Harry Hill

Harry Hill is the master of the camcorder clip show. No one comes close to his surreal majesty. Even dressing up snippets of animals doing daft things as a pretend news bulletin, with ex-Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor and a man disguised as a dog as anchormen will never make Animal Antics into the BBC's version of You've Been Framed. That said, if you love an uncomplicated laugh (and if you don't, what's wrong with you?), there will be something here for you, whether it's a baby grizzly bear stuck up a tree, a pug trapped in a toilet, or a squirrel eating a bacon sandwich. And if you like cats doing silly things, prepare to laugh yourself to unconsciousness.

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Video - Five minutes with: Harry Hill

Comedian and TV presenter Harry Hill talks to Matthew Stadlen about how he changed from medicine to comedy, how TV Burp changed his relationship with television, the freedom of performing live stand-up and why he has nine-year-old fans.

Harry Hill celeb paintings go on sale

A pop up art gallery at London's Southbank Centre Winter Festival is proving that when it comes to art, Harry Hill's no less bizarre and just as funny.

As television's best-lubricated and worst-mannered awards ceremony, the British Comedy Awards are often the most fun to watch. While boisterous comics make amusing thank you speeches or heckle each other, it can take all of Jonathan Ross's sangfroid to keep proceedings under control.

This year you could be forgiven for not having seen some of the most nominated programmes. For instance, not many tuned in to E4's beautifully acted sketch show Cardinal Burns, but it gets nods for three awards, and quite right, too. Sky Atlantic's little-watched Hunderby is up for two. Even BBC2's The Thick of It (three), while a triumph, was no ratings blockbuster.

Other shining comic talents include Harry Hill (for the farewell series of TV Burp) and the wondrous Olivia Colman, who gets not one but two nominations as best comedy actress. If she doesn't win for one of them, there should be a stewards' inquiry.

Who's tickled Harry Hill's funny bone in 2012?

Ahead of The British Comedy Awards, Stewart Lee, Miranda Hart and Boris Johnson all receive acknowledgment for their contributions to humour.

Harry Hill's 'X Factor' musical to open in spring 2014

Harry Hill has revealed that he is aiming to launch his X Factor musical in spring 2014.

How Harry Hill got me out of bed, by Al Murray

Everyone needs a guiding light to cajole, advise and encourage. Al Murray on Harry Hill, the man who inspired him to become 'The Pub Landlord'.

There's no getting around the fact that this is a monumental feast of backslapping: a two-hour, self-loving parade where Channel 4 tells itself just how wonderful and influential it is. Which is pretty insufferable if you think about it. Luckily for Channel 4, it does have a lot to cheer about.

This was the channel, after all, that gave us Green Wing and Spaced, Peep Show, Brass Eye and Father Ted. And we should be forever grateful to C4 for giving Harry Hill his TV debut with The Harry Hill Show (1997-99), which figures in the foothills of the top 30, voted for by members of the public.

Elsewhere Dom Joly, from Trigger Happy TV, bemoans the albatross of the giant mobile phone gags, where he yelled "HELLO!" into a fake mobile ("I really hate it [now]. I hate it with a passion uncontested. It's my Emu"), and Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer reveal they filmed their Big Night Out 20 minutes after leaving the pub.