[singlepic=14,320,240,,right]Al Murray might be back this Friday, and Harry Hill might be back next month; Enfield and Whitehouse are back on our screens too, but right now it’s Monday evening and all I’ve got is every single episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus to watch.
No bad thing, but I’ve seen them more than once. [...]
Waiting Game…
Harry’s Back in October!
[singlepic=13,320,240,,right]Only one man can make sense of the countless hours of television that grace our screens on a daily basis, and in October Harry Hill is back with his much missed TV Burp!
If you’ve never seen the show, you probably wonder what all the fuss is about. Basically, Hill takes the mickey - in [...]
Harry Hill
[singlepic=13,320,240,,right]Harry Hill (real name Dr Matthew Keith Hall) is one of the top comedy performers in the UK today, and one of ITV’s highest earners.
Since his first appearance on BBC radio in Harry Hill’s Fruit Corner in 1994, he’s gone from strength to strength, building a tight live routine and becoming immensely popular as the [...]
Al Murray & Harry Hill are BACK!
[singlepic=13,320,240,,right]ITV have revealed their Autumn television line up, with Harry Hill and Al Murray both returning to Saturday evenings.
The two very different standup acts bookend a new season of television starting in September with the new variety show For One Night Only vying for press attention against The X Factor.
ITV have got the big guns [...]
Baffy BAFTAs
So massive congratulations to Harry Hill, whose TV Burp has received a worthy honour from the British Academy and earned its wings at last, after several years of Saturday tea-time madness.
He deserves nothing less for at the very least arranging fights between different foodstuffs, slow elderly people and animals, and providing superb comedy relief on [...]
Harry Hill
[singlepic=13,320,240,,right]Ah…. Harry Hill’s TV Burp continues to entertain every Saturday evening, with the unique slant on the week’s television drawing in millions of viewers every Saturday tea time.
Hill does get a lot of coverage here on Quintessential Comedy, but there’s a reason for that – he’s bloody good.
Backed up by a great team of writers, [...]
Ricky Gervais in 5m Viewers SHOCKER!
That’s right - Gervais turned up on Harry Hill’s TV Burp this week, closing off a montage of celebrities exclaiming “Ear Cataracts?!?” We said recently that he dreams of Hill’s audience figures, and this just underlines it!
Alright, alright, Ricky Gervais isn’t quite as bad as I might make him out to be - he [...]
Saturday Night!
There’s little better time to start the Quintessential Comedy blog than on a Saturday night.
In recent times we’ve been spoilt for choice comedy wise, whether family friendly stuff like Harry Hill’s TV Burp or the mixed but generally fun to watch Thank God You’re Here, or repeats of Have I Got News For You, Saturday [...]
