Comic Relief

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The local radio were talking about Comic relief and trying to raise money today?
Is it still a thing. Does anyone watch it on the TV?

School did a non uniform day but apart from that our house has nothing to do with it.

I think people are over ' Comic Relief ' and ' Children in Need' to some extent.

the public have no time for celebrities looking pensive in poor areas of far off lands, or hugging small non white children like they are a great white saviour.

The whole thing is just self promotion.

I feel sorry for ' Children in Need' ; it hasn't been the same since Terry Wogan died. Such a worthy cause but the public are fed up that it even needs to be a ' thing' . There's just no interest in it now.

I agree - too many overpaid celebrities trying to coax the underpaid into giving up hard earned £££.

I'd prefer them to donate the cost of the trip to the far off lands direct to a charity, rather than go there for a jolly go there to highlight "the poor".

Agree, local BBC were really promoting it today.

A lot of countries who they 'help' have corrupt governments who want to keep people poor. As with all charities, I don't trust those in charge.

I think with streaming services available it’s diluted the excitement around a night of telly where your favourite programmes/actors band together to do funny sketches. I had a quick look at the list for the TV tonight and haven’t watched any of the programmes/casts listed, so would be pretty meaningless to watch it.

Son’s high school have had a non uniform day for it and the deputy head dressed up as a lobster for a laugh. That was all!

Agree with the fed up of seeing celebs on the beg basically. For just £5 you can….. Raise 150k and what’s his name will run in a wedding dress 🥱

I’d rather give things to actual local charities.

Our kids came out of school with a picture of them wearing a red nose and had made a biscuit but the school didn't do anything to raise money for it :s I didn't even know it was today

Stop press... I'm on it😂

(blink and you'll miss me though)

I'd forgotten it was today, so thanks for reminding me to avoid bbc one!

Oh that's why one of the local schools had a random non-uniform day today. I saw a boy going to school in a banana costume and didn't make the connection. Ours didn't even mention it. I think people are just so done with it since we were all told by the far left a few years ago that raising money for foreign charity is Bad and Wrong and trying to help people is not wanted, no actually it's patronising and terrible and we're all awful for wanting to help. So... people don't go for it the way they used to. It's a microcosm of what's going on in society at large. People try to do nice things, get lambasted by professional arguers for trying, and eventually stop bothering.

It’s nowhere near as big an event that it used to be. The primary school I worked in today did absolutely nothing about Red Nose Day, and I get the impression that fewer and fewer schools bother with it every year.

I've been confused about FB saying it's the 40th anniversary.

I could swear the first time it happened was 1988.

No I reckon a few years before that because I remember being at primary school and there was talks about who had a new official red nose or an old one from previousyear/years. I went to secondary in 1989 so definitely before then and red noses with flappy hands and ones for the car were being sold.

Google has answered me:
Straight from the Comic Relief website:

"The very first Red Nose Day was in 1988 and raised a huge £15 million! Over 30 million people tune in to watch 'Blackadder - the Cavalier Years' and the Young Ones on 'University Challenge'."

History of Red Nose Day | Comic Relief

So why was their FB post saying it was 40 years? Maybe they got Baldrick to do the calculation.

I went to school in the 80s and Red Nose Day was massive. Bloody Hale and Pace screaming and shouting for HOURS on the telly on the night. My dad always used to buy a red nose for the car bumper.

But that was when life was boring as fuck with only 4 tv channels (I stand by that statement, I love the internet).

The children’s school said they could wear something red if they wanted today, and asked everyone to donate £1 though parentmail, which no one will as the system doesn’t even work half the time.

I've hated it since day one. Unfunny badly written sketches and forced humour. At least we don't get to hear those dreadful "comic" records anymore.

BBC seem to massively promote.

Being associated with the BBC probably does a lot of harm to them too.

Jimmy Saville was involved with both.

I stopped donating a few years ago when I discovered one of the charities they funded was Allsorts who have been merrily destroying women and girls’ rights.

Comic relief was founded in 1985.

Baldrick doing Countdown would be worth watching though.

We used to watch them both avidly but don't watch or donate now . We do donate to several charities, just not these now.

If anyone can suggest a charity who do good work with children and families in Africa I’d be happy to. Not action aid or oxfam.

Some of the sketches are quite funny this year 😊😊don’t usually watch it but channel hopping!!

My kids were told about it in school yesterday, came home wanting a red nose, they don't sell them anywhere locally (tried 4 places between yesterday and today). There were tears, and not from laughter