In the comic books Harry Osborn also takes over from Norman as The Green Goblin.
Comic Relief boss Kevin Cahill said: "David has been such a brilliant supporter of Comic Relief for such a long time.
You get annoyed about things in real life and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
"Sometimes I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time," he says when we meet in a cafe a couple of days before the gig.
Motion sees Carter as a comic writer who saw the life of the universe as an awful joke, "or rather, awful and a joke".
Kenny was a hugely gifted comic actor, with a curious mixture of vulnerability and self-confidence.
"That's one that haunts me," shivers Garry Trudeau, now celebrating the 25th anniversary of the cartoon strip that 300 American papers have taken from the comic pages to run on the editorial page.
Intriguingly, Frank Sidebottom was never seen in the same room at the same time as the musician and comic Chris Sievey.
Although neither of these films could claim comic greatness, Gerwig attributes her taste for comedy to growing up with the complete set of Fawlty Towers on VHS.
The Ghost in the Shell comic book series, film rights to which were picked up by Dreamworks co-owner Steven Spielberg in 2009, follows cyborg detective Major Motoko Kusanagi, team leader of a futuristic Japanese counterterrorism organisation focused on cyber-crime.
It's been a decade since Schumer became a comic, a decision she says she "actually never made", instead stumbling into the industry after studying theatre at college.
