Harry Hill's TV Burp - I don't get it, he's about as funny as..... well anyway, do you like Harry Hill?

Not a huge fan, some of his sketches are good..

Maybe he would be more amusing/comical if he had a bit of 'General Practice' at it.. :hihi:

Totally not funny at all. Me and my wife think he and is show are rubbish.

Coggy

This is a question I am still pondering.

His shows for tv are nowhere near as funny as his live stuff. Thats unbelieveably funny

harry hill is so annoying, licking his lips all the time :gag: my bloke loves him though, thinks he's hilarious :loopy: lol

No, No,No,No,...........I hope I've answered the question succinctly

Can't stand the bloke!!!

I think he is garbage.

I think he is suited to kids tv more than an adult audience. My mate loves him but I just dont find him funny.

At poly one of our crew told a joke about two crows sitting in a tree. The punchline was - no, **** off, I don't want to buy a wardrobe. (I don't think it had a middle. Just the crows and the wardrobe)

Not funny. He repeated it half an hour later... and half an hour later... and half an hour later. By the end of the night the words 'two crows...' had us all doubled up in stitches. Nobody's ever figured out why.

Harry hill works the same way. It's a familiarity thing. You know what comes next. I still don't know how it works.

About as funny as a dead badger.

the forum doesn't permit answers as short as the one I want to post, so I am filling in, here, with waffle, so that I can say, quite categorically....

NO

He's not funny at all, should have stuck to medicine.


PT

I want to like and laught at Harry Hill....

Honest.....

But I just can't muster more than a wry smile every few minutes.

So, I'll have to say that he's not funny and possibly not even amusing....

Joe

Harry Hill was great before, but the TV burp has pushed him into genius territory. His 'audience with' was good (lots of repeated material cos i've seen him a few times live), but worth it for the line

"You can stand on their feet and beat them remorselessly around the head, but there are no real winners in a swan fight."

Hmmmmm - about as funny as say a good solid kick in the balls!

So why is that funny?

(The posting but one before mine I mean)

I saw him at the City Hall ages ago and he was funny, I haven't seen his TV shows though.

I wonder what's happened to him cos I've seen him live a couple of times..five or so years ago..and honest he was really funny back then. Since he got on TV I just can't watch it - not at all funny and disappointing cos he use to make me laugh.

Dress up in a stupid outfit (big shirt collar, too-short trousers and big shoes), pull faces and make comments which wouldn't even win a smile if old Fred in the pub made them? Not at all funny!

yes yes yes

I know its probabily researchers but some of the things he points out from other T.V shows on tv burp are the funniest things.

Have to agree his older stuff is better.

harry hill live was about the funniest thing I have ever seen: carefully crafted stream of consciousness (like joyce) dovetailing the banal, the profound, the sublime and the ridiculous into a meandering monologue of contemporary media references and duff old one liners from music hall - the audience have to mentally sprint to keep up. dunno about TV burp though - surely he is just a presenter now, does he do live stuff?

I think he is hilarious. I can see why it is an acquired taste though, I think you have to be on his wavelength to see the jumps of logic he makes. If you understand it, its funny, if you don't you just don't see the joke (or even that there is a joke to see).

I think he's a genius and totally funny. I'm not suprised some of you on here don't get it, reading your posts. The Sheffield sense of humour is ..... well ...... err ...... a bit 'you've been framed' ... level.

One day your children will get it. If you don't shag them and eat them first!:hihi:

Yup, he's pretty amusing. TV Burp is cool...

Alex

When I have seen his shows on friends Tv it was quit good just showed you what crap is on TV.

Soz but you could never mention Harry Hill and funny in the same sentence(except of course this one).

Yes. 'course he's funny. Why?
'Cos he takes the P**s out of all those childish,horrible, laughable T.V. "programmes" which now infect the channels ,day...after day.....after day.
If people can't see the irony underlining the programme and can't see the point of it , they should just lay down on the nearest settee and watch a nice little Soap Opera.

His 'audience with' was good (lots of repeated material cos i've seen him a few times live), but worth it for the line

His "Audience" went to laugh AT him, not with him, toothache is funnier than Hill (my opinion)

He wouldn't be funny if his a**e was on fire, on second thoughts that's probably the only time he would be funny

As funny as a dose of the clap. Get of my telly!!

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
As funny as a dose of the clap. Get of my telly!!


Ere Ere :)

Can't stand the bloke

says a sentance about nothing then hum's and shrugs his shoulders..if you dont laugh he will do it for another 10minutes. absolute torture!

whats funny is people saying the reason we dont find him funny is because we `dont get' his jokes. haha.. no thats not it, the guy is just pap.

Originally posted by Draggletail
Harry Hill's TV Burp - I don't get it, he's about as funny as..... well anyway, do you like Harry Hill?

His glasses are funny.

don't like him, don't get him, don't want to..... end of...:P :D

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
His glasses are funny.

Heheh!!

If that's so, it's about the only bit if him that is!!!

What was it my old granny used to say about Morcambe and Wise? "They're too daft to laugh at!"

I think that just about sums it up...

PT

I remember watching his show when I was a student, he used to be really funny. The side kick guy is great too, Bob? And the guests they had one were brilliant, Charlie Chuck and the one who never said anything and just looked gormless with the white labcoat and all the pens. Everyone used to constantly repeat all the catch phrases. In fact they used to take the pee in Viz comic, of students knowing every line of the dialogue in Student Grant strip..
Where is he now?

no, no, er, no.

I remember seeing him on a TV interview and thinking he was cringeably dull. At first I thought he was just dry, but no he's just boring.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I remember watching his show when I was a student, he used to be really funny. The side kick guy is great too, Bob? And the guests they had one were brilliant, Charlie Chuck and the one who never said anything and just looked gormless with the white labcoat and all the pens. Everyone used to constantly repeat all the catch phrases. In fact they used to take the pee in Viz comic, of students knowing every line of the dialogue in Student Grant strip..
Where is he now?
Are you thinking of Bob Mortimer and Vic reeves, Muddy rather than Harry Hill? :)

Oh lordy, they've only gone and given him a Kids' TV programme !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4742685.stm

and he's doing a book too :o

Personally I thought TV Burp was absolutely hilarious (apart from that bit where two characters had a fight before the adverts), things like the extra of the week etc were class, really clever.

years ago he had his own programme on C4 I think, and then nobody got his humour, apart from a few - but he was so so brilliant back then - went to see him live and laughed so much!

However, this TV burp - isn't so good. :confused:

I think because his humour was so 'alternative' when on C4 he didn't get as many viewers as he would have liked. So to make a living he has had to water it down a bit and make it mainstreatm and as such it is no representation of him when live, or when he was on C4. As someone previously said, he is more presenter than comedian now. :(

A friend of mine has a few of his dvds and says he is still as funny as ever when live, but I can't comment coz I havent seen them yet.

Shame - he really was so very good! Honest! :?

No he is not funny. He can't sing either. I hated that record he brought out - "Ernie the fastest milkman in the west".

must admit harrys tv burp is rubbish and not an ideal vehicle for his talents!---his old shows on channel 4 or was it 5 were brilliant and whats more the material was clean not like these crass and foul mothed new breed of so called alternitive comics!!--what a load of garbage they are!!
also his live shows are great--and remember the old saying "a good comedian is a clean one!"

There's only one way to sort this out.
FIGHT

There's only one way to sort this out.
FIGHT

Hate to pee on your bonfire, but the analogy doesn't work unless you give Harry Hill an opponent to fight against. Had the thread title been "Who is funnier - Harry Hill or a large piece of battered haddock?" the line "There's only one way to sort this out. FIGHT" would have been appropriate but here it just falls a little flat.

Thanks for trying anyway.

pedant:rolleyes:

I think he is hilarious. I can see why it is an acquired taste though, I think you have to be on his wavelength to see the jumps of logic he makes. If you understand it, its funny, if you don't you just don't see the joke (or even that there is a joke to see).


I think that sums him up.

I like him and I think TV burp is alright but its very hit and miss that show. One week really funny and the next week dire. Depends how good the clips are I guess.

I think TV Burp is fantastic, although my OH can't stand the man. I tend to only like him commenting on others tho rather than his own stuff. I didn't really enjoy his old (old) show as much, 'cept for the end sequence with the alphabeticalizing of the animals...A is for Ant, B is for Bat...K is for Knatterjack Toad...etc.

Is Harry Hill meant to be funny ?

He's a fully qualified GP an' all you know.

That has no relevence to his being or not being humourous.

About as funny as a dead badger.

...that's been groomed, ready for the badger parade!

Sometimes he's a flop, but other times he is bloody hilarious.

Classic Hill joke - "the main problem with heroin... yes the MAIN problem with heroin... it's very moreish"

It's just the way he tells it.

not at all -i cant understad how he gets so much air time

Love him now as much as when this thread started. Got DVDs, seen him live.etc. Really funny bloke. Watch TV burp every week (although I think that has deteriorated a bit since it got popular).

Even "you've been framed" is better now that Harry does it.

He's funny but takes things too far too often.

as a comedian i think he's a little OTT but in tv burp he's fantastic ive been in tears with laughing so much more than once watching it

TV Burp is excellent..

No............

No............

What ...not even sometimes.

he makes me laugh my head off.. i think hes brilliant..

TV Burp is about the only programme I try to watch every week.

It is really funny.

I dont find him funny one bit,Tv Burp is boring and not at all funny. You've been framed is great but his comments throughout the clips just ruin it, but thats just my opinion i suppose.

I don't really find TV Burp funny at all. However I do find You've Been Framed far funnier with Harry Hills' comments than I ever did before, even during the legendary Beadle's time!

He's a genius.

His comments on You've Been Framed are often the best part of the show. Has me in stitches. Burp is very good, taking the mick out of all the cr@ppy soaps. Like someone else said, theose two are the only things I'd try to watch.

My mate is Harry Hill's drummer, he thinks he's hilarious, I just don't get it.

Harry Hill ....... comedy genius!

Jim:thumbsup:

can somebody please explain what makes this piece of dross that calls himself a comedian think he is funny. ITV must be really scraping the barrel to give this idiot a primetime slot on saturday nights

I'm shocked. I honestly thought everyone would find him funny. He is a comedian in the original clown sense of the word, with added intellegent irony...

And as for K-factor ....taking the mick out of all those terrible terrible talentless shows that are churned out, by portraying them as knitted soft toys......brilliant.

i dont like his other stuff and not a fan of his stand up but TV Burp is hillarious one of the best shows on TV

Annoying is not the word for that fella its tedious.

Annoying is not the word for that fella its tedious.

doesnt happen often but on this one corks i disagree with you, i cant think of many better shows on TV at the min than TV Burp

he spoils both shows,overdoes the jokes so any humour in them becomes boring.stopped watching for that reason but had no choice sat.but could not stand it after 5mins.so read my book.

The fact that his show is aired on a Saturday night proves that he isnt funny. Anything thats shown on a Saturday night is by definition garbage and I dont think Ive ever seem one funny or amusing show/person on telly on that night.

Ever.


And I mean ever.

God I hate Saturday night telly.

Every time I watch that show it seems to be some moderately amusing scene on a show, it comes back to Harry Hill and he just repeats what was said in a stupid accent... Is this classed as comedy now?!

Is he ITV's main / only entertainer? His shows seem to be repeated on a daily basis on ITV2.

I was in a cafe in London and he came in with his wife and kids - dressed almost indentically to how he does on the show!

Which I thought was a tad bizarre! :)

no .... he is not funny in the slightest !:|

The first time I saw his stand up act I thought he was hillarious. To be honest I can't take him or leave him these days though.

doesnt happen often but on this one corks i disagree with you, i cant think of many better shows on TV at the min than TV Burp

Match of the day m8???:hihi:

Match of the day m8???:hihi:

i didnt say 'none' i said 'not many' lol!

Sometimes he's funny sometimes it's just too daft ,

No, hes not funny in the slightest.:rolleyes:

No, hes not funny in the slightest.:rolleyes:

Trouble is Pat, just like movies everyone has different tastes as to what they think is funny.

For example many found the likes of Tommy Cooper and Morecambe and Wise absolutely hilarious, but I was never a great fan of either.

I did find the Two Ronnies very funny though.

As for Harry Hill, I think his show TV Burp is quite funny with the tv clips themselves creating their own humour.

As a stand up comedian I think Harry Hill might struggle against the hillarious Bill Bailey or Eddie Izzard.

But then again Harry Hill would easily outclass some of the so called "up and coming comedians" like Katie Brand or Russell Howard.

Not a huge fan, but I do laugh at him. Whereas russel brand- what a waste of a brain and a mouth

He's the best ever presenter for You've been framed, I think his delivery on his TV burp is bril, to turn a bunch of clips into a watchable funny program takes some skill.

Not a huge fan, but I do laugh at him. Whereas russel brand- what a waste of a brain and a mouth

The trouble with Russel Brand and Russell Howard is that they think that saying something shocking or sexually related or using expletives is funny, and they keep repeating the same themes.

Similar to Graham Norton, nearly all his jokes are sexually related Double entendres.

Harry Hill is more the family entertainer that you know you won't be embarrassed if your younger families members happen to be watching at the time.

I remember one Easter when Little Britain happened to be on, yes it was just gone 9PM and therefore past the "watershed" but during the holiday period there must be plenty of young kids that stay up beyond 9PM, what I saw on screen had me really embarrassed that my young niece and nephews were exposed to it.
I think the BBC should have given some type of warning before screening the program similar to warnings some Sky Channels give out prior to screening some of their programs.

Trouble is Pat, just like movies everyone has different tastes as to what they think is funny.

For example many found the likes of Tommy Cooper and Morecambe and Wise absolutely hilarious, but I was never a great fan of either.

I did find the Two Ronnies very funny though.

As for Harry Hill, I think his show TV Burp is quite funny with the tv clips themselves creating their own humour.

As a stand up comedian I think Harry Hill might struggle against the hillarious Bill Bailey or Eddie Izzard.

But then again Harry Hill would easily outclass some of the so called "up and coming comedians" like Katie Brand or Russell Howard.

I dont like his childishness, I like the smart American comedians like Joan Rivers and Robin Williams.

I dont like his childishness, I like the smart American comedians like Joan Rivers and Robin Williams.

You might like Bill Bailey if you like the "smart" comedian.

Joan Rivers can be funny, although quite a lot of her material is also the "shock" , "I can't believe she just said that type" rather than being truly funny in my opinion.

nope, not funny at all, in the slightest... don't know how anyone can think he is..

Trouble is Pat, just like movies everyone has different tastes as to what they think is funny.

For example many found the likes of Tommy Cooper and Morecambe and Wise absolutely hilarious, but I was never a great fan of either.

I did find the Two Ronnies very funny though.

As for Harry Hill, I think his show TV Burp is quite funny with the tv clips themselves creating their own humour.

As a stand up comedian I think Harry Hill might struggle against the hillarious Bill Bailey or Eddie Izzard.

But then again Harry Hill would easily outclass some of the so called "up and coming comedians" like Katie Brand or Russell Howard.

I find Bailey and Izzard to be intelligent and their material clever but funny...not particularly.

I find Bailey and Izzard to be intelligent and their material clever but funny...not particularly.

Which begs the obvious question......

Who makes you laugh?

I quite like Harry Hill on TV Burp but his stand up is a little too silly.

At the moment Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Ross Noble (sometimes), Jason Manford, Ed Byrne.

I think people admit to liking Bailey and Izzard to appear more intelligent that they "get" the abstract material.

Used to like Michael McIntyre and Peter Kay but they are a little over exposed these days.

Also like some of the old fashioned "gag" comedians like Mick Miller etc.

Not keen on the likes of Russell Howard.

Tv burp is acceptable, but I wouldn't gp out of my way to watch it

I find his TV work Hill-arious (sorry!) but I bought his live show DVD and It couldn't raise a smile from me (I think it was called 'In Hooves' or something similar)

I quite like Harry Hill on TV Burp but his stand up is a little too silly.

I think people admit to liking Bailey and Izzard to appear more intelligent that they "get" the abstract material.

Used to like Michael McIntyre and Peter Kay but they are a little over exposed these days.

Not keen on the likes of Russell Howard.

Yes I think Harry Hill is well suited to the TV Burp format.

As for Bailey and Izzard actually I just think they are quite funny, nothing to do with wanting to "appear more intelligent" certainly not in my case.
They will make me laugh equally if I am with friends or on my own.

I have watched the first episode of the new BBC Russel Howard show, I have to say it's awful, I'll not be tuning in again to it.