Harry Hill’s humour is rooted in nudge-wink end of the pier jokes and dark surrealism, so I was delighted to see that he’d created a short film, ‘The Jillon’, directed by Arthur Studholme.
It’s everything you expected and a pinch of what you didn’t. It’s completely bonkers, but a shade darker than we’re used to from ‘Mr Harry’.
An elderly couple’s world goes askew when Jill (a fabulous Flip Webster) is determined to have a baby, despite warnings from her more complacent husband John (Richard Syms) that they’re too old and it would be completely inadvisable. Not that that’s going to stop the old rascal.
What follows is deeply hilarious and disturbing in equal measure. It could only have come from Hill’s fevered scribblings and I love it. There’s excellent support from Kevin Eldon as a priest, and the inimitable Richard Ayoade as Narrator. That Harry Hill is an odd scamp. He was going to be a doctor, you know.
Watch on YouTube.
