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Adam Hills: 'Disabled athletes are cheating too'
"We want our sports people to be amazing and we place incredible pressure on them in terms of advertising money," Hills says, "so we, as a culture, are willing to turn a blind eye. At the 2008 Paralympics, one country was doing particularly well and I asked the Australian coach why? He said: "'They were good at the Olympics, too. They've got the best drugs. They can't be detected.' We talk to a lot of para-athletes and you hear them saying, 'He's totally doped up.'"
Julia Llewelyn Smith, The Telegraph, 11th February 2016Henley Festival expand comedy programme
This year, Henley Festival will expand its comedy programme, which has in the past seen performances by Mark Watson, The Horne Section and Adam Hills, with twenty of the best comics from around the world set to appear.
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 11th February 2016Adam Hills: "Apparently I swore more in the Outback"
The comedian reveals who was best at sexing wild crocs when The Last Leg went Down Under...
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 27th January 2016Adam Hills sorry for tweet saying woman shoud be hung
The comedian Adam Hills has apologised for a tweet in which he suggested far-right Australian politician Pauline Hanson should be "hung" from the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Guardian, 16th November 2015The Last Leg team go on an Australian road trip
Channel 4 has filmed The Last Leg Goes Down Under, a road trip around Australia featuring Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker.
British Comedy Guide, 4th November 2015Adam Hills: a cross between the Milk Tray Man & Gandhi
When the disability charity Scope asked me to play the Milk Tray Man in their online spoof of the cheesy Cadbury's Milk Tray ads, I had to go online and research them all. Being Australian I had no idea what they were talking about.
Adam Hills, The Huffington Post, 6th July 2015A sixth series for the satire show that picks apart the week's news while making it look like a chat between three particularly witty friends down the pub. It features, as usual, Adam Hills as the genial mastermind and Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe as his grinning familiars. Tonight, the men are joined by stretched Muppet Stephen Merchant.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 26th June 2015Adam Hills on Piers Morgan, Nick Clegg & Ed Miliband
Hills returns with co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker and, as well as admitting the show can come together as close as half an hour before broadcast, he dished on everything from his bromance with guest and former Deputy PM Nick Clegg, to almost unbooking Piers Morgan...
Emma Daly, Radio Times, 25th June 2015Adam Hills interview
The 44-year-old Australian comic, who wears a prosthetic right foot, is married to fellow performer Ali McGregor, with whom he has two young daughters. TVChoice caught up with him for a natter...
Elaine Penn, TV Choice, 16th June 2015Westboro Baptist Church take on Adam Hills' challenge
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church claims it will stage an anti-ISIS demo in Iraq after comedian Adam Hills challenged them to take on the militant extremists.
Ian Leonard, The Mirror, 8th May 2015