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TV Burp (2001– )Harry Hill stars in this surreal comedy show, revolving around the previous week's shows on British television. |
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Harry Hill stars in this surreal comedy show, revolving around the previous week's shows on British television.
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Johnny Rotten: Sharks. Born free. Unlike me. They're tax free. Leave them alone. I am. Alls I'm doing is swimming with them. You too can.
Harry Hill: Hmm. Yes. Here's some more from Johnny.
Johnny Rotten: ...words for filling up the Bible, and we all know what that's about. But this is something else. This is nature - I think. All it makes me want to do is ...
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Harry Hill: Channel Five have got a new shark programme! This one was presented by Johnny Rotten - you know, from I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here? He had a very individual presenting style.Johnny Rotten: Sharks. Born free. Unlike me. They're tax free. Leave them alone. I am. Alls I'm doing is swimming with them. You too can.
Harry Hill: Hmm. Yes. Here's some more from Johnny.
Johnny Rotten: ...words for filling up the Bible, and we all know what that's about. But this is something else. This is nature - I think. All it makes me want to do is ...
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Once a rich source of popular television comedy, I.T.V. seems to have thrown in the towel. The jewel in its crown in recent years has been 'Harry Hill's T.V. Burp' in which the eccentrically attired Mr.Hill pokes fun at the week's television. He would not be the first person to do this; the B.B.C.'s 'Saturday Night Clive' had Clive James up to the same kind of mischief in the early '90's.
Harry Hill is the nearest we have right now to a Spike Milligan or a Kenny Everett in that he also uses surrealism as the basis for his humour. Of course he is helped by the sad fact that British television in the Noughties is a bad joke, and thus a perfect target for comedy. Try watching a soap opera with the sound off ( the grimaces and leers of the cast are hilarious ) and you'll see what I mean! Quiz shows and documentaries also come in for similar ribbing.
One of my favourite moments was when Harry did 'If...British television continues to get worse' in which he led an assault force against the television studios where much of the pap we have to endure is made. There's an unmistakable anger lurking behind the gags. Rather than get mad, Harry has decided to get even. He has fashioned a good show simply by laughing at the bad ones.