This was only the second An Audience With programme, after Kylie Minogue, that I had seen, and it was a really good one. I had really gotten fond of seeing Harry Hill on TV Burp, and this was his opportunity to do live stand up comedy again, like he used to. Hill made the simplest of jokes, but also was sophisticated to go backwards and forwards with jokes. The great examples of jokes I can remember are: an impression of Gollum for Billy Boyd (Pippin in The Lord of the Rings), his Nan's funeral, calculators in the maths exam, a date with a "rich widow", singing as David Bowie and Michael Jackson, and of course, Stuphar the (plastic) blue cat making jokes, singing Moby and licking Miss World (Rosanna Davison) on the face. He does take some questions from the celebrities in the audience, but most of them are set up for jokes. The celebrities that can be spotted in the audience included: Tony Blackburn, Jo Brand, Peter Capaldi, Todd Carty, Jon Culshaw, Warwick Davis and his wife Samantha Burroughs, Philippa Forrester, Dave Gorman, Christine and Neil Hamilton, Bonnie Langford, Stephen Mulhern, Al Murray, Richard O'Brien, Bill Oddie, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo), Nicholas Parsons, Wendi Peters, Rowland Rivron, Andrew Sachs, Frank Skinner, Chris Tarrant, Stephen Tompkinson, Michael Underwood, Roy Walker, Holly Willoughby. Harry Hill was number 26 on The Comedians' Comedian, he was number 5 on 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, and he was number 18 on 100 Greatest Stand-Ups 2010, and An Audience With was number 26 on ITV's 50 Greatest Shows. Very good!
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