[Kojak]

It’s a big shift only having one, as in recent years they have a set of noses, 6/8/10 per year to collect/to encourage you to buy more than 1 and hence donate more

I’m not sure they’ve worked as well as they used to since they were no longer allowed to make them out of plastic, they’ve been a cardboard type material recently.

In a wider sense, I get the feeling Red Nose Day isn’t cutting through with younger people anymore, do they even still do it at school? or even in work places for that matter?

In terms of the telethon, both this and Children in Need are getting increasingly undistinguishable. CIN was your middle of the road BBC faces linking a line up of BBC specials. Red Nose Day was edgy presenters, often not your usual BBC faces, linking anarchic material where anything could happen. These days Paddy McGuiness and Alesha Dixon could literally turn up and host either.

Gone are the days of The League of Gentlemen doing skits about onanism in the Antarctic! I think Red Nose Day has gradually been fading away in wider society for a long time now - certainly for the past decade it seems to have been much less of a thing than it was up until, say, 2007. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is quietly axed before the end of this decade.