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"How funny was Harry Hill's TV Burp this week?"

I watch it every week for the odd bit of humour but I was laughing all the way through this time around:

"Don't know if you've heard but the record of the year is Westlife's Mandy, the only thing is it isn't."

How I woke up the house with my laughter. And that's not to mention his comments on teachers "unsociable hours" according to pauline fowler:

"I'm sorry I can't come out tonight I finish at 3:40"
"I'm sorry I can't come to see you I only get 3 months holiday a year"

Ah it makes me smile just thinking about it.

Room 101 (somthings great, sometimes naff), Absolute Power (liking it more every week) then Little Britian (class) tonight. That'll do me.

I don't really like Harry Hill but it's very well written, some great one-liners.

Harry Hill is superb. This series of TV Burp is better than the first, although I thought the latest episode was hardly the best in the series. One of the funniest moments was the Pop Idol judges when they broke into song, with Pete Waterman as Jay-Zed.

Your Honour wrote:
> Harry Hill's humour doesn't work full stop.
>
> At least sarcasm *can* be funny. Sometimes.

See, that's what I thought. And then I actually watched TV Burp and it's bloody hilarious.

Very funny a lot of the time.
Very crap some of the time. Like the Pop Idol judges thing was very, very unfunny. So is whatever they do right at the end - a song or whatever with some down-and-out celeb trying to pretend they're happy with their situation.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Room 101 (somthings great, sometimes naff), Absolute Power (liking it
> more every week) then Little Britian (class) tonight. That'll do me.

You, my friend, have taste.
It's the last Absolute Power tonight.
Bah.

Absolute Power was good fun to watch.

I used to love Harry Hill, then all of a sudden I just didn't find him funny.

I've seen a few of his TV Burp shows and not found them funny either - and it's not a show I make a point of watching.

But it's odd that you should post this thread, because I too was laughing hysterically at most of this week's show, especially the Record of the Year comment.

monkey_man wrote:
> Sometimes it's really funny, sometimes it's more cringingly
> embarrassing to watch than Bo' Selecta.

I've seen Bo Selecta once, and didn't laugh at all.

Avid Merrion was funny in the little sketches during Big Brother, but now is just totally annoying.

Absolute Power didn't do anything for me at all.
I watched the first 2 episodes, then the one last night but none of them raised the slighest hint of a smile. The idea yesterday with the fake disease was pretty good, but I didn't find it funny. At all.

I kind of feel like I'm expected to find it funny, and expected to love it. Because there's good ideas, and Fry's in it.
But, for me, there was nothing redeeming.