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The best of comic relief

The three funniest skits

The best of comic relief

Red Nose Day is all about donating money to those who need it more than we do. But in order to get us to be charitable and decent, we're also given an absurd amount of comedians desperate to impress us with their wit.

Aside from all of the baked bean-filled baths and sponsored funny hat days, the odd sketch has stuck in our memory long enough to offer up some cash, in-between all of the laughing.

Vic and Bob Attempt 75 Pints and 1 Song (1995)





Alan Partridge Interviews The Milky Bar Kid (2005)





Ricky Gervais 'goes' to Kenya (2007)