BBC One aired the 2021 edition of Comic Relief: Red Nose Day telethon tonight (March 19) and it featured several big British names. Michael Sheen appeared in two sketches: the first was a trailer for ‘2020: The Movie’, also starring Jodie Whittaker, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan:
The second one was ‘Staged 1592’, featuring Michael as Christopher Marlowe and David Tennant as William Shakespeare going through a plague. Sir Lenny Henry made a cameo appearance:
The charity event has raised more than £45 million. The clips are available on BBC iPlayer for 29 days. See some screencaptures of the segments on our gallery:
