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spanglechick said:
i liked ross' comment.

"remember, all the performers tonight are appearing for free", followed by a cough, that sounded exactly like "wogan"... dig at his Radio2 colleague's children in need fee.:cool:

;)
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Hehe I liked that too. :cool: Kinda liked Wogan...VERY disappointed he accepts a fukn fee for CIN.

I agree with your sentiments about the evening too Spangly.
I'm still watching the end of it. I enjoyed it mostly, some unfunny bits but also some real funny moments. :)
 
DJ Squelch said:
Comic Relief sometimes seems more about saving the careers of C list celebs than saving starving kids.

Ade with Supergrass was :cool:

Jizzy Tissue :D
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they certainly seem to be plugging lots of stuff.
 
spanglechick said:
he did, actually - good timing, naturalitic delivery, self-confident... but that all made it worse!

tony blair: frustrated thespian is too horrible to live with :eek:
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predictable, boring sketches don't make me want to donate my money?

Is that the nature of the transaction? Are we meant to donate in return for being entertained, just like any other normal performance? Or are we meant to give in spite of the shite quality? I gave up after the end fo the Apprentice (though Alistatir's 'again?' comment to Piers Morgan was funnier than anything else broadcast thus far); the Gervais skit was the same old same old from him - 'ooh look it's Bono in a mask! Here, have my money!' Meanwhiel here's Davina Mcall crying at teh appalling story of a victim of domestic abuse (then they ask me for £50! Do they think im just as rich? All that story did was highlight the pathetic job the cps do and how the cops aren't around when you need them.)

Is that how it's meant to work?
 
Dubversion said:
Bono. Gervais. Oliver.

one set.

One fucking bomb. :mad:
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warn Merchant first, he needs to step out of Gervais' shadow as he's far far funnier (and probably wrote all the best bits in the office and extras anyway).
 
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EPIC FAIL
 
cesare said:
Marred by the spectacle of Davina MacColl's grief.
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Yes, I thought quite a bit of the 'celebrity grief' was overdone :rolleyes: Still ... well done on raising over £40 M .... next time can we humiliate/taunt/torture Wossy please, I'm sure that would create a generous response from the nation ?? :rolleyes:
 
wishface said:
predictable, boring sketches don't make me want to donate my money?

Is that the nature of the transaction? Are we meant to donate in return for being entertained, just like any other normal performance? Or are we meant to give in spite of the shite quality?
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Nope you are meant to donate because you you want help people who have far worse lives than you. Because you have compassion. The quality of the entertainment is irrelevant
 
Maggot said:
Nope you are meant to donate because you you want help people who have far worse lives than you. Because you have compassion. The quality of the entertainment is irrelevant
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Then why don't they pack it in and do us a favour?! I've got no problem with the cause itself, nor with the sort of local fundraising that happens during events like this (I bet that's where most of the money comes from in fact), I just think the television element is self-indulgent and annoying.
 
Maggot said:
Well don't watch it then!
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I avoided it as much as possible. Everyone else in the house insisted on watching it. Although I note they neither donated nor laughed.
 
I thought some of it was quite funny - as others have said Tony Blair was frighteningly good - so much so that in my semi-drunken haze I asked my bloke if it was really him, and not an impersonator.:D Ade Edmundson is:cool: .And I laughed at the Gervais/Bono/Oliver sketch, but I was on my second bottle of wine by then.:D
 
Stigmata said:
Then why don't they pack it in and do us a favour?! I've got no problem with the cause itself, nor with the sort of local fundraising that happens during events like this (I bet that's where most of the money comes from in fact), I just think the television element is self-indulgent and annoying.
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because without the evening of "entertainment", they wouldn't raise a fraction of the money.

it's all about the money - and i don't give a shit how they get it. if christine hamilton stripping for eight hours raised that amount of cash, then fucking ace - get the old cow on and get her kit off. i won't watch, but i won't complain if that's the best way to raise money.

local fundraising is, one thing - but all those nasty, smug celebs on the apprentice raised £2million. it's all very well saying they shouldn't be that rich in the first place - or conversely, that they should donate the money anyway because they are so rich, without boosting their PR... neither of those things are going to happen.

the net result is that £2mil got given to desperate causes that wouldn't have got it if they hadn't done the appentice thing. oh, and everyone thinks morgan is more of a twat than they already did.:cool:
 
Its a sickening sleb fest and I never watch it - past viewings have been utterly disappointing in the comedy dept and I cant cope with the stomach churning spectacle of vacuous, wealthy twats showing how much they 'reaaly really care'.

They do nothing to raise awareness of the issues and policies that create poverty, exploitation and war in the developing world.

A telephon appeal for the live-on-air execution of tony war monger would

a. raise more money.
b. do some real good.
c. make great viewing.
 
From Lethal Bizzle's wikipedia article:

On March 16th, 2007 (dubbed Red Nose Day by the Comic Relief) he was briefly featured as a live musical guest on the Top Gear special for Comic Relief entitled Top Gear of the Pops. While he was performing Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'What the fuck is this?' to James May. He was humiliated, besmirched and embarrassed when Jeremy Clarkson cut the power to his performance in staged protest, claiming he was "the reason Top of the Pops was canceled" and deliberately miscalled him "Jizzy Tissue".
 
Maggot said:
Nope you are meant to donate because you you want help people who have far worse lives than you. Because you have compassion. The quality of the entertainment is irrelevant
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Here's a better idea then; 1p from every persons daily TV license fee (c. 36p iirc) goes to comic relief. every day, every year.

THere are better things than the annual festival of guilt assuagance!
 
Kaka Tim said:
They do nothing to raise awareness of the issues and policies that create poverty, exploitation and war in the developing world.
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That's it; you just get Johnny Celeb appearing amonidst a crowd of starving children during a skit for comic relief, and that's it.

Where is the consistency, the education and the facts (ie objective reportage) beyond this one night of tv charitainment?
 
Dubversion said:
Bono. Gervais. Oliver.

one set.

One fucking bomb. :mad:
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I'm now at the point where I just want to smash Gervais' pig-like face in every time I see him on my telly doing his "ooh, I'm being horrible in an ironic way" schtick. Scarily, he's only the third biggest cunt in that "sketch".
 
Maggot said:
Nope you are meant to donate because you you want help people who have far worse lives than you. Because you have compassion. The quality of the entertainment is irrelevant
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No. If you genuinely have compassion you research your charities and you donate regularly. Many people do... Comic Relief is so that the apathetic can be guilt tripped and then feel good about themselves because they gave a fiver to charidee.

Having said that TB was scarily good, I cannot believe the bastard managed to pull that one off, completely eclipsed the non-entity that is Catherine Tate - he can actually end his career as PM on a positive note... :eek: :( :mad:

Have to say I laughed at the Gervais sketch (at least until Geldof turned up, at which point I threw something at the TV), I quite like his humour and, since I never bothered with extras and haven't seen much of him since the Office, it still seems fairly fresh to me.
 
I liked the Gervais sketch. No one has done that before so well.

And Russell Brand was a good presenter too. I'm glad I managed to stay awake late enough to see it turn good.
 
zoooo said:
I liked the Gervais sketch. No one has done that before so well.

And Russell Brand was a good presenter too. I'm glad I managed to stay awake late enough to see it turn good.
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I agree, turned better in the early hours. Good job there by RB I thought.
 
Well I enjoyed quite a lot of it, however ..

Why is Davina Mcall involved, she is not a comedienne?

Liked the bands, love the boosh, vicar of dibley, apprentice, some of little britain, J Ross, Lenny Henry, etc
 
TorchSong said:
Ah yes, good work! :cool:

IMO colluding with BB was the worst move of his career in terms of credibility, but I guess it's placed him firmly in the national consciousness...
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Yep

Wish I'd taped that bit of his last night, it was probably the only part where I laughed properly & I also liked the digs he managed to get in :D
 
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