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Comic Relief
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Genre Telethon
Created by Richard Curtis
Lenny Henry
Presented by Current:
Lenny Henry
Jonathan Ross
Miranda Hart
Sally Phillips
Luisa Omielan
Rob Beckett
Romesh Ranganathan
Warwick Davis
Richard Osman
Greg Davies
Graham Norton
Russell Brand
Noel Fielding
(See full list)
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
Production
Location(s) BBC Television Centre (1988–2013)
The London Palladium (2015)
Building Six at The O2 (2017)
Camera setup Multiple
Running time Various
Release
Original network BBC One
Original release 5 February 1988 –
present
Chronology
Related shows Children in Need
Sport Relief
External links
Website

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief.

A prominent biennial event in British popular culture, Comic Relief is one of the two high-profile telethon events held in the United Kingdom, the other being Children in Need, held annually in November.

Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds' Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in Sudan. The idea for Comic Relief came from the charity worker Jane Tewson, who established it as the operating name of Charity Projects, a registered charity in England and Scotland.

On 4 April 1986 the inaugural live fund-raising show, "Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Live", was staged at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London featuring popular alternative comedians and pop stars (including Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Kate Bush and Cliff Richard). An audio recording was released on WEA which included a live performance of the charity single "Living Doll" by Cliff Richard and the Young Ones.


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