For WithNobs, why show yourself up as being SOOOO out of touch? RVS has been on every year bar wars and Covid, since 1912 or so (?) and is for CHARITY!!
Sure, it's had some dross on during the last decade or two, but as the British public so loves utter tripe like 'Wannabe Celebs Covered in Cockroaches', and 'Love Island Narcissists' (etc) then the folk booking the acts are presumably using a low threshold?
As for the "Jason Manford - never heard of him" - really, where HAVE you been?! He's a reliable host for all such events, has been on every comedy panel show going, is a panto regular, and was in Waterloo Road for a while, also the Scarborough mild comedy series.