Friday’s Red Nose Day in aid of Comic Relief raised £78 million in aid of the charity, taking the total figure raised over the last 30 years to more than £1 billion – with the aid of a few TVO regulars along the way.

As we reported on Monday, the night featured the long-awaited return of Mr Bean, and the legendary Rebecca Front joined Ben Miller and, of course, the inimitable Rowan Atkinson in the sketch, in which Mr Bean went to a funeral, and learnt about the many ways grief can be expressed – and how it probably isn’t the best place to try a spot of one-up-man-ship. Probably.

Eagle-eyed viewers, however, will have spotted that, in the final part of the sketch, Bean ended up sat beside another two TVO regulars, in the form of Colin Hoult: star of Carnival of Monsters, Being Human, Derek and most recently, Nurse; and Ellie White from House of Fools. As this little slice of info wasn’t revealed in advance, this made a genuinely wonderful surprise on the night!

If you missed it, the sketch is currently available for viewing on BBC iPlayer during the first part of the Face The Funny evening, and we’ll let our international readers know if we discover it being made available elsewhere as soon as possible.

Also featured in that first part of the evening, was a brand new edition of The Vicar of Dibley in which Dawn French’s Geraldine Grainger was invited to an interview to become a female bishop by none other than Richard Ayoade!

This sketch also featured Vicar of Dibley regulars James Fleet and John Bluthal, alongside special guest stars Annette Crosbie, Marueen Lipman, Emma Watson, Ruth Jones, Jennifer Saunders and Fiona Bruce. Again, it’s currently only available to UK viewers via iPlayer, but we’re sure it will be more accessible internationally soon.

That wasn’t the end of the evening’s TVO involvement either. Matt Berry lent his fruity vocal talents to the evening’s narration – or so we thought, as it turned out to be his alter-ego Steven Toast at the helm. Below, you can see the result when presenter Claudia Winkleman questioned the pronunciation of her surname…

There was one other surprise in store for the evening, as in the twilight of the television broadcasts, Cardinal Burns stepped into the shoes previously occupied by The Mighty Boosh (as in – the time when most sane viewers have given up and gone to bed), to perform a sketch as their banter loving characters Metcalfe and Jonesy.

All of this, and everything else that happened on the evening – including Vic Reeves, Johnny Vegas & Nick Helm taking part in a One Direction spoof, and David Walliams joining forces with Catherine Tate and Sir Stephen Hawking for a new Little Britain sketch – took place, of course, in aid of the fantastic causes that Comic Relief supports.

If you enjoyed any of the above material, and have a few quid spare, please donate it to Comic Relief now. To learn more about the great work the charity supports, visit their website.