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Harry Hill: Pedigree Fun

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Pedigree Fun sees Harry triumphantly return with his first solo tour since the critically acclaimed sell-out tour Sausage Time in 2013 , with brand new jokes in an all-singing, all-dancing, one-man-spectacular. Audiences will meet Harry's new baby elephant, Sarah, and Ian, The Information Worm.

Harry Hill says: "I hadn't realised how much I missed performing live until lockdown stopped me from doing it. It's great to be going back on stage and the good news is I am planning a very silly show."

And yes, Harry will also be joined by Stouffer the Cat (his famous sidekick) who added: "What can I tell you? When Harry calls you say yes - end of!"

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Harry Hill Announces Brand New Live Tour For 2022

Tickets go on general sale from 10am on Friday 17th December.

Multi-award-winning comedian Harry Hill has announced a brand new tour for 2022, Pedigree Fun, beginning in Guildford on 6th October 2022. Tickets go on general sale from 10am on Friday 17th December, available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk and www.harryhilltour.com .

Pedigree Fun sees Harry triumphantly return with his first solo tour since the critically acclaimed sell-out tour Sausage Time in 2013, with brand new jokes in an all-singing, all-dancing, one-man-spectacular. Audiences will meet Harry's new baby elephant, Sarah, and Ian, The Information Worm.

Harry Hill says: "I hadn't realised how much I missed performing live until lockdown stopped me from doing it. It's great to be going back on stage and the good news is I am planning a very silly show."

And yes, Harry will also be joined by Stouffer the Cat (his famous sidekick) who added: "What can I tell you? When Harry calls you say yes - end of!"

With three BAFTAs, eight British Comedy Awards and a Perrier Best Newcomer Award to his name so far, comedian, presenter and author Harry Hill is one of the UK's best-loved, most respected and inventive entertainers. Harry 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.

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Harry Hill announces brand new tour 2022

Multi-award-winning comedian Harry Hill has announced a brand new tour for 2022,  Pedigree Fun , beginning in Guildford on 6 th  October 2022. Tickets go on general sale from 10am on Friday 17 th  December, available from  www.ticketmaster.co.uk  and  www.harryhilltour.com .

Pedigree Fun  sees Harry triumphantly return with his first solo tour since the critically acclaimed sell-out tour  Sausage Time in 2013, with brand new jokes in an all-singing, all-dancing, one-man-spectacular. Audiences will meet Harry’s new baby elephant, Sarah, and Ian, The Information Worm.

Harry Hill says: “I hadn’t realised how much I missed performing live until lockdown stopped me from doing it. It’s great to be going back on stage and the good news is I am planning a very silly show.”

And yes, Harry will also be joined by Stouffer the Cat (his famous sidekick) who added: “What can I tell you? When Harry calls you say yes – end of!”

With three BAFTAs, eight British Comedy Awards and a Perrier Best Newcomer Award to his name so far, comedian, presenter and author  Harry Hill  is one of the UK’s best-loved, most respected and inventive entertainers. Harry 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 almost thirty years ago and went on to forge acclaimed comedy series for BBC Two and Channel 4, before he created the hit ITV series  Harry Hill’s TV Burp  which ran for ten years. More recently he has created three series of ITV’s  Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule,  two series of Harry Hill’s Tea-Time and  Harry Hill’s World of TV . He is the longstanding voice of ITV’s  You’ve Been Framed  and is the co-host of Channel 4’s  Junior Bake Off . As an author he has written several best-selling joke books, popular children’s book series  Matt Millz  and, in November, released an autobiography,  Fight – Thirty Years Not Quite At The Top , which was named by The Times as one of their books of 2021. He is also an artist and has shown his work at the Royal Academy.

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HARRY HILL ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW LIVE TOUR FOR 2022!

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Multi-award-winning comedian Harry Hill has announced a brand new tour for 2022, Pedigree Fun , beginning in Guildford on 6 th October 2022.

Pedigree Fun sees Harry triumphantly return with his first solo tour since the critically acclaimed sell-out tour Sausage Time in 2013, with brand new jokes in an all-singing, all-dancing, one-man-spectacular. Audiences will meet Harry’s new baby elephant, Sarah, and Ian, The Information Worm.

Harry Hill says: “I hadn’t realised how much I missed performing live until lockdown stopped me from doing it. It’s great to be going back on stage and the good news is I am planning a very silly show.”

And yes, Harry will also be joined by Stouffer the Cat (his famous sidekick) who added: “What can I tell you? When Harry calls you say yes – end of!”

With three BAFTAs, eight British Comedy Awards and a Perrier Best Newcomer Award to his name so far, comedian, presenter and author Harry Hill is one of the UK’s best-loved, most respected and inventive entertainers. Harry 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 almost thirty years ago and went on to forge acclaimed comedy series for BBC Two and Channel 4, before he created the hit ITV series Harry Hill’s TV Burp which ran for ten years. More recently he has created three series of ITV’s Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, two series of Harry Hill’s Tea-Time and Harry Hill’s World of TV . He is the longstanding voice of ITV’s You’ve Been Framed and is the co-host of Channel 4’s Junior Bake Off . As an author he has written several best-selling joke books, popular children’s book series Matt Millz and, in November, released an autobiography, Fight – Thirty Years Not Quite At The Top , which was named by The Times as one of their books of 2021. He is also an artist and has shown his work at the Royal Academy.

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I t’s been a decade of tumultuous change since Harry Hill last toured. But for Hill, some corner of a comedy stage will forever be nonsense – a timeless land where rapping to the Crossroads theme, dressing up as an elephant and making ventriloquist’s dolls vomit always has a home. Pedigree Fun finds the 58-year-old neither looking nor acting a day older than when Sausage Time toured in 2013 – even if its cavalcade of idiocy doesn’t quite (or at least not tonight) scale the heights of its predecessor.

The only instance of Hill acting his age rather than his shoe size is with a running gag about the generation gap. Millennials and their juniors are teased wickedly about their meagre inheritance as he brags about the hardiness cultivated by a death-defying 70s upbringing. There is more wickedness in the mix than previous shows – see several Hitler jokes and a gag about the paedophile TV stars of yesteryear (“You’ve got to hand it to them, they were natural entertainers”).

This visual and verbal tomfoolery flows in such a spate that there’s always something coming to make you laugh. Hill tutors us in the four basic shapes of chicken nugget and mimes bathing himself with a wet-wipe, but the standout moments are the bigger set-pieces: casting an audience volunteer as a rescue elephant, say, then manoeuvring them into a slapstick duet with an ironing board. There’s a winningly freewheeling shaggy-dog story about a recipe box delivery, and – tonight’s undisputed showstopper – a socks-based physical comedy number that finds our host dragged, writhing, across the stage.

At such moments, a Harry Hill gig is just a joyous place to be. But there are a few fallow periods between the fertile ones here; moments when you can admire the dottiness of what Hill is doing (a non sequitur Coleridge recital, for example) without finding it especially funny. An oft-repeating onscreen joke dividing foodstuffs, famous people and more into “traybakes” or “tear-and-shares” overstays its welcome without ever really getting the audience on side. This isn’t always nonsense at its zenith, then, but a hoot all the same.

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Harry Hill: Pedigree Fun

Tour review by Jay Richardson

Harry Hill closes Pedigree Fun with a uniquely peculiar rendition of My Way that sets him apart from the showbiz hackery of countless cover versions, confirming his status as the cartoonish oddball who snuck into the mainstream, an absurdist for the masses.

Though he chides himself for his formulaic voiceover on Saturday night primetime staple You’ve Been Framed, ‘the wide-collared loon’ does so via the mouthpiece of his ‘son’, Gary, a creepy, old-fashioned ventriloquist’s dummy harking back to the music hall. This rackety doll is falling apart physically and emotionally beneath the shadow of being Hill’s anointed successor, his stand-up clunkier than even his father’s vent skills.

From the outset, in a pop culture montage reminiscent of his 2020 archive clip show Harry Hill ’s World Of TV, Hill foregrounds his nonsensical instincts. Stills of warrior queen Boudica and a triumphant Benfica football team are mixed up with literal sausage factory footage, the grim, oozing grey-pink sludge of the links making for an unsettling, destabilising opening.

Declaring his envy of John Bishop , Jason Manford and Michael McIntyre , Hill maintains he wants to embrace the popular appetite for observational humour. Still, his attempt is typically bizarre, based on the principle that all manner of dishes, and indeed every person and all phenomenon, can essentially be split into two factions: tray bake or tear and share.

When he then expands this into a running call-and-response quiz with the audience, there’s fun in being part of his mob, a crowd trying to achieve consensus as to which arbitrary camp Jesus or Hitler fall into. The thinness of the conceit feels like part of the gag, however, so it most certainly doesn’t warrant being consistently returned to. You feel enthusiasm draining from the room as it slowly dawns that this quirky diversion is actually a cornerstone of the evening.

If Hill’s sideways career step into voicing Junior Bake-Off prompted his current cooking preoccupation, it’s the lockdown and his status as a 58-year-old survivor of the pandemic that gifts the show its best moments.

He sneerily baits young people in the audience with his generation’s hardiness, spitefully clinging on to their houses and children’s inheritance with malevolence. It’s hilariously, needlessly cruel, and suggests Hill could make a decent living as a pantomime villain if the opportunity ever arose.

Hill identifies a 1970s upbringing as the defining factor in this Boomer selfishness, with the decade’s lax consideration for child welfare and freedom to behave abominably. Then he revels with a puckish wickedness at the expense of his light entertainment predecessors, Operation Yewtree having since designated many of them beyond the pale.

Although Hill doesn’t make any explicit links in that regard, queue-jumper Phillip Schofield is also cheerfully mocked and features in a narrative poem of the comic fighting a squirrel to a standstill, a viscerally violent, gorily brutal epic.

Alongside a shaggy dog story of oxen sacrifice, allusions to Epstein Island, Bill Gates conspiracies and occasional cameos from a clown bearing more than a passing resemblance to Pennywise from It, there’s an altogether darker streak than we’re used to seeing from the bespectacled idiot. When he returns home to watch his daughter sleep after a show, we’re certainly not in nursery rhyme territory.

The darkness affords him an edge that he could perhaps benefit from elsewhere. Video of a baby hedgehog having its tummy tickled is delightful, but no more than that; Hill dancing to Fatboy ​Slim’s Weapon of Choice is a sight to behold, but really just makes you want to see Christopher Walken doing it properly. And Sarah The Baby Elephant, the big feature of this show that Hill’s been trailing in recent interviews, is an absolute damp squib, even after he coerces a volunteer into getting involved.

Indeed, in the silliness stakes, there’s only one big set-piece where the comedian’s imagination unequivocally triumphs over his self-indulgence, an exceptional bit of physical business that starts with him trying to get the microphone back into its stand and concludes with an audience member pulling him about on the front of the stage.

Flashes, then, of the genius that have rightly made Hill such a celebrated performer, a deliciously extended vindictive side and simply too much baffling flim-flam that fails to justify its inclusion.

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Review date: 11 Oct 2022 Reviewed by: Jay Richardson Reviewed at: Edinburgh Festival Theatre

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