Eurovision and Crimea Coin: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Yup.

Yup.

Yup.

That comment did not age well 😅

Yes moron, time changes things. Your observation was not worth our time

+Mattias Sollerman Oh come on... I don't wish any of the Eurovision competitors would just die already.

lol

As an American, let's be honest. Eurovision has a LOT more substance than our elections.

***** I think you're right. This year Ukraine won the ESC, as a protest against Russia's annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile in the US, Trump is calling a prominent senator 'Pocahontas'.

+Mattias Sollerman Hahahaha

Testify!

Praise Be the Mega Reverent!

Praise be!

No.

Praise be

They were always busy with Crimea, the song from Jamala was about it too. Putin has never been unclear about his intentions (edit; to the West, ofcourse he is unclear to the Russians and propaganda-tes the whole country relentlessly.)

Actually, the answer was "European Union" - which is even funnier if you think about it.

LoneHylian That was the 1990 competition. Look at the lyrics of some of the songs, they wanted peace through songs in a yearly competition with ABBA (1974) and Celine Dion (1988).

who are you even talking to? Who even mentioned America? If you thought I was american, you're mistaken.

To be fair, it did actually work somehow

Even Andy what worked is that they joined up their war industries so they wouldn’t be able to wield them against each other.

Hydra Regia he came back in 2017 too

forget the epic sax guy.. I could watch that Polish lass churn butter all day.. she seemed to be enjoying it a bit too much :)

Run away is a banger

@@kirikayumura6015 just turn the sound off from the singing... The song is like killing a cat... 🙀

I don't get what the big deal is. He was just pretending to be playing.

*1:34 :)

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Did it? What do you mean?

You have no idea

@@TheLibermania It did spectacularly

+Emma_Lemonade How did you only get 3 likes on that comment? :D

+Emma_Lemonade Dontesk, Don't tell.

Slaanash Heh. Heheh. Heheheh.

+Emma_Lemonade Ahhhhhh damn, you beat me to it. gg

Dr. Bees I regret nothing... xD

WhyNotZoidberg Ukraine depends on Russia for energy so Crimea gets Russian energy indirectly. Ukraine tried to cut energy and stuff like that on Crimea but when winter came and the threat of Russian gas getting gone became real, Ukraine stopped their harassment and everything went back to normal. (energywise)

WhyNotZoidberg Saying "desolate landmass" about Crimea is crazy. It is like a warm gradenland near the sea, they even grow grapes! Fuck, my region in north is desolate landmass with its fucking permafrost, but Crimea cannot be called that way at all. Well, maybe only in case you compare it to Brazil.

+Islam Benfifi www

+Islam Benfifi www

I think he just wanna make fun of Putin, maybe he should make a better joke, but obviusly he not saying that literally

Yep

Of course he is cuz he don't give a fuck about anything

Fucking Janet from accounting.

LeMudkip lol

They don't, because they were always busy with Crimea, it's Putins wet dream to have it.

That is quite

Quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever heard

I mean Eurovision is a European only singing contest that's understandable since most don't know any of the performers. Plenty of people play soccer (football) here in the states it just isn't popular on a national level

+Slender Pawk It just seems weird to me. 😁 It's a country has much effect on universal scale and western culture, at least from what I see yet things what I know are quite popular in my country and many others seems irrelevant. 😁

Amane Misa That's true for any for country. I bet there is plenty of stuff is fairly exclusive to America probably even more so due to how large the US is and diverse culturally it is

+Amane Misa With basketball, football, and hockey, soccer is basically quaint. There's no physical contact and basically nothing happens for 90 minutes. I don't know how people find Americans finding soccer boring surprising. It makes perfect sense if you think about it. To Americans, Soccer is a watered-down less interesting version of hockey/basketball. And they're basically right. I don't blame anyone in America for not caring about soccer. By comparison to what we have here it just isn't interesting.

+Bad Voodoo >With basketball, football, and hockey, soccer is basically quaint. Then why is none of them except hockey really popular outside the US? >There's no physical contact and basically nothing happens for 90 minutes. I don't know how people find Americans finding soccer boring surprising. I dont find it surprising, the avergae American has such a short attention spawn that you need to break the games down in little pieces so you can throw in commercials and hot dogs in the breaks and have someone score at least every 5 minutes. I mean it seriously, if an American would watch an entire Football game over 90 minutes do you belive he could possibly figure out which team played better without checking the score? >I don't blame anyone in America for not caring about soccer. By comparison to what we have here it just isn't interesting. For international standarts American football is just the worst shit, you literally sit in front of your tv for 3 hours to watch 15 minutes of play and 2 hours commercials, wtf.

True. It’s just that since OTI ended, ESC has been the only contest of its kind and its concept is pretty unknown to the US market

I actually don't think any of those talent things are really serious either. It's all just thrown up there for views. Theatrics done for views is completely different from theatrics done to 'try something different/expressive'.

i think it wasnt taken seriously.

Putins Sewage hole cover. cant cover up his schittt. smh

"The popular-voted contestants" that is not correct. Each country has different ways of choosing its contestants and for some it's 100% obscure and nobody within that country has heard of the artist before their participation is announced

Agreed. I have no fucking clue what's going on there. Every time I hear about it, I'm baffled.

+Grant Ogg Their great like that.

+Grant Ogg And you fuckers will never understand the fact that there's more than one America.

+Grant Ogg _I_ will never understand Eurovision and I'm European. It's fun when you're drunk though :)

when you say America, do you mean North, Central or South? maybe they don't teach geography in your country.

Oh! Is that why it won? Because Swizerland's song was better but the Italian guy did have that Dave Navarro thing going on.

@@vanyadolly Switzerland's song wasn't interesting. It was super forgettable.

@@ratvaporizette Finland should have won though! I dont get what italy winning had to do with turning anyone bi though.

@@EventH0riz0n the solist guy was hot af

I don't know what you guys are talking about, but it sounds exciting as fuck

Writing from the two weeks in the future: it did.

Haha the best part is that old Top Gear where the famous Eurovision host is the guest, he mentions how unrepresentative the music chosen is to what's actually popular music in their countries He was like countries get so nationalistic and always just do boring obvious stuff like Spain doing flamenco music haha

@@TheKitKatProject *Looks at Russian army losing 5 generals* suuuuure

The Ukrainian song as well... 🙈

@@TheKitKatProject a month later and the Russian military went and rolled around in Chernobyl, and that war ship did go and fuck itself all the way to the bottom of the sea

Spain killed it this year, sooooo good!

;)

Years fly fast

Same.

Not just the ESC, but also John's words: "Just go to war!"

🙄

And in this testing times, we all need that

+Trine Langohr He'll always be Drag queen Jesus to me.

Nothing wrong with Drag Queen jesus, remember that the real Jesus also wore a skirt ;)

Trine Langohr More a Toga/Shawl but that's just splitting hairs really.

I love Conchita and the person behind her, but in the words of Cher: "get a better wig!"

Love her too!!!

Also the Birthplace of ABBA

@@frankbonini9128 Huh. I just checked their website and yeah, looks like this is true. Ya learn something new every day.

@@ninjareaper4828 It Was, Pretty Much, Their "Coming Out" Party ... a Wayward Bunch of Artists from Sweden that Joined Forces, Won Eurovision, and Became an Iconic & Legendary Group

@@frankbonini9128 Seems that way.

Also Celine Dion.

+KittyALevin They probably used google translate

+KittyALevin Actually, they almost got it right. They made only one mistake with ВладимирУ. It should be ВладимирА

And is Putina correct, though? I also got confused by that, but i dont speak much russian.

It is correct. It is a genitive case.

That's even better!

Really, for a port

@@adhishreetrivedy6718 absolutely

@@adhishreetrivedy6718 , it's not just "a port" - it's their main military naval base, their only direct access to the Mediterranean, and the only naval base that doesn't freeze over during the winter. I wonder what the US would have done, if another country had tried to take away something of equal strategic importance to them - I guess they would have invaded that country so fast, it wouldn't know what hit them.

@@adhishreetrivedy6718 For a country that has no real access to the open sea, it's more than just a port.

@@lenkacfk7155 Crimea didn't belong to Russia, so you can't have something taken away from you if that something didn't belong to you in the first place.

Same

"crippling"

well done

It was not annexed 99% participation rate at the referendum and 98% said yes to be in Russia. Look at your voter turnout US lol

+Russian Homie - That 99% participation rate is verifiably false, and those who said yes did so knowing that there was a Russian soldier with a loaded assault rifle standing outside _every single_ polling station. I'm not for a moment going to suggest that nobody in Crimea was in favour of joining Russia, but don't you think the soldiers might have skewed the result slightly? That's all without mentioning that Russia didn't have the authority to organise a referendum in foreign territory in the first place...

Robert Faber alright man I'm from Crimea and my family voted haha there were no riffles anywhere or military scathing people as the US portrayed it this goes way deeper than your ignorant brain can wrap around. Ukraine always hated Crimea and never respected us for speaking Russian from birth. There are 2 navy bases in Crimea a Russian and Ukrainian one even before the revolution. At the time of the referendum Ukraine was going through a horrible revolution where very nationalistic Ukrainians went to the capital and protested to get rid of the president those same nationalist got very mad not only at the government but tried to pick on what everyone else has done wrong. The protestors came to Sevastopol and whoever did not speak Ukrainian to them or say they love Ukraine they would beat up and so they did that to my friend who only spoke Russian. There were military acts and a revolution but the war was happening in the east of Ukraine near the mine lands where most people don't have a higher education and do manual labor for the rest of their life or join a gang and become somewhat illegally rich. And that is where there were shootings between nationalistic Ukrainians and the gangs. There were none of that in Crimea. Crimea did not want to be a part of the mess and since no one ever even liked them they left and only then did Ukrainian started crying how they miss us.

Also John Oliver said Crimea is in the east of Ukraine but it's literally the southern region hahah

Looks like Jesus yup

Sergio Lopez #needlesslyedgy

White Jesus save us

Asides from the lack of middleasterness it was totally jesus

Joseph Daniels I originally clicked on it 'cause I thought it was Jesus. Would have preferred fishy drag. That just feels better to see.

well, at lest its not the russians winning. for now

They just weren't reminded to watch this clip at least once a year... WE defaulted on forcing Putin to watch this, because of the Co-Co virus!

Yep. Too bad some bigots are still too hateful to actually hear her beautiful message.

"His"

she's not transgender... she's a drag queen

He can never be a she

Lord Baelish I'm over this... I am not here for this

You Mrs. deserve a cookie.

good one

@@humanbeing5918 It took me far too long to get this brilliant pun.

You copied it didn't you ?

@@karunyaasribashyam1465 no my friend, 4 years ago this was all me.

yes

+Johan Gladgroda I think we have more than enough terrible attention whoring pop singers in america without having to import some.

+Johan Gladgroda I think its more like fascinated.

+Johan Gladgroda nah. Song and dance shows are fucking annoying

Hell yeah! I wish we had that!

As a Austrian I can sadly say, our politics are going in that direction again...

Ella Bella Can you go south this time

@@ellabella7621 bullshit!!

Come on now, Arnold’s not really that bad, surely? 😂

Underrated

i did not like the winner i mean she was okay but eurovision should not be about politics

+Black Spirit fuck this politic things, that eurovision SONG contest...

but ukranian entry was awesome.

+oscar omar perez it truly was

+Black Spirit yeah that's sad

Was looking for this comment

@nomar Dinkleberg Yes, that person hosted Eurovision, AND got a role in Game of Thrones.

@@IABITVpresents he was excellent in Borgen

They didn't miss the point, they were just pandering to an ignorant and prejudiced audience.

You're right... Lets make a show drag up EVERY single fucking point! Because that's fun as fuck to listen to.

Occifer Jehons If by EVERY single point you mean the most important reason, then yes. And since Crimea's strategic location (more importantly the naval base) is the main reason Russia annexed it, I'd say that's a point WORTH pointing out, don't you think?

Occifer Jehons You're right, why bother with analysis when you can make shit up?

Just wait till 2023 and turkey will make Russia's life really hard .

😂😂😂

Half of them are probably paid propaganda - Russia is kind of famous for astroturfing around English-speaking parts of the Internet.

***** as are Israelis.

***** Is projection an american virtue? I totally think it is at this point.

I dont understand why they should be butthurt though.. Crimea's annexation is symbolic as it is strategic.. 10 billion dollars is nothing if you consider the fact that the only base for Russia's Mediterranean fleet is there.. Also the idea that Crimea is dependent of Ukraine is wrong (it can't be used diplomatically wise), because financially Ukraine is dependent of Russia (debt wise).. How many billions of dollars did U.S spent for South East operations?? How many lives spent?? Well.. no war zone in Crimea region... Still a shit move by Russia, but U.S is not really in a position to critisize xD

M4d Alex my comrade your explanation is 100% accurate... The problem here is not the show (because they advertise themselves as comedians) the problem is the stupid people who take this show as real news source. But then again this is the way corporate media serve it's masters by "brain washing" and "misinforming" the entire US population.

the whole show is on the channel in bits and pieces... The entire show... Screw money right

Gary Greca true..lol

Neko -chan yeah that's amazing how people can have just the same opinion about something!

@33kaus holokaust i had a military officer explain it to me back then, Crimea was a territory the Russians "donated" to Ukraine during the Soviet Union, its where most of their naval operations are based from. Them invading Crimea was essentialy just a way to reclaim land that they originally owned. Doesnt excuse the civilian casualties but it made sense on multiple levels.

@@jimn4315 Thats an weak excuse. Poland also "donated" east Poland to the USSR back then, but hell would break loose if they would reclame it. The russian empire conquered it from the Ottomans. Ukraine itself was created as an buffer state in the peace treaty between Russia and the central powers.

@@FrogsterLP and then that buffer state wanted to join the EU and hand over russian military bases to the EU in the form of crimea. Its not an excuse for killing civilians but its understandable that an autocratic nation wouldnt allow itself such a disadvantage.

@@FrogsterLP Poland did not donate anything even if you write it in brackets. They lost a war and got stripped of the land. Whereas the USSR actually gave Crimea for administrative purposes to Ukraine without any kind of war as a pretext. Your analogy is wrong.

@@haldir3120 Vania, what “administrative purposes” excuse have you Russkis come up with, now? Doesn’t matter how you twist it, you committed a military aggression against your neighbour to whom you had previously made guarantees of territorial integrity in the Budapest Agreement. There’s no justification for this act of military aggression and the resulting land grab. The Turks could possibly come up with way more credible historical claims than your BS stories selectively going back only to what suits your fables. Is Sudetenland a good analogy? I think it is and sure like hell I am hoping Putin, Lavrov, and Shoigu end up exactly as their German role models. And Russia will get territorially trimmed on the same scale as the Vaterland did in 1945.

Finn Sprigg That

should be a song on a punk rock album shit i thought id completed it

Note: I think that the Eurovision thing is cool and interesting but some people here seem to take it way too seriously

He doesn't say that he's british. He says the opposite, in fact. Pay the fuck attention.

+Daiyuki117 ok, then what does he say? That he was born and raised in America? I somehow doubt that after watching his show each week

He's English by birth, but he's married to an American and has since become a naturalized citizen. So...everyone's right?

The Cataking he uses we to talk about america, i think its safe to say he considers himself american

Yes!

+Anni-Riin Agukas At least they werent starving and living in the cold like over 10million homeless in the usa and also werent lied to about what it was like in the soviet union....

+RadekBoktor do you know where Siberia is? Its like really REALLY north. And pine needles were a lucky find. We had basically the same problems.

+Anni-Riin Agukas Are you talking about the gulags during the Soviet area? Then: Ukraine was part of it itself. It's not like Russia did it, the UDSSR did.

+StYxXx Russia was a boss and the centre of USSR. Capital was Moscow. Ukraine didn't have any power.

+Aiste Osinskyte then you should check again, from which countries the Leaders from ussr were!

Are you gonna cry?

I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic but I'm not sure the idiot American audience is picking it up

I think this guy knows better. Whats 5bilion for Russia ? Pocket money ? You can say. But what do they gain ? Entrance to the black sea. Something Russia and the Otoman Empira had war for years and years in the past.

Chloe Torres I see what you did there

Chloe Torres You can't think of anything clever to say about the actual content of the video, so you attack the audience. This whole situation must be very frustrating for you.

I don't think Jesus was ever a transvestite, so...

Sonia Daft You obviously don't get the joke...

hahaha I thought the same thing!

Sonia Daft he is Jesus, he can wear whatever he wants

Gullible people, cheap emotional manipulation, bigotry, divisive... sounds like the perfect place for Jesus to me.