Red Nose Day 2015

Now for Trevor Noah to perform live on stage. Enjoy. However I'm feeling tired now, so I'll go to bed and watch rest of the show on video after breakfast later this morning. Goodnight.

Christmas probably knowing how Peter likes to only promote his DVDs then.

An interesting night, can't say I found much of it funny but each to their own. It's lost that unscripted buzz feel it once had and everything is so autocue driven these days but charity-wise over £70m is quite something.

The text donations were not credited to the final total last night because of a problem at the service provider. The full total will be announced during the catch-up show on BBC One this weekend (Source: The Irish Mirror)

Around 9:45 this morning I began watching the rest of last night's Comic Relief coverage on video. I started from Doc Brown's stage act; although that was one of the last bits I saw before bed last night, I was too tired to pay attention at the time so saw that bit again this morning. The start of Trevor Noah's act onwards was content televised after I had switched off last night. I finally reached the end just before midday. To be honest Trevor Noah's act was about the best of what I saw this morning, I thought he was better than Doc Brown.

Interestingly the final end-of-evening total was announced around 1:10am and that was to all intents and purposes the end of the evening. Does anyone know if the audience left the Palladium at that point. The final hour of TV coverage which followed was "The Making Of Comic Relief" in which they showed how the sketches were made.

My overall verdict: downright disappointed yet again. When will the BBC ever learn? Take a look at what was in last night's line-up:

Mr Bean at the funeral - I was appalled and disgusted at the way he knocked on the coffin and caused it to fall off the trestle. It's diabolical how they could make humour out of a sad occasion like a funeral. I don't care if it was only acting; an empty coffin with no dead body in it; the point is they're making fun out of a sad occasion which is sickening.

The Vicar of Dibley - becoming a woman bishop. Not particularly exciting.

Little Britain - I saw that sign "Keep off the grass" (something along those lines), so why did the robot and other bloke go across it. The rest of that sketch was also unexciting.

James Bond - come off it, Daniel Craig didn't have a child-like voice which had to be dubbed over when Casino Royale was filmed in 2006. Mark my words, that was a wind-up, with synthesised words dubbed over his real adult male voice to take the mickey.

National Treasures - this was in two parts, but I didn't find them all that entertaining.

The two blokes each trying to drink a pint of beer in one minute, with Gangnam Style playing in the background - well I thought that was a silly challenge really. They were trying to drink the beer so quickly some of it ran down their chins and on to the floor. One even laughed at one point causing to lose some beer from his mouth. I think there should have been a condition that for the challenge to be valid, all the beer must go down their throats, and any misdirected drink down their chins through rushing those drinks in that manner should have resulted in disqualification. I bet neither man enjoyed a single drop of that beer; all they were doing was try to force it down in as short a time as possible.

Once again there were nowhere near enough pop acts for my liking. The songs that were performed were few and far between. Why couldn't they have dropped the Mr. Bean, Vicar of Dibley, Little Britain, James Bond and National Treasures sketches and put pop acts in their places.

Look at what the Children In Need TV show was like last November. Far superior. Take a look:
More pop acts than last night.
Children's choirs around the UK simultaneously performing a song, nothing like that last night.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - no similar sort of act last night e.g. another kids' story.
Strictly Come Dancing. Yes actual dancing. All they did with that SCD RND special last night was announce the winner, we didn't see the six couples do their dances.
Grease Enders (cast of EastEnders performing Grease songs). The cast of EastEnders didn't perform songs for Comic Relief last night.

I hope that the next Red Nose Day in 2017 will have a better evening TV show. Take a leaf out of Children in Need, have plenty of pop acts through the night, and get the cast of EastEnders and BBC Newsreaders doing something. If you want a SCD special have the couples perform on stage during the show. Please, no more of that tommy rot like Mr. Bean, Little Britain or James Bond that we had to endure this year, or Smithy v The England Team, Simon Cowell's wedding (with multiple instances of "Stop the Wedding") that we've had on previous years' RNDs.

Having read through that drivel (or some of it - TL;DR) I've come to the conclusion that you're a monumentally pompous bore that takes things WAY too seriously. I suspect many others here already came to that conclusion quite some time ago, possibly not long after you joined, but that overlong and mostly ridiculous essay pretty much confirms it!

Because then it wouldn't be Comic Relief, would it?

TT, I'm honestly at a loss to work if you think you're being hilarious with this bizarre internet persona you've worked out (which actually isn't funny at all), or whether you're in danger of falling off the end of the autistic spectrum. If the latter, have you not yet realised that your sense of humour is so markedly different from everyone else's that you're never going to understand what the general public consider to be funny? Which is fine, we're all different, but you could try to learn not to be so self-centred.



You may have been, but very few other people, if any, were. Perhaps you should learn to accept that (practically all) other people don't think the same way you do.

There's a fine tradition in British humour is seeing the lighter side of the most sombre of circumstances.



That was the joke.



That was the joke.



Why on earth would you think that "more pop acts" is what Comic Relief needs?



No, what you mean is, you hope they put something on that you , personally, will enjoy more, which is frankly narcissistic. Look, we get it, you like Children in Need better than Comic Relief. I feel (marginally) the opposite. That doesn't mean that either CiN or CR are doing it wrong.

I once spotted Tumble Tower sat on a platform whilst I was sat on a train at Bristol Temple Meads. He's most certainly not a fictional character.

Well, surely the worst part of that was Dawn French punching Fiona Bruce, had she not
heard what's happened to Jeremy Clarkson ? I'm sure Danny Cohen will be ringing her on Monday morning.

Did he have his legs over the side ?

Indeed, if anyone has ever read his blog (which he has linked to on here before) they will realise he is a real person.


davidhorman: I don't think we should speculate on why he may not understand the comedy in the sketches, but it has been explained to him before that he does not. Indeed, just look up the Comic Relief 2013 thread and you'll see the same thing.

It was an enjoyable night of TV and more hit than miss. The sketches were good without dominating and I really like how in the last couple of years they've updated viewers on those featured in notable appeal films in the past. It still needs more live comedy, especially in the pre-news section while the Bake Off was poor BBC2 filler IMO, though I'm guessing they changed the crowd at half time.