Eurovision 2023 - Commentator Reactions to Qualifying - Semi-Final 1 - English Subtitles 

screaming at netherlands being like “well we aren’t ireland”

the croatian guy just laughing is so real

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.

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 ❤❤❤

3:56 - "Is it possible that we are in the final?" - "NO WAAAAAAY"

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

Seeing Käärijjä take off his shirt in 5 different languages 😂

Finland has so many languages here and I like their reactions on each!

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.

latvian commentator is 100% right ! you guys have nothing to regret ❤

Ireland's "🥺 pretty please" was so cute

I love how supportive the Latvian commentator was with Sudden Lights. They really deserved the grand final.

Switzerland commentators were really happy !

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!

Wow Finland was broadcasting in 6 different languages, impressive and shows they care!

1:00 The Swiss Italian speaking commentators cheered in such an Italian way lol

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.

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

"hvala"...the Serbian commentator was just relieved :D

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!

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.

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.

The dutch commentator just casually throwing shade on ireland

1:15 I love him. 😂

Thanks for the amazing job!!!!

You put that together so quickly.A great listen, thanks.

This compilation is amazing! Thank you so much!

Wow, very nice and appreciated video! Thanks a lot

thank you for those videos sm

what a cool video idea 😍 thanks for the upload

I was waiting for this exciting video. Can't wait for tomorrow

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*

This is what it’s all about! The excitement and relief of getting to the final. Loved this video

1:14 - We love you, Mikko and your infectious laugh! AND PLEASE WEAR THE BOLERO!

This really is so exciting to see, love how each country is so proud.

Omg switzerlands commentators were so greatt haha and why in the heck does finland have so many xD

Are you gonna do a commentator reaction when they get 12 points? We missed that last year.

fun fact: the czech commentator (Jan Maxián) is also a voice actor of Spongebob 🙈

Merci pour cette vidéo ❤️🙏🏻

The Irish "It isnt" was so funny

thank u so much for adding the swiss italian!

Those commentary are totally the best 😊

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).

I cant wait for this year’s version

Can't wait for tomorrow

Love the way how inclusive Finland is

Latvia commentator🇱🇻😭😭😭

Latvian commentator 100% based

Welcome back Switzerland 🇨🇭

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

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.... ❤

My favourite reactions are all of the Swiss commentators and the Portuguese commentators.

How were you able to find all these? Super impressed!

LATVIA

Damn Finland having more languages than Switzerland!

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

Ireland: 😂 "Is it possible that we are?" Host: "NO r WAYYYYYY!!!!! ❤😂😂😂❤😂😂😂❤😂😂😂❤

Croatian commentator's name is Duško while Serbian commentator's name is Duška omfg bwhahahahah

WOW hai că este😝bun!🥰

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!

Ireland: Is it possible that we are? Presenter: No Way (Norway)

Favourite thing was watching Hannah Waddingham scream Finland six times.

VAMOS PORTUGAL

Marte Stokstad being cool and collected in 2023 after 2 years of literally yelling at the viewer after qualifying.

Croatia ❤

Dutch commentators just roasting Ireland 😂😂😂😂😂

That laugh from Portugal 😂

3:25 😂

1:47

Switzerland deserved to win this year Swiss are the best !!! 👏😍🇨🇭my winner

Irish commentator: is it possible that we are? (in the final) could we? Hannah: NO WAY!!

Awww i love how understanding the non quallifiers are

Utter relief from the Serbian commentator

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!

“Croatia” Croatian man: *laughs in disbelief*

HAHAHAH NORWAY APOLOGISING FOR GETTING TOO EXCITED WHEN SHE DOES IT EVERY YEAR. LOVE HER

0:21

waiting for this year version🙏

Latvia had the best reaction to not qalifying

Since 2019

Imagine if Hannah had to yell "NORWAY" that much time in a row ahahahaha

1:15

For me, it must have done a long show with all 36 Countries and no semi finals more.

Norwegian commentator: “Stupid TV-program making it so exciting!”

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

At this point it wasn't such a big surprise for the swedish commentators.

4:05

Please make a video for Semi Final-2

3:21

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!

I was shocked Finland airs in Russian 😮😮😮 (ok, i know they are neighbours) My winner is Finland this year! Love from Georgia ❤

Switzerland (Italian) is RSI not RTI

8/10 i got right

3:35 - I think the commentator mistook Norway for Azerbaijan…

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?

The Croatian broadcaster just laughed?? You havent qualified in 4 years and thats how you celebrate? PLEASEEEE

0:20 Wow, I'm from Spain and I never thought I could understand something in Romanian language