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Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium
Comedy superstar Harry Hill is back with a brilliant bumper edition of the very best jokes, bloopers and tall tales of Tiny Tim. There's fun for all the family to JOKES! What do you call a greenfly with no arms, legs or wings? A bogey. BLOOPERS! 'Dear milkman, baby arrived yesterday. Please leave another one.' FUNNY STORIES! The hilarious capers of Tim the Tiny Horse and his best friend, Fly. Selected from Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book , Harry Hill's Bumper Book of Bloopers and Complete History of Tim .
352 pages, Hardcover
First published September 30, 2014
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May 31, 2020
The illustrations are cute however it is not so funny even it is a joke book it has a lot of information about certain topics
January 9, 2015
To get by in life you have to have a system. How do you remember a celebrity’s name? You could compare them to a foodstuff; Liz Hurley/Curly Wurly, Cadburys cream egg/Mystic Meg. If this makes sense to you, you may have come across Harry Hill in his various guises. Harry has been a popular stand-up, a successful TV show host and also has series of books that appeal to kids. These have been mashed up together to create a best of; fans of oddball humour in delirium/Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium.
All comedians appeal to different people, but to say that Harry Hill is a required taste would be being too mild. He has a very peculiar sense of humour, but as ‘TV Burp’ proved, he does appeal to the mainstream audience. What this show also achieved was introducing the character to children and Harry even went on to make a kids TV show, ‘Shark Infested Custard’. The ‘Colossal Compendium’ is a great stocking filler for any child that has a daft sense of humour who loves Harry TV work.
The book is split into various different segments such as showbiz. Within these sections you will get a few jokes, some silly bloopers taken from TV/Newspapers and a cartoon of Tim the Tiny Horse, all written and illustrated by Harry. By no means is there a deluge of content here, you are lucky to get one joke per page. That means that although the 352 pages may seem like a mighty tomb, it is certainly not a 1000 jokes book (more like 352 of them). Despite their scarcity the jokes are very amusing; surreal and family friendly. However, once again it will depend on the child’s sense of humour whether they like the jokes or not.
The biggest surprise for me came via the smallest character, with the adventures of Tim the Tiny Horse. There are a series of very amusing little stories and illustrations about Tim each written over several pages. These border on Dali levels of surrealism, but are very amusing. As an adult I appreciated the oddness of a minute horse getting a job on TV, but will every child?
With a question of taste so central to whether you will enjoy ‘Colossal Compendium’ it is best given to a child who is already a fan of joke books, or has read earlier books by Harry Hill. However, this leads to another issue. As a compendium, this book is made up of the best bits of the previous Harry Hill Joke books etc. and many fans will already own these. You could end up buying something that they already own in a different guise. With this in mind, the audience for the book is pretty limited to Harry Hill fans who don’t already own many of the other Harry Hill books. Do you know someone like that? Original review on bookbag.co.uk
All comedians appeal to different people, but to say that Harry Hill is a required taste would be being too mild. He has a very peculiar sense of humour, but as ‘TV Burp’ proved, he does appeal to the mainstream audience. What this show also achieved was introducing the character to children and Harry even went on to make a kids TV show, ‘Shark Infested Custard’. The ‘Colossal Compendium’ is a great stocking filler for any child that has a daft sense of humour who loves Harry TV work.
The book is split into various different segments such as showbiz. Within these sections you will get a few jokes, some silly bloopers taken from TV/Newspapers and a cartoon of Tim the Tiny Horse, all written and illustrated by Harry. By no means is there a deluge of content here, you are lucky to get one joke per page. That means that although the 352 pages may seem like a mighty tomb, it is certainly not a 1000 jokes book (more like 352 of them). Despite their scarcity the jokes are very amusing; surreal and family friendly. However, once again it will depend on the child’s sense of humour whether they like the jokes or not.
The biggest surprise for me came via the smallest character, with the adventures of Tim the Tiny Horse. There are a series of very amusing little stories and illustrations about Tim each written over several pages. These border on Dali levels of surrealism, but are very amusing. As an adult I appreciated the oddness of a minute horse getting a job on TV, but will every child?
With a question of taste so central to whether you will enjoy ‘Colossal Compendium’ it is best given to a child who is already a fan of joke books, or has read earlier books by Harry Hill. However, this leads to another issue. As a compendium, this book is made up of the best bits of the previous Harry Hill Joke books etc. and many fans will already own these. You could end up buying something that they already own in a different guise. With this in mind, the audience for the book is pretty limited to Harry Hill fans who don’t already own many of the other Harry Hill books. Do you know someone like that? Original review on bookbag.co.uk
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