Comic Relief

[Trivun]

Just a quick update, the new value raised so far is £54,690,437, and rising as I type this. If you haven't already then I implore you, go to the website, watch it on BBC1 or BBC iPlayer, and show your support for Comic Relief!

EDIT: Just found out, this is £14million more than Comic Relief have ever raised before, so help them go that extra bit further, guys! The value raised will pay for 10,938,087 mosquito nets, which means almost 11million lives saved from Malaria, every £5 pays for another one, and every penny raised counts! (at the risk of sounding like a Tesco's advert...)

 

[Trivun]

I campaigned for reform of the IMF

I suppose this is a bit late, but the IMF, I assume you're referring to is the International Monetary Fund. How is that linked in any way to Comic Relief?

 

[SenseOfTumour]

One I recently saw was Alan Partridge interviewing the Milky Bar Kid, with Simon Pegg as the Milky Bar kid. It's maybe made even better by the audience not getting it, and just the waves of discomfort coming from them. If you don't know Alan Partridge, he's a faded chat show host who has the natural ability to say the wrong thing at every chance. The Milky Bar kid was a small blonde child who advertised white chocolate in the 70s and 80s.

You should maybe add that Alan Partridge is a character played by Steve Coogan.

I should probably link the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEh4Wh7k8V8

If you liked it then, well...

Just a quick update, the new value raised so far is £54,690,437, and rising as I type this. If you haven't already then I implore you, go to the website, watch it on BBC1 or BBC iPlayer, and show your support for Comic Relief!

EDIT: Just found out, this is £14million more than Comic Relief have ever raised before, so help them go that extra bit further, guys! The value raised will pay for 10,938,087 mosquito nets, which means almost 11million lives saved from Malaria, every £5 pays for another one, and every penny raised counts! (at the risk of sounding like a Tesco's advert...)

Drop a bit of cash in the buckets, or call up and add some, or just let em round up your bill to the nearest pound in Sainsbury's. Two of our finest comedians died on their arse in front of a rabble of idiots for Comic Relief!

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Also, we're all supposed to be watching our pennies, the financial state of the world is going to hell, and yet we can still donate more than any other year in history?

Anyone thinking Comic Relief fails needs to rethink it, it might not be 'cool' but it works.

And I realise that line could have been said by Mr Partridge himself.

 

[Trivun]

One I recently saw was Alan Partridge interviewing the Milky Bar Kid, with Simon Pegg as the Milky Bar kid. It's maybe made even better by the audience not getting it, and just the waves of discomfort coming from them. If you don't know Alan Partridge, he's a faded chat show host who has the natural ability to say the wrong thing at every chance. The Milky Bar kid was a small blonde child who advertised white chocolate in the 70s and 80s.

You should maybe add that Alan Partridge is a character played by Steve Coogan.

I should probably link the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEh4Wh7k8V8

If you liked it then, well...

Just a quick update, the new value raised so far is £54,690,437, and rising as I type this. If you haven't already then I implore you, go to the website, watch it on BBC1 or BBC iPlayer, and show your support for Comic Relief!

EDIT: Just found out, this is £14million more than Comic Relief have ever raised before, so help them go that extra bit further, guys! The value raised will pay for 10,938,087 mosquito nets, which means almost 11million lives saved from Malaria, every £5 pays for another one, and every penny raised counts! (at the risk of sounding like a Tesco's advert...)

Drop a bit of cash in the buckets, or call up and add some, or just let em round up your bill to the nearest pound in Sainsbury's. Two of our finest comedians died on their arse in front of a rabble of idiots for Comic Relief!

Exactly, we've had over 300 views of this thread so far but not nearly enough responses, Comic Relief is still going and there's no deadline for donations, people! Let's see more of you showing your support for this cause!

 

[Trivun]

New update, the new total raised so far is £57,809,938! That will of course go up even further though as more people send in the money they've raised from their own fundraisers, text/phone/donate online during the rest of the show, and more money donated from companies such as Apple, who have agreed to donate an extra 20p for every song downloaded over the weekend, matched by the record companies of the UK who will do the same with every CD sold in the UK over this weekend. So do your bit, people, and help raise the total even higher! This is the highest ever total recorded by Comic Relief since it's conception in the mid-80's, so you can help make history here. Please take a look and consider helping this worthy cause.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/

 

[Archemetis]

I stripped naked in public just because it was snowing a while back, so doing something for Red Nose Day would be a doddle, but like i mentioned, I just forgot it was today.

 

[Trivun]

Sorry to keep posting here, but this is really important and it is vital that people know about the good work of Comic Relief, if you really don't care then at least have a look at the website and see what it all means. I keep going back to the front page and there are so many threads about games, and other, random topics, and they pale into insignificance when compared to something like Comic Relief. The kids who are helped by the charity don't have the luxury of computers and the internet, they can't play all this games, they don't know anything about these topics that we debate endlessly, because they can't afford them, and can't afford education or medical supplies, and millions are dead or dying from AIDS and Malaria, and it's a shame to see such ignorance or so many people refusing to look and see what they can do to help these children, in Africa and in the UK, it isn't all just Third World countries but your own backyard as well. This charity is helping everyone, and there isn't a place in the UK that doesn't have a Comic Relief project within 30 miles, helping the disadvantaged, so show your support and visit the website or make a small donation. Please, don't just ignore all this, but make an effort and please support this cause.

 

[Trivun]

So many of you are looking at this thread and yet aren't posting, and I fervently hope that's because you are going straight to the webpages of Comic Relief and Red Nose Day, but I realise that's probably not the case. Well done to those who are, but we still need to do more. This link is to a video about Malaria and the effect it is having on the lives of people in Africa:

http://www.rednoseday.com/change_lives/issue_spotlights/malaria

And this link is to the different projects that are being done in the UK to help disadvanteged people:

http://www.rednoseday.com/change_lives/whats_in_your_area

Please, look at these links and see the good work that Comic Relief is doing, and please help them to make the lives of so many people that little bit better.

 

[SmoothGlover]

Right, i've given the money having got over my cycnical self. All i will say though is that its ironic that the money collected would only fund the various military efforts in the middle east for about 15 minutes, funny old world (lets not get into that discussion anyway haha).

 

[Trivun]

Looking at all the stories of children dying and suffering, especially in Africa, I simply have to ask: Why don't the governments of these countries do anything? The last video shown on BBC1 so far was about children in Nairobi living in dumps, scouring for food scraps and bottles to sell, and Simon Cowell had a look and went with them to a place nearby that is basically like an orphanage for them, who are helping and making a real effort to give these children a proper education, somewhere to sleep and live, and proper food and water. The government of Kenya could do so much to help these kids and instead they rely on self-funded orphanages that recieve little or no government support. The governments don't care, but you can show that you do (Don't start bashing Simon Cowell, by the way, your personal feelings about the celebrities involved don't exactly constitute decent discussion of Comic Relief or it's aid projects). Just think, is it really fair that these children are living in dumps and living like this, and we all sit here typing away at our keyboards completely oblivious to what kind of conditions so many people are living in?

 

[SmoothGlover]

Looking at all the stories of children dying and suffering, especially in Africa, I simply have to ask: Why don't the governments of these countries do anything? The last video shown on BBC1 so far was about children in Nairobi living in dumps, scouring for food scraps and bottles to sell, and Simon Cowell had a look and went with them to a place nearby that is basically like an orphanage for them, who are helping and making a real effort to give these children a proper education, somewhere to slepp and live, and proper food and water. The government of Kenya could do so much to help these kids and instead they rely on self-funded orphanages that recieve little or no government support. The governments don't care, but you can show that you do (Don't start bashing Simon Cowell, by the way, your personal feelings about the celebrities involved don't exactly constitute decent discussion of Comic Relief or it's aid projects). Just think, is it really fair that these children are living in dumps and living like this, and we all sit here typing away at our keyboards completely oblivious to what kind of conditions so many people are living in?

Thats the real problem i guess, while organisations like Comic Relief can bring change on an individual basis or even to a community, the problem itself will never be solved by an outside influence. It is interesting though, my housemate is Nigerian from a relatively wealthy Nigerian family and he was saying how issues throughout the African continent are almost hidden from those with money. Obviously he doesn't know about ALL of Africa but i guess he is in a better position to comment than most.

On a side note, haha, Horne and Cordon (spelling?) are very much the balls.

 

[Trivun]

Looking at all the stories of children dying and suffering, especially in Africa, I simply have to ask: Why don't the governments of these countries do anything? The last video shown on BBC1 so far was about children in Nairobi living in dumps, scouring for food scraps and bottles to sell, and Simon Cowell had a look and went with them to a place nearby that is basically like an orphanage for them, who are helping and making a real effort to give these children a proper education, somewhere to slepp and live, and proper food and water. The government of Kenya could do so much to help these kids and instead they rely on self-funded orphanages that recieve little or no government support. The governments don't care, but you can show that you do (Don't start bashing Simon Cowell, by the way, your personal feelings about the celebrities involved don't exactly constitute decent discussion of Comic Relief or it's aid projects). Just think, is it really fair that these children are living in dumps and living like this, and we all sit here typing away at our keyboards completely oblivious to what kind of conditions so many people are living in?

Thats the real problem i guess, while organisations like Comic Relief can bring change on an individual basis or even to a community, the problem itself will never be solved by an outside influence. It is interesting though, my housemate is Nigerian from a relatively wealthy Nigerian family and he was saying how issues throughout the African continent are almost hidden from those with money. Obviously he doesn't know about ALL of Africa but i guess he is in a better position to comment than most.

On a side note, haha, Horne and Cordon (spelling?) are very much the balls.

Exactly. However, as long as these governments are in power they will never let things change, since it benefits them too much. Look at Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's regime, he let things get really bad while he was in power because it made a good excuse for him to keep his power, he wouldn't give it up and if he'd let things get better for the people there then he would have lost his excuse to maintain the control that, by rights, he should never have had in the first place. In Kenya and Rwanda, Sudan, Darfur, Nigeria, the Congo and everywhere else, the governments are in power and any move to make life better for the masses will cause them to need to spend their money, and make life slightly worse for the rich, since the money would have to come from somewhere. That would never do, of course... plus, do we need reminding of who exactly was behind the Rwandan Genocide (leading to the widespread HIV pandemic that is still affecting people there now), or the Darfur ethnic cleansing?

EDIT: The show has now finished but there's no deadline for donations, so you can still do your bit to raise some money to help these projects in Africa and across the UK