Harry Hill, a former doctor and still a registered practitioner, cemented his career as a bespectacled, big-collared stand-up comedian when he won the Perrier Best Newcomer award in Edinburgh in 1992. More than 30 years on, he’s just announced a New Bits & Greatest Hits tour to celebrate “60 years of fun” ahead of his milestone birthday next year.
Hill has written a novel, a collection of short stories, and a (fictional) autobiography. His new book, How To Be Silly Every Day of the Year, will be released in October. He has also co-written two musicals, I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical (2014) and TONY! – A Tony Blair Rock Opera (2021). He hosts the parody podcast Harry Hill’s Noise (the podcast antidote), and his official podcast, Are We There Yet?, is coming soon.
In film, he starred in The Harry Hill Movie in 2013 alongside Julie Walters, Sheridan Smith, Simon Bird and Jim Broadbent. In 2023, he wrote and starred in the short silent film The Last Caveman, a “silent slapstick romantic comedy about cavemen” with Nick Helm and Holly Byrne. The film is currently on tour in the UK, with Hill hosting a Q&A session after each screening, with further dates to be announced at a later date.
On TV, he’s advertised for Branston Pickles and Green Flag, and promoted his own brand of fair trade peanuts, Harry’s Nuts. He starred in the 2015 reboot of Stars in Their Eyes, playing hero Morrissey. He presented CITV’s children’s show Shark Infested Custard and narrated (with sublime detachment) You’ve Been Framed! for nearly two decades, from 2004. He currently hosts Junior Bake Off in a glamorous tank top. He loves badgers. The more you can say about TV Burp, the better.
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