{"id":2205,"date":"2009-05-14T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/matt-berry-the-it-crowd-is-the-host-of-tonights-eurovision-semi-final-honestly\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:43:28","slug":"matt-berry-the-it-crowd-is-the-host-of-tonights-eurovision-semi-final-honestly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/matt-berry-the-it-crowd-is-the-host-of-tonights-eurovision-semi-final-honestly\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) is the Host of  tonight&rsquo;s Eurovision Semi-Final &hellip; Honestly&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the \u2018traditions\u2019; of Eurovision is the spectacularly\u2026 err\u2026 interesting hosts that are chosen to present the show, and both Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov have made an impact around Europe. They\u2019ll be hosting tonight\u2019s second semi-final, but not the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"246\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image37.png\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>My biggest problem\u2026 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\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"246\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-thumb8.png\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GjaKe-bKOX8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s Eurovision Semi Final is at 8pm on BBC3 in the UK, or streaming online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\">www.eurovision.tv<\/a>. I shall, as always be providing an MP3 commentary to download and a river of twitters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ewanspence\">@ewanspence<\/a>) from the Moscow Olympic Stadium <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the \u2018traditions\u2019; of Eurovision is the spectacularly\u2026 err\u2026 interesting hosts that are chosen to present the show, and both Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov have made an impact around Europe. They\u2019ll be hosting tonight\u2019s second semi-final, but not the final on Saturday. My biggest problem\u2026 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\u2026 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[595,22,392],"tags":[1093,1091,1090,287,371,1089,1092],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-595","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","tag-andrey-malahov","tag-april","tag-douglas-reynholm","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-it-crowd","tag-natalia-vodianova","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62313,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/62313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}