I hate Comic Relief.

Subject: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chrsi B (Born Agan Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:11 AM

I bloody hate Comic Relief, or Red Nose Day as it's often called by people who have problems with words of more than one syllable. I've just been listening to Radio 4 and all the continuity announcements have been made by smug, mediocre, formerly 'alternative' comedians who obviously think they're that much cleverer than the rest of us because they can do something called 'Irony'.

By the way, why isn't there enough food to go around? Because Jo Brand and Dawn French have eaten it.

It must be awful in Africa, though. The rains fail, the crops wither, there's no water, your community and wracked by disease and just when you think things can't get any worse bloody Richard Curtis turns up with his chinos and his collarless shirt and his 'I'm married to Emma Freud' spectacles.

Still, at least it gives something for Billy Connolly to do now that he can't make people laugh anymore.

By the way, there was a show on last night about a group of 'celebrities' who raised £1m by climbing Kilimanjaro. I wonder how much it cost to send them there. Did they fly economy?

I don't need rich mediocrities telling me what to do with my money. I can make informed decisions about that - partly by using a handy little skill called reading. And I'm not buying the record, either.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: breezy
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:18 AM

you have to spend to make a profit, I'm sure Liverpool gets its share from these kind of events

but its your choice, to be selfless or not.

Audition organisers for the next series of 'Grumpy old farts' will let you know, but dont hold your breath ! but there again, why not.

Too much fun in the world what with Liverpool football club always singing that same old song from 'carousal !' el

bring back Stan Boardman

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:35 AM

'Carousal'? I don't remember that show. Sounds like fun, though.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Stu
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:38 AM

Miserable old . . . scouser.

Mind you, you're right about Billy Connolly though.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:48 AM

I was screaming abuse at my radio when Paul Whitehouse was trying to be funny at lunchtime, as a so called comedy continuity announcer.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 09:57 AM

Carousal?:
If I Loved You
June Is Bustin' Out All Over
You'll Never Walk Alone
Shrimp Boats Are a' Comin
My Boy Bill

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,69
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 10:15 AM

Sick of it, totally sick of it. Good causes ? did you see the causes they support, not a brass penny would I give. Boring people enjoying their own company, failed tv stars and louvvies.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 10:36 AM

Yes SINSULL, leave your number, and we'll call you back, if we need you.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 10:58 AM

In my 24 years of railing against the corrupt market since I left the ltra corrupt Bear Sterns, John Stewart has put a national exclamimation point on the way the market trains all its employees to lie cheat and steal.

I am sure most of us have seen it already or have mentioned this ground breaking expose' that will not be forgotten for years.

John had Jim Cramer on the show. Stewart did not pull a single punch even as Jim curled into an embryonic ball of embarrased guilt.

See the full show at comedycentral.com

John did last night what George Carlin never managed to do in his lifetime by educating the American people to the "exact" nature of how the US businessman is screwing you in the ass.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 10:59 AM

Carousal? If you spell it with an E it makes more sense.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:01 AM

Carousal:- a session of drinking and carousing.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:02 AM

Oh God. The Americans have arrived. There goes the neighbourhood.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:34 AM

Oh No. They're doing 'comedy' on Radio 3 now. It's like Flanders and Swann only worse.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:34 AM

This country owes a debt of gratitude to John Stewart for being such a singular voice for freedom and justice when virtually all the other TV talking heads went along to get along.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:47 AM

No, your country does.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 11:49 AM

Sorry your version sucks mate.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 12:10 PM

Carousal :- Awakening of 100 people.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 12:14 PM

Mate? Who are you, Dick Van Dyke?

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 01:04 PM

I saw some silly woman dressed as a clown today. I thought, "great, best of both worlds - you can indulge your taste for exhibitionism and feel morally superior to everyone else, at the same time!"

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 03:19 PM

I might not mind so much if there was some decent entertainment on offer in return for a crowd of rich people with bank accounts in the Cayman Islands asking for my money.

But it's all such shit.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Micca
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 04:05 PM

A colleague at work described the TV show for Comic relief as beig as enjoyable as "Taking a good meal, cutting it into small cubes and then mixing it with a ton of sawdust and eating it, there are brief moments of enjoyment but a great deal of rubbish to get through which mostly leave you feeling unsatisfied and slightly cheated at the waste of all that talent".

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 04:24 PM

Comic Relief. Raising money for charity. Really out of order, that. Really evil. Shouldn't be allowed. And there's nothing at all in the world worse you could possibly get annoyed about, is there? Like, I dunno, kids starving in a wealthy world?

Chris, there's a simple answer. Turn the TV off. Keep your money in your pocket. It'll all be over tomorrow.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 04:56 PM

"I hate Comic Relief."

That's not funny . . . .

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: TheSilentOne
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:10 PM

"I hate Comic Relief"?
Yeah, raising money for the needy is such a shit thing to do isn't it?

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:13 PM

The comedy and comedians may not be so funny as in concert or usual programmes. Often they don't write their material, they just perform it. Perhaps it is the comedy writers you should be moaning about.

As GUESTS are not permitted to start threads below the line, hopefully a mod elf will come put this meanspirited pratt in his place and remove or close the thread.

I have donated twice today. And I am watching the programme.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: TheSilentOne
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:16 PM

OK, nice to see how GUEST (Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:04 PM)comes out in the open to knock the charity? The point is 100% of our donations DO go to charity. p

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:28 PM

You know you're in an Alberta hotel when you call the front desk and say, "I gotta leak in my bathroom toilet" and they respond, "Go ahead."

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: TheSilentOne
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:55 PM

GUEST..GUEST..GUEST.. Funny how no-one who is knocking charity will use their own Mudcat name to do it in this thread. It's pathetic. Hope it gets pulled soon.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 05:55 PM

I saw some silly woman dressed as a clown today. I thought, "great, best of both worlds - you can indulge your taste for exhibitionism and feel morally superior to everyone else, at the same time!"

Last year I dressed up as a saloon gal (gawd that was embarrasing cause I ain't got the body for it) for Children in Need. Am I morally superior? Mostly I felt cold and uncomfortable (them fishnets were pinching me something fierce and in unmentionable places). So maybe I am an exhibitionist. I thought I was just having fun and I helping a good cause.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM

Someone needs to look at how the money from charities is channeled and the money from governments is channeled. Our tax dollars and pounds buy the weapons. Our donations typically aid who it is intended to aid.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM

Got any pics?

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:11 PM

Not necessarily unmentionable ones. I am not THAT much of a pervert.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:12 PM

As you wish . . . .

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:12 PM

Unless... nevermind.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:16 PM

GNU! Behave yourself. I am a married whore!

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 06:21 PM

For the right money, honey I'll let you see my deck (cards that is). Not the marked ones.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 07:26 PM

"Shit happens. Get over it and stop begging me for my money"

Great to see the world in safe hands. Remind me not to piss on you when you're on fire...

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 08:24 PM

The real problem with Comic Relief is that it is a mere palliative, so it relieves governments from doing what they ought to do and those who ought to rise in revolution from doing just that.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 05:29 AM

snork! gotta love that Spleen Cringe.

For any moderator who happens to be passing by, (I still don't know who all of them are).

I am NOT posting under 2 different Mudcat names.

TheSilentOne is my husband. So named because he is very quiet at sing around sessions. The name is apt because he doesn't very often post to Mudcat either. He was piqued by my out loud comments re this thread and decided to put in an appearance. I have 3D mudcat friends who can verify this.

Glad I cleared that up.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 05:41 AM

Funny, I seem to have had a post deleted. Or maybe the bit-bucket-in-the-sky got it, or there may be another reason. If it was mod action, no doubt it will happen again.

There are two good (IMHO) reasons to criticise the establishment of events like Comic Relief.

First they take the pressure off governments. The good causes supported should be fed by the state and the state should not evade those duties by farming them out to volunteers.

Second they palliate and and thereby delay merited revolution.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 06:43 AM

All of which might be true, Richard, but while we wait for governments to become perfect and the state to take full responsibility there are children suffering.
Comic Relief clearly provides an outlet for all sorts of people to give money to help those children - it provides a few laughs, a lot of good feeling and it brightens up a difficult time.
I was very moved yesterday. I work some of the week with children out of mainstream education, some of whom have had dreadful experiences with adults and other children. The small group of children yesterday did a sponsored walk into central Newport, carrying collecting tins and dressed in PJs (and red noses, of course) and raised over £450.
I'm not going to let my political consciousness get in the way of thinking that it was a very, very good thing to have done.

Anne

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: kendall
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 08:21 AM

Like it or not folks, he has a right to express himself here. He may be as popular as a wet dog at a wedding, but he still has that right.
Now, if he resorts to personal attacks, that's another thing.

Remember the rule...Don't feed the trolls.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 09:44 AM

Funny, my missing post has reappeared or my eyesight improved...

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 12:53 PM

Is this type of "scrounging" all that different from mumming? I mean the mumming that goes on today which is done to raise money for all sorts of local charities?

Comic Relief is just mumming on a huge scale and the entertainment is lamer.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 01:12 PM

Richard, it re-appeared. I honestly don't know what happened, but I'd guess your post was restored after being deleted accidentally as it was sandwiched into some GUEST posts.

Posts from GUESTS post with throwaway identities WILL likely get deleted.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 02:23 PM

Well I dressed up baked cakes raised £100 with the help of my work colleagues -and yes it Comic Relief is spectacularly unfunny (Outnumbered being the exception), but its not really about the programme is it? its about £57 million pounds out of our pockets and heading towards projects that need it.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: kendall
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 04:02 PM

There is so little real comedy these days. Any fool can spout 4 letter words but it takes talent to make us old "heard it all" Gits to laugh.

I have to admit that Larry the cable guy can make me chuckle sometimes.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 04:54 PM

Red Green has got what it takes, too.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: Mr Fox
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 05:39 PM

Could be worse. Could be Children in bloody Need.

A couple of years ago I offered them £50 if they would leave me alone for an hour in a room with Pudsey bleedin' Bear, a baseball bat, a taser and a gallon of napalm. For some reason they didn't take me up on the offer.

Subject: RE: I hate Comic Relief.
From: olddude
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 09:03 PM

I hate Jello