Following on from the huge success of Gavin and Stacey, James Cordon's character Smithy' stumbles in on the England team and gives them a rousing speech. It's been a great year for Cordon, hopefully some of his magic can rub off on England's underperforming stars.
David Beckham's appearance in James Cordon's team-talk sketch isn't the first time he has featured on Red Nose Day. In 2001, both David and Victoria Beckham appeared on a one-off Ali G special. Unlike their appearance on Parkinson, this one was intentionally painful to watch.
Whitehouse's performance as Julio Geordio, a South American footballer recently signed for Newcastle, was one of the funniest sketches of the 1990s. Here is the infamous Danni Behr sketch.
The line, "he's got a foot like a traction engine" echoed across football pitches and playing fields all over the country after Steve Coogan coined the phrase.
One of the Mitchell and Webb's classics sees David Mitchell present a football advert in which he lambasts the hype surrounding the game with lines such as, "Watch the football, watch it, it's going to move".
A fairly recent addition to the world of sporting comedy, Setanta's new Special 1 TV comes straight out of the Spitting Image school of comedy. Jose Mourinho, the self proclaimed special one' is joined by Wayne Rooney and Sven-Goran Eriksson for a football talk show.
