Comic Relief 2021

Grand total at the end of the main show: £45,938,942

There will be an update on the total in The Great Comic Relief Prizeathon after the news.

What a load of tosh, about as funny as a morgue. It’s been going downhill since the 1990s so to be expected.

You know; for a 12 year old archive clip of Dizzee Rascal & Chrome on the Jools Holland Special; the PQ on BBC Two HD is outstanding.

Well at least we had plenty of songs in tonight's 3-hour show, in fact I think we had more in that time than there would be in the usual length show that goes on until the small hours of the morning.

Extras I would have liked include a round of PE With Joe. That would have got everyone joining in. The nearest we got to that was a few seconds (presumably from a past edition) on a screen in the room the lady on the couch was in during "All By Myself".

To those who complain about the lack of comedy, and the number of mentions of the lockdown (including certain appeal films and some songs as well to some degree), my message is this. The UK has been under restrictions to some extent for a whole year now. Well over 100,000 people have died of COVID-19, and left bereaved relatives. Many more have suffered and survived COVID-19, in some cases needing hospital treatment, others just having mild symptoms. Many people have been affected emotionally / mentally. With all this in mind, tonight was totally unlike any Red Nose Day evening we've experienced since they started in 1988. The producer of tonight's show had to be considerate to all who have been affected by the pandemic. Tonight wasn't a night on which to have several hours of utter stupidity and tommyrot like has been on Red Nose Day TV shows of past odd-numbered years of the 21st century (e.g. Simon Cowell's wedding, with multiple instances of "Stop the wedding" in 2013, or Mr. Bean knocking on the coffin in the funeral sketch in 2015). That kind of "humour" would, in my opinion, have been downright distasteful in the current circumstances.

Welcome back. See you on the new forum?

I'm calling full house on Tumble Tower bingo with Tommyrot!

Oh lord

Sorry, I forgot:

TVF2.

Thank goodness for Catherine Tate’s Nan and Bond sketch for adding some laughs.

This Prizeathon seems to have set a better tone within the first five minutes.

.....people needed a good laugh and not needed to be constantly reminded of the pandemic.

Oh this "Prizeathon" is totally cringeworthy. Who's idea was it to get Amanda Holden to present?!

Also I'm guessing there is a lot of product placement again!

And didn't the BBC do away with text competitions?

This 10:45 “after show” seems much more watchable already.