Harry Hill

Pictures: Harry Hill's new beard

Still sporting his signature black frames, Harry Hill appears to have opted for a more rugged style as he grinned for photos alongside Bruce Forsyth at his book launch in London on Thursday.

Why can't the BBC do good comedy anymore? Recently we've had truly awful things such as Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boys and, currently showing, the embarrassing Mountain Goats. The last time the BBC managed to provoke a laugh from me was with Murder In Successville on BBC3, a channel soon to be shoved online only.

And there were laughs in the one-off special of Burnistoun, but this was shown in Scotland only. When it comes to the BBC's mainstream, UK-wide comedy, where oh where is the good stuff?

Maybe they feel this terrible dearth of excellent comedy, as they're giving us a reunion show with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse looking back - yes, looking back - to the good old days.

The programme puts Enfield and Whitehouse on stage together in front of an admiring crowd and parodies the An Audience With... shows, but the nice twist is that when we flash to shots of the audience we see Enfield and Whitehouse in the crowd, dressed up as various famous people, and asking cheeky questions. Jimmy Carr, Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais and Prince Charles are all gloriously ridiculed and in between we have great clips of the comedy pair's old shows.

Harry Hill and Friends comedy review

Harry Hill dominated. He seemed liberated, itching to let rip and interact with the audience.

Video: Harry Hill at the Royal Academy Exhibition

Harry Hill joined a selection of artists, designers and celebrities who were chosen to offer their unique perspective on this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in a series of guided tours.

Harry Hill: 'A lot of stand-up comedy is just a lie!'

"I'm passionate about comedy - it's a job, but I love it. It's like some people with music when you talk about discovering a band; it's the same when you discover someone doing something different in comedy."

Win a pair of tickets to see Harry Hill + Friends Live

We've got a pair of tickets to see Harry Hill and friends live up for grabs!

Harry Hill's Stars In Their Eyes is axed after 1 series

Stars in Their Eyes has been axed. The Harry Hill-fronted show has reportedly been dropped by ITV after it failed to get the audience figures the channel was hoping for.

This week we have the latest proof that ITV's light entertainment line-up has been devised by Alan Partridge. Following such disasters as Harry Hill's Stars in their Eyes and Get Your Act Together, the channel were in a need of a new hit. Unfortunately they're not going to find it in hypnosis-based game show You're Back in the Room which sounded like a rubbish idea even before it began.

Every week five members of the public compete in a series of challenges including balloon blowing and clay sculpting with the aim to win as much money as possible. The only problem is that they've been put under the spell of the hitherto unknown hypnotist Keith Barry.

Whilst watching You're Back in the Room I had the distinct impression that the whole show was a way to get Barry famous and that he'd had to hypnotise the light entertainment department at ITV in order to do so. The only people who'd find You're Back in the Room remotely entertaining are those who feel that one man trying to re-enact the pottery scene from Ghost with another male contestant is the funniest thing you've ever seen.

The humour in You're Back in the Room was very base and at times I felt like the only people being entertained were the studio audience and host Philip Schofield. Indeed, Schofield seemed to be having the time of his life leading me to believe that he was seeing something that those of as at home didn't.

Obviously there was the big question about whether the contestants were genuinely hypnotised or if they were just acting. However, I don't think this matters all that much as even if they were acting it didn't contribute to a show that was entertaining in the slightest.

The best Saturday night shows; such as Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, are ones in which the hosts try to involve the audience at home as best they can. Unfortunately the only people being entertained by You're Back in the Room were those watching it live and as a result I don't see it being back on the box after this series has come to an end.

Harry Hill tests new cookery themed comedy

Harry Hill has previewed a new TV show in work in progress shows this week.