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REVIEW: Harry Hill
by Rachel Broady23/ 3/2005
HARRY Hill's anarchic surreal humour seems almost too silly to
be organised at all but when you see his stand-up show it's obvious
it is prepared with military precision.
Not a word is wasted as Hill turns the mundane and innocuous into a
hysterical bizarre show, tapping into your subconscious with the
sort of ease normally associated with Derren Brown.
Finely tuned moments make you realise the absurdity of the world
you live in - and you worryingly recognise that this now apparently
barking former doctor, with his starched up-turned collar and
bright green socks, is saner than you will ever be.
His references to rubbish lyrics, for example, make you realise
that you too should view the world the way he does. The
pointlessness of Killers somebody told me you had a boyfriend/who
looked like a girlfriend/that I had in February of last year is
made all the more farcical by Hill using it to abuse an audience
member and then referring to it throughout the show - through his
various puppets. Franz Ferdinand don't get away lightly either and
Hill sings Natasha Bedingfield's These Words with the sort of
contempt it deserves.
It is this constant referring to earlier jokes that reveals his
cleverness and talent. It looks like it's a breeze for him but it
must be an exceptionally hard task.
But his efforts are not unrewarded. Hill had the audience willing
to be insulted and humiliated and eventually willing to go on stage
and dance with a giant badger - one fool even stood alone for the
national anthem until it turned into the Eastenders theme tune and
he had to sit back down.
The Harrys - dressed in matching bald heads - were great and added
to a brilliant finale, every prop raised a laugh and the simple
stage set was effective. In fact my only gripe would be to lose
Harry Hill Senior because I thought an old man's pants falling down
was as funny as toothache.
But the finale was splendid as Harry and his band - dressed in
matching 70s sky blue suits - played car horns with the finesse of
the Hallé Orchestra. They really did!
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