As many of you (in the UK) have noticed, today is the charity Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day, the bi-annual event in which people do stupid things and make themselves look like complete idiots in order to raise money for worthy projects in both Africa and the UK.
In the evening, BBC1 has handed over tonight’s schedule to more than six hours worth (?) of stomach-churning comedy. I’ve probably stopped watching the live shows the last two times, because I feel that I don’t find it funny anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I believe, even in these recession-hit times, that we need to dip our pockets into helping and supporting people less well off than ourselves. But I think it’s time for Comic Relief to consider re-thinking the six-hour-plus show in order to give it a fresh focus. It may encourage some cynics like myself to return to watching it again on TV.
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