Comic Relief

[Salem]

What the fuck have Russel Brand & Vic Reeves got to do with comedy ??

[kancutlawns]

Graham Norton is actually a bigger prick than Brand and what makes it worse is that he's on TV every bloody time I turn on. It seems OK to have twats like him and Perkins using sexually suggestive innuendo on TV.

[subsub]

It went down well then.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... elief.html

Anyone would think that Paul Dacre had an agenda against the BBC (and Russell Brand).



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[EddieCheddar]

Graham Norton is actually a bigger prick than Brand and what makes it worse is that he's on TV every bloody time I turn on. It seems OK to have twats like him and Perkins using sexually suggestive innuendo on TV.

I've not caught any of 'Comic Relief' for obvious reasons but that Norton is all over TV dah'n ander. Something I noted other than his complete star fucking persona is the way he treats ordinary people who sit in that chair at the end of his show. He has a blatant disregard for them.

[carcinogen]

So, the message is: do nothing, never donate to charity, right, assuming all of the above is true?

It's time to draw a line now. That's the message. And it's not a very pretty message I admit. Giving to charity comes at a cost. Think of perhaps the most prolific celebrity fundraiser in your lifetime. He raised millions for very worthwhile causes: Jimmy Saville. And herein lies the nub: Would you agree for your child to be given life saving treatment at Stoke Mandeville on funds raised by Jimmy Saville knowing that he had abused a dozen vulnerable children?

I'm not suggesting each time a person donates money to charity a child gets abused, but I am suggesting each time money is given to a charity such a Comic Relief it abjugates responsibility from The State. The money The State saves can, perhaps, be used to fly a diplomat to Saudi Arabia in order to secure an arms deal in cluster munitions for the Saudi's to drop on innocent civillians in Yemen. Yes, it's a stretch, but it's just to illustrate the point.

Further to Comic Relief itself, although I don't have the figure to hand, the money paid to the advertising agency who produced the logo, the slogan, 'the vision' etc. was quite substantial. Again, this is the cost.

By all means give to charity. But giving to charity is akin to manufacturing more umbrella's to stop it raining.

[m4 colin]

As long as enough people send money it will continue, and keep getting worse in terms of entertainment as I've said before "If you want something to go away quit buying it"

There's Plenty of ways to give to and help charity without aggrandizing Turds like Norton Brand and Reeves

[carcinogen]

As long as enough people send money it will continue, and keep getting worse in terms of entertainment as I've said before "If you want something to go away quit buying it"

Are you suggesting a mass revolt and the whole nation not to purchase the license fee? What would Fearne Cotton do with her life? OR for that matter, all the 'talent' at the BBC? They'd be on the fucking streets and nobody wants that. No, I've changed my mind. Keep Comic Relief because at least I know where the fuckers like Norton are and I can run in the opposite direction. The thought of these people on the loose in society is scary as fuck.

[Basualdo]

As long as enough people send money it will continue, and keep getting worse in terms of entertainment as I've said before "If you want something to go away quit buying it"

Are you suggesting a mass revolt and the whole nation not to purchase the license fee? What would Fearne Cotton do with her life? OR for that matter, all the 'talent' at the BBC? They'd be on the fucking streets and nobody wants that. No, I've changed my mind. Keep Comic Relief because at least I know where the fuckers like Norton are and I can run in the opposite direction. The thought of these people on the loose in society is scary as fuck.

Don't be fucking ridiculous! Its not as if the BBC would tolerate their stars commting acts of sexual violence upon the general publi........oh.... I forgot.

[kevin04]

I seen a bit of the part where Brand presented last night.

Jesus H. Christ!

Those comedians were absolutely utterly awful -

A fat Amy Lamé type woman speaking in a strong Bristol (I think)accent about of course being fat before singing (I'm guessing 4 years at uni studying opera)

Some Paul McCartney lookalike making noises and trying to make people laugh with his body parts.

Two guys called ''The something something Trio'' who's act was to sing that Shaggy song from the 90s in some middle-north England drawl unethisastically. I'm guessing this is there whole thing! Who wants to see or even pay to watch that? I'm guessing they are popular at fresher's week.

I turned it off but missed an Asian comic - I'm guessing who talks about being Asian - and someone else.

They were all unbelievably shíte.

[birdie]

As long as enough people send money it will continue, and keep getting worse in terms of entertainment as I've said before "If you want something to go away quit buying it"

Are you suggesting a mass revolt and the whole nation not to purchase the license fee? What would Fearne Cotton do with her life? OR for that matter, all the 'talent' at the BBC? They'd be on the fucking streets and nobody wants that. No, I've changed my mind. Keep Comic Relief because at least I know where the fuckers like Norton are and I can run in the opposite direction. The thought of these people on the loose in society is scary as fuck.

All it needs is for no one to send in any donations, that way it will cost the BBC however many hundreds of thousands it does to put it on for no return, they'd soon stop it.

There was a row over how much Terry Wogan was paid for Children in Need, it took a FOI request to get the information out of the BBC, 2007 I think it may have been, turned out that the cost to the BBC was £1.2m and Saint Tell was paid £1,300 per hour, did a 9 hour stint, Cheryl Baker from Bucks Fizz fame comented that she was surprised that he took it, said he hardly needed the money being as he was being paid £800k a year for his Radio 2 gig, seems that doing stuff for free didn't apply to Saint Tell.

[finchman]

Comic relief is a load of fucking shit.

[Reg]

Comic relief is a load of fucking shit.

Would you go so far as to say they are cunts?

[Shedboy]

Shit cunts seems a fitting description.

[genehunt1973]

Didn't see the shit but saw Corden doing carpool karaoke with Take That on iPlayer and enjoyed it

[Royal24s]

Red Nose Day is more about a bunch of wanker "celebrities" and the BBC saying "look at me" than it is about charity.
Such behaviour is covered in the Bible, and we are told that the man who donates publicly and shouts about his good deeds in the market place will receive his rewards in this world. So it seems in this case actually.
With all big charities, most of the money goes to provide expensive "administration " -jobs, expense accounts and company cars for otherwise unemployable people.
It's the same wicked con as socialism and our current government system, including the BBC actually- "Look, we're doing great stuff for you. Give us your money and we'll take all the suffering and problems away - pay up and do nothing yourself because we will take responsibility for everything, and whether we actually do it or not, you will be absolved because you have passed your duty over to us".

When you see a poor man or a man in trouble, go quietly over and see what you can do to help him. Do not shout about it though, or try to take his dignity in exchange for your money. Don't wear a badge or a red nose to tell others that you've been so generous and kind, but walk quietly away and be grateful that you've been allowed to act as a small tool of the Lord.

LOL. Can't really imagine you doing that to be honest. You'd probably patronise him with a load of waffle clearly above your station, tell him you're better than him, kick him in the head and then then come in here telling everyone that people from Liverpool are backward cunts.

I'm not going to make a habit of addressing you. Nor do I intend to start one of these perpetual back and forths about people keeping to agreements.
I will make this point once though.
You are an odious troll who constantly insults people in terms which would get most people banned, but I notice that you complain like a girl to the moderators as soon as anyone retaliates. Indeed, you have been successful in getting people banned after deliberately provoking them.
How you get away with manipulating the system and getting your own way in this forum mystifies me actually- your sort are well known amongst the criminal classes and fortunately those who have to deal with them in that context know how to stop them taking control and manipulating them.
You never make any rational point or present any argument and so I told you that I don't intend to bother to engage with you, and I told you that some time ago. After a series of unanswered abusive posts, culminating in half arsed threats of physical violence from you, you seemed to have got the message and that has worked for everyone.
Now it seems that you have forgotten the arrangement which I decided upon and you eventually had to comply with, and you are once again trolling me.

You must now stop it because I have decided this for you , and as you know , you have no ability to do anything about this. No doubt this is frustrating for you.

Therefore, be aware that I do not intend to answer or respond to the series of yobby comments and impotent threats which you will now undoubtedly aim at me in confident defiance of the rules of the forum. Be aware that every time you do this you will be confirming to everyone what a nasty little prick you are and demonstrating just how hard you are prepared to work to evoke a reaction which you will find will not happen .

Okay, that's it. I've made my point and that's an end to the matter.
You can now continue to troll, abuse and threaten to whatever extent is condoned by the moderators, in the knowledge that if anyone is getting wound up by that, it will be yourself because it certainly won't bother me.