05/02/2013 The One Show

show. Have you had a phone call yet? Let's move on! I am joking!

have got a fantastic Call The Midwife, something for Rowan

Atkinson, I cannot name the comedians, but a very tall on the

likes to swear! Rowan Atkinson digging up a gain in a Leicester

car park? No, his playing the Archbishop of Canterbury! You have

brought something a little bit special tonight. Yes, a few seconds

of it. I am the bossy one, you're the comedy one. What are you, then?

The beautiful one! You are the hopeless one. No, I am the hopeless

one. The weird one! You are I do have to say, I think it is

going to be the funniest yet, I have lied and said that before...

But you mean it this year! Also in the studio is Paul Barry, a teacher

from Hampshire who, along with his pupils, has been raising money for

Comic Relief every year for 25 years. That is about 30,000 fund-

raising ideas over the years, so what you are stuck for something to

do, the house or the experience and a giant red nose full of challenges.

If you send us your photograph, he will assign you a challenge for you

to stick to, come hell or high water. Someone else with a

challenge tonight is Lucy Siegle, who is live in Ghana for us

tonight! She is finding out how some of the money raised has been

spent in Africa, and we also gave her a bit of a yes, indeed -- a bit

of a challenge, didn't we question I guess, a Richard Curtis Challenge,

I have been running around trying to make that happen! Yes, I am here

in Ghana in Accra, the capital, and this is Osu night market, it is

really busy, very exciting. I have had two big surprises here, first

of all there is not just one One Show, there is one here, and I

tried to get my way on to Ghanaian television. This man made it happen,

we will keep him mysterious for now and come back to you later, but

suffice to say he has an equivalence on our One Show. The

second surprise, this market is ruled by a Queen Mother, and here

she comes to give us permission. Thank you very much, we will follow

you in! We are going to follow the Queen Mother into the market. I am

going to look for my Hugh Grant N there, CEO later!

A Ghanaian One Show! Comic Relief started in 1985, and the very first

Red Nose Day came three years later. 25 years to the day, Happy birthday

from us and from this man. Many congratulations, Richard, on 25

years of Comic Relief. This is proper rubbish, how are we going to

sort this out? What, Africa? I mean It certainly has been a relief, I

hope you can keep it up, well done. The day are so many things I have

done for Comic Relief, they always Just close Jim Mason Amir -- just

closed in a cinema near you... There is no-one doesn't want to

dress up as above. Kylie turned up, a life-changing moment for us both,

she was absolutely minute but perfect!

To why detect a slight accent What is occurring, pussycat? We had

known each other since we were at school together in Wales, to be

sitting in a limousine in the desert outside Las Vegas with Tom

Jones was like a dream come true, So we would be there singing

islands in the stream, and then I would look next, and Tom would be

going... He wanted to lip synch, because he had a show that night

and he did not want to mess his boys up, you save. Who would like

some more tea? Yes, Carter. You do realise it comes all away from

Ealing. Very well. I will be back in about two and a half hours.

just thought it would be the most fun thing to do, especially with

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. It was just a thrill to be in that

room and be part of that British tradition of making fun of and also

the red nose. Like most Kenyans, Daniel lives below the poverty line,

surviving on $1 per day. appeared when you first started

watching it that Ricky had gone to Africa, but we quickly pulled out

to reveal he was in a studio in Shepherds Bush. Just a very surreal

day all round. I am faking a report from Africa. You cannot do that!

What is the point in going there? The money comes rolling in, you do

not have to inconvenience yourself, not showering for days, or law that

would not be a problem for you. was like people were getting

cynical, celebrities are only doing it to boost their profile, so the

idea that these people had been doing genuine charitable work would

actually come on. I have got a little surprise for you. Is that

Smithy? Who this? It is Lenny Henry. Do I know you? One of the funniest

sketches we have done, everyone from Gordon Brown, Ringo Starr,

George Michael. You are a joke, George, it is embarrassing! I

cannot walk into Comic Relief with you, it is about helping people

like you! �600 million, 25 years to this day, and I say happy

anniversary, Comic Relief. I was in the biggest rock and roll band in

the history of music. That is a bit disrespectful in front of JLS.

that is decided. You're doing the appeal film in Africa. Wow! Richard,

after seeing all of those, some of the finest comedy of the last 25

years, is it possible for you to pick out a favourite moment? It is

astonishing how people have allowed themselves to be dragged through

the mud like that, terrible, yeah. One of my favourites was a nice

moment when Dawn French asked me if she could kiss Hugh Grant.

course. We said if we could get �1 million, I think he asked for �1

million, that was particularly exciting early on. We had a feeling

you might say that, so we have got that, let's have a little look at

them having a pack. Now it is kissing Time, Dawn French to kiss

you Grand live in the studio. Hugh Grant. People have donated �1

I love that she has got a Liz Hurley inspired dress on to do it,

that was very good. He has never been able to find happiness since

then! On a serious note, what has inspired you to keep going for 25

years? Well... It is an extraordinary privilege to be in a

position where you can raise the money that we have raised, and it

takes four or five months every time, and if someone said to you,

you could save one child's life by working for four months, you would

definitely do it. What is extraordinary is that everybody who

gives a fiver does that, and the idea that these comedians do that,

you can actually change and save people's lives, it is extraordinary.

Many said this amazing thing, forget geography, these are your

neighbours. It is just this one chance to ask people on one night

to give a little bit of money to do something to raise some cash, and

we make the promise that we will give it to somebody with an

exceptionally tough life, living in fear, living in danger. And that

really is enough for me. And I guess, right at the very beginning,

you knew what was not going to be a short-term thing, you wanted it to

go on and on. I hoped the first one would fail! I remember we thought,

if we raise �5 million, that would have been nice, but we raised 15,

so we had to do it again, then 27, and so... You had to get more

phones are the first night. first time we ever said get a fund-

raising pack, we had three telephones waiting, and I think

27,000 people rang. I was up at 4 o'clock in the morning with very

angry fathers, say my child said I had to get through with you to get

the fund-raising pack. It was exceptionally chaotic! Well,

celebrities are not the only ones happy to play the full four Comic

Relief. You at home are more than happy to do it as well.

In 2003 I broke the world's oldest existing maritime record for Comic

Relief when I took a paper boat down the entire course of the River

Thames. There were people all the way along the river, waving and

saying, well done, keep going. We love weird and wonderful fund-

raising events, that is great. There was a constant worry that the

paper vote would not make it, but I ended up on the news, by �500 was

blown out of the water, it was getting on towards �10,000,

fantastic for someone who just wanted to raise 500 quid. Back in

1993, I used to look after Lenny Henry, I was his bank manager.

Unbeknown to me, the staff and customers clubbed together to have

a bath but on his pavement full of tomatoes, which I was sponsored to

sit in. My family was all in on it, everybody was apart from me, a pair

of swimming trunks in my briefcase that I had not seen. To sit in a

bath full of tomatoes for half an hour on a March morning, I felt

like an idiot, but we raised nearly �10,000. In return, or my customers

got a photograph of their bank manager covered in tomatoes. On the

very first Red Nose Day, I flew 8,000 miles wearing a red nose to

India, so has I walked through Heathrow, people would look at me,

and they would just go into their pockets and bring out a red nose

and put it on. I raised about �500, and it felt tremendous. I am Jan.

And I am Barbara. We are sitting on the steps of Coventry Cathedral

reminiscing about two years ago when we had knitting in aid of

Comic Relief. I think we got nearly 700 people wearing red noses.

we managed to raise well over �6,000 for Comic Relief. And they

really good time was had by everyone on the evening. And this

was just from a small idea, I was teaching my girls to knit, and we

thought, what could we do for Comic I really cannot remember how I

raised this expands back in 1988. - - �6. I am a bus driver for

National Express, and I decided to actually do something for Comic

Relief, which was the Full Monty, and I ask some of the lads at the

garage to do it with me. When we were getting changed, we were

watching how many people kept going into the room, it got more and more

full until there were that many in there that you could not move. I

looked at Kevin, Darren looked at me, are we going to really do this?

We felt like pop-star us. We were not like Chippendales, more like

chipmunks, but it worked. Speed for yourself. If all the money went to

projects in Africa, in the UK, and to the guests that joining us now.

Tell us about Jeremiah's Journey. It helps bereaved children, and the

group me and my sister go to our four children who are going to be

bereaved. So if you have got a parent who is terminally ill, which

is a place we can go to talk to other children in our situation.

How was it helping? After it is a great place to go to help you de-

stress, to help you feel like there is other people like you so you

don't feel alone or different. It is a place people can comprehend.

You make different arts and crafts, and you have brought something in

to show us. They this is my elephants that I have made, and it

has got its ears, its trunk here. That is so beautiful. EastEnders

are teaming up with Comic Relief again this year, targeting the

issue of gangs. You have turned you Fire Station into something

extraordinary thanks to some money you have had from Comic Relief,

haven't you Nigel? Yes, it was an old shed that we used to store fire

engines in, and returned it into a boxing club to help local kids.

has that helped in Manchester? lot of the kids are drawn to gang

culture, and we say they should during our gang which has rules to

do with training and getting up, discipline, respect and courage. If

they can subscribe, their art in our gang. Million, YouGov to North

London Cares. Richard will be interested in your full club.

we enjoy it and we have a nice little group now. The volunteers

are very nice, and we see a lot of films. It is the old films are like

the best. Had you seen any of Richard's? Some of my films are

quite old. What was the last film? A did see one - Notting Hill, but

it was so boring. It was so boring I fell asleep. Then it livened up,

you know what I mean? If have you got a favourite film? Me my

favourite is Casablanca. Excellent. I couldn't stay awake in that one,

I have to admit. If thank you to everyone for coming in. The work in

the UK is so important and a lot of people lead tough lives. We deal

with domestic violence, sex trafficking, so many harsh things

so you have fun but I am so admiring the people who do the job

and I am delighted for the people who benefit. It must be difficult

to decide where the money is going as well. There are a lot of

brilliant things, and we look around and find the best project

and support them. The we are about to go back to Lucy in Ghana, but

first here is what is happening to her, this happened when she

mentioned The One Show. I am Lucy from The One Show.

One Show? I am from The One Show. No, you are not. I have never seen

it before. If this is Dave, the props man. None of these guys are

from The One Show. I am from The One Show. This is mysterious,

nobody believes I am from The One Show. The reason people are

confused is because there is another One Show. I am here at the

television station and I am going to find out what is going on. After

a brief tour, I find the one man who may be able to shine some light

on the matter. Her, I am Lucy from The One Show in

the UK. Apparently you have your own One Show in Ghana. If yes, I am

the co-host here in Ghana. Lovely to meet you. You are the equivalent

to Matt Baker in London. Yes, what -- what's up, Matt! Of who copied

who? We copied each other. What sort of content do you have in

Ghana? Anything from drug abuse to anything that relates to the

everyday lifestyles, so fashion, music, entertainment. Do you have

films about dancing dogs? No... Snow? For hello, in Ghana! The One

Show is filmed in these very studios, but today I have been

invited to be a guest on a daytime chat show. I am just going to

demonstrate this red nose, and we saved do something for me for money.

That is a celebration of what fund- raising can do. Before I left I

thought the least I could do was to leave them a gift to remember us by.

This is from the team in London. That was a lot of fun, what a great

show. I think we have found a spiritual home in Ghana.

Then we wouldn't have to do snow and flooding.

Be it has actually just finished snowing outside of the studio. Lucy

is with the Canadian version of you, Matt Baker, right now apparently. -

- Ghanaian. Yes, we are in charge of dinner. Is

everything here you need to make me a delicious meal? Yes we can do

some fish with chilli sauce. Fiery, I like that. Everybody keeps saying

Africa is on moves, a real comic relief thing to say - is that true

from your perspective? Yes, they can't be any better time for Africa

than 23rd team. We are doing well with our economy, with sports and

entertainment. That is the time for Africa to stand for itself. You are

enjoying yourself. I am loving you. Too kind. The next thing is to

coach the actors for part of the Richard Curtis theme challenge. I

will send you to do that now. See you later. Comic Relief Works on

the ground here to support charities and local people to do

really well. One of those charities specifically works with people who

live in urban slums. Evelyn, you look beautiful by the way. You grow

up in one of the biggest urban slums here, how did you get out?

Thanks to SISS. That is the charity funded by Comic Relief. I got

training from then and after that I was given capital to set up a

business. So you have a cafe? the cafe and office. I have been to

your cafe and you make a mean omelette and I know you do a lot of

baking as well. You are very ambitious for your shop, your

restaurant. A very much, so ambitious. You want to expand?

Really lovely to meet you. Now to a star of sport - Allen, good evening.

I want you to sum up your achievements. You have a lot of

medals, take us through some of them. It has been a great honour to

represent Ghana. I competed in the Paralympic Games in London. How was

it? If it was so fantastic, the people of England are so amazing. I

thank them that I have been able to rise to this. The really did, you

did everybody here proud. Lovely to meet you. These are just two of the

people being helped to do amazing things by Comic Relief funding.

Back to that challenge I know you have been waiting for. The task me

with finding two great actors and I have not disappointed you. This is

the iconic seen from Notting Hill when Julia Roberts comes into the

bookshop and lays it on the table, Hugh Grant throws it back in her

face. How are you feeling about acting? I am fine, I like it.

you familiar with the film Notting Hill? Yes, yes. Good, we are

expecting great things. Your name? My name is Michael and I am a

footballer. If let's see how you act. Action. I live in Notting Hill.

You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my

mother has trouble remembering my name. Fine. Good decision. The fame

thing isn't really real, you know. And don't forget, I'm also just a

girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. Two stars

standing here. One last thing we want to say to the studio - three,

two, one, happy red nose Day. Such a wonderful ride, isn't there?

Lilian just dozed off. What is wonderful is that you see things

like this, and I remember when I first went to Ethiopia in the

middle of the famine, and you still meet kids with so much joy. We want

to give people the opportunity to have the kind of happiness they are

capable of. When you see what is happening in Africa, 40 million

more kids going to school, it is fantastic the progress being made.

Let's bring Paul Barry in, the teacher from Hampshire who is ready

to assign Comic Relief challenge us to you at home.

This is Tony from Weston-super-Mare, what can you pick out for him?

Let's see, we have... The challenge is to spend the day it in any fancy

dress choice of your choice. If he is wearing fancy dress already.

more question marks spend the entire day carrying a teddy bear.

Very good. I have a lovely one here - what will they do? Commute to