Reception and Awards
The show had positive reviews.
- Harry Hill's TV Burp was nominated for Best Comedy Entertainment Programme at the 2007 British Comedy Awards.
- It won two 2008 British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance (for Harry Hill) and Best Entertainment programme.
- Visitors to the British Comedy Guide website voted TV Burp as the "Best British TV Panel Show/Satire of 2008".
- Harry also won a third BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance in 2009.
- Sophie Heath from the Daily Mail said the show was "Genius, pure and simple."
- Mark Lawson from The Guardian said it was "The freshest and most original show in mainstream television."
However, Hill's brand of comedy also attracts negative criticism from detractors, such as TV critic Ruth Margolis, who wrote: "Harry Hill’s TV Burp, ITV's comedy centrepiece (this alone should tell you all you need to know), sees Hill deliver tedious, unimaginative thoughts on of the week's television. Where there's scope for a joke he chooses instead to drop a cheap pun, make jazz hands or, better still, wrinkle his forehead to acknowledge a weak innuendo on Coronation Street."
The titles of the show were briefly featured as part of London 2012's opening ceremony.
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