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Comic Relief ????

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The wife is sitting watching this just now, dont get me wrong, great causes and great in principal but WTF is it with the presenters?

Does anyone at BBC know what a comic is?

So far we have been subjected to some of Britains most annoying and talentless so called presenters and "comedians"

Most of them featured well in the "Who would you like to punch" post

Lenny Henry
Michael McIntyre
Claudia Winkleman
Graham Norton
Davina McCall

As well as appearences from Harry Hill and Ronnie Corbett

All we need now is Ricky Gervais and we will have had the full set of talentless, annoying, egotistical feckers :mad:
 
Im watching it,its very sad.
My suggestion is contraception,or at least a limit of two children,surely this would help.
Who in there right mind would bring a child into this world if it had nothing to give.
 
I don't usually watch it, but am this year, but not for long, it is pathetic.

The causes are admirable etc, but is this the best the BBC can do ?
 
depressing to say the least.
I know we need to see where the money is going but for goodness sake it's meant to be comic relief.
What was all that up-stairs down-stairs all about?
If they had of had something really funny on it, more people might of felt the need to give more.
I wonder how much Mr Henry and co give out of their pockets. Dont for 1 minute think they do all that for nothing!
 
If the BBC really wanted to put on something really funny, then they should've just run repeats of Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses and the Morecombe and Wise Show all evening, then just asked everyone to donate after each episode!

Glad to say that - for the fifth year running - was a totally Comic Relief Free evening in the PieMan house!!
 
Im watching it,its very sad.
My suggestion is contraception,or at least a limit of two children,surely this would help.
Who in there right mind would bring a child into this world if it had nothing to give.
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Unfortunately, most of the African countries are Catholic so that's the contraception idea out of the window.

The reason they have so many children is that few survive into their teens and, so that they have someone to look after them in old age.
 
Ironically most of them die of everything but old age.
Do france, Germany, Poland etc have similar whip rounds?
I found the 'text a tenner' bit a little high, reinforced by rich stars off of the telly telling us we have to spare out hard earned on this specific charity.
Is it wrong that I'd rather donate to local charities that I or my family may depend on when we are older?
 
Is it wrong that I'd rather donate to local charities that I or my family may depend on when we are older?
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I prefer not to donate to African appeals too. I tend to give to charities who I think are ethical and where I hope all the money I give go to the cause.

I was astounded when the Icelandic bank crashed and found that the Cats Protection League had about £20 million salted away - especially as HID and I are cat lovers


Chris
 
They've been doing Red Nose Day for around 25 years now. Still the problems persist in Africa.
Call it harsh, but I don't see the point in raising milions for them. What good has it done?

Charity begins at home. Plenty of worthy causes at home to cater for.
What about the childrens hospitals that rely on charitable donations? More worthy in my opinion.
 
Ironically most of them die of everything but old age.
Do france, Germany, Poland etc have similar whip rounds?
I found the 'text a tenner' bit a little high, reinforced by rich stars off of the telly telling us we have to spare out hard earned on this specific charity.
Is it wrong that I'd rather donate to local charities that I or my family may depend on when we are older?
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I have a few issues with Comic Relief.

I find it a bit much showing babies dying. No child in this day and age should die of a curable illness - end of! Regardless of which country they are in. I appreciate that levels of poverty are horrendous in certain countries and that the countries themselves are lacking in funds but I remember a story about a leader who came to England from one of the poorer African countries. His country was penniless and the inhabitants lived in abject poverty. Why did he come to England? To purchase a new fleet of top of the range Mercedes limos and a couple of lear jets. Hmmmmm. Surely that money could have been better spent?

As I watched the show last night I found the scenes harrowing and felt powerless as I watched young lives ebbing away but then the presenter would announce that they've raised >£20,000,000. What difference will my £10 make when that kind of money is being mentioned? As Lenny H said, money goes further in Africa.

Lastly, I've said this all along - Live Aid was excellent - it highlighted Africa's plight to the world and helped raise substantial funds to right the wrongs. Now, we still have Bob Geldof and Bono barking on about people giving more to Africa. They do this whilst living in their 18 bedroom mansions, flying everywhere by private jet and living an ultra lavish lifestyle. If they're that determined to save Africa then surely they'd donate >99% of their wealth - both liquid and illiquid as a sign of their determination. I'd certainly respect them more after an act like that. Otherwise, it reeks of them simply using Africa as an excuse to remain in the limelight.

As I said, I abhor any child dying of a curable illness/disease in this day and age but I think the BBC needs to re-examine Comic Relief's content. Alan Patridge, Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr were VERY unfunny.
 
Ironically most of them die of everything but old age.
Do france, Germany, Poland etc have similar whip rounds?
I found the 'text a tenner' bit a little high, reinforced by rich stars off of the telly telling us we have to spare out hard earned on this specific charity.
Is it wrong that I'd rather donate to local charities that I or my family may depend on when we are older?
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Not wrong at all. I donate to charities that mean something to me. My wife's family are CF carriers and her nephew has CF so that is the main cause for us. Haing had a friend lose her husband in Afghanistan, help for heroes or similar forces based charities are high on my list. We need to get our own people sorted before we go beyond that. What really annoys me are the 'tabard brigade' out in town every lunchtime. Yes I may donate to your charity but not through you so you take a percentage of my donations
 
I personally find it hard to find a more worthy cause, than a dying child, that can be saved for a few pounds. Everyone of the celebrities that goes out to Africa, is visibly affected by what they see there, and there reports are emotionally genuine. A child is a child, doesn't matter where they are born, and i understand that all the money raised goes to the causes.

There are other charities in the UK that also benefit, so i say good on everyone that takes part, and whether they are funny or not, isn't that slightly irrelevant in the greater scale of things.
 
Highlight of a poor showing was arguably the Smiffy sketch but even that was 2-3 minutes too long and just padded out to give everyone their 30 seconds of air time.

I'm afraid I've become somewhat immune to all these dying baby videos and stories of suffering that get trawled out everytime we have red nose day. Sad as it is one video is not much different to another. In these tight times I'd rather my money was spent at home on our children, elderly and needy. At a push, I'd rather do something to directly affect Japan or those still trying to rebuild Christchurch but Africa gets millions in UN and government aid and still can't a solution to the problem. I've my own favourite charity (Macmillan and Cancer Research primarily) and so would rather give what I can to those. I'm sorry if that seems hard or cynical
 
Whilst programmes like this can bring a tear to the eye, as did the two parter the other week where four "celebrities", (Lenny Henry, Angela Rippon, Reggie Yates and Samantha Womack),lived for a few days in Kibera to witness for themselves the suffering that goes on on a day to day basis, I wonder.....

How many billions of ££££££££'s have been spent over the years trying to sort this mess out?

 
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