Comic Relief
- TV variety
- BBC One
- 1988 - 2025
- 22 episodes
Every two years the biggest British comedy stars and shows come together to raise money for charity. Stars Lenny Henry, Jonathan Ross, Griff Rhys Jones, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and more.
- Catch-up on Episode 23
Press clippings Page 3
Comic Relief in crisis as chairman quits over Gaza ceasefire call
Eric Salama says he thought charity's approach was 'profoundly wrong' after it signed petition that criticised Israeli bombing.
Patrick Sawer and Robert Mendick, The Telegraph, 24th November 2023Comic Relief raises over £34m with The Traitors and Eurovision sketches
The annual Comic Relief fundraiser, which featured sketches based on the show The Traitors and Eurovision, has raised over £34m.
Annabel Rackham, BBC, 18th March 2023Tony Robinson on reviving Blackadder's Baldrick for Comic Relief
Tony Robinson tells Radio Times magazine about his delight when Richard Curtis asked him to grab his turnip to become Blackadder's Baldrick one more time.
Toby Earle, Radio Times, 17th March 2023Comic Relief's outlandish origin story - inside Nether Wallop festival
Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?
Alan Burles, The Guardian, 17th March 2023Comic Relief 2023: David Tennant leads reassuringly traditional show that tugs at the heartstrings
This year's BBC charity broadcast for Red Nose Day was a chortlefest low on stress and high on laid-back laughs.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 17th March 2023Baldrick to read Blackadder Bedtime Story for Comic Relief
The BBC has revealed its plans for Red Nose Day, with Tony Robinson reprising his Blackadder character Baldrick for a Bedtime Story. Other Comic Relief sketches include one themed around Love Island and another around Eurovision.
British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2023French & Saunders to star in Traitors sketch for Comic Relief
Claudia Winkleman, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Mary Berry have filmed a Comic Relief sketch themed around The Traitors.
British Comedy Guide, 4th March 2023Comic Relief launch new nose ahead of Red Nose Day on 17th March
Comic Relief have revealed a brand new "magically transforming" Red Nose ahead of 2023's Red Nose Day. They've also confirmed that TV highlights on 17th March will include a parody of Love Island and Kylie Minogue featuring in a special episode of Ghosts.
British Comedy Guide, 1st February 2023Red Nose Day raises £42m
More than £42.7m has been raised in Comic Relief's latest Red Nose Day broadcast, with a host of stars taking part in sketches and stunts.
BBC, 19th March 2022Red Nose Day 2022 - being funny for money never looked so bleak
Laughs across the stamina-sapping telethon were few and far between - if only they'd let Stephen Fry swear.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 19th March 2022