BCG Daily Saturday 19th March 2011

Press clippings

Comic Relief's mix of mirth and misery done to a turn

BBC show features appearances from Andy Murray, Kim Cattrall and Simon Callow - plus Ronnie Corbett hiding in the bushes.

Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 19th March 2011

BBC inquiry called after guard's Red Nose Day insult

BBC chiefs launched an inquiry yesterday after a security guard told a radio guest with a severe facial disfigurement that she had taken "Red Nose Day a bit too far".

Andy Bloxham, The Telegraph, 19th March 2011

Submarine: Eccentric British romcom with original edge

Submarine is another British romcom, and it's both more adventurous and less commercial: a self-consciously quirky rites-of-passage comedy about a pale, gloomy 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy (Craig Roberts) trying to lose his virginity with his comically unromantic girlfriend (Yasmin Paige), who's bad-tempered and suffers from eczema.

Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 19th March 2011

Shakespeare - Lenny Henry: A farce to be reckoned with

Lenny Henry is laughing all the way to the National Theatre. The stand-up comic is following up on his triumph playing Shakespeare's Othello by taking on the Bard's The Comedy Of Errors.

Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail, 19th March 2011

Comic Relief: £74.3m total sets Red Nose Day record

Comic Relief has raised £74.3m, the highest figure reached on the night of the show in its 23-year history.

BBC News, 19th March 2011

A Day In The Life Of... Craig Campbell

At noon the phone rings and I thrash around like I've been shot; the process of trying to figure out where the fuck I am begins. Ignoring the vibrating buzz of an iPhone for a moment I hear voices in the hall. Foreign? Estonian? Polish? I see the curtains I closed before turning in to shut out the glare of casino lights - the casino of my late night food stop - a tuna melt and three orders of two chicken wraps mistakenly taken by a Polish bartender too busy telling me that Crack-off is the most beautiful city in the world (it isn't) to type in my order correctly. Fuck me I'm in Dundee!

Craig Campbell, Giggle Beats, 19th March 2011

Comic Relief telethon peaks with 12.4m

Comic Relief was an outstanding success for BBC One last night, attracting a peak audience of over 12.4m, early viewing figures indicate.

Paul Millar, Digital Spy, 19th March 2011

The Best of Comic Relief 2011

Do you remember when Comic Relief's fundraising was mostly restricted to buying silly red noses, cheap T-shirts and a novelty pop song in the run-up to the live telethon? That still happens, but these days you can't escape Comic Relief for weeks, sometimes months, before the big day itself, and it's subsidized by loads of celebrity-led specials. This year we've had the return of Let's Dance For Comic Relief every Saturday (celebs reenacting famous dances for phone votes), the Red Nose Desert Trek five-day endurance (celebs walk across Kenya for cash), [Chris Moyles' Longest Ever Radio Show (52 hours, raising £2.6m from listeners), 24 Hour Panel People (David Walliams enduring a day-long marathon of panel show guesting), a week-long Comic Relief Does Glee Club special for kid's TV, and probably a few more I've forgotten.

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 19th March 2011

Comic Relief review: the agony and the ecstasy

Last night we endured the annual marathon of heartstring-tugging, tin-rattling mirth that is Comic Relief.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 19th March 2011

Comic Relief 2011: 10 funniest moments

The comedy hits of the annual telethon.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 19th March 2011

Comic Relief 2011: 10 most cringey moments

The comedy flops of the annual telethon.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 19th March 2011

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