Eurovision Song Contest is a fever dream like no other. A 50-ish-country competition to create the best tune, in past years it has featured scary horror masks, a Russian number saluting grandmas and a German ode to Genghis Khan.
Hundreds of millions of people watch, and hardly any of the songs ever make it onto American radio. (This year’s contest was COVID-canceled.)It’s an event so absurd that we now have a Will Ferrell movie about it.His “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is a terribly funny sendup of the show that famously gave us “Waterloo” by ABBA in 1974, and now gives us a year’s supply of crazy.