The Harry Hill Show

In this week’s episode of the Podscarf we welcome English stand-up comedian Angela Barnes and Tudor historian Adam Pennington to the studio for an hour of pure, unadulterated high-street nostalgia and medieval gore.

Angela reveals how she used to operate as a suitcase-wielding, bootleg DVD library out of her dad's Great Yarmouth sex shop, and find out why the internal gases of King Henry VIII caused him to literally pop inside his own coffin.

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00:00 – Gary's Basement Eggs and the Over-Tight Costume Crisis
00:19 – Formulating a £30 "Corned Beef Spam Nut" Kit for Nostalgic Pensioners
03:30 – Licky the Mascot Gives an Extravagant Face-Licking to a Married Woman
05:11 – Turning 50: The 1970s Nuclear Survival Kit Tobacco Tin Lore
06:39 – Waking Up to the Casualty Theme Tune
08:12 – Phoning in the "Angst" Tour and Saving a Life with The Archers
09:51 – Podcasting for "Young" Pensioners and Failing to Sing Like Jeremy Hardy
10:33 – Outsourcing Our Brains to Siri until We Become Sofa Blobs
11:43 – Sarah the AI Bot Summons the Medway Posse and Bigs up Chatham
13:20 – The Maidstone Anthem: Sex Shops, Golden Boots, and Prison Walls
14:40 – High Street Slander
15:22 – Checkers Model Shops and the Measurement Machines of the Golden Boot
16:28 – The Stoned Anagram and Wes Anderson's Secret Mansion in Basted
17:46 – The Caravan-Enthusiast, Naturist, Swinger Sex Shop Dad
18:20 – Sharing the Pre-Streaming Suitcase Bootlegs Like the Original Pornhub
19:22 – Amateur Dramatics as the Comic Fat Girl and Sudden Bereavement at 60
20:21 – Emceeing Jack Skipper’s First Ever Jill Edwards Comedy Showcase
21:13 – The Five-Day House of Games Sweep and Facing Social Media Trolls
23:08– ADHD Hyperactivity and the Sussex University Synesthesia Study
26:41 – The 19-Year-Old Brain Connection Realization and 10 Minutes of Stand-Up Material
27:35 – Ad Break: Regency Foods Present Princess Anne Molds and complimentary Cremation
29:19 – Adam Pennington Explains the Desperate Male Heir Mania of the Tudors
30:39 – Holbein Portraits, Breaking the Papacy, and Banishing Catholics From Succession
31:41 – A 400-Pound King Whose Gammy Leg Smelt From Three Rooms Away
32:08 – Jude Law Spraying Feces, Pus, and Blood Perfume All Over the Firebrand Set
32:48 – Illegitimate Lancastrians, Princes in the Tower, and the Game of Thrones War
34:30 – Tenuous Bloodlines: How 78% of Britons Are Descended From William the Conqueror
35:22 – Royal Imposter Syndrome and Beheading the Remaining Plantagenets
36:19 – Whispering Chromosome Irony Into the Beheaded Ear of Anne Boleyn's Legacy
38:00 – Fastidious Manners, Six-Foot-Three Strapping Youth, and Monastic Dissolution
39:33 – Hiring a Sword Executioner Before Anne Boleyn Even Went to Trial
40:27 – Heavy Petting in the Mid-50s: Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn's Shared Fate
41:25 – Knighting a Sirloin Steak and Hanging Out at Hever Castle
42:26 – Ulcerated Leg Pain and Popping Open via Internal Coffin Gases
44:08– Sarcophagus Re-Gifting and the 11-Strike Axe Horror of Margaret Pole
45:10– QUIZZITY QUIZ:
53:08 – Gary’s Joke Corner
54:57 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans

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TAKE IT OFF! TAKE IF OFF!

We're back. This week, Harry is joined by comedian, television presenter, and incredibly good-looking man Joel Dommett!

Harry relives the claustrophobic nightmare of performing inside a giant furry suit on The Masked Singer (which he only did because Joel told him it would be "fun" ), and explains how he almost had a heart attack dressed as a Red Panda.

Meanwhile, Joel reminisces about his teenage nu-metal band and the importance of a silent p.

Friend of the Vodscarf, Professor Chris Lintott drops by to explain why Venus is an acidic holiday hellhole.

00:09 - Giant Eggs in the Basement
01:15 - Behind the Scenes of The Masked Singer with Red Panda
02:58 - Harry’s Secret Vocal Coaching & Professional Singing Defenses
04:10 - The Ridiculous Secrecy: Hoodies, Visors, and Secret Cars
05:06 - The Great Sloth Pronunciation Debate
06:10 - Sixty-One and Dressed as a Red Panda: Harry’s Near-Death Experience
07:50 - Human Chemistry vs. Thirsty AI Bots
09:00 - Sarah the AI Bot Welcomes
09:10 - The Last Days of Rome: Joel and Harry Dissect the National TV Awards
10:04 - Trevor McDonald: The Comedy Killer
12:37 - Angela Barnes Thinks Joel Is Too Good-Looking for Comedy
13:58 - Joel's Nu-Metal Days
14:48 - Crowd-Surfing at Your Own Funeral
16:48 - The True Cost of Australia: Extra Camp Logistics
17:28 - Joel’s Bristolian Acting Masterclass: Crashing Cars in Casualty
18:36 - Former Doctor Harry Hill Wants a Guest Spot on Holby City
19:34 - Tea, Biscuits, and Private Hospital Pillow Requests
20:34 - Harry’s Mum Gets Knocked Down Dressed as a Keyboard
22:36 - Regency Television Presents: Trevor McDonald Live From the Albert Hall
24:33 - Theme of the Week: Venus (with Professor Chris Lintott)
25:48 - Why Venus Is the Absolute Worst Vacation Spot in the Solar System
27:19 - Lazy Astronomy: Stargazing From the Middle of London
27:52 - Active Volcanoes and Being Bored on a Zoom Meeting
28:48 - Sulfuric Acid, Flying Penguins, and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect
31:14 - Venus: The Solar System's Monthly Service Station
33:02 - The Planet of Love: Mythological Names and Diseases
34:32 - The French Balloon Plan & Melted Russian Probes
36:09 - Harry’s Dark Baby Joke That Never Lands
37:35 - The Grand Finale: Celebrity Name the Seed!
40:25 - The High-Stakes Guess: Britney Spears on a Chair vs. Joel’s Wife
43:27 - Gary’s Joke Corner
45:11 - Butterfly in Blue Jeans

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In this week’s episode of the Podscarf we welcome Welsh comedic force Kiri Pritchard-McLean (who was spotted on a train trying to ignore Harry by aggressively speaking Welsh ) and University of Kent Music Hall expert Oliver Double to the studio for an hour of pure, unadulterated historical bawdiness and skincare science.

Things get incredibly weird, incredibly fast. Watch as Kiri tries to navigate an absolute safeguarding nightmare involving Harry's fictional heir, Gary, and his filthy collar , witness Harry deliver his highly detailed skincare routine and we see the return of the ANDY BURNHAM.

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00:00 – The Danbury Mint x Christian Labuta Flamboyant Shoe Collab
01:09 – The Cardiff-Glasgow Train Stalking Incident
02:59 – Fostering, Permaculture, and the "Angle Grinder" Dating App
04:20 – Licky the Mascot gets way too close to Kiri’s hair
05:49 – Chilling Deep Relationships with Chat GPT Therapists
07:09 – The Andy Burnham Dance
08:39 – Sarah the AI Bot offends the entire nation of Wales
09:32 – Dark History: The English Academics and the Block of Wood
10:22 – Sarah’s Biographical Slander: "Gloucester Born?!"
11:28 – The Vagaries of Animal Welfare Charities and Indoor Toilets
13:55 – Fart-powered Permaculture and Burning Your Own Effluent
15:23 – Harry’s Hyper-Intense 12-Step Korean Skincare Regime
16:38 – The Musty Flannel Incident ("Stop it mum, I can't breathe!")
17:09 – A Plant-Based Crisis: Sarah hands a Vegan a Twix bar
18:20 – Caroline Aherne being naughty in a cab
22:20 – Theme Of The Week: Music Hall
26:40 – Charles Morton’s Canterbury Trick and the Shape of the Hackney Empire
27:57 – The Dignitas Reunion Dinner Incident (A Dignitary falls off the stage)
31:23 – Little Titch: Six-fingered Mittens and Big Boot Dancing
33:10 – Royal Variety Scandal: Queen Mary hides from a woman in trousers
34:29 – Sweating on stage with the Spice Girls and Jim Davidson in 1997
35:54 – Fanning Dad with a Kipper: The DNA of Early Stand-up Comedy
38:20 – Mechanical Funnels and the Financial Collapse of Wet Money
41:04 – The Glasgow Empire: Graveyard of English Comics and Fake Fainting
44:22 – John Major's Dad and the Great Music Hall War of 1907
46:04 – Joan Rhodes: Bending Steel, Tearing Phone Books, and Dominating at Scrabble
47:11 – Celebrity Name the Seed!
52:38 – Gary’s Joke Corner
55:20 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans

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In this week’s episode of the Vodscarf we welcome social media sensation Jack Skipper and Egyptian Egyptologist Dr. Arto Belekdanian to the studio for an hour of pure, unadulterated history and anti-comedy. Things get incredibly weird, incredibly fast.

Watch as Harry’s mum calls from a warzone just because she wanted to buy him some birthday pants from Debenhams, Sarah the AI Bot experiences a severe existential crisis before being miraculously cured by Dr. Pimple Popper, and witness Jack Skipper risking his entire reputation in the elite biscuit community by guessing the contents of rusted metal tins.

If you've ever wanted to hear an esteemed Egyptologist explain why Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony weren't just hooking up with Cleopatra for her looks, but rather her incredible conversational skills, listen up.

00:51 – Sarah's Lament

04:32 – The Croydon Crucible: Did Nando’s coatings and IKEA meatballs create Adele?

05:38 – The 21-pin SCART lead generation struggle

06:26 – Jack's masterclass in succeeding on social media (Hint: Don't make any effort)

09:03 – Spitting water into the bushes vs. the failure of the Top Boy title sequence

10:08 – Regretting the financial investment of buying wigs for TikTok

12:52 – AI Sarah returns! Cured by Dr. Pimple Popper

14:05 – The dark truth about Jack’s Australian tomato farm past

14:59 – Throwing bread at Germaine Jenas on The One Show

15:29 – Carpet Fitting 101: The knee-kicker stretcher and the landing runner dilemma

21:12 – Giving all your personal data to the Chinese government

22:01 – Hiding a Saturday comedy course in Brighton from your family

22:43 – Jack completely derails the interview by eating Harry’s Twix

25:30 – Lee Evans at the Fairfield Halls and missing the glory days of VHS

27:34 – The BBC weather forecast photo rejection

27:59 – Commercial Break: The Pub Carpet Pillow Collection

29:17 – Theme of the Week: Cleopatra

31:43 – Dr. Arto Belekdanian exposes the legalities of female Pharaohs

33:58 – Roman propaganda: Why history hates Cleopatra

38:31 – Coin portraits and taking the honourable way out

41:09 – Game Time: "Biscuits or Sewing Kit? How well do you know your tins?!"

45:07 – Jack completely embarrasses himself in front of the biscuit community

47:05 – Gary’s Joke Corner

49:32 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans
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In this week’s episode of the Vodscarf we welcome legendary documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux (after he accidentally walked onto set, why else would he be there?!) and Oxford astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott to the studio for an hour of pure, unadulterated science and anti-comedy.

Things get incredibly weird, incredibly fast. Watch as we attempt to save our nose-diving viewer retention graph by shouting random words at you, dive deep into the tragic family lore of Harry’s fictional heir, Gary, and witness Louis Theroux showing he is in fact Harry's number one fan.

If you've ever wanted to hear an esteemed Oxford professor explain why aliens might just be a bunch of Venusian penguins standing around in their own poo, listen up.

00:00 – Fixing our terrible viewer retention graph (Kittens! Puppies! Sex!) 02:00 – Licky is a bit keen
03:25 – Gary reveals he is a 12-year-old incel
05:45 – Dark family secrets: Gary’s mum is in a secure institution
08:50 – Louis Theroux proves he is a Harry Hill superfan
13:15 – The Bald Cap Incident
15:40 – Sarah the AI Bot brings out the Twix bars
18:00 – An impromptu musical tribute to Catford
26:50 – The Theroux Bunch theme song
28:00 – Space Talk: Do aliens look like us? (The Theroux-Hill Theory)
36:10 – Professor Chris Lintott exposes Venusian poop penguins
38:25 – Louis met a man who chopped up 10 aliens
41:28 – Game Time: "What is the Velcro Singing?!"
43:28 – Gary’s Joke Corner (Louis tells a highly inappropriate joke)
45:15 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans

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