Stand Up to Cancer - 3rd Nov - Printable Version
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Stand Up to Cancer - 3rd Nov - Brekkie - 26-10-2023
Nice to see a proper telethon back, billed as Humour v Tumour - A Night of Death Defying Comedy. Airs 7-11.30pm - a bit longer than recent BBC telethons but still finishing the wrong side of midnight IMO.
Includes Celebrity Gogglebox and a comedy roast at 10pm with Rhod Gilbert but most noteable is the finale of Don't Look Down being live on the night as the celebs high wire across the London Stadium. It's these sort of live stunts that have been missing from the various telethons in recent years as Comic Relief especially concentrates on a big challenge beforehand.
RE: Stand Up to Cancer - 3rd Nov - gottago - 26-10-2023
Where have you seen Don't Look Down as happening live? As far as I'm aware they filmed it last Friday. The spotlights coming out of the stadium and making UFO-like shapes against the clouds were freaking out the local Whatsapp groups. I expect more people saw those lights than the series itself!
RE: Stand Up to Cancer - 3rd Nov - Brekkie - 26-10-2023
It's flagged as live on the C4 TV guide, but looking again so is Celebrity Gogglebox so guess they're bring liberal with the definition.
https://www.channel4.com/tv-guide/2023/11/03
Stand Up To Cancer - fanoftv - 03-11-2023
Stand Up To Cancer is back tonight, live on Channel 4, but this year is coming from The Francis Crick Institute with them filming around the building in various locations, so far they have included a balcony position, a decorated area, the reception and from corridors of a lab.
RE: Stand Up To Cancer - Nobby - 04-11-2023
It has BSL on 4seven and AD on Channel 4, even the live bits, something for everyone.
The Comedy Roast hasn't really worked. I suspect they came up with the idea and then couldn't get any comedians to take part. It's hard to imagine anyone in the planning meeting suggesting Gemma Collins or Prue Leith as a first choice of guest or Nick Grimshaw as host for that matter.
RE: Stand Up To Cancer - Stooky Bill - 04-11-2023
No it didn't really work, and it's not as if it's really been a thing this side of the Atlantic anyway. It just turned into items of non comedians doing lame jokes and immediately apologising for them
There were some good bits but a lot that fell a bit flat. Partly that was because they based a lot of jokes on the subject of cancer itself, which is fine in moderation, but it just becomes repetatative and cringy after a while
RE: Stand Up To Cancer - Brekkie - 04-11-2023
It's quite refreshing though to have something that doesn't work as part of these telethons when the BBC ones are so pre-packaged and predictable nowadays. The trouble was they gave it 90+ minutes, rather than 20 minutes and then move on.
They probably needed one more hook in the final couple of hours just to flesh it out a bit - Joe Lycett might have been more beneficial in that slot rather than earlier in the evening.