Comic Relief

[madamv]

Hmm I caught up with him this morning as I had +'d the show. I have his live DVD here to watch soon.

Sparklefish, Magic Sam and me were working in a call centre for Comic Relief last night. It was fun....

 

[wishface]

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.

Gervais does the same tedious thing over and over.

It's not comedy, it's just trading off the celebs involved. There is no humour or point to it. Thus, I didn't laugh.

He really is quite tiresome.

Essentially this is a gervais 'joke': "people with aids are cunts", but said by, oh i dunno, Elton John.

cue laughter. Give money.

My idea for comic relief was better.

Also why not have some up and coming talent involved rather than the same bbc lovefest EVERY FUCKING YEAR.

so, tony blair, quips the catherine tate catchphrase...so fucking what? Predictable and tedious; if that's what they are using to prompt us to give cahs then they are insulting my intelligence.

 

[zoooo]

It wasn't the celebs part of the Gervais sketch that was funny. It was the first half where the bastard almost had me convinced he was crying over a U2 tape. Excellent gentle piss-taking of the usual 'celebs in Africa crying' clips.
I thought it was ace.

 

[bellator]

Why is Lenny Henry still involved? Is he on tv still?
I remember Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith etc on it years ago and although they still work they're not on it now, so WHY is the insanely unfunny Henry on it?

 

[exosculate]

Why is Lenny Henry still involved? Is he on tv still?
I remember Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith etc on it years ago and although they still work they're not on it now, so WHY is the insanely unfunny Henry on it?

Well there aren't many other black comics to replace him.

 

[Lisarocket]

Why is Lenny Henry still involved? Is he on tv still?
I remember Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith etc on it years ago and although they still work they're not on it now, so WHY is the insanely unfunny Henry on it?

I thought he was the Geldof of Comic Relief. Wasn't it his idea?

 

[DJ Squelch]

Did people see the Mitchell & Webb snooker bit? It was painful to watch them die on their arses in the studio.. Nobody in the audience laughed at all.
Hopefully they get back to what their good at, acting to someone elses script in Peepshow series 4.

 

[cesare]

Did people see the Mitchell & Webb snooker bit? It was painful to watch them die on their arses in the studio.. Nobody in the audience laughed at all.
Hopefully they get back to what their good at, acting to someone elses script in Peepshow series 4.

Yep. Dire.

 

[Dubversion]

Well there aren't many other black comics to replace him.

you're kidding, right?

 

[wishface]

Did people see the Mitchell & Webb snooker bit? It was painful to watch them die on their arses in the studio.. Nobody in the audience laughed at all.
Hopefully they get back to what their good at, acting to someone elses script in Peepshow series 4.

i thought their recent series was very good; just goes to show what level comic relief is aimed at. Frex, Catherine Tate (crap) + Tony Blair (crap crap) = top gag!

 

[exosculate]

you're kidding, right?

Well I can't think of any nearly as well known as him.

 

[May Kasahara]

Marred by the spectacle of Davina MacColl's 'grief'.

I corrected it for you.

Didn't see much of CR this year, since the reported highlights featured in the Guide included "Dawn French's final turn as the Vicar of Dibley" and Little Britain; however, I did happen to catch this video and it left a really bad taste in my mouth. Not only from the terrible spectacle of dv, whose anti organisations fully deserve to be in the forefront of the nation's mind and to be fundraised for, but because McCall and her slippery tears just didn't need to be there. Is it not enough for us to hear someone's firsthand account of their suffering and fear and desperate need for support, without some third-rate tv presenter there to make it real for us? FFS.