Comics join C4's Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser

Bob Mortimer, Richard Ayoade  Harry Hill and Tim Vine have all signed up for Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox.

The comics will be taking part in the special  Stand Up To Cancer episode airing tonight.

Hill and Vine are paired together, with Mortimer and Ayoade making another double act.

Jennifer Saunders is also taking part – six years after parodying the show in a sketch with Dawn French – along with her daughter, the comedy writer and performer Beattie Edmondson.

Also taking part are  singer and X-factor judge Nicole Scherzinger and her fiance Thom Evan, the former Scottish rugby star;  presenter Jeff Brazier and his and his son Bobby, the EastEnders star; and actors Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters, with their children, Grace and Alfie.

The show airs at 8.30pm tonight, following on from a 90-minute live telethon, hosted by Davina McCall, Adam Hills, Joe Lycett and Munya Chawawa and featuring guests including Rita Ora, Oti Mabuse, Cush Jumbo and Ghosts stars Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Charlotte Ritchie.

For more information and to donate online visit Channel4.com/SU2C.

And here's the French and Saunders parody:

Published: 3 Nov 2023