Red Nose Fest

The Saturdays didn't get to number one, yet somehow 'Barry Islands in the Stream' did. I don't know how that happened but I think it's right. Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon released the single for a laugh, to raise a bit of money. I may be being a bit cynical here, but The Saturdays blatantly did it for publicity. Not that that's really a problem, but they picked a song that's just ok and did a version that's worse than the original. So last week, Flo Rida made it to number one. Originally I wondered why people would actually buy that song. I mean, yeah I'd definitely dance to it on a night out but I wouldn't listen to it on my iPod. However, my very humble opinion has been changed by Top of the Pops on Friday. The performance was actually really good and now I would probably download the single (illegally for free obviously - I wouldn't pay for it). I'm well into Jai Ho for this weeks number one though. I'm not really a fan of the Pussycat Dolls but I love bollywood and their vocals sound really good on the track.

So anyway, back to Comic Relief. Me and James got pizzas in. We ordered them online, paid by credit card and had them delivered so we really only had to move the length of the hall to collect them. Embarrassingly lazy I know.

I think I have previous Red Nose Days on a podium because I really didn't think this one was that good. The Kilimanjaro programme was on the night before (how cute is Fearne Cotton without make-up by the way?), as was Comic Relief does the Apprentice and it seemed like a lot of the night was filler. I didn't watch Let's Dance for Comic Relief because we don't actually have a TV but I wished I'd have watched it on iPlayer or something because I've seen bits of it and it looks like it was really funny. I went youtubing today and looked at some clips. Robert Webb appears to be the best, which explains why he won. I find this clip really very funny and I'm gobsmacked at his dancing ability.



In contrast to this, Little Britain and Catherine Tate were very very bad. Little Britain are so out of touch it is unbelievable. They just think that we laugh at anything. Someone needs to tell them they're not funny anymore. I bought the first two series of Little Britain on DVD, back when they were still good. They've definitely lost it now though. Catherine Tate doing her old lady bit was a solid effort. She milked it a little towards the end but even then, it was actually funny.

James Corden's sketch with the England football team was good. I don't really like football and I have never seen Gavin and Stacey but I thought he was brilliant, considering what he had to work with. Nobody expected much in terms of acting from the players but they just about managed to pull the right faces, bless them. It worked.

I didn't stay up to the end. It seems a shame to put the really funny stuff at the end because it all really gets too much and everyone is kind of too tired to watch it. I saw a bit of the Kate Moss thing on iPlayer but it was kind of painful to watch because her acting is terrible. She looks great in clothes though.

All in all, good fun. It raised loads of money for mosquito nets (as they kept saying) so job well done. For now.