Comments on: Who’s hosting Comic Relief

By: Richie J Haworth

Richie J Haworth — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:54:47 +0000

It’s not so much “Comic Relief”, but “Light Entertainment Relief” these days, it seems from the line up.

By: Andy Elms

Andy Elms — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:09:34 +0000

Sigh. I gave up on such long-running programmes about a decade ago.
The final episode of The Offfice, series two, suitably skewered the “enforced wackiness”. The difficulty is trying to describe ones disdain for the generic “Holby City Stars Singing Songs From the Shows” without being accused of not caring for, as Sir Bob is alledged to have said, “Starving African kids with flies round their mouths”.

Yes, the charity is important, but it’s just not entertaining anymore. With more and more “Celebrity Strictly Come Do Something Other than What You Normally Do” it stands out in the schedule less and less.

How to improve it? Armando Ianucci proved himself with the “Time Trumpet” item two years ago. Let him take control – anyone else remember the genius that what 1997′s “Election Night Armistace”, complete with BBC Choral Unit singing news themes. Add an hour of Peter Serafinowicz as el Tel and some more leftfield acts – Mat Fraser, Liz Carr and Lawrence Clark off BBC Ouch please!

Or even better, chuck all the sketches on a DVD and flog it for cash, then run the show without the comedy as more of a Crimewatch style proggy.

Oh, and more than just 4 seconds of “Dick and Dom in Das Boot”.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:03:40 +0000

Dissing his decanter aside, isn’t Ratner at least as similarly qualified as Alan Sugar, if not more so?

By: David McNay

David McNay — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:20:06 +0000

Not many actual comedians listed there…

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:08:20 +0000

Surely we can expect Sir Alan to direct the words “a load of old tut” in Ratner’s direction at some juncture.

By: Simon Tyers

Simon Tyers — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Gerald Ratner?!