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It's been a month since the Grand Finale of Eurovision 2025, and it really has taken us this long to gather our thoughts. Are they fully realised? We're not sure, maybe listen to the episode and judge for yourself. One thing is clear: it's been a pleasure. Thanks for the memories.

Switzerland’s commitment to Eurovision has been long and faithful. They gave us the first ever Grand Prix, almost seven decades ago, and in a two-for-one deal they also gave us the first ever winner, Lys Assia. They gave us the most iconic vocalist to ever come out of the song contest, Céline Dion, and they also took care of the last edition in the 80s, before the new decade saw Europe fall apart...

One final assault in The Battle Of The Songwriters, and this time, a heavy-hitter waves its pen in front of decades of acts: Ralph Siegel returns to Laugh Laugh Please Please to try and take the crown that he couldn’t snatch in the previous season. His contenders? A pioneering German super group, a heart-break anthem from Montenegro, and a 70s-fueled Sammarinese fever dream. Will this be enough? T...

The Battle Of The Songwriters: Round 4. American lyricist Charlie Mason takes centre stage with three of his Eurovision creations: an Italian classic, a Slovenian dance-bop, and a Croatian exercise in drama. To be honest, once you’ve already won Eurovision, you can really do whatever it is you want. As for our interview guests, we had not one, not two, but three guests for this episode! The yihaa...

It’s time for the 3rd round of The Battle Of The Songwriters, and representing Belgium we have Ravvel: another lyricist that has tasted the Eurovision podium. Today we discuss her debut in the contest, her collaboration with a glass microphone winner, and her latest attempt in 2024. And in an episode mostly dedicated to Belgium, who else than Red Sebastian to fill our interview slot? His banger St...

Eurovision songwriters are back for round two: Pierre Delanoë takes centre stage to present three iconic tracks from the literal back in the day. The 60s and the 70s were buzzing in the francophone world, so Mr. Delanoë was kept busy, writing some iconic tunes for France, Monaco or Luxembourg. Sissal, also known as The Voice, gifted us her talent and her time for a heart-to-heart. And no, this is...

The songwriters are battling it out for a second year in a row for the Laugh Laugh Please Please title for the most prolific cross-border author with the best Eurovision song. First up, Bulgaria’s own Borislav Milanov, bringing us entries from North Macedonia, Malta and, of course, Bulgaria. We also welcome Emmy, travelling from her Norwegian corner of the witch woods to represent Ireland, and in...

The Laugh Laugh Please Please Triad is reunited! John has been away for an entire month and there’s a lot that we need to catch up on. After we recap all the 2025 entries that came out while he was touring Japan, we then went through all the national finals to choose some of the non-winners that would’ve made this year’s roster that much better: like a powerful, female Italian ballad, a kawaii-cow...

Four more songs and the Class of 2025 is complete, and Laugh Laugh Please Please is here to break down every single detail about the newest entries: a Swiss emotional trip, a Cypriot vow of silence, a Georgian call for liberty, and motherly cry from France. Were there any boxes left to tick? In case of doubt, four more countries also gave us a revamp of their original track, so we of course had to...

Bear with us everyone, this was the busiest week of the year: three internally selected acts finally released their songs, and the national final season came to a close during a Super Saturday that gave us another three competitors. We enjoyed the lyrical prowess from Austria, the 007-inspired melodies from Czechia, and the West End mash-up from the UK. We also saw an ode to sauna emerge victoriou...

We’re on the final stretch of the National Final season, so your humble hosts at Laugh Laugh Please Please had to call for backup. While lives his best Japanese life, we were excited to have Ivana’s cousin Lea as our guest host to help us analyse this week’s new entries: the francophone Netherlands, the nostalgic Serb, the hallucinating Dane, the electronic Germans, and the poisonous Croat. Lea wa...

It’s a new week in the werk room and we’re still comfortably riding the Eurovision wave: the 2025 iceberg is still pretty shallow, we’re moving at a relatively safe speed, and our enthusiasm is still helping us push through the drama. We have travelled back to Italy this week, as a certain Sanremo winner decided not to accept a ticket to Basel, so a lovely first alternate is taking his place. Coup...

Hop aboard the Eurovision train, full steam ahead, for yet another weekly musical tour around Europe: from the 2025 revival of a Polish 90s diva, and the caffeinated love story of an Estonian exhibitionist, to the fiery determination of a Norwegian knight, and the dark looks of Lithuanian grunge, while waiting on an indecisive, heart-broken Italian deciding whether he’s taking the ride. For a mome...

A Super Saturday is as stimulating as it is stressful, but we’re not ones to shy away from hours and hours of Eurovision content, so here’s the breakdown. Five new songs added to the 2025 roster, coming from all corners of the continent: a Norwegian orbiting Irish soil, a returning Finn nodding in German, a trio of hipster Ukrainians, a folk band of Latvian forest nymphs, and a philosophical waitr...

It’s a new week in the Laugh Laugh Please Please studio and no matter where you look, there’s a national final happening, a semi bringing drama to the fandom, an internal selection disappointing someone… There’s room for everybody - especially for Greece, Slovenia, Belgium and Spain, who selected their 2025 representatives with varying degrees of agreement and scandal. To lighten the mood a bit, i...

Laugh Laugh Please Please is back for another season, and this premiere will tell you everything you'll need to know about how 2025 is going to go, because we disclose, discuss and distract ourselves with our New Year Resolutions. We also have our first three selected acts for the contest, and between the return of Montenegro, Albania's drama-filled national finals, and Luxembourg's sophomore atte...

The last day of the year is upon us, and we want to close 2024 in style. It's been a long season, full of ups and downs, but the final test is here: Ivana and John need to prove their worth in the ultimate Eurovision game show, where they'll be hit left, right and centre with musical snippets that will confuse, confuddle and confumble them. Make sure you play along, and let us know if you would've...

Send us a textIt’s the best season of the year and at Laugh Laugh Please Please we couldn’t help but pay tribute to it in the best way we know: with Eurovision songs. If you’re excited for everything that fall brings along, like misty mornings, farmer’s markets, or rainy evenings reading a book, but you don’t have the adequate soundtrack to really bring these moments to life, you came to the right...

Have you ever dreamt of a stage musical put together with only Eurovision songs? A Halloween-inspired show based on a noughties cult classique? A zombie horror comedy filled with blood, brains, and banter? Stop dreaming, it’s happening! Laugh Laugh Please Please is proud to bring the first draft of Shaun of the Dead: A Eurovision Musical, soon to be found in (some) theatres (maybe). Join us in a d...

Send us a textLaugh Laugh Please Please is back in session and after a long summer of tears, karaoke and uncontrollable heat, this is our back to school episode, with the return of an old faithful: The Battles. This time around we have songs with the same titles fighting each other, but if you thought that the language barrier would keep them safe, you know nothing about war. This month we’ll expl...

Send us a textIn this month’s sizzling episode of Laugh Laugh Please Please, we’re turning up the thermostat to a sensible “too hot to handle!” During an unstoppable heatwave, we wisefully decide to delve into a river of lava made of Eurovision tunes: from sultry performances to scorching lyrics, we’re exploring the tracks that have ignited the stage and left audiences sweating. Whether it’s songs...

Send us a textJuly is a super special month at Laugh Laugh Please Please Studios, and although we’re not the type to toot our own respective horn with a cheesy birthday party, we will use any and all excuses to indulge into our second favourite musical event ever: karaoke. For today’s episode we’ve curated the best, most varied, internationally acclaimed, proclaimed, declaimed, and singalonged Eur...

Send us a textEurovision season is over and in order to cope with the sadness, we’ve decided to indulge in it and allow ourselves to feel our deepest feelings in order to overcome and move forward. In this episode, we will go over some of the most heartbreaking entries that have ever graced the ESC stage: songs that will tug at your heartstrings, through emotional vocals, moving lyrics, or melanch...

Send us a textHas anyone heard of Post-Eurovision Relief? On a regular year, the period immediately after the Grand Final is filled with a weird sense of grief, instant melancholia, for what fills our lives with most happiness is once again a year away. However, in 2024, when every second of the ESC-week was a constant stream of breaking news, backstage drama, and randomness beyond belief, one is...

Send us a textThis week a new edition of our favourite contest will take us all for another emotional rollercoaster, but before all is said and done, we wanted to look back at all other previous years in which Sweden got to play the hosting game. Let’s dive into all those artists that have won big, lost hard, sung in home turf, and pulled our heart strings in a nostalgia-filled episode featuring h...