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 and start to rebuild back up again. They’ve given us language diversity throughout the years, showing the cultural richness that a small, landlocked country has to offer. And in a history of firsts, they also gave us Nemo, the first non-binary winner and the reason why we’re about to dive head-first in ESC’s 69th edition in Basel.
And it’s us at Laugh Laugh Please Please who will take you all the way back and forth, up and down, throughout Swisstory - because not everybody is brave enough to take that voyage on their own. Enjoy!
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? Tune in to find out, as it is finally time to find out who’s our Season Four champion on our Songwriter Face-Off Extravaganza!
Our final interview of the season comes all the way from Down Under - the waist of 2025 Go-Jo shares his secret recipe for the tastiest milkshake, the one that brings all the votes to the yard. When he says “sweet, sweet” you say… ?
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 girls from Remember Monday will grace the Laugh Laugh Please Please soundwaves all the way from the UK and you know that there will be only one final thought in your head after you’re done listening. What the hell just happened?
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 Strobe Lights will surely knock Europe off their feet come May, so do enjoy our conversation before the music is too loud in the club.
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 not a hallucination. The meme queen of 2025 is as iconic as one would expect, and if you don’t believe us, you just simply have to tune in!
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 our first interview of 2025 we discuss all things Laika Party: astronauts, rockets, the space race, and, of course, dogs. You don’t want to miss it!
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-cowgirl-quartet coming from Sweden, or a mesmerizing pop performance from the Finnish UMK, amongst other.
To celebrate the reunion, we bring back one of our favourite ESC games: Just Get Out Of My Life, where 5 songs are played and they all have something in common, except one - and you need to find out too!
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 discuss that too.
As a final Season One throwback, this week’s guest host Anaïs wished to pay tribute to some of the songs that were less than fortunate and saw themselves at the bottom of the scoreboard at the end of the evening. From one group of losers to another, we salute you!
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 victorious in Sweden, an Italian patriotic chant from San Marino, and a saudade-filled ballad from Portugal. Do we complain? Well, only a little.
Our guest host this week, Jose, also helped us revive a Season One classic, songs that give us life, and you know how much we love any excuse to dive into the archives. It got nostalgic, it got celebratory, and it got political: if that ain’t what makes Eurovision, I don’t know what is.
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 was also in charge of bringing back one of our main topics from Season One, so we also took some time to discuss some of the countries that are no longer participating in Eurovision. Please enjoy it responsibly.
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. Couple more stops in our European voyage: a story of survival from Armenia, a nautical cruise from Iceland, and a tale of shook milk from Australia. Beware if you’re easily scandalised.
This week we also take a moment to reflect on the elephant no longer in the room, and to keep John’s memory alive, we’re flipping the script on Valentine’s day to bring you the most heart-breaking, soul-collapsing songs from the history of the contest. Listen at your own peril.
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 moment of amusement, The Common Linnet has reached maximum difficulty, so be quick to play while still on the tracks, because all of this can derail any moment now.
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 waitress coming from Malta - this is what the contest is all about!
We saved some time for a new game of The Common Linnet, and week after week, our players will only face a growing challenge right in front of their faces, but only as long as they are successful, so there’s a price to pay after all…
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, in this episode we discuss a topic very close to our hearts: cultural richness in the contest, and how, due to a collection of different factors, we seem to keep losing language diversity to the ever-looming English shadow.
And to lighten the mood some more, one new edition of The Common Linnet puts our players to the test, in a season that every victory will bring its consequences. Don’t you dare miss it!
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 attempt, our plates are starting to fill up really quick.
And you know we wouldn't be back without a little fun and games added to the mix, so The Common Linnet returns to kick off our most competitive edition yet.
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 beaten the odds in the Season 3 finale, or whether you would've closed the season as yet another loser.