Eurovision 2023 - Commentator Reactions to Qualifying - Semi-Final 1 - English Subtitles
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See and hear how local commentators react to their country (not) qualifying to the Grand Final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest!
Thanks to some amazing people in our community, we were able to add English subtitles for all reactions (except for Northern/Inari Sámi).
Note that there is no video from the Maltese broadcast, as TVM broadcasts the contest without commentary.
All rights to the footage belong to the EBU and the respective broadcasters.
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0:00 Croatia - HRT - Duško Ćurlić
0:19 Moldova - TRM - Daniela Crudu
0:33 Switzerland - RTS (French) - Jean-Marc Richard, Nicolas Tanner & Priscilla Formaz
0:44 Switzerland - SRF (German) - Sven Epiney
0:58 Switzerland - RSI (Italian) - Ellis Cavallini & Gian-Andrea Costa
1:13 Finland - YLE (Finnish) - Mikko Silvennoinen
1:30 Finland - YLE (Russian) - Levan Tvaltvadze
1:44 Finland - YLE (Sami) - Heli Huovinen & Aslak Paltto
1:56 Finland - YLE (Swedish) - Eva Frantz & Johan Lindroos
2:06 Finland - YLE (Ukrainian) - Galyna Sergeyeva
2:15 Czechia - ČT - Jan Maxián
2:29 Israel - IPBC - Asaf Liberman & Akiva Novick
2:44 Portugal - RTP - José Carlos Malato & Nuno Galopim
2:58 Sweden - SVT - Edward af Sillén
3:08 Serbia - RTS - Duška Vučinić
3:18 Norway - NRK - Marte Stokstad
3:35 Azerbaijan - İTV - Azer Suleymanli
3:51 Ireland - RTÉ - Marty Whelan
4:04 Latvia - LTV - Toms Grēviņš
4:25 Netherlands - NPO - Cornald Maas & Jan Smit - Hudba
screaming at netherlands being like “well we aren’t ireland”
Right? They didn’t even sound that disappointed 😂
@@SuperJNG18 The hate the duo received in the past month was insane. They were very very bad at the start and people were even suprised they didn't back down after the first performance
hahahaha! For what it's worth I really liked the Dutch entry , probably my favourite song even on the night so was quite shocked to see it not qualify , especially with Switzerland going through which I found quite dull personally.
Eimear Quinn did a new version of her 1996 winning song The Voice for a concert in Amsterdam ironically enough a couple of years back (it's on youtube) . RTE in Ireland could do far worse than pick up the phone to her if they are out of ideas as to what to send , which frankly since the turn of the millennium they seem to have been...
@@SuperJNG18 That's because we/they had already given up hope we would qualify so when we didn't he was like ok we were right. Should we have been through however ... you might have heard him scream ;-)
Yeah, Dutchies can sometimes be really edgy.
the croatian guy just laughing is so real
It was so fast that we are not prepared for Croatia to be first anounced.
@@slavkosain That’s how it is! They all start with a curveball, like when North Macedonia made it back with Tamara.
@@slavkosain that's true, artists and commentators are the least prepared, if they're gonna get announced first. Definitely not last, because they're always announcing safe qualifiers last.
@@slavkosain was he happy or mocked them? its hard to get it
@@user-dy4io9nt3z he was happy, shocked, but happy 😄
I love how Finland's YLE always cares to have different language broadcastings: Finnish, Russian, Swedish, Sami and even Ukrainian.
And they also had English commentators back for UMK.
Three of those are official languages in Finland, Russians are a decently sized minority and we have enough Ukrainian refugees here that it makes sense to also provide them commentary.
@@tapio_m6861 In Spain we have 4 national languages and RTVE only provides one broadcast with Spanish speaking comentators... I envy Finland little bit more... Haha
@@tapio_m6861 Russian isnt an official language though
@@mrmr4622 as he said, there are many Russian speaking people living in Finland, which makes it valuable to offer commentary in their language. I do think that tv is a great way for people to integrate and learn the (official) language, but it's also nice that they provide at least some (I don't know how many Finnish tv programs are aired in Russian language) in other languages for those who don't yet understand the country's official ones. Especially for Eurovision which is the epitome of an international program followed by people of different languages.
@@ehmzed I hope you know why many people in Finland speak russian and that it’s not for a good reason
3:56
- "Is it possible that we are in the final?"
- "NO WAAAAAAY"
Lol yes it's exactly how I heard it 😂
I'm at work trying to stifle my laughter and failing miserably, I cannot believe this hasn't been memed to hell and back
Seeing Käärijjä take off his shirt in 5 different languages 😂
Love the Latvian commentator and he is 100% correct. Sudden Lights were incredible and they deserved more, absolutely nothing to be ashamed about. Ppl just didn't get it, but those that did loved it! I voted for it 15 times from Germany. Please don't give up Latvia ❤❤❤
I voted for it three times from NYC! I didn’t hope too much but I knew they did great and were the kind of artists who’d just appreciate even being there to begin with. Latvia did a brilliant job and shouldn’t regret a thing. Next year!
I was sorry to see them head back and I'd have wanted them to go through (couldn't vote in this semi final)! They seem a decent group and enjoyed their set yesterday. Listening to some of their stuff on CZcams I can't help but feel they might have done better with a televote if they chose something like "Laternas" ijnstead of "Aija" - with a more energetic feel and hook.
Something tells me they ended up in 11th place, probably behind Remo, or something. We’ll know by the 13th, and I’m guessing what doomed their song was the fact that indie rock listeners don’t tend to pay much attention to the ESC. Maybe they should… I know I voted for them three times, for the first time ever since I’ve started watching this thing. 🤷♂️
@@Mainyehc might be something to that - indie rock does occasionally break through to the mainstream here in the UK , this would have done well in 2005 here.
I voted for them from Portugal...im really scared they will withdraw next year
okay the impressions I got from these commentators:
-Croatia: omg we actually qualified how funny
-Moldova: whoop okay, fine we qualified
-Switzerland: OMFGFGFGFGFGF WE MADE IT (all of them)
-Finland: let's pretend to be surprised... YEEEES (also all of them)
-Czechia: yeah let's go we are through let's party!
-Israel: Of course we are in the final with Noa
-Portugal: OMFG WE QUALIFIED FOR THE 3RD TIME IN A ROW
-Sweden: let's pretend like we didn't expect... SO RELIEVED
-Serbia: oooooh I'm so relieved
-Norway: oooooooh why they keeping us for last
Excuse us Portuguese, we are not used to success in this 😂
The Finland-Swedish one wasn't even pretending to be surprised. She literally said "well we knew it of course"
@@Tintelinus Yeah they knew.
@@s2Capacidade2s haha but totally deserved qualification. Mimicat is great :)
@@---oi5zi hahaha yes
Finland has so many languages here and I like their reactions on each!
I'm Finnish and I didn't know we had reactors in that many languages. 😂 Nice to see we're providing for our Ukrainians as well!
@@vanyadolly Yeah, that’s awesome!
Truly United by music 💚💚💚
As a Finn I can say that I’m really proud of Yle for their job and how much they have started to take this contest seriously!
The Swiss guys were the best, especially the French language one "OH LA LA LA LA LA!"😂. The Czech guy sounds like a football commentator. Without the subtitles his comment sounded as if he were saying, "The bold strategy paid off for them, Cotton." 😆 I love it.
I love Eurovision commentators who treat it like sports commentary. Makes it more fun imo.
latvian commentator is 100% right ! you guys have nothing to regret ❤
That's a great attitude to have, kudos to them.
I love how supportive the Latvian commentator was with Sudden Lights. They really deserved the grand final.
All of the Finnish commentators are iconic, but HUGE shout-out to the Sámi commentators in particular. Really happy to see them being represented here, especially since they've had a rough go of it in Norway and Finland recently. Eurovision brings us all together!
Ireland's "🥺 pretty please" was so cute
"It isnt !"
it was cute but it's quite delusional to think ireland will qualify over norway....
Marty Whelan is the best. Just an all round great guy
@@Rash23215 Well, hope is the last to die.
@@Rash23215 lol how old are you ?
Switzerland commentators were really happy !
I’m so happy that yle is making more of an effort to help in revitalising the Sámi languages, even if it’s mostly concentrated on Northern Sámi right now. I hope NRK and SVT will follow their lead.
Really interesting you mentioned that, as NRK, YLE and SVT have made a joint news program dedicated to the Sámi language, and runs on their channels.
Wow Finland was broadcasting in 6 different languages, impressive and shows they care!
Yeah YLE has been providing Sami thankfully more and more past and ESC has had them for few years. Ukrainian became thing last year and Russians are our biggest minority.
Yeah I was surprised when I was able to watch their NF in Swedish 👍
1:00 The Swiss Italian speaking commentators cheered in such an Italian way lol
Also the French: Oh la la la
And Swiss German: Yuhuuu
@@wbaumnuss3006 Gosh you're right, "oh la la la, c'est fantastique" is the frenchest cheering I can imagine
😊@@wbaumnuss3006
I'm so sad for Latvia 🥺
Thanks for this video.
I absolutely love Mikko (the Finnish commentator), he's my favourite part about Eurovision. He's just so excited about Eurovision and relatable tbh hehe
Me too! He even had green bolero with him and he put it on in his booth, without a shirt of course. I have a badge that has Mikkos most famous saying: ”Muista rakastaa itseäsi!” (Remember to love yourself!)
@@mantailuaa Oh that's so cool! Also I love that picture (or video? Can't remember lol) of him wearing the bolero
Switzerland was wholesome on a new level🤣🤩
I love the Latvian commentator's attitude - yes you guys should be proud and unshamed. You gave us a good song, a good performance and staged it well that it did get you over the line isn't the fault of anyone on your team. Good job guys!
"hvala"...the Serbian commentator was just relieved :D
She wanted to say "Hvala kurcu", which means "Thanks to dick", a common phrase in Serbia when you're happy something happened. It's just that she was on live television so she needed to change up her language a bit😂
@@datboi5325 ah alright😄
@@werdscher0568 She later said, "last year Konstrakta was called the very last, they again tried to play with our nerves."
Marte always getting so excited even though Norway is a sure qualifier i love her! Also Duška who is always chill and calm, true ESC icon.
1:15 I love him. 😂
Are you gonna do a commentator reaction when they get 12 points?
We missed that last year.
It's on our schedule!
@@escdiscord Good luck !!
@@escdiscord Ayo, I can't wait for that.
Save one for Edward and Måns!
The dutch commentator just casually throwing shade on ireland
He's like we're taking Ireland down with us!
It was straight up hating on them, the Dutch suffer from superiority complex
fun fact: the czech commentator (Jan Maxián) is also a voice actor of Spongebob 🙈
00:03 🇭🇷 Duško Ćurlić (He's been involved in every ESC since 2006, replacing Aleksandar "Aco" Kostadinov, except in 2014 in which "Aco" commentated again just like from 1993 to 2000 and again in 2004 and 2005)
00:21 🇲🇩 Daniela Crudu
00:35 🇨🇭 Jean-Marc Richard, Nicolas Tanner and Priscilla Formaz (The former two have been commentating in French language since ESC 2008)
00:45 🇨🇭 Sven Epiney (He's been commentating in German language since ESC 2008)
01:01 🇨🇭 Ellis Cavallini and Gian-Andrea Costa
01:14 🇫🇮 Mikko Silvennoinen (He's been commentating in Finnish language since ESC 2016)
01:32 🇫🇮 Levan Tvaltvadze (He's been commentating in Russian language since ESC 2021)
01:47 🇫🇮 Heli Huovinen and Aslak Paltto
01:57 🇫🇮 Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos (They've been commentating in Swedish language since ESC 2011)
02:08 🇫🇮 Galyna Sergeyeva
02:18 🇨🇿 Jan Maxián
02:32 🇮🇱 Asaf Liberman and Akiva Novick
02:46 🇵🇹 José Carlos Malato and Nuno Galopim
03:01 🇸🇪 Edward af Sillén (He's been commentating ESC since 2009, even JESC until 2014, with the exceptions of 2013 and 2016)
03:10 🇷🇸 Duška Vučinić-Lučić (She's been involved in every ESC since 2007, except in 2008 and 2014, even on the JESC from 2006 to 2010)
03:21 🇳🇴 Marte Stokstad (She's been commentating ESC since 2021, despite being announced to replace Olav Viksmo-Slettan in 2020)
03:38 🇦🇿 Azer Suleymanli
04:01 🇮🇪 Marty Whelan (He's been commentating ESC in 1987, and since 2000)
04:06 🇱🇻 Toms Grēviņš (He's been commentating ESC since 2015, replacing Valters Frīdenbergs and Kārlis Būmeisters, aka Valters and Kaža, who were Latvian representatives in ESC 2005 and commentators since 2011)
04:27 🇳🇱 Cornald Maas (He's been involved in every ESC since 2007, except in 2008 and 2014) and Jan Smit (Host of ESC 2021; Involved in every ESC since 2011 and again from 2022 onwards, even on the JESC from 2014 to 2018 and again in 2020)
PD: The names of each commentator are already shown on the bottom left side of the screen, but here it is anyway.
3:10
1:14 - We love you, Mikko and your infectious laugh! AND PLEASE WEAR THE BOLERO!
Omg switzerlands commentators were so greatt haha and why in the heck does finland have so many xD
Swedish and Sami, toghether with Finnish ofc, are official languages in Finland.
Bit surprised about Russian and Ukranian tho
@@Tintelinus Finland borders Russia so I wouldn’t be shocked if they have a size-able Russian-speaking population. And I think the Ukrainian commentators was a nice gesture toward Ukrainian refugees currently in Finland too.
@@Tintelinus there is a sizeable Russian minority in Finland, that´s been part of Finland for ages. But only recently did they get a Russian language version of the national channel
This compilation is amazing! Thank you so much!
NQ commentators reaction in the nutshell:
Azerbaijan: Yeah... we didn't qualified, anyways...
Ireland: *cries thinking that Europe never gives them a chance even tho that they have 7 victories in esc*
Latvia: We didn't qualified but they showed up on eurovision and we are proud that they slayed on the stage
Netherlands: At least we didn't NQ for almost 10 years unlike Ireland (They are roasting Ireland for not getting into a Final)
Malta: *Silence*
Azerbaijani guy shocked us all actually. He was commenting for the first time and at home we were thinking he was worried more for Norway than Azerbaijan 🤣🤣🤣 also he was saying "And Norwaaay, the last finalist. Unfortunately, we won't see our representative performing again in the final. But it is okay" 🤣🤣🤣 he was unnecessarily happy when we could not make it 😂
Malta: 😐
The Irish "It isnt" was so funny
Wow, very nice and appreciated video! Thanks a lot
thank you for those videos sm
Thanks for the amazing job!!!!
You put that together so quickly.A great listen, thanks.
I was waiting for this exciting video. Can't wait for tomorrow
what a cool video idea 😍 thanks for the upload
This really is so exciting to see, love how each country is so proud.
This is what it’s all about! The excitement and relief of getting to the final. Loved this video
Big effort went into making this video. I appreciate it! It's interesting how some commentators are more nationalistic (Moldova), others are over the moon (Switzerland), and some are just relieved (Serbia).
Merci pour cette vidéo ❤️🙏🏻
thank u so much for adding the swiss italian!
Those commentary are totally the best 😊
Love the way how inclusive Finland is
Can't wait for tomorrow
Latvian commentator 100% based
I cant wait for this year’s version
Coming tomorrow. :)
@@escdiscord thank you!! 🙏🏻
Welcome back Switzerland 🇨🇭
My favourite reactions are all of the Swiss commentators and the Portuguese commentators.
Latvia commentator🇱🇻😭😭😭
How were you able to find all these? Super impressed!
Are we also going to get a video of commentators reacting to getting 12 points? Looks like you guys have clips from all of the feeds!
The Irish comentator seems prety lunatic.... Lots of Love to the Latvian comentator, I vote for you guys but I gess it wasen't enough.... ❤
Ireland: 😂 "Is it possible that we are?"
Host: "NO r WAYYYYYY!!!!!
❤😂😂😂❤😂😂😂❤😂😂😂❤
Swiss never believe that they can make it to the final
As German speaker, I cannot for the life of me understand Switzerland’s accent, but it’s so cute 🥰 I can’t with the reactions hahaha
From what my German teacher taught us, in Switzerland they speak a dialect of German, something called Schwyzerdütsch ( or something like that)
Dutch commentators just roasting Ireland 😂😂😂😂😂
It was straight up hate
LATVIA
I love this type of videos! Btw, Malta's commentary wasn't available?
Edit: Oh, I've seen in the description of the video that TVM doesn't provide commentary with the broadcasting. Such a pity! Does anybody know why? I didn't know Malta didn't have commentators at Eurovision
They had commentators untill 2017
@@eglebalc3537 Oh, it's good to know. But the decision of removing them is weird, in my opinion. I don't know what could be the reason behind that
@@xander2609yeah...
@@xander2609everyone in Malta speaks english. So its a waste of money to put a commentary there.
WOW hai că este😝bun!🥰
Ireland: Is it possible that we are?
Presenter: No Way (Norway)
Favourite thing was watching Hannah Waddingham scream Finland six times.
Croatian commentator's name is Duško while Serbian commentator's name is Duška omfg bwhahahahah
But they are friends regardless and respect each other.
Damn Finland having more languages than Switzerland!
“Croatia”
Croatian man: *laughs in disbelief*
Croatia ❤
Marte Stokstad being cool and collected in 2023 after 2 years of literally yelling at the viewer after qualifying.
3:25 😂
1:47
Mimicat! She did it!
#TheBurlesquePrincess
#TheQueenOfTheHeart
Mimicat, Ai Coração and Portugal are in the Eurovision final!
From beeing an "under dog" and to achieve the Eurovison final, what a voyage! Achieved of course by astoning performances.
An amazing sexy and flirting dancing conjugated to the best vocals of the contest, walways in perfect interactionwith the public an d the cameras.
Well deserved!
By now... the sky is the limit! #1
Please vote for Mimicat and Portugal for the win in the final!
VAMOS PORTUGAL
That laugh from Portugal 😂
0:21
Irish commentator: is it possible that we are? (in the final) could we?
Hannah: NO WAY!!
Norwegian commentator: “Stupid TV-program making it so exciting!”
Since 2019
HAHAHAH NORWAY APOLOGISING FOR GETTING TOO EXCITED WHEN SHE DOES IT EVERY YEAR. LOVE HER
Utter relief from the Serbian commentator
Please make a video for Semi Final-2
Latvia had the best reaction to not qalifying
Awww i love how understanding the non quallifiers are
Except The Netherlands...
Switzerland deserved to win this year Swiss are the best !!! 👏😍🇨🇭my winner
Today we need to support him
@@ViolettaZ yes so much need to support him ❤😍🇨🇭🇨🇭👏
Beautiful reactions imo of both the qualifiers and non-qualifiers!
But… is Serbia really showing Eurovision on their THIRD channel? 🥲 like not even on their first or second?
Does it matter? In Poland there are 2 main channels of TVP but I think they both are equally important
Due to the two tragic mass shootings that recently happened in Serbia the media decided to stop broadcasting entertainment shows this entire week,but the grand final will be broadcasted on the main channel!
@Do VLA Okay thanks for answering.
1:15
The Croatian broadcaster just laughed?? You havent qualified in 4 years and thats how you celebrate? PLEASEEEE
he was shocked after so many years of nq (and he was the commentator all those years) plus he is not the type of personality to jump around and shout
To be honest that was my reaction as well when Croatia qualified. Then I got scared because i realised these tractor dictators are actually a threat in the televote 😬
Honestly that seems like the most appropriate reaction to this wild song qualifying. If I was Croatioan I would probably be very glad but also confused on how did it actually happen since it was a big gamble, plus not everyone celebrates in a vocal way.
Imagine if Hannah had to yell "NORWAY" that much time in a row ahahahaha
waiting for this year version🙏
Switzerland (Italian) is RSI not RTI
I was shocked Finland airs in Russian 😮😮😮 (ok, i know they are neighbours) My winner is Finland this year! Love from Georgia ❤
There are many Russians living in Finland so that’s probably why 😅😂
Lots of Russians move to Finland, which makes sense, St. Petersburg is a couple hours away from the border.
As others say, Russians are one one of biggest minorities here. Also serves estonians as some of them are russian speakers
latvian commentator was right, sudden lights were amazing and they should be proud, but the results just don’t always go as they should do sometimes
4:05
At this point it wasn't such a big surprise for the swedish commentators.
Thank god that my country (The Netherlands) successfully avoided “The Curse of Last Year’s Hosts” in 2022 thanks to S10 before the qualification streak yet unfortunately came to an end in 2023!
But however, The Netherlands are better prepared to come back for a revenge in Malmö 2024!
The Netherlands were shit in 2022, 2023 and certainly are a joke in 2024
For me, it must have done a long show with all 36 Countries and no semi finals more.
I feel so bad for Latvia and Irelands commentaters cause they havny seen their countries qualify in years
Tfw YLE has commentary broadcast even in Ukrainian and Russian but Switzerland doesn't even have Rumantsch commentary.
Also, where is Maltese commentary?
As usual, Malta's broadcast does not have commentators, as if they're using the CZcams feed. But they brought in lots of commercials.
3:35 - I think the commentator mistook Norway for Azerbaijan…
It's the reaction of non qualified countries actually (as Norway was last to be named hence their reaction that it wasn't their country named last)
8/10 i got right