'Red Nose' or slightly 'Red Face' Day?

'Am I' - sorry, will never have a career as a proof reader!

I didn't watch it but I've noticed recently that a lot of 'family entertainment' is nearer the knuckle than it used to be. Whilst watching Saturday Night Takeaway the other weekend I had to explain the meaning of 'the crown jewels' (with a gesture added to an 8 year old boy. Not what I expected to have to do during a family show.

I didn't watch any of it - I think it has become a self congratulating ego fest for a bunch of celebrities. I accept a lot of money is raised and that is good but I think the whole concept should be re-thought.

I don't think you are turning into Mary Whitehouse. Many people that I know felt the same , both young and old .So glad I didn't waste any time on it but then I never bother with any of these money grabbing shows.Don't get me wrong I give to charity but mainly local ones. Heard so much bad stuff about these big charities that it's put me off giving to them . So little of it gets to the people you are meant to be helping even if they say that most of it goes to the cause.
Not giving my money to the fat cats who run them.

I think this is worth reading.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/24/africa-comic-relief

I do feel strongly that our idea of "it's for charity" needs rethinking.

No, you aren't alone Rosina although I didn't even bother watching. It seems to be the same old so-called comics on it, never did get the blokey, sneering, purile humour that appears to keep them happy. At best there was money raised for good causes.

Sunseeker, you hit the nail on the head. Pity you couldn't have hit some of those so called comedians on the head. What a pity they have to mention various parts of the human anatomy to raise a laugh.

I never watch these fund raising things, five minutes of patting on the back about how much they "raise" would be enough for me. I don't give to overseas charities either, support local ones only. All the millions of pounds that have vanished into Africa etc over the last 50 plus years and things are exactly the same and will never change.

This was the first time I had watched any of this event - like most others here I won't be bothering again. So many disturbing facts do seem to come out about charities that you are left wondering how best to contribute. I heard from a reliable source that an accountant was so shocked by the salaries that he saw were paid to the directors of two major charities that he cancelled his regular donations and now buys items that are needed and hands them over directly to a local school that supports children with disabilities.

I stopped supporting Comic Relief when I discovered that they were investing in tobacco and arms companies.

Regardless of any 'near the knuckle' content the whole thing was a complete load of tosh.
As for the much hyped 'Love Actually' sequal blink and you'd missed it.

I like the comedian Greg Davies,so I switched on to BBC2 at 10pm to watch him in a hot tub on the roof. Three minutes later I switched off-what a load of embarrassing rubbish.

Thank you. I thought it was just me. I hate the self congratulatory look at me aspect of these programmes and hate to be hectored into spending money.

No it was dreadful. Ross & Brand can be guaranteed to lower the tone of anything. Lenny Henry is so up himself and the whole show was badly organised. They did raise a fair amount of money but think its time to rethink the whole red nose thing. Bring back Wogan's self deprecating style, he was not in it to promote himself.
As for the new Mrs Brown show well words fail me.

I'm another who thought the programme was dire. Not sure where the comedy was !

Terry Wogan did Children in Need, not Comic Relief. That was Lenny Henry.

Thought that perhaps we were the only grumps not watching Red Nose night, now I see we were not alone.

Didn't Terry Wogan get paid a ridiculous amount of money to present Children in Need...?

Another one here, we did not watch it, never have, always feel that these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel to get a laugh, and self-promoting at the same time. Of course it is sad to see the poverty in the world and the way some people live, but we should put our own house in order first, and help those in this country who are in need. I just wonder if we had a "Comic Relief" to help the ailing National Health Service would it receive so much attention?

I have never watched this. Two names make my toes curl, Ross and Brand they should be not allowed to appear before the public.

There has been a lot of complaints on fb, I think. I thought it was pathetic apart from James corden with Take That and the lovely Ed Sheeran!

We didn't watch it, choice not accident. We prefer to support small charities with some traceability regarding outcome. This year our granddaughter set herself a very hard challenge to raise money, she achieved it so we feel we must support her efforts. Would have been hard not to.

I have never in the past watched this, but finished up watching about 10 minutes when my OH put it on to see Greg Davies. I then left the room. What utter nonsense; and how patronising some of it was - depicting people in difficult circumstances just as victims rather than the brave people that they so often are made my toes curl.

I have always felt uncomfortable about slebs hugging starving children.

Jennifer Saunders interviewing people with mental health problems was grim in the extreme - she finds it hard to remove the sneer from her voice.

The short bit that I watched was tasteless. It felt as though these slebs had thrown things together just to get their faces out there and gain the kudos of supporting charities. Getting a cheap laugh involved innuendo and foul language. No attempt at quality.

I will definitely not be watching at all next time. Let us hope the BBC is listening.

I didn't watch it at all this year. It's either very silly or very coarse. Not my sort of entertainment.

I don't think I'm a prude but so much comedy these days seems to be intent on shocking - I don't see why people find it funny. Billy Connolly could be very rude but at least, to my mind anyway, he was funny.

I quite enjoyed Fleabag when it wasn't being gross, but some of the humour was really beyond the pale.