Comic Relief (Red Nose Day) in general
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Comic Relief (Red Nose Day) in general

Date: 19/03/13

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Advantages: Fantastic show and raised millions of £'s

Disadvantages: A few too cheesy and cringeworthy jokes

I have to commend Mr. Henry for appearing on national television in a light up red nose day suit this year after appearing in drag back in 2011, it is an improvement.

So Red Nose Day on the BBC as usual was absolutely spectacular and I particularly enjoyed Peter Kay's excellent (sarcasm) effort of sitting on his arse to raise money for the charity. I'm not particularly impressed by a poor effort but given the fact that he's a comedian and this is all about "Comic" relief, It's more than fitting for the programme.

Michael McIntyre was also being his usual self with a few cheesy jokes about the phone number being to donation total and what not, on the whole though he really did add a certain something to the crowd and brought quite a few smiles to the audience and those watching at home.

Jessie J shaving her hair off at the start was probably the highlight to me and no doubt Hello! magazine had a field day after that. This was done on Live TV, it was real, and looks absolutely awful afterwards so kudos to Jessie for going bald. It wasn't so much funny as it was shocking, but the donations shot up after that so worth every second!

Generally speaking the fundraising or "fun raising" as it was dubbed, was quite good, a few of the clips like Simon Cowell getting married to himself were a bit dull and badly scripted but they did have a lot of high profile guests on like David Walliams on, who has the long running joke "My Simon" so it did fit in quite well with the clip.

There was also a 5 minute clip in from EastEnders which carried on from the storyline to raise awareness for gang culture and how children in the UK are increasingly likely to turn to gang culture I'm surprised how well the writers of East Enders managed to get this storyline to fit in so well with Comic relief, it was quite griping to watch on TV although I think that clip should have been extended a little more to explore the issue in greater depth.

Overall I quite enjoyed the show, the BBC did an excellent job rounding up all the people on the show and god knows how they managed to get Jessie J to go bald but that was the pinnacle of the evening, just ten minutes in to the program and already bringing out the big guns!

Summary: Overall an excellent evening well spent, and a great chance to raise money and awareness.