Comedic personalities come and go through entertainment and it’s very rare for a unique style to truly stand out in the crowd. In an incredibly oversaturated market, a world ran almost entirely on extreme, theatrical and eccentric personalities and personas, the idea of standing out is a ridiculous notion. Well, enter the ridiculous.
Harry Hill is ridiculous incarnated. From his perfectly smooth baldness to his lolling tongue, overgrown suit or jaunty spectacles, the physical presence of Hill is a bizarre affair from the offset, and yet this may be the most accessible and normal part of Hill’s show.
Known for a TV career that embodies the ludicrous, TV Burp was a wonderfully chaotic celebration of British television, stupidity and comedy, whereas You’ve Been Framed became an industry staple through Hill’s harmless commentary over people being silly, senseless and a little juvenile.
With these all-being words that could be further attributed to Hill’s stand-up, it’s fair to say that the comic’s stage show is in a league of its own. Ferociously fast-paced, tenaciously unpredictable and incorrigibly silly, Hill’s humour may not be a meticulously constructed affair, nor is it a scathing satire, but it is a hysterical riot.
Writing a list of previous Hill routines may read as the scrawlings across the wall of the clinically insane, yet with unwavering charisma, Harry Hill injects each twist in his odyssey into the bizarre, with nothing but charm, swagger and unflinching confidence.
With the show introducing the world to Hill’s new friends, Sarah the Elephant, Ian the information Worm and, of course, Hill’s trusty sidekick Stouffer the Cat, the show is a vision born out of the heart’s need for an antidote to the past few years.
With life breathing down on us all with a heavy sense of reality, taking a night off and submerging yourself in the absurd, the surreal and the harmless might be exactly what we all need – and who better to lead the way than the man who’s been waving that flag for 30 years.
Rapid favour, razor-sharp and drowning in goodwill, nostalgia and heart, ‘Pedigree Fun!’ promises to be filled with improvisations, musical interludes and inexplicable skits that are all fuelled by unparalleled energy.
The tour comes to Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre on Friday 14th October, later making its way to Stockton’s Globe on Saturday 29th October.
For further information, head to harryhilltour.com.
