Harry Hill

TV Burp might have won Harry Hill a Bafta, but it was his 1997 C4 show that first won him a place in the nation's hearts. Here, we get a retrospective on the programme's three series via the medium of a clips show but, with it being penned and directed by Hill, it's delivered via the medium of a surreal mockumentary that uses past footage to justify oddball storylines. Blurry shots of Hill clutching tins of Sild are overlaid with the claim that 'Harry was off his face on oily fish'. Skits of a pretend Welsh-language soap opera featuring Hill babbling gobbledegook prompt a storyline about miners marching on the C4 building. Clips of THHS regular Burt Kwouk yelling lines like 'Hey Harry, this show doesn't get any funner, does it?' wind up providing the peg for a story about the cast falling out so badly that Hill ends up beating the actor who played his little brother with a stick ('but it was a small stick!'). Very, very strange, but also very, very charming.

After a decade spent courting the "cosy Saturday night family viewing' demographic with his enjoyable TV Burp, Harry Hill returns to the somewhat more anarchic climes of Channel 4, home of his rumbustious series back in the day. This one-off Behind The Music-style mockumentary has Harry attempting to reunite the gang - Burt Kwouk, Brother Alan (Al Murray stepping away from his tired Pub Landlord character) and, of course, the badger parade - for one last performance, but finding that he wasn't as well-liked as he assumed.

As part of its Funny Fortnight, Harry Hill returns to the network that launched him. The big-collared comedian writes and stars in this spoof documentary in which he attempts to reunite the stars of his self-titled 1997-99 Channel 4 sketch show. But it all goes wrong when he discovers how his ex-castmates Burt Kwouk and Al Murray really felt about him back then. It's a delight to see Hill, freed from the constraints of TV Burp, spread his comedy wings again.

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