March 2007

Mar 5. Strip 169.
Red Nose Day.
Comic Relief in the UK was set up by Richard Curtis, the comedy writer later held responsible for “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Love Actually”. Every two years the charity holds a Red Nose Day fundraising event, taking over the BBC to raise money for good causes in Africa and the UK. Everyone is invited to act a bit mad for the day. Most people just buy a red nose, but a few desperate attention seekers do things like bathe in baked beans (for some reason, this always tends to be done by bank managers trying to prove they’re human after all) or shave half their beard off.