As this year's edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is about to kick off, Sweden is on the way to crown its finalist. The first of four weekly, live contests kicked off this past Saturday, and my fave - Amy Diamond with "Thank You"- won her way into the final. But there's another favourite, too.

As Swedish stately TV decided it was time to let a comedian entertain everybody in-between songs, I expected the whole thing to be pathetic, especially as Kristian Luuk hosted the show, parading his wonderful sense of humor with professionalism; I just didn't think another comedian would stand a chance. But hey, in stepped a guy named Björn Gustafsson and stole the show. Sadly, his brilliant monologue beneath is in Swedish, but the first half of the video shows him dancing to Haddaway's "What Is Love?" without doing it like...Germany's ESC-representatives (who always seem to make complete asses of themselves without the slightest tinge of irony). Here's Björn:

Even though her voice is too fragile and uninteresting to last for an entire album, mostly because of her utter lack of phrasing and timbre, here's a video of my fave, Amy Diamond, doing her "Thank You":

The most pathetic entry was, of course, Christer Sjögren's "I Love Europe", as can be tragically witnessed here; runner-ups for that title being Wille Crafoord (for writing the most tepid lyrics for one of the most vapid songs) and E-Type for plainly being himself.