Not Even Cheese
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smokingbootI haven't watched it for years.
But the film made me laugh, and I made an effort. Graham Norton's excellent (Terry Wogan fancied himself just a bit too much for my liking) Amanda Holden was an embarrassment, there were great voices, bland songs and a fab show. Of course there were just plain bad acts. Ours was one of them. Q much whining about the UK coming last, getting no points at all from the judges and the public. 'It wasn't the worst,' say the deeply wounded, 'what about [point randomly elsewhere]?' Not to mention the suggestion that we should withdraw funding.
What a nation of poor sports and pouting brats we've become!
Feel for the guy, at least the hall was kind to him. But it was a mediocre performance. Forgettable song, forgettable singer, no dancing, and a pair of mahoosive trumpets. If you're going to be terrible at Eurovision, be so utterly terrible you come out the other side a classic of some kind. If cheese is all you've got, roll it straight into the audience, stink the place out with it. Even the German entry, with its sequined ukelele and a woman dressed like a hand, understood this.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/eurovision-germany-jendrick-finger-outfit-20658135
But the film made me laugh, and I made an effort. Graham Norton's excellent (Terry Wogan fancied himself just a bit too much for my liking) Amanda Holden was an embarrassment, there were great voices, bland songs and a fab show. Of course there were just plain bad acts. Ours was one of them. Q much whining about the UK coming last, getting no points at all from the judges and the public. 'It wasn't the worst,' say the deeply wounded, 'what about [point randomly elsewhere]?' Not to mention the suggestion that we should withdraw funding.
What a nation of poor sports and pouting brats we've become!
Feel for the guy, at least the hall was kind to him. But it was a mediocre performance. Forgettable song, forgettable singer, no dancing, and a pair of mahoosive trumpets. If you're going to be terrible at Eurovision, be so utterly terrible you come out the other side a classic of some kind. If cheese is all you've got, roll it straight into the audience, stink the place out with it. Even the German entry, with its sequined ukelele and a woman dressed like a hand, understood this.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/eurovision-germany-jendrick-finger-outfit-20658135
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