Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) is the Host of tonight’s Eurovision Semi-Final … Honestly…

Posted on by

One of the ‘traditions’; of Eurovision is the spectacularly… err… interesting hosts that are chosen to present the show, and both Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov have made an impact around Europe. They’ll be hosting tonight’s second semi-final, but not the final on Saturday.

image

My biggest problem… he just reminds me of Matt Berry from the IT Crowd from the stature and the proto-beard, to the measured delivery and absolute sincerity…

image So if you need a little bit of an escape tonight, or you just have evil visions in your head of one of them going psycho on stage, then this clip is for you.

Tonight’s Eurovision Semi Final is at 8pm on BBC3 in the UK, or streaming online at www.eurovision.tv. I shall, as always be providing an MP3 commentary to download and a river of twitters (@ewanspence) from the Moscow Olympic Stadium