Medicine's loss is our gain! (Harry Hill s TV Burp)

Member Name: englishrose

Product:	Harry Hill s TV Burp
Date:	06/04/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Funny and entertaining

Disadvantages: None - unless you are seeking serious intellectual enlightenment, hehehe

Harry Hill's TV Burp is a television programme that is screened on IV1 in the Saturday teatime slot: It's usually on at around 6.00pm, although the time does tend to vary as it gets moved around in the schedules sometimes.

Having just watched the last of the current series, I really do hope it will be returning for more.

It's a family show that you can all sit and watch together, with no danger of the children seeing anything unsuitable for them.

I cannot recall seeing Harry Hill in anything before TV Burp, if he was around on television then I wasn't aware of him. This show is great, and I find his humour really off-the-wall and it makes us all laugh.

Basically, he (and/or his team of assistants) trawls through the previous weeks' television and select certain clips, which Harry then proceeds to take completely out of context and uses his verbal talents to give them a totally different meaning. No programme is safe, he randomly takes moments from all shows and it could be from any channel too.

He also has several running slapstick gags which continue throughout the series, for example he has a shark puppet that appears in random places, and also there is always a scene each episode where he puts two TV characters together and gets the audience shouting 'fight, fight , fight' . Then two actors will come onstage dressed as these characters and have a mock fight.

Writing this down, I am realising that it doesn't sound funny when I say it here - but honestly, it's hilarious on the programme, obviously Harry Hill is much, much funnier than I am :)

Another running gag is his physical resemblance to Heston Blumenthal and any other bald man with glasses, and if these people are mentioned he will show photos of them alongside each other. Again, in other circumstances it wouldn't be funny, but the humour is in the way he just bizarrely slots it in, in between two other completely unrelated things.

Also, he is physically comical to look at, with his shaved head, black rimmed specs and huge collared shirts. He always wears a black suit with drainpipe trousers and massive shoulderpads, and always has a row of pens in his jacket pocket: Maybe a nod to his previous profession, when apparently he was a doctor (the mind boggles!).

The set is quite basic, with just Harry sitting behind a desk most of the time, and there are never any guests or interviews or anything like that (apart from the 'fight' characters!). To be honest, he doesn't need anything else as he carries it all well enough on his own.

The best thing about this show is when it takes clips from shows that take themselves too seriously and pokes fun at them. As well as the lovable Harry Hill himself of course.

Summary: Fun for everyone