MaryAnn wearing a red nose in Times Square (Part 1)

Red stairs of the fancy new TKTS booth in Times Square, where people buy last-minute half-price tickets for Broadway shows. Red nose on idiot woman, whom passersby assume is a halfwit.

I’ve been making a fool of myself for a good cause: so you will give a couple measly bucks or quid or whatever your local currency is called to Comic Relief to fight poverty all over the world.

Yeah, we’re all poorer these days, but you can scrape some pocket change together, can’t you?

(More pix, not just pleadings for donations, after the jump.)