Apparently this is the last Comic Relief hosted by Lenny Henry.
Sir Lenny Henry broke down in tears as he looked back at his 39-years of hosting Comic Relief while presenting the show for a final time on Friday night.
I do recall the fuss about the first one. Even at that time, I had no inclination to be involved in this extravaganza where wealthy celebrities urge the little people to cough up. I found the idea irritating at best, along with hypocritical and thoroughly nauseating. The more I’ve discovered about this fake charity, the more I’ve come to despise it. In the 39 years it’s been exhorting us to give, I have not donated one single penny and not watched one single episode. That will continue – see also all the other yetanotherthons for exactly the same reasons. Ergo, I had no idea how many there had been or who was hosting them and care even less. Henry is a racist tosser who can fuck off as far as I’m concerned.
I too apply active indifference.
This article sort of crystallised my thinking on “Charidee” and the moral blackmail that Comic Relief represents:
https://africaunauthorised.com/kevin-myers/
OK, that is about Africa but the propping up of the feckless and lazy (and I include Government in that categorisation) is ultimately doing more harm than good.
Brilliant and brutal. Excellent article that says it all.
Kevin Mayers is one of the most cogent columnists ever to put pen to paper. I recall him well from the Sunday Telegraph and the paper was never the same after his departure. Spot on…
A comedian that isn’t funny won’t be missed. Mind you, in a country where precious few actually do a good job, that isn’t unusual.
If only it was the last Comic Relief hosted by anyone…
One of the more creepy aspects is the way they suck young children into it via schools and effectively use those kids to coerce their parents into giving money. They know what game they are playing and it isn’t an altruistic one.
It’s then up to the parents to deprogram their children.
It is a truth universally un-acknowledged that children pay far more attention to their peers than their parents.
Then it is up to parents to say ‘no’ and mean it.
I didn’t know it was still “a thing” as the young people say these days. I remember being quite excited about the first one, but then I was still at school. And it was more about a good night of telly than doing anything to “help”. I think even then I smelled a rat with these Big Charity beanos.
Possibly because the minister of my church back in the ’70s was one of the instigators of what was then called the BBC Appeal for Children in Need. In the ’60s. No, it didn’t start in 1980. I saw with my own eyes how the showbiz mob took it over and, yes, managed to raise more than a small group of clergymen with ten minutes of airtime could ever hope for – and fair play to them – but also squeezed those men out and, inadvertantly I’m sure, turned it into a honeypot for grifters.
1st Corinthians 13: “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly.”
Just another virtue-signalling opportunity for millions of struggling people to give money they can’t afford to a few rich people who don’t need it.
The cunning bit is that they all somehow feel better for it.
I certainly feel better for knowing I’ve never given these grifters one single penny piece.
Perhaps a couple of tsunamis and a few well-placed earthquakes – maybe a volcand squirt, will give these cheridees somthing else to squander their vast expenses/fees/WIKI entries on..
I don’t know how anywhere in Africa which will get any of these but you can bet your kids’ pocket money that they’ll bloody well try to do so in the ridiculous Beeboid mentality for extortion from the gullible and the stupid.
Detroit, Baltimore…..London, Rochdale….
Africa we can ignore and basically let it stew, but the above?
Somebody will sort them, and it won’t be pretty!