Peter Kay phoned up Danny Baker's radio show a few weeks ago asking for the listeners help in recruiting some line dancers for his sketch. At the time he himself said the event should be renamed simply "relief".

I only tuned in to see Peter Kay's bit. And even then I missed the beginning of because I was toggling back and forth between a Tommy Vance special on VH1.

I enjoyed it, in my opinion he PK can do no wrong.

(Can't abide Chris Moyles though. Comedy? Are you feeling okay? ;-))

I must say that I think Comic Relief has become a cult for the "celebrities". Certainly it does good work in its fund-raising, but I must say that the air-time now dedicated to this - with Celebrity Big Brother, Celbrity Fame Academy, Comic relief Night and so for has been a huge turn-off. (In fact, I don't think I have watched more than a few minutes of the BBC all week).
My wife was out yesterday evening so I spent the evening channel hopping, and kept popping back to see if there was anything amusing on Comic Relief - at no point (during those brief visits) did I manage to raise a smile.

It's all a bit Nazi Butlins, isn't it? You vill haff fun, kinda thing.

I'm ambivalent about these things - it's nice that they're persuading people to hand over their cash, of course, but it's horribly reminiscent of the Fast Show character Colin Hunt. So for example there was a fiftyish bloke in the supermarket yesterday who had dyed his hair and moustache bright red, and was *delighted* by the attention resulting from such zany antics. My sides are still aching from the hilarity.

Then again, I'm a grumpy old bastard.

When Ricky Gervais was on Room 101 he expressed some cynicism about Comic Relief and Children in Need and all that other crap.

Mark: PK can do no wrong? Did you watch Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere? That was wrong.

You miss the point - Comic Relief is relief from comedy for the night. Preventing us from the terrible oppressive pressure of having to laugh at things. Long may it continue.

Peter Kay certainly can do wrong. His stand-up is brilliant, but his character-based stuff is erratic. His miming to a Tony Christie song for Comic Relief was deeply unamusing.

I'm aware that lots of people can't stand Chris Moyles. That's hardly the point. The point is that, regardless of whether you like his comedy, he stopped doing it for a week for Comic Relief. I think Andrew must be right. And "Nazi Butlins" is a brilliant description, Gary, thanks.

A while after I blogged, I turned the TV back on again and was lucky enough to catch Ricky Gervaise for the second time, being exceedingly rude to Richard Curtis and providing the second laugh of the night. I had thought Gervaise was just brilliant, but, having seen him on Comic Relief, I think he may be the greatest comedian in Britain.