[Gary Baldy]

Comic Relief doesn’t seem to have much comedy these days, which is kind of vital to the show’s format. It’s indistinguishable from Children in Need at the moment.

I think it’s hard because there is not much mainstream comedy existing and less mainstream comedy is very risky for several reasons.

Yes, even Channel 4 plays it a bit safe these days- they’d rather invest in sex documentaries than any comedy.

And like you said, it’s not as risky possibly due to changing audience habits- maybe younger audiences get more offended today than they did back in the day. The “edgiest” comedy show C4 have now is The Last Leg and even then that feels really tired- a breath of fresh air when it came out, but gone on far too long now, and I think that was a bit edgy at the beginning but plays it somewhat too safe now.