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 releases 'absurd dark comedy' The Jillon

Watch the 15-minute film

Harry Hill has released a ‘gloriously absurd dark comedy’ film about an 86-year-old woman who gives birth to a ‘weird’ child.

Richard Ayoade is the on-screen narrator for The Jillon, which stars  Flip Webster as the mother and Richard Syms as her husband.

Hill said that when he first spoke about the premise ‘everyone looked at me like I was mad so Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow said let’s make a short taster to show them what I mean’.

A 15-minute version of the film has been released on YouTube, with Hill writing: ‘If we rack up enough of the Likes maybe we’ll get to make the long one’. 

Hill currently hosts the video podcast The Harry Hill Show on the YouTube channel, with previous guests including Stewart Lee, Paul Whitehouse, Nish Kumar and Sara Pascoe, while on TV he is the presenter of Junior Bake Off.

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Published: 28 Oct 2026

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