AIBU to think that Comic Relief is a bit crap?

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I know it's for charideeeee and a good caaaaause and everything.

The idea is all well and good, but the execution is crap.

I don't want a t-shirt with Marilyn Monroe's face partially covered by a red circle.

I don't want to wear my onesie to work.

I don't want to watch TV presenters perform crap sketches.

And I don't want to see or hear any more about it.

What is ridiculous about it? Sometimes it doesn't go where it should

I'm not watching it. Because I think it's crap. As mentioned earlier.

Just saying.

There are DVDs, and other channels, and catchup, and the internet, all all sorts of other sources of entertainment.

The expression "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut" means that in order to solve something small or trivial excessively extreme measures are taken.
I do not believe that the Comic Relief fundraising campaign will ever eradicate world poverty and I do not think that world poverty is a small problem.

I have been reduced to tears by some of stories tonight and have called to give money (normally would have sponsored an eejit at work but on mat leave). Terribly sad to see a toddler die from malnutrition, the human race should be more about the human than the race.

Yanbu - the whole concept is flawed and the fawning attention seeking celebs get on my nerves. The whole thing (and Children in Need) is shite.

Thank you for the english lesson blanc ..... Perhaps you should see someone if you have to speak slowly .... I know some good SALTs!!!!

Someone at the BBC told me that it costs 30 million quid tomstage children in need. That's how much it raises. Cant the bbc just donate the money instead and spare us Terry Wogan?

Oh Jack Whitehall AND Micky Flannegan in the same room.

oh my dreams!!

and why didt they get Jim Howick and Ben Willbond to be Greg Wallace and Joh Torode? not THAT would have been good to see!!

Well said Pigsmummy. Well said, indeed.

so who was the bride in the cowell thing? i went to bed. bet it was him!!hes the only person hed love so much hed marry!

hope they raised a lot of money. if theyve raised so much all these years with CIN as well as other telethons, why is there still so much poverty and people dying?

Remember when it was live aid and apparantly half the food and stuff never got to the poor people, the ethiopian gov kept it for themselves.

Yep. He was marrying himself.

And they raised over £75m

I don't watch it myself nowadays - but I remember when it all started up in the 80s and it was really exciting and good fun, at least that's how I remember it.

My DS was really excited about it this year and donated some of his toys to charity and did some baking and it was lovely to see him get involved.

Crikey, RND has raised over £75 m SO FAR and people are saying "it's crap, it's unecessary, the government ought to do all of these things, we shouldn't need charities, the people who work for Comic Relief get paid etc etc". Jeez.

Ok, it is a bit irritating, the celebrities in the videos etc, but do you have a better idea of a way to raise £75 mil given that we do not live in a utopia in which our governments support each and every person who is in need?

Thank god kids are not as cynical as you lot. My class had an amazing day dressing up, baking and selling cakes and running the stall. Learning about the lives of others here and abroad that are much tougher than their own. The whole school community came together.

They did all that at my DS' school cherries - I thought it was great. Good on you.

YANBU

I have donated 2 quid this year as that's what my DDs school asked for so each child could wear their own (red) clothes to school, get a cake with a red nose on and a joke book (put together by the kids in year 6).

I haven't watched the telethon for years- it bores the pants off of me. I hate all these shows fronted by minted celebs guilt tripping the general public into parting with their cash. Live Aid was before my time so cant really comment tbf but Live8 pissed me right off.

YANBU, James Corden though, made all these points in a really well put together rant.

In it , he slated all the wealthy celebs/the cost of production/how we see people we dont know doing things we dont care about. He punches pudsey bear out of a little boys arms. Then it culminates in a rousing call to arms for cash.

I dont like him, but he was the best thing on it. You can keep all the rest, particularly the self indulgent thing about catching the clap.
Which wa not funny, and told us what ,exactly? Cant remember, but wouldnt surprise me if they linked it to aids sufferers in sub sahel. Like it relates to anything.
Give directly,dont waste your time with this stuff.

£75m. Yeah, really really crap. I bet all the charities and people it benefits are really pissed off.

Who gives a flying donkey poo about the celebrities or the crap/not crap element. If it saves children's lives - I don't want to make cynical excuses not to give money. The world has too little empathy. I have had illness and been through pain - but I cannot imagine a little child or baby - unable to understand why they can't do something as basic as breathing or eating. The misery of that - have you any concept of what that must feel like?

I would suffer time spent with Jonathan Ross for that.

Also, the one carer's story - when the lovely old boy just cried as he watched his wife become a child again - reminded me of my mother looking after my father. There are so many invisible sufferers out there - living horrible, horrible lives. If a little money gives them a break, some friends, a smile...who are we, who may be much more comfortable, to get in the way of that? Yes, I know that there shouldn't be a need - but it is what it is.....