Red Nose Day 2015

A - you're an idiot.

B - Comic Relief raised £78m last night. Children in Need raised £32m in November. Comic Relief doesn't need to be learning any lessons from CIN.

C - It topped the ratings with 8.1 million viewers last night.

So basically Tumble Tower, from reading your diatribe, basically you wanted CiN back? Wait until November and you'll be happy (yet still moan on TVF).

Considering the ratings for last night's telethon, I hope a similar format returns in two years time.

Your opinion, to which you are entitled to express.


First of all: it's not real.
Second of all, this isn't the 1950s.



That was the joke...



Because this is the Red Nose Day telethon, not Top of The Pops.



There's a symbol on your remote control, the "power symbol". I suggest you point your remote at the telly and press it. While you're there, there'll be a similar one on the front of your computer, try pressing that too.

I do get the feeling RND as others have said is a bit TOO SAFE, and it does not have enough risky stuff after the 10.40, but I doubt it will be pushed.

Also RND DOES NOT need to take any ideas from CIN, that pile of rubbish needs to stop relying on pop bands every 2mins.

The last few odd-numbered years the RND TV show has raised considerably more money than the CIN TV show of the same year. Someone once said that's because RND happens once every two years, whereas CIN happens every year. That said Comic Relief intersperses its RNDs in odd-numbered years with its sister event Sport Relief in even-numbered years.



Did all 8.1 million viewers watch the entire show, or just bits of it? Do you know the viewing figures for CIN 2014? I'd love to know them for comparison.



Firstly, did you see "I don't care if it was only acting" within that paragraph? Secondly dying is just as sad and upsetting now as in the 1950s. How can making humour out of a funeral be any more acceptable now than in the 1950s. Just for the record, on another website I've seen a quite a few other users' statements that Mr Bean's behaviour in the funeral sketch was unacceptable.



Well Children In Need manages to have loads of pop acts through its evening each year, and that too is not Top of the Pops! Ironically one year (2009 I think) the BBC showed a RND special edition of TOTP on BBC2 whilst the 10 o'Clock News was on BBC1. Why couldn't they have done that this year?


You had me killing myself with laughter on that statement. For comparison I don't think any of the RND 2015 content last night got a chuckle out of me!

Please continue posting.

Is that the one next to "turbo"?



How can we possibly know whether you realise something is real or not? You weren't even sure if Mr Bean was at a funeral, and the James Bond skit seemed to do nothing but cause you confusion last night.



I find it ironic that if somone else had posted that, you'd have probably called 999 to report an attempted murder.


And I find joking about murder to be very inappropriate.

A comedy character doing things that are unacceptable. Isn't that a staple of how comedy works?

The beauty of an established comedy character is that they can get away with things on the basis that the audience knows that the character isn't real and we'll be put onto certain situations for comedic effect.

The overwhelming majority of "real" viewers won't take it too seriously.

I am lost for words at the drivel TT posted. That is what happens when someone devout of humour watches a humour based show. TT, don't bother with the next Red Nose Day please and certainly don't bother summing it up on here.

That is certainly how to make something humorous depressing.

Average of 8.1 million viewers watched between 1900 and 2200. That doesn't mean the same 8.1m viewers watched for 3 hours, nor that there were exactly 8.1 million viewers watching for every minute of those 3 hours.

What it means is that if you take the viewing figures across the three hours, and average them, 8.1m watched. That's the UK standard for measuring audience volumes. (So it will have peaked higher than that, and troughed lower probably) but when you hear ratings and don't see the word 'peak' this is how they are measured.

It got a 36.4% share, which means it got well over a third of the total TV viewing audience. More than 1 in 3 people watching TV were watching Comic Relief on BBC One. Both those figures are very good indeed.

Looks like the figures are broadly very similar for Children in Need 2014. They got 8.3m and 35.9% share. So pretty close to identical, CiN had a slightly higher volume but a slightly lower share, but only a small difference.

Tumble Tower aside I didn't think Mr Bean was great last night. Inevitable to compare it with his previous activities in a church, and the wrong funeral thing has been done so many times before. I also thought the snogging the grieving woman was so out of character - pretty much the opposite of what we expect from Bean.