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Harry Hill

June 2024

  • Harry Hill

    The reader interview
    Harry Hill: ‘I always thought I’d make a good serial killer’

    As he gets ready to celebrate ‘60 years of fun’ ahead of his milestone birthday, the doctor-turned-comedian answers your questions on baldness, red-carpet moments and being a people-pleaser

May 2024

  • Harry Hill in a shirt and suit jacket with his hand on his head

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Harry Hill

    Every wondered how he went from being a doctor to narrating You’ve Been Framed!? Here’s your chance to ask the big-collared comedian, writer and TV host about Branston Pickle, badgers and his Blair rock opera

February 2024

  • Steve Brown

    Steve Brown obituary

    Composer and lyricist who was a long-time collaborator of Steve Coogan and Harry Hill, and co-created the award-winning musical Spend, Spend, Spend

June 2023

  • ‘When it comes to sightseeing, I can’t be arsed’ … Chris McCausland with Harry Hill in Wonders of the World I Can’t See.

    TV review
    Wonders of the World I Can’t See review – Chris McCausland makes a rare travel show worth tuning in for

    The blind comedian pairs up with comics like Harry Hill to work out if the tourist trail can offer any pleasures to those who can’t see the big attractions – or the point of going anywhere

October 2022

  • Harry Hill

    Harry Hill review – reliably, joyously madcap as ever

    While not quite reaching previously attained heights of absurdity, the comic still pulls off a successful stream of nonsense

July 2022

  • ‘I was heckled by Todd Carty at the Soap awards’ … Harry Hill, host of the 00s show.

    How we made
    Harry Hill on making TV Burp: ‘Watching every EastEnders omnibus was bloody awful’

    ‘I get recognised by people in their early 20s who tell me, “You were my childhood.” That’s really chilling’

June 2022

  • Sirine Saba, Nathaniel Curtis, and Nigel Barrett in Britannicus.

    The week in theatre: Britannicus; Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera); The Haunting of Susan A

  • Charlie Baker as Blair makes a grand gesture at the door of No 10 in Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)

    Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) review – Harry Hill puts the party into politics

May 2022

  • Harry Hill watching a rehearsal

    ‘Our ears were bleeding!’ – Harry Hill on making his Tony Blair rock opera

    Saddam gets a Groucho Marx makeover, Gordon Brown sings about macroeconomics – and Cherie is part Lily Savage, part Lili Marleen. The big-collared comic reveals all about Tony!

August 2021

  • ‘Cool like Steve McQueen was cool’: Harry Hill on Sean Lock

    Harry Hill on Sean Lock: ‘The comedian’s comedian who took us all by surprise’

    Sean’s crazily funny gags reminded me why I got into comedy – his dry humour was always balanced with his wide-eyed wonder at the world

December 2020

  • Robin Ince, press image

    Robin Ince's 24-hour carnival of comics, comets and the Cure

    From Harry Hill to Helen Sharman, Ince’s Christmas mashup of comedy, science and music – Nine Lessons and Carols for Socially Distanced People – reached dizzy heights

August 2020

  • Back on the box ... Harry Hill.

    TV review
    Harry Hill's World of TV review – bursting soapland's bubble

    While his new series might lack the surrealness of TV Burp, Hill is always great fun when poking fun at television – first stop, the Queen Vic

December 2019

  • From left: Tim Key; Harry Hill Vic Reeves; Lolly Adefope and Josie Long

    'I got obsessed with Chris Tarrant so I painted him': comics on why they make art

    As a new exhibition on comic’s prints and portraits opens, Harry Hill, Vic Reeves, Lolly Adefope and more talk us through their masterworks

June 2019

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    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Villanelle is back and on the rampage in Killing Eve

    Everyone’s favourite international assassin is out for revenge as the spy drama returns, while there’s more surreal fun from Harry Hill. Here’s the evening’s best TV

February 2019

  • Harry Hill's TV Burp.

    Jump the shark
    When good TV goes bad: How Harry Hill’s TV Burp got greedy

    In its prime the show was a TV masterclass. By the 10th series, it was just repeating itself

November 2018

  • ARTS HARRY HILL<br>Comedian Harry Hill at the London Palladium theatre on Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris. Commissioned for G2

    Play time
    Can Harry Hill teach kids to be funny?

    The big-collared clown’s new touring show is a galloping riot of idiocy aimed at children – and they love it. Whether they learn anything is another matter

June 2018

  • Father Ted’s Dermot Morgan and Only Fools and Horses’ David Jason.

    From Father Ted to Only Fools and Horses: the rise of the sitcom musical

    A number of comedy classics are being reinterpreted for the stage as ‘joke-box’ musicals. Can they avoid the pitfalls of previous sitcom adaptations?

December 2017

  • Harry Hill

    Fiction for older children reviews – snow quests, standup and skullduggery

    A well-plotted comic quest from Harry Hill, a treat of a seafaring saga, and a Dickensian dystopia in which a fox leaves an orphanage in search of home

March 2017

  • ©CPL Productions<br>From CPL Productions Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule on ITV Pictured: Harry Hill. This photograph is (C) CPL Productions and can only be reproduced for editorial purposes directly in connection with the programme or event mentioned above. Once made available by ITV plc Picture Desk, this photograph can be reproduced once only up until the transmission [TX] date and no reproduction fee will be charged. Any subsequent usage may incur a fee. This photograph must not be manipulated [excluding basic cropping] in a manner which alters the visual appearance of the person photographed deemed detrimental or inappropriate by ITV plc Picture Desk. This photograph must not be syndicated to any other company, publication or website, or permanently archived, without the express written permission of ITV Plc Picture Desk. Full Terms and conditions are available on the website www.itvpictures.com For further information please contact: james.hilder@itv.com / 0207 157 3052

    Mark Lawson on television
    Harry Hill is back! And he's showing aliens how funny humans can be

    For his new quiz, Hill is creating a showreel to convince aliens that humankind is too hilarious to be destroyed – and he’s finally at his daft genius best again

January 2017

  • Nigel Farage Joins LBC To Present A Brand New Nightly Radio Show 'The Nigel Farage Show'<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 05: Nigel Farage joins LBC where he will present his own nightly show 'The Nigel Farage Show' which starts on January 9th 2017 at LBC Studio on January 5, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

    The week in radio: The Nigel Farage Show; Answer Me This!; Life on Egg

    Why listen to Nigel Farage bore for Britain when there’s a waffle-free podcast to enjoy?
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