Comic Relief

Comic relief is a nationwide charity event that is shown on tv. Lots of the public do their own comic relief to raise money including skydives, sitting in tubs of baked beans, shaving their hair and other silly things. As long I as can remember I have watched comic relief. A rare friday night in this year it caught me by surprise, as I didnt quite know which friday it was on. I sat there with my mood being raised to hysterical laughing right back down to near hysterical crying. The worst video was when Fern Cotton went to a hospital to see children suffering with malaria and she fainted. She was part of the team that climed Mount Kilamanjaro and ...

I can't quite remember the first time I heard of Comic Relief, but since learning of it's biannual Friday night feature long program raising money of children around the world, I've never missed it. This year I was saddened by the stories of children dying from malaria out in Africa, and felt compelled to donate some money to aid the projects. Every year the Friday night of fun reminds us of how people less fortunate than ourselves are having to cope with a difficult life. What's great about Comic Relief is the innovative ideas that are thought up to raise as much money as possible, the charity team up with schools, with supermarkets and banks to ...

Comic Relief has been around for 23 years now which is some going for the annual charity fund raising event where the money is split between charities in this country and also Africa as well, it used to be the one time of the year where Lenny Henry got to be on our TV screens however now he has his Premier Inn advert to keep him in the public eye. Comic Relief is always on a Friday and the main focus is the TV show on the Friday night which is a mix of sketches and appeals clips as well as updates on the level of fund raising and how things are going. This year one of the highlights was Smithy from Gavin and Stacey doing a pep talk to the England football ...