Harry Hill
- 60 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, executive producer, comedian, director and editor
Press clippings Page 23
BBC orders another Professor Branestawm special
Harry Hill will return as eccentric inventor Professor Branestawm for another one-off BBC TV special in December 2015.
British Comedy Guide, 17th March 2015Seven questions with... Harry Hill
An FAQ with Harry Hill
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 9th March 2015Harry Hill risks fiiiiiight with former agent
Comedian opens old wounds with You've Been Framed voiceover comparing his erstwhile Mr 10% to an angry bulldog.
Monkey, The Guardian, 2nd February 2015Harry Hill: Without my collars & glasses, I disappear!
Harry Hill prides himself on being a private person. However, in a rare moment of revealing candour, the normally shy comedian drops his guard and decides to bare his soul...
Neil Batey, The People, 25th January 2015This week's new live comedy
Previews of Nina Contip, Harry Hill and Dane Baptiste.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 23rd January 2015Harry Hill: hosting Stars In Their Eyes tickled me
Harry Hill talks about hosting the new version of Stars in Their Eyes and his own appearance on a celebrity version as Morrissey.
Neil Batey, The Mirror, 10th January 2015Harry Hill shares his career highlights
With a television career spanning more than 20 years, comedian Harry Hill has presented some of the funniest shows on the box including his own sketch series Harry Hill's TV Burp and You've Been Framed.
The Mirror, 5th January 2015Harry Hill was the perfect Professor in The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, a gag-a-minute Heath Robinson come to life with some delightfully grown-up gags, and some delightfully childish ones, and I wished, while watching, that I was 12 years old again and able to revel in simple glees.
His pretty village, Pagwell, is impossibly representative of an England lost for decades now, and David Mitchell and Ben Miller impossibly representative of cartoon villainy, but I didn't mind in the slightest because Norman Hunter's children's books have been re-rendered as impossibly good fun. I almost used the word zany but I've got through a whole 'nother year without using it, hurrah. Oops.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 28th December 2014Harry Hill: childhood stink bombs inspired performance
The comedian reveals his childhood Christmas memories now he is a dad.
James Rampton, Radio Times, 24th December 2014Radio Times review
There are certain RT people who have very fond memories of Norman Hunter's Professor Branestawm books from our primary school days and even after all these years we're a bit protective. But I think we're in safe hands, judging by the few clips that were available for preview. Harry Hill, a long-time master of eye-popping anarchy, actually looks the part of Hunter's bonkers, absent-minded inventor, a good-hearted buffoon who never does anything right.
Branestawm is the bane of his pretty village, Pagwell, where a buttoned-up, officious windbag of a councillor, Harold Haggerstone (David Mitchell), decides he's a menace to health and safety and wants his explosion-prone "workshop" closed down.
But of course this pettifogging bureaucrat has an ulterior motive: he wants to pave the way for evil businessman Mr Bullimore (Ben Miller) to open a munitions factory. It's deliciously old-fashioned, and could well be a lot of fun.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 24th December 2014