A huge night for comedy and fundraising takes place on Friday, March 17, as Comic Relief aka Red Nose Day makes a return to BBC One for a full evening of entertainment, heartbreaking stories and inspirational challenges and fundraising.
Presenters include Doctor Who star David Tennant and joining him live from the studio will be Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett and AJ Odudu. As well as raising money for great causes, there will be some awesome specially-made sketches for the night and we've got details on each one below.
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When is Comic Relief on TV?
The Red Nose Day show will be broadcast live on BBC One on Friday, March 17 from 7pm until 10pm.
What sketches can you see during the show?
Traitors
In a special parody of the hit psychological gameshow, The Traitors, a star-studded roundtable gathers to decide who should be banished. Claudia Winkleman (played by Dawn French) assembles the celebrity ‘Faithful’ and ‘Traitors’ for a discussion full of twists and turns. Which famous faces will be under the cloaks and who will be revealed as the ultimate Traitor?
Ghosts
BBC sitcom Ghosts is back with a spook-tacular special for Red Nose Day, and they have a surprise guest… none other than global superstar Kylie Minogue! When Kylie and her manager (played by Tanya Moodie) arrive at Button House to see if it's a suitable concert venue, the ghosts get the shock of their (after) lives.
Love Island
Comic Relief turns up the heat and the laughs by sending an unexpected BOMBSHELL into the villa. Expect Maya Jama slow-mos, sarcastic quips from Iain Stirling and a romantic trip to the hideaway.
Baldrick's Bedtime Story for Comic Relief
We’ll see the exclusive return of one of the nation’s most beloved comedy characters – Baldrick – as he reads his very own ‘Blackadder’ Bedtime Story.
There's also a look back at When Comic Relief Did Big Brother back in 2001, which airs at 10pm on BBC Two. That year, six celebrities entered the Big Brother house in aid of Comic Relief. It was eight days that had the nation hooked and helped raise millions of pounds. 22 years on since the original broadcast, winner Jack Dee and fellow housemates Vanessa Feltz, Claire Sweeney, Keith Duffy and Anthea Turner take a look back at this extraordinary moment in television history. From dancing in underpants to Vanessa writing on the furniture and Jack Dee’s great escape, revisit where celebrity reality TV was born.
Then, at 10.40pm on BBC One there's Comic Relief: The Best of the Best Bits. As the fundraiser turns 35 this year it's a good opportunity for some Red Nose-talgia and ransacking the BBC archives for some of the very best bits from Red Nose Day history. Expect some classic sketches, star cameos, one-off specials; prime ministers, A-listers, legends joining the doyennes, divas, rogues and rascals from the top table of British comedy talent in this giddy 60-minute rampage through three and a half daft decades of fun and fundraising.
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