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: I'd love TV Burp to return

But only if someone else did it!

Harry Hill says he’d love TV Burp to return – but with someone new at the helm.

The comedian hosted the ITV show for a decade from 2002, but quit after finding the workload too demanding.

In a Q&A with the new edition of Radio Times the comic was asked if he would ever revive the format.

He said:  ‘I don’t have any plans. These things are best left undone. 

‘We did all the jokes. Trying to re-create that, I’d be on a hiding to nothing, but I’d love someone else to do it. 

‘There’s a space for that sort of show and I’m surprised no one’s filled it.’

In an interview with The Guardian in 2022 Hill said the programme was very demanding, explaining: ‘Every waking hour was spent watching TV… . It was bloody awful.’

He added: ‘Barely a day goes by without someone asking me when I’m bringing back TV Burp. In the end, I just couldn’t do it any more. ITV wanted more and more – I didn’t have a life outside of it. I know it sounds really whiny, but I can’t explain the pressure.’

Hill was speaking to Radio Times to promote the CBBC series Go Get Arty, in which he voice Bristles the talking paintbrush.

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Published: 1 Jul 2025

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