7 Responses to You Plonker

1. richard D says:

   March 22, 2014 at 2:24 pm

   Hadn’t seen that (hadn’t seen any of Sport relief, to be honest), but have a lot of time for David Beckham, and that was a brilliant prat-fall.

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2. Deborah says:

   March 22, 2014 at 3:40 pm

   thanks Alan – I hadn’t watched SR either. I don’t approve of second rate ‘stars’ using these charity nights to raise their profile but I really enjoyed this.

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3. stuart says:

   March 23, 2014 at 12:58 am

   i hate these patronising charity shows on the bbc which are just ego boosts for these bbc presenters and has been so called to celebritys to bore us all to near death with there false concerns about the poor in the world at at home,i give to charity anyway like help for heroes and animal aid,i dont need some wealthy footballers or annoying soap actors to tell me that i must donate even more money to charitys that have nothing to do with this country,,whatever they raised last night on sport relief should be replaced by cutting into the foreign waste of aid budget and then there might be no reason then for having this sport aid every year which in fact probably costs more for the bbc to produce this programme that the money its raises,

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4. Eric says:

   March 23, 2014 at 5:25 am

   The television charity fund raiser has been with us a long time now (a very long time if you are an American for, I believe, Jerry Lewis was doing telefon’s back in the 1960s).

   One can feel churlish criticising something that is helping good causes ( assume they are all good causes). Yet I cannot help feeling the proliferation of these evening long shows (Children in Need, Comic Relief, Sports Relief) is becoming a slightly patronising, self congratulatory “selfie” ( to use that latest hideous in vogue phrase).

   There is a sense of the “LOOK AT US – WE’RE DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR CHARITY”. Fits in perfectly with the BBC’s smug attitude.

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5. EmersonV says:

   March 23, 2014 at 4:31 pm

   I have to ask when they go to these foreign countries to show how bad the living conditions are, instead of trying to make me feel guilty for actually living in a country where we have managed to provide clean water and proper sanitation, that they actually tackle the governments of these countries.
   Find out where they spend their money. unless they do it for themselves it will forever be like this.

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6. nofanofpoliticians says:

   March 24, 2014 at 12:19 am

   Did brand-Beckham announce that the profits from the sale of all cax with his name attached would be going to Sport Relief?

   Did I miss that somewhere?

   Alternatively, wasn’t this the most magnificent piece of brand placement that you ever saw, bearing in mind of course that the BBC don’t usually go for this kind of thing?

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   • Frank Words says:

     March 24, 2014 at 6:28 am

     The BBC itself provided commentary for two points you raise – albeit from its distant and not so distant past. On the role of celebrity charity work from “I’m Alan Partridge”* – a narcissistic celebrity commenting on his “good works” – “You’ve got to put a bit back……. And its tax deductable”.

     Then there was poor old Percy Thrower sacked from Gardeners World way back because he made a advert.

     * I sometimes laugh at Coogan’s creation. He nails a truth though often the joke is on the sort of po-faced self regarding egotist appears to be in real life (though he probably doesn’t see it – I don’t know)

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