Harry Hill

Harry Hill

Date of birth: 01-10-1964

Harry Hill was born in Woking in 1964, grew up in Kent and lived as a teenager in Hong Kong. He trained as a doctor, holds a medical degree from the University of London, and is still registered as a medical practitioner.



He made his comedy debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1992, winning the Perrier best newcomer prize. It lead t comedy series for BBC Two and Channel 4, before he created Harry Hill's TV Burp for ITV, which ran for 11 years from 2001. More recently he created Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, two series of Harry Hill’s Tea-Time and Harry Hill's World of TV.

He is the long-standing voice of ITV's You've Been Framed and is the co-host of Channel 4's Junior Bake Off.

Hill has written several joke books, the children’s novel series Matt Millz and the autobiography, Fight: Thirty Years Not Quite At The Top. He is also an artist and has shown his work at the Royal Academy.

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Harry Hill plans a new TV format

...in which he surprises people by bursting out of a van

Harry Hill is planing in TV show in which he jumps out of a van in a busy place and spends a day with a member of the public nearby.

The comedian says he’s already pitching I’m Coming In Your House to broadcasters.

He explained: ‘I’m in ht back of a van. We arrive at a place – could be Bluewater shopping centre or the M3 Fleet Services  – a  place where there’s lots of people.

‘I burst out of the doors, go up to someone and say, "Hi what's your name?  Mind if I spend a day with you?" Then I follow them round and go back to their house.’

The former TV Burp host told Jamie Laing on his Great Company podcast: ‘Everyone's got a story. People are bored of celebrities.

‘The only difficulty is,  what if they've got a bad past? You go round the house and there’s a dead body?’

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