Comic Relief 2026 LIVE with Gordon Ramsay and Jack Whitehall appearing tonight

Comic Relief: Funny For Money is on BBC One tonight with organisers hoping to raise a record sum for charity.

Red Nose Day is back with live performances, amazing prizes, surprise cameos, and must-see sketches. In a Comic Relief first, the show - which runs for three hours on BBC One - will also be live streamed on the official BBC YouTube channel.

The live show is hosted by Davina McCall, Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed, Joel Dommett, and Catherine Tate - as her foul-mouthed character Nan from The Catherine Tate Show.

There are, as always, films, with a promising a cast-list of Jack Whitehall, Sir Ian McKellen, Julia Roberts, Daniel Craig, Lord Alan Sugar, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Gordon Ramsay, Vanessa Williams, Rio Ferdinand and Dame Anna Wintour.

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Comic Relief across the BBC

There will also be some Comic Relief themed special episodes of telly, such as Comic Relief Does The Weakest Link on BBC Two at 10pm, Comic Relief's Hits and Hidden Gems - a showcase of Red Nose Day's archive - on BBC Two at 8:45pm. Blue Peter also aired a special edition, inevitably renamed as Red Peter.

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What are the sketches?

There are likely to be plenty of surprises but three sketches have been announced so far. There's the Bank Job, starring Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary, The Traitors: The Movie -The Sequel, starring Iain Stirling, Vicky Pattison and Alison Steadman will play this year's contestants, and an Amandaland Sketch that will bring together many of TV's best known Amandas, such as Amanda Holden, Corrie's Amanda Barrie, and The Traitors Amanda Collier.

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When does Comic Relief start?

Red Nose Day's annual fundraising broadcast, Comic Relief: Funny For Money, will air live on BBC One from 7pm this Friday (20 March) and will also be available to livestream on iPlayer and the official BBC YouTube channel. It will air for three hours, ending at 10pm.