History Funny / EurovisionSongContest

*** In 2023, Greece failed to qualify for the Grand Final but Cyprus made it through which led to some hilariously awkward moments during the jury announcements. When the Cypriot spokesperson was being introduced someone in the audience could be heard shouting "GREECE!", apparently having forgotten that they weren't in the Final. Shortly afterwards Greece only awarded ''four'' points to Cyprus which provoked a ''massive'' gasp from the audience.

* Finland's Käärijä is already a walking SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny with his antics but [[https://youtu.be/iVrYWzoha2c this moment]] in his Be My Guest video even had the staff laughing:

* Finland's Käärijä is already a walking SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny but [[https://youtu.be/iVrYWzoha2c this moment]] in his Be My Guest video even had the staff laughing:
--> '''Clara Amfo''': You're going to put on this blindfold, and then you put your hand in this bag and guess the items in "the Käärijä Bag"! Do you see the British humor?[[labelnote:note]][[DontExplainTheJoke "Käärijä" is pronounced the same way as "carrier"]].[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Käärijä''': ''(with the blindfold on)'' I don't see anything.

* Finland's Käärijä is already a walking SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny but [[https://youtu.be/iVrYWzoha2c this moment]] in his Be My Guest video even had the staff laughing:
--> '''Clara Amfo''': You're going to put on this blindfold, and then you put your hand in this bag and guess "What's in the Käärijä Bag"! Do you see the British humor?[[labelnote:note]][[DontExplainTheJoke "Käärijä" is pronounced the same way as "carrier"]].[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Käärijä''': ''(with the blindfold on)'' I don't see anything.

* Finland's Käärijä is already a walking SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny but [[https://youtu.be/iVrYWzoha2c this moment]] in his Be My Guest video even had the staff laughing:
--> '''Clara Amfo''': You're going to put on this blindfold, and then you put your hand in this bag and guess "What's in the Käärijä Bag"! Do you see the British humor?[[labelnote:note]][[DontExplainTheJoke "Käärijä" is pronounced the same way as "carrier".[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Käärijä''': ''(with the blindfold on)'' I don't see anything.

** Sweden: "Never mind the giant toastie machine, I wanna see a BBC risk assessment on Loreen's nails"

* In 2012, Mr. Lordi presented Finland's results. He went ahead to [[OverlyLongGag declare each top 3 votegetter the "hottest, cutest, prettiest, ______"]] before actually revealing their identity. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npQ8LpV2jG0 See for yourself]].

* For the 2023 edition, the BBC have asked the contestants to [[https://twitter.com/bbceurovision/status/1657018016251387905?s=20 sing]] [[https://twitter.com/bbceurovision/status/1657018020902887428?s=20 certain]] [[https://twitter.com/bbceurovision/status/1657018025113952257?s=20 tweets]] to the tune of their respective entries. Highlights include:

** Azerbaijan: "I did not have hot musical twins with glasses from Azerbaijan on my bingo card but I'm here for it"

** If one looks closely in the background while the hosts are talking to Dustin, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Luke Black can also be seen with a confused expression on his face]]. Doubly funny considering that Dustin took part in the year when the contest was held in his hom country of Serbia.

--> '''Hannah''': "You see, Europe, some of us Brits do bother to learn another language."

--> '''Alesha Dixon''': "Don't worry, Julia. We'll explain everything later."

* Julia Sanina also looked completely bewildered in the first semi final when Dustin the Turkey came in for a chat with her and co-host Hannah Waddingham, especially when Hannah was making some puns that seemed to fly (pun intended) over Julia’s head.

* Julia Sanina also looked completely bewildered in the first semi final when Dustin the Turkey came in for a chat with her and co-host Hannah Waddingham, especially when Hannah was making some puns that seemed to fly (pun intended) over Julia’s head.

** On Twitter, the comments ranged from SeenItAll to wondering what kind of mushroom the BBC were smoking to reassurance that this wasn't an illusion made by waking up at 4:30am in the morning.

* Whoever set the questions for the "Qualifier or [=NQ=]" game played by Mans Zelmerlow and Filomena Cautela (hosts for the 2016 and 2018 editions respectively) must have had something against the Swedes since the 3rd song featured [[https://youtu.be/JFGI7HpeAvQ?t=110 was Anna Bergendahl]] from the 2010 edition. Filomena ''immediately'' complains about the unfairness of featuring her while Mans [[SelectiveObliviousness claims to have no memory of the song whatsoever]], to which he gets called out by Filomena and the Youtube comments.[[note]]For those that don't get it, 2010 was the year when Sweden famously failed to qualify.[[/note]]
--> '''Youtube comment''': Yes, you do. Each and every Swede knows it lmao, [[NeverLiveItDown it's like a national core memory.]]

* Whoever set the questions for the "Qualifier or [=NQ=]" game played by Mans Zelmerlow and Filomena Catuela (The hosts for the 2016 and 2018 editions respectively) must have had something against the Swedes since the 3rd song featured [[https://youtu.be/JFGI7HpeAvQ?t=110 was Anna Bergendahl]] from the 2010 edition. Filomena ''immediately'' complains about the unfairness of featuring her while Mans [[BlatantLies claims to have no memory of the song whatsoever]], to which he gets called out by Filomena and the Youtube comments.[[note]]For those that don't get it, 2010 was the year when Sweden famously failed to qualify.[[/note]]

--> '''Alesha Dixon''': "We'll explain everything later, Julia."

* Every now and again, you get a conga line after the performances. What was so funny about the one in 2023's second semifinal? It was being led by WesternAnimation/PeppaPig. Adding to the hilarity was host Julia Sanina not having the faintest idea what was going on.

*** And, when she's accidentally been in Copenhagen Denmark instead of Malmö Sweden:

* Whoever set the questions for the "Qualifier or [=NQ=]" game played by Mans Zelmerlow and Filomena Catuela (The hosts for the 2016 and 2018 editions respectively) must have had something against the Swedes since the 3rd song featured [[https://youtu.be/JFGI7HpeAvQ?t=110 was Anna Bergendahl]] from the 2010 edition. Filomena ''immediately'' complains about the unfairness of featuring her while Mans [[BlatantLies claims to have no memory of the song whatsoever]], to which he gets called out by Filomena and the Youtube comments.
--> '''Youtube comment''': Yes, you do. Each and every swede knows it lmao, [[NeverLiveItDown it's like a national core memory.]]

--> '''Audience''': "[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch!]]"

---> '''Youtube comment''': Yes, you do. Each and every swede knows it lmao, [[NeverLiveItDown it's like a national core memory.]]

---> '''Youtube comment''': Yes, you do. Each and every swede knows it lmao, [[NeverLiveItDown it's like a national core memory.]]

* In 2022, when it was announced that Liverpool would be hosting the 2023 Contest, Graham Norton made the announcement on ''The One Show'' and spent six seconds to announce that they had beaten Glasgow for the rights to host it - failing to spot that the back of the card clearly showed "Eurovision Song Contest ... Liverpool 2023", ruining any surprise.

* Swedish commentator Edward af Sillén is starting to give Graham Norton a run for his money in the comedy department. Highlights from 2015 include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsJ8Rmi9yS8 encouraging viewers not to look during an advertisement]] (since SVT that airs the show in Sweden is a public service network that doesn't get funding from advertisement) and [[http://austargirl.tumblr.com/post/119921239469/zeusniflheim-i-present-to-you-the-swedish this collection of snark]] which includes a comment that went viral on tumblr and twitter:

** In 2021 after Israels performance in the first semifinal where the record for the highest tone was broken he said:

* How often had "Royaume-Uni", the French for "United Kingdom", been heard in recent Contests? Not often. So much so that when Belgium - who voted in French - awarded their ''douze points'' to the United Kingdom, it was met with silence from the British delegation until it was repeated in English. About 15 minutes later, France did the same - and was met with the same reaction.