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the love that sees millions of people on Red Nose Day every year going out of their way to help their human neighbours, at home and abroad.
“Millions more people every year try to help people than try to harm them – there’s absolutely no comparison in the numbers.”
James Corden will also be lending his star power to the night Andrew Lincoln holding placards on a doorstep in a brief teaser for the Love Actually follow-up, above left, and James Cordon with Take That for a special Carpool Karaoke, above right with a special edition of Carpool Karaoke, featuring Take That as his guests.
Sir Lenny, who co-founded Comic Relief alongside Richard in 1985 and launched the first Red Nose Day event in 1988, will present on the night and says he is looking forward to “the whole thing, it’s going to be brilliant, it’s going to be exciting and passionate and the films are going to be moving and the comedy on the night is gonna be dope!”.
Singer Ed Sheeran will be performing and also taking part in one of the many appeal films being shown to highlight the work that Comic Relief funds.
During the BBC1 broadcast viewers will also see a preview of the second series of Peter Kay’s Car Share and of the upcoming chat show, All Round to Mrs Brown’s, as well as some Let’s Sing and Dance snippets from presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins ahead of the show’s finale.
Mrs Brown star Brendan O’Carroll says he’s delighted to be doing his bit for the charity. “It’s important to be involved and important that comedians get the audience involved because the money they donate changes lives,” he says.
Other specials include Graham Norton’s Big Chat Live, Russell Brand’s Stand Off and Fantastic Beats & Where To Find Them, hosted by Jonathan Ross and Noel Fielding. Comic Relief 2017 is on BBC1 on Friday from 7pm, with Greg Davies’ Hot Tub Half Hour on BBC2 from 10pm.
Viewers can donate on the night either online via bbc. co.uk/rednoseday or by phone using 03457 910 910 or lastly, through text. To donate £10 via text, text YES to 70210 and to donate £20 text YES to 70220. MATTIE ROSS (Hailee Steinfeld) is just 14 years old when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) shoots and kills her father. The teenager seeks out marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and hires him to help her track down Chaney, while a tenacious Texas Ranger called LeBoeuf (Matt Damon), who has been on Chaney’s trail for some time, joins the hunting party. Adapted from the novel by Charles Portis, Joel and Ethan Coen’s masterful reworking of True Grit is a bloody tale of retribution layered with the brothers’ trademark black humour. JOSH (Ben Stiller) is a film-maker who cannot muster the energy or enthusiasm to complete a documentary that has consumed the past 10 years of his life. He is also stuck in a rut with his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts, pictured with Stiller). By chance, they meet aspiring film-maker Jamie (Adam Driver) and his girlfriend Darby (Amanda Seyfried) – but is there more to the younger couple than meets the eye?