Matthew Keith Hall (born 1 October 1964), known professionally as Harry Hill, is an English comedian, writer, and television presenter. Hill is also a...
Matthew Keith Hall (born 1 October 1964), known professionally as Harry Hill, is an English comedian, writer, and television presenter. Hill is also a medical doctor. He won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and began his career in radio and television comedy with the radio series Harry Hill's Fruit Corner (1993–1997). He has hosted his own television comedy show Harry Hill's TV Burp (2001–2012), and has narrated You've Been Framed! since 2004. His other projects include The Harry Hill Movie, released in 2013.
Hill achieved his breakthrough in 1992, when he won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Shortly after, a radio show starring Hill was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 entitled Harry Hill's Fruit Corner. Hill hosted the show as himself, and each week, he was joined by various guest performers, as well as regular character actors including Al Murray and Burt Kwouk. The show featured a variety of other celebrity guests during its run including Rolf Harris and Ronnie Corbett.
Each programme is interspersed with Hill's stand up routines. Fruit Corner ran for four series on BBC Radio 4.
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JONAH HILL
Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is known for his comedic roles...
Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is known for his comedic roles in films including Superbad (2007), Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Funny People (2009), Get Him to the Greek (2010), 21 Jump Street (2012), This Is the End (2013), and 22 Jump Street (2014), as well as his dramatic performances in Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Hill ranked 28th on Forbes magazine's list of highest-paid actors from June 2014 to June 2015, at $16 million. In 2020, he was found to have sworn on film more than any other actor. As a screenwriter, he contributed to the stories of 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Sausage Party and Why Him? In 2018, he starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac; and made his directorial debut with the film Mid90s, from his own screenplay.
Hill has provided voice acting for Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Megamind (2010), How to Train Your Dragon (2010-2019), The Lego Movie (2014) and The Lego Movie 2 (2019).
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