# Internet fundraising jokes on Radio 4

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/11/07/internet-fundraising-jokes-radio-4/
- Published: 1999-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Internet fundraising was this week the subject of a sketch on BBC Radio 4’s The 
Now Show by Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt. Commenting on how charities have got so 
sophisticated that they are using the Internet to raise funds, Punt and Dennis presented
a sketch featuring a street beggar.
The beggar wouldn’t accept cash, but he would
accept direct debits. Indeed, if the passer-by would like to go to his Web site 
he could donate online…

[The Now Show](http://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/1999/11/09/radio4.html) is repeated
on Tuesday 9 November at 11pm.

Is this the first Internet fundraising joke you’ve heard – _outside_ the fundraising
profession? Let UK Fundraising know if you’ve come across an earlier example.

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