Picture Special: A Final Chuckle for Christmas

Harry was at the Chuckle Club at the weekend and HHF has an exclusive picture of Harry during his performance:

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Taken by Owner of Chuckle Club, Eugene Cheese

TV Burp Review of the Year is on Boxing Day at 6.30pm, ITV1 and the All Star Impressions Show featuring Harry is on at 9.30pm on the same day.

HHF would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2010. Updates will continue through the festive period…hopefully!

Best of Burp 2009

Back for a second year, you can now vote for your favourite TV Burp moment of 2009 below. Get voting below!

Picture Special: Harry the Magician

A special Sunday treat: an unused artwork for this year’s British Comedy Awards by Jon Haward, featuring Harry as a magician with friends Stouffer and the Knitted Character:

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Pencils by Jon Haward: Artwork for British Comedy Awards 2009 (Unused for the show)

For more on Jon’s art, including more BCA artwork, visit his site at jonhawardart.com and hawardarthouse.blogspot.com.

Web Burp – Best Of, Xmas and Special Events

Last week’s Best of TV Burp gained 4.33m (21.4%). For more, visit Digital Spy, The Guardian, This is Leicestershire and ATV Network News. Please note that TV Burp is not on this weekend.

In other Harry news, We Love Telly Magazine features an interview with Harry, according to their website, The Sun’s comedy columnist Tommy Holgate had a chat with Harry at the British Comedy Awards, The Knitted Character has been mentioned in Caitlin Moran’s The Times Celebrity Watch, Just Like TV discusses TV Burp and Brian Reade of The Mirror praised TV Burp at the British Comedy Award.

Also this week, Harry has performed at a special charity event at The Playhouse Whitstable with Nick Wilty and Jo Brand on Tuesday night. A special montage has been kindly provided by photographer Richard Hunt below:

Photos by Richard Hunt – (click to enlarge)

Finally, Harry will be appearing with the Caterers at two performances at Putney Halfmoon. Harry will be at the venue on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th January at 8pm each nights. Tickets are £12 and available from Putney Halfmoon’s website.

TV Burp to return in January 2010

TV Recordings, Avalon’s in house free ticket distributors, have released the first details on the next series of TV Burp. According to the latest details, TV Burp recordings will start on 28th January 2010, continuing into February on 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th, and finishing in March with two shows recorded on 4th and 11th, totally 7 new episodes.

Tickets are due to be released in early January 2010 – keep visiting Harry Hill Fansite online, on Twitter, on Facebook and on News Alert to keep up to date!

Web Burp – All Star, TV Burp, Heston and iplayer

Here is the latest Web Burp with all the Harry news:

• Love Reading 4 Kids has recommended Tim the Tiny Horse at Large as an 7+ read.
• Satire website The Spoof have said that Lucifer is to take over presenting You’ve Been Framed so that Harry can “concentrate on actually becoming funny.”
• Harry will be making a special cameo on The All Star Impressions Show, which is on Boxing Day on ITV1. For more details, visit ITV Press Centre and Daily Star.
• Mark Lawson of The Guardian mentioned TV Burp in his Review of the Year.
• TV Burp has been mentioned in an article from Gary Marshall at TechCrunch on Facebook and Google privacy.
• Ben Thompson of the Financial Times has discussed Harry and TV Burp with regards to the “kings of British comedy.”
• Rich Pelley of The Guardian has interviewed Heston Blumenthal and asked “Are you available in case Harry Hill gets struck down with swine flu?”, with Heston replying “He does seem to like me. I sent him a book to say thanks and he sent me a very funny letter back. We should become a double act!.”
• Harry and family went to see Hairspray, according to a tweet from Phillip Jupitus.
• Harry was on TalkSport with Andy and Paul on 1st, with highlights available on their Clips of the Week on itunes. Harry has also been on Front Row on Friday and The Radcliffe and Maconie Show yesterday, available on BBC iplayer on the links.
• Chortle and British Comedy Guide have both discussed the success of TV Burp Book.

British Comedy Awards – all the links!

For the British Comedy Awards, Harry has been mentioned in the following articles: Dan’s Media Digest, Celebrity Gossip, Just Like TV, UPI, What’s On TV (with pic), Daily Mail (pic) (x2), Chortle, Telly and Film Guide, GVA Online, BBC (gallery), The PA (pic), Daily Star (pic), Forth, Telegraph (x2), Mad Black Cat, British Comedy Guide, Daily Record, Mr Paparazzi (gallery), BBC, Digital Spy, ATV Network News, Anorak (gallery), Holy Moly (gallery), The Stage, Spoonfed, The Word, The Guardian (x2), BBC Newsbeat, Throng (x2), Popsugar (gallery), Comedy Central (pic), LA Times, Independent (x2), The Mirror, Lemon Drop, Hello and Herald de Paris . There are loads of photos on Getty Images.

And breath…

Harry Hill Fansite on Facebook

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Harry wins the double at British Comedy Awards

Harry has won both of his nominations, Best Comedy Entertainment Programme and Personality, at the British Comedy Awards! Well done Harry!

Add your congratulations in the comments or on Twitter.

Best of TV Burp 6 – 12th December 2009

Last week’s TV Burp had 6.2m (25.3%) and You’ve Been Framed had 4.85m (21.3%). For more information, visit The Guardian, Digital Spy and ATV Network News.

Best of TV Burp 6 is on tonight at 6.00pm and repeated through the week on ITV2. Get in contact via @harryhillfans on Twitter and hashtag with #tvburp.

In other news:

• Harry has done three book signings with “Heather” and the Knitted Character, with a photos and articles available on Twitter, The Gaea Times Blog, News Shopper and article and picture from Ed on the Ebury Publishing Blog.
• Harry is nominated at The British Comedy Awards tonight. Chortle and Online Betting Guide reports that Harry is favourite to win at the awards and TV Burp’s very own David Quantick has discussed the awards on the BBC Comedy Blog. The Sun, Digital Spy, The PA, Daily Star, Chortle (again), Driffield Today and STV have also discussed the awards.
• The Word Magazine featured an article on Harry and TV Burp.
• Tristian Harris of Redditch Standard has chatted to Chris Lacey of BBC Three’s Young Butcher of the Year about his sausages and his appearance on TV Burp, with Chris saying “And being on the Harry Hill show was such good fun – he’s a really nice bloke.”
• Lindsay Burns of South London Today has reported that Harry appeared at the 10th South London Press Our Heroes Awards in November, with a picture on Twitpic courtesy of @mayoroflambeth.
• The BBC iplayer shows from last week all have some pictures of Harry with the hosts – click for The One Show, Jonathan Ross and Vernon Kay.