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Send us a textLaugh Laugh Please Please is driving full speed, no brakes, down Interview Avenue and we cannot stop - we love to talk. So this episode we take our tribute to the fallen heroes to the next level. First, we talk with Tilda and Jonas from the Swedish country duo Tennessee Tears, who tugged at our heartstrings with the melancholic banger Now I Know at this year’s Melodifestivalen. We ta...

Send us a textMimicat opens up her lyrically confused and broken heart and tells us all her plans for this year's contest: her experience at Festival da Canção, her European tour around all the ESC concerts and her personal relationship with Eurovision. As you know by now, conflict is in the air that we breathe, so we are completing the 2023 Title Battles with a volume II, and things get real. We...

Send us a textLuke Black wakes up from his eternal slumber to give us an insider’s peek into the brilliant mind behind the wickedly charming Samo mi se spava. Where does he get the inspiration? How does that translate into his music? What can we expect from Serbia at this year’s Eurovision? And most importantly, what’s his favourite ESC song of all time? Because we love a bit of healthy conflict,...

Send us a textLaugh Laugh Please Please is back to regular programming. This week we pay homage to all those artists and songs that tried their best at representing their country but missed out on the ticket to Liverpool - and we’re not talking just second alternates, we’re going deep: juries’ last places, disqualified acts, semifinal hopefuls, among others. We take on a new game of The Common Lin...

Send us a textJoker Out is in da LP house! Right before their trip to Barcelona for the inauguration of Eurovision Party season, the band’s guitar player Kris stopped by to have a chat with our Classic Connoisseur Ivana: they talked about endless days in recording studios, they talked about Austin Powers, they talked about Sestre, Abba, and Ruslana… All of that and more in just a half hour - we ca...

Send us a textNational final season is over! And that only means a few things: statistically speaking, we’re highly likely to have heard the winner of Eurovision 2023; our weekends are bound to free up considerably now that we don’t have hours and hours of European TV to watch; and the remaining songs yet to be released are still a mysterious bunch that haven’t been performed in any semifinal, so...

Send us a textTrust Laugh Laugh Please Please as your certified ESC tour guide as we embark on a melodic journey through the heart of Europe. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of musical heritage that the continent has to offer, from the country existential crises of The Netherlands, to the powerful heartbreak of Cyprus and goth rock extravaganza of Germany, to the traditional folk sounds of M...

Send us a textIn our latest episode we go through four new acts that have been added to the 2023 roster, and let us tell you, our previous Top 3s were found dazed and confused somewhere in Europe, because there’s a newcomer that took the stakes, shook them, and raised all the way up. In three words: Cha Cha Cha. We bring back a fan favourite for our main topic: The Battle Of. This time we take a t...

Send us a textLaugh Laugh Please Please is back with a new episode, and thankfully, our Eurovision goddesses graced our senses with only two new songs this weekend, so we have time to squeeze in yet another of our random main topics. Inspired by the social media opulence of Queen of Kings, we are completing a brief historic recap of viral ESC hits: smashing success in the charts, worldwide TikTok...

Send us a textSuper Saturday is the one evening every decent eurofan can’t wait to experience, and if you don’t fall into the “decent” category, just be thankful that we’re here to recap it for you. Adding to a midweek release from Czechia, a total of seven shows took place, and there really is something for each taste: whether you like k-pop sponsored heartbreak, or explicit rural-rock Armagedon-...

Send us a textAgainst all odds, the ESC podcast that should've never even had a first season is back! In the Laugh Laugh Please Please Season 2 premiere we recap the first 7 songs selected for this year's contest: from an underground national final in Ukraine, and an Albanian The Voice feud, to a brilliant presentation show in Ljubljana full of Eurovision hits, and the second edition of the acclai...

Send us a textThe eagerly awaited season finale of Laugh Laugh Please Please is finally here! And to tap into the holiday spirit, we present to you the most self-indulging episode one could ever think of: a game show special that will test the wits of even the biggest ESC fans and confuse newbies and locals alike. A new instalment of The (good old) Common Linnet kicks us off, in which our contesta...

Send us a textAfter a Halloween episode, we had the time to reflect and realise what is really the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to Eurovision: its cancellation. And because two editions later we're still not over it, we want to pay tribute to all the songs that never got to experience the ESC stage. In November's episode we're discussing our 2020 favourites, the artists that we wis...

Send us a textBoo, b*tch! Fall is finally here and you know we’re suckers for all kinds of yearly celebrations, so how could we ever miss an opportunity to put together a Halloween-y recap of Eurovision songs? In our latest episode we explore all the kinds of terror that have been brought to the ESC stage throughout the years, be it lyrics, fashions, messages, performances, all of it! And since we...

Send us a textThe ESC battles are back again: Summer Edition! And this time it’s for 2017 and 2021 to face off against each other and see which year comes out on top. We’re talking winners, we’re talking countries, we’re talking last placers - every category our fans helped us pick, we’re going there in an attempt to eventually decide which contest rules harder. Now the question is, do we get anyw...

Send us a textEvery Eurovision year has at least one winning song that’s commemorated, condecorated, and collectively celebrated, but what if despite your best efforts you end up dead last? Laugh Laugh Please Please is back at it with a new episode to bring to the spotlight some of the biggest losers in the history of the contest, the unsung heroes that went unnoticed, the cream of the crop that d...

Send us a textJuly has come, and as the birthday month of all your three favourite podcasts hosts, we decide to pay homage to all those entries that best represent us: the underdogs. We recap the Eurovision history of dark horses, those entries that were most unassuming during the whole season, but come May, subverted all expectations and did way better than initially expected of them. A new game...

Send us a textWE'RE GAY! Sorry, I mean, WE'RE BACK!Laugh Laugh Please Please could not really let June go without diving into the Eurovision LGBTQIA+ history and bring to our audience the biggest, most iconic pride anthems - you're welcome! From social contribution and secret love stories, from empowering messages to drag Reinassance dancers, drag flight attendants, and drag rural train hostesses,...

Send us a textIs it too late already to be talking about Eurovision 2022? We don’t actually care. This was certainly a year to take a video of and watch it SloMo, because a lot of stuff went down: all the chills we got watching the performances, all the acts that died together in the semis, all the sekret voting exchanges in the background, all the sun drama faded to black. One last episode to wav...

Send us a textNobody has ever yearned for additional Eurovision content during Eurovision week, but we are relentless in our eurovangelisation mission and before the semifinals break our hearts all over again this year, we wanted to honour some of our favourite acts that failed to qualify in the past, jumping back and forth in decades of disappointment, forgetability and outrage. One final game of...

Send us a textThe ESC Battles Are Back! Laugh Laugh Please Please has rummaged through the Eurovision archives once again, this time to pit songs with the same title against each other. If the broken rotating sun in the Turin stage is not enough drama for you, we welcome you with open arms. Old and new, slow and fast, successful and obscure. We will not discriminate, every song will be given the s...

Send us a textTuesday is officially Laugh Laugh Please Please day, so come celebrate linguistic diversity in the Eurovision Song Contest with us! Throughout the history of the biggest musical competition in the world, we've seen languages come and go, both by choice and by rulebook requirements, but the one thing that remained strong and stood the test of time is the general public predilection fo...

Send us a textYour favourite guilty pleasure podcast Laugh Laugh Please Please is back this week, and it seems we got used to opening up, because we’re bringing our hottest takes about Eurovision, no chaser. In this instalment we’ll be discussing some of those songs that are generally loved across the fandom but don’t quite tickle our tastes: from actual winning songs to beloved underdogs, and fro...

Send us a textLaugh Laugh Please Please gets personal this week. Come with us on the shameful journey that is the guilty pleasure: why do we even feel bad for enjoying something as harmless as a run of the mill Eurovision song? Be prepared to peek into our little box of horrors as we come clean to each other about everything we keep undercoverTo counteract all the manufactured drama, we have games...

Send us a textWelcome to a new episode of Random Eurovision Commentary, also known as Laugh Laugh Please Please. In this instalment we bring you a historical rundown about all the countries that have been absent from the competition, and we analyse, thanks to our vast sociology and politics background, the reasons for their absence. To top it all off, we bring you a new game of The Common Linnet,...