The same S...t in the Europe too.
I get that this is meant to be funny, and I love Stephen, but 1944 is NOTHING to laugh at.
Emilyx33x AGREED
Im Agreeing SOO MuCH!
Not a good song, but the topic is definitely nothing to laugh at.
Especially right now……
@@raffine_9705 sadly ahead of its time
The strangers are coming.... They come in a plane.... They crash it on, the twin towers; twin towers. *HAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
ahahqhaj exacly
Snowcold lol
This is supposed to be a parody, but honestly this could easily be a top 5 entry.
If America is going on to eourovision i Will go crazy
+AndroZeus Honestly, if we'd wanna win with a funny and wild entry... we'd need to send "Weird Al" Yankovic.
+AndroZeus Maybe 5+ years ago.
Stmated My specific thought was Ukraine 9 years ago, actually.
Oh my God, US people, you have so much weird stuff going on in your country that barely gives you the right to say anything rude to the show that connects all the countries in Europe for a few days, and makes us all forget that we may be having an 'enemy' standing on that stage. You don't know the feeling when the country your country has problems with gives some points to us. It all about that. About forgetting what country that is, and focusing on the song, all the fun going on up there.
Lol
That's the point. We know we have weird crap. You can laugh at that like we do, why can't we laugh at yours?
Lmao I was completely fine and then when the 1944 song started playing and the line from it "They kill you all" appeared and the audience started to laugh I was like, okaayyyy......😳
You laugh of Europeans? You voted D.Trump. We are laughing of you in decades.
And european opinions matter because???
@Darth Nihilus And your European opinion about the American president matters because.......?
@@pixeled9683
Cause voting a little kid, trapped in the body of an aged senior, doesnt just influence America at its own.
Denying climate change for example, like you do, infects the whole world, cause America is one of the economically strongest countries.
The surface is pretty big, the population as well, and all other countries, that have rethought can not influence your wrong behaviour of endless consumption in any way.
Americans just always think of their own wellbeing.
Values like responsability dont exist in general.
(Of course there are also a lot of Americans, who have those values;
Im talking about the majority)
You can easily recognize in your non-existing social policy.
And when they see Europe is doing a certain contest and they are not involved, they get jealous and react by laughing at Europes traditions.
Thats childish, unsocial and disrespectful.
And you cant compare justified criticism on politic decisions of yours with a popsong-contest, that doesn't affect you at all.
Most Americans I know don’t even like Trump, but there are a lot of ignorant conservatives that voted for him. And btw Trump won the electoral college vote not the popular vote. There’s a difference and both of our candidates were very problematic. Even our 2020 ones are, all the good ones dropped out, now we have to choose between a candidate that was accused of sexual assault and can’t speak correctly most of the time or a candidate that was accused of sexual assault, made racist remarks, can’t accept that he’s wrong and has doomed our country. Bring Bernie back 😭
@@enyaaa7921 ofc. who ever got the money win the vote.. quest who win next time :OO the republic.. know why?
we support Black life Matter web pages.. the world Enormic depending on it - but i cant speck for evrey one.. ofc. we are mix culture.. there for many will say all life matter because so many life got lost..
America is so bad that they can't even make fun of us properly.
Anna Carlsson It was nice to see them try, I guess, actually not really.
Were better at making fun of ourselves, also stephen colbert isn't funny to anyone with a brain size larger than a small mass of peas.
Lol
Yeah we are so much better of making fun of each oter AND America
Anna Carlsson lol
The combination of US and Eurovision will ruin the whole spirit of the show. As seen in the video, Americans will never get it.
+mica532 No, we won't get it at all. There's just something so fresh about it, even though the songs pretty much sound the same year after year. I like listening to the winners from 1956 all the way to 2016. The message is the same, but the style changes over the years.
+Ruth Elmendorf
Well that's the thing - the songs are the same but quite different.
And all there is fresh, but also a bit old and dusty.
But you know what - listing to the winners from 1956-2016 repeatedly might actually do the work :)
+Ruth Elmendorf goodle Lordi who won contest with hard rock song)
+mica532 ohhhh dear. we're so uncultured.
+TaiTai Look up Verka Serduchka, Eurovision. Americans can never understand that song! It came in only 2nd btw.
It's nice to make fun of other cultures... but at least Europe has culture and history. I know it's called humour and sarcasm and trust me I am the most sarcastic person of the universe but people need to know that Eurovision is not a circus... it's fun and the combination of different cultures!! it's not stupid or a waste of time!! it's all about how music can unite all countries no matter what!!!!
Stfu europoor
And America doesn't have history or culture? And here I thought the Americans were the ignorant ones. lmao
@@JessKalinow hey I wrote this like three years ago so maybe I was angry or something. I definitely don't think that America doesn't have history or culture! I actually love America and I want to go there to work when I get the chance. I just didn't like the way this video portraits Eurovision because someone that doesn't watch Eurovision may believe that it is a stupid circus. Even some europeans believe that. But it's because they don't actually sit to watch it. Anyway, I hope I made my self clear 😊
@@Stefano-dd2sf lol ok
@@JessKalinow bruh, USA has like 500 years of culture and some of them act like they are first and most advanced civilization. But the comments point was that eurovision is had in its first years a purpose, to unite warthorn europe. Thats why we dont want USA in this, ot would just ruin all of it.
Not just for Europeans, the Eurovision is consistently one of the most watched broadcasts in the world every year. It is also the longest running televised song contest in the world.
It's called Eurovision because it is short for "Le Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision", Eurovision originally being the word for the first international television shows.
In Norway, it's common to call it "Grand Prix". I think it's just a Norwegian thing, the rest of Europe call it Eurovision.
No, we call it Melody Grand Prix in Norway 😄
Yeah but americans aren’t that bright so how would they know
It's also Melodi Grand Prix in Denmark :p
Hiro Fox Colbert's show is a comedy bit
We Europeans are always laughing at this stupid show Eurovision. Steven captured the silliness so good.
+krakrakrala Eurovision is just such a cringeworthy kitshfest. And then when an actual good song comes by (Spain), it barely registers on the scoreboard and the win goes to what may well be the most atrocious song played at Eurovision in years, which says something.
+krakrakrala rofl.. 300 milion people watches eurovision songcontest every years. So that means, there is majority people who loves to watch esc and there is another minority people hating esc so they can pretend to be a 'cool hipster'.
+DMTHOTH The song contest is shown in an area with 1,2 billion potential viewers (not including the US and China) so only about 25% watches it.
+DMTHOTH only kids and gays like it
Carl XVI Gustaf Bernadotte So there are 300 million kids and gays.. ofc you are 147% right.
Eurovision? The biggest event? Oh my god... you never saw an european during the world cup...
Ruben Kewssel true😂
I think he wanted to say the biggest music event
Ruben Kewssel true
By the way: FRANCE WON THE WORLD CUP! I'm so proud of my country.😢
@@Anelkia *Cries in croatian*
It's called EUROvision for a reason.
Pls, Usa, the exit is that way ---------------------------------------------------------------->
exactlyyy :))
Its called Eurovision, because its an event for members of the EBU. The US could technically participate if they became members, just like Australia, Israel, Morocco, etc.
+Marc Liljeqvist that countries participate because they really like Eurovision. For example Australia has participated this year because many people wake up at night and watch it, but the Americans don't really care about Eurovision.
It's for Europe only yet countries like Australia, Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia take part in.
All those countries except Australia and Israel are in Europe. Israel is part of the European Broadcasting Union (producer of Eurovision) and Australia is a guest and an associated member :)
This is exactly why you can't join :)
Says the wannabe shane dawson
+Johann DIaz
So you say that he is a wannabe shane dawson just because he has long hair ?
Oh boy.....thank god there is natural selection to get no-brainers like you off the earth.
+ຮ匕RҰӃ3R and then theres you beta males who whine about natural selection and their futures on the internet
WELL WE DON'T WANT TO JOIN REALLY, SO GOOD FOR US!
Håkan Jansson is
Colbert's song will get more points then Germany.
Isn't very hard..
+Bear AndBear than*
+Bear AndBear we got last place twice in a row. try that america!!^^
+Bear AndBear
Then if time is involved.
Than if you compare two things.
Greetings form Germany.
The key to doing well in Eurovision is to have lots of neighbours...unless you're Germany
This is why America isn't allowed to participate.
Australia is easy to justify being in the competitiom. They've enjoyed the competition for a long time, we envited them as a friendly gesture, and now we keep inviting them back because they're entries are so well loved by the fans of the contest. They're respectful, take the contest seriously, and they give us some amazing songs for the competition.
America makes fun of stuff like this too much and they'd take over the whole contest and make it about them. Don't get me wrong, there are some brilliant Americans out there that could bring some new cards to the table, but America is already salty enough that they're not in the competition. Imagine how salty America would be when they didn't win.
And they would be even more salty when they get 0 points
@@albertk233 yawn
Lame
America is not all the same, there's 50 states, each state is different, no one gets this and it shows ignorance, you're thinking of california and new york
I find this amusing since you missed the part where he said this was the first year it was broadcasted in America. So you twits excluded the US for decades from even watching the damn thing. Never even gave us a chance, so why would we give a shit? Honestly, it's cool you guys have it, just doesn't make any sense to include Australia. Is it reparations for sending all your criminals there?
this is supposed to be funny?
no this is supposed to make fun of Europe
More like make fun of Stalin's brutality. It's really funny, just millions of innocent people died...
Alina this contest is to bring countries in europe together and was started after world war II.
Crazy Man well they didnt make fun of us its just so embarrassing how americans can be so stupid and dumb. like talk about your own shit country. talk about how to not get fat or something. america needs to fix their problems first and the day they are perfect they should try to make fun of other countries.....well thats never happening anyways.
It`s 100% american )))
He dont even understand the message of esc.
16Phoenixx16 Finally someone said it
Yes, true
R.I.P. u dont know anything about eurovision
RIP He is a fucking comedian
@@jack-5699 well hes the worst comedian ive ever seen
Martha Manley RIP he‘s not funny
If you laugh at Jamala's song its basically the same as laughing about 9/11...
2:08... That is really sad, what they are laughing at..
As much as i hate the song i agree that you shouldn't laugh at it.
It's a "what the fuck" laugh
No, that is really funny. Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (відбите шоу)
Specifically because of the context. Everything before set the audience up to think it'd be a cheesy pop number.
IKR i fucking hate america sometimes
"We're this close to electing Mussolini" - well, you have elected him ;)
florenna Sadly yeah we did, but not without kicking, screaming, and scratching.
No wink smiley face emoticon, please. There is nothing wink smiley face about that. Half of the country is opposed.
Kristi Schoenhaar so that means it is not funny to make jokes about the orange but it is fine for you to laugh about when it comes to Europe's history?
No offense, I actually want your real opinion.
I never said it was okay to laugh at Europe's history. In spite of my affection for Colbert I found this segment disappointing, mainly because his writers had no idea what they were talking about. That aside, I also can tell you the audience members were laughing in surprise at the mood shift, not at the subject matter of the song.
I fully support jokes about the bigoted orange manchild human disaster that is the POTUS. It's comments like Florenna's that push the blame on the U.S. majority for putting him in office that are insulting. Millions of people that did not vote for him are already suffering. Trump lost the popular vote (the vote of U.S. citizens), so in a better world where the U.S. voting system was fair and balanced Trump would have lost.
Kristi Schoenhaar first of all the "bigoted orange manchild human disaster" is the best thing I've been reading the whole day. :')
Thank you for not going personal as well.
Just to ask - how big is it the opportunity, that Trump is getting actually kicked out of the white house?
Our news reported about it a while ago but it seems quite unlikely.
So apparently Sweden watched the treadmill part ..
Couldn't agree more, though they might have done it a bit... better?
And before in time!
I find it hilarious when American's roast us Europeans. They literally wouldn't exist if it wasn't for us 😂
And it was paid back, when America helped defeat the Nazis in ww2, and helping rebuild Europe after the destruction of ww2. Through rebuilding and Loans, search up Marshall plan.
America is uk France and spain
FYI America invented the internet you said that on
and you wouldn't be saying that comment if it wasn't for americans
The Seer yeah and America is in hella debt to Eu, is a laughing stock and so much more. Plus you didn’t save shit before the war came knocking on your door. Until then you just threw refugees out and put Americans in concentration camps
Even if this was a joke, it's not funny. Actually, i'm kinda offended? This is a competition that has been going on since WWII and it's about bonding. You making fun of it is just dumb and arrogant.
Eurovision started in 1956, 11 years after WW2. I hope that they will never join Eurovision. They can make an Americavision instead.
very disrespectful
+Alec Joseph Yeah you can joke about war and killing people. Fuck it right?
+Norwegian Royalist Agree. Poland, Israel or Bulgaria should have won. That's just politics.
+Alec Joseph imagine if people from Europe would laugh while listening to a song about 9/11. Should all americans just accept the joke then?
+Adam Nilsson if it's in a stupid and in appropriate pop song then yeah. Not the place to discuss serious business. Plus we already have memes about it like "Bush did 9/11" and "dank memes can't melt steel beams" so there's no shortage of laughing off such a heavy matter (to be able to move on with normal life while still never forgetting)
If someone was trying to pass off a serious song about 9/11 as a pop song, then yes.
OMG I can't believe that someone who doesn't live in Europe can make such fun of Eurovision! And they LAUGHED when Jamala sang "they kill you all"! I'm literally speechless!
they're laughing because it's set up as a light hearted continent wide singing competition, in America associated with the likes of American Idol or perhaps the Voice USA or whatever. The contrast of a super heavy depressing subject like the song subject is funny. _Obviously_ they're not laughing at people being killed.
DynaMike - true. But not nearly as weird as the US, I'd say XD
DynaMike at least you have a sense of humour......
wooah stereotypes everyone...i detect...racism....
Kim Bales Blay, you may want to look up the definition of that word. People are talking about countries and continents...
I've only just come across this. I'm a huge Eurovision fan and have never missed one as long as I can remember. I even watched one year whilst in hospital! Us Europeans know it's terrible. That's what makes is so magical! Don't take the piss because you don't understand what it is. Don't be all American about it. Embrace the weirdness. Enjoy the bonkers. You have to invest yourself in it. It also helps to invent a drinking game whilst watching too!!!