Adam Hills
Adam Hills

Adam Hills

  • 53 years old
  • Australian
  • Stand-up comedian and writer

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Australian comedian Adam Hills has scored his own series off the back of a triumphant turn in the summer presenting The Last Leg - Channel 4's nightly comedy show screened as part of their Paralympics coverage. If you missed him then, here's your chance to catch Hill's happy, ironic brand of humour as he steps up to the mic for a one-off stand-up show recorded live in the West End.

Metro, 20th December 2012

Australian comic Adam Hills proved a hit during the 2012 Paralympics as host of Channel 4's nightly irreverent show The Last Leg - often using the fact that he was born without a right foot as a source of comedy. Here's a chance to watch him in a warm and witty stand-up set recorded live at London's Lyric Theatre. Hills blends hilarious anecdotes with laid-back delivery, spontaneous ad libs and audience participation.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 19th December 2012

Adam Hills to host C4's 'Alternative Christmas Message'

Adam Hills has been announced as this year's host of Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message.

Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 4th December 2012

Adam Hills signs a deal with Channel 4

Channel 4 have announced they've signed an exclusive one year deal with stand-up comedian Adam Hills, which includes another series of The Last Leg.

British Comedy Guide, 18th October 2012

A sign of a strong television programme is that the supplementary programmes are strong too. Taken as a whole, the Channel 4 coverage of the Paralympics was very good, but almost the best part of it was The Last Leg, the discussion show at the end of each day.

The show was conducted by a droll Australian called Adam Hills and it solved the problem of how to talk about disabilities in a straightforward manner without being crass. Which is not to say that Hills was incapable of being crude, but he knew how to time it. On the day that Oscar Pistorius, so renowned for his sportsmanship, beefed embarrassingly about blade-lengths after losing in the 200 metres, Hills played the tape of the interview and then said, "Holy s---balls." It seemed exactly the right expression.

Clive James, The Telegraph, 15th September 2012

If you're missing Josh Widdicombe from Adam Hills's Paralympics show The Last Leg, then you get another dose of the droll comic in this belated Edinburgh dispatch as he hosts Welsh wonder Mark Watson, cosy Iranian Shappi Khorsandi and Radio 4 regular turned Spamalot star Marcus Brigstocke.

Sharon Lougher and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 13th September 2012

Channel 4 bosses want to sign up Adam Hills

C4 bosses want to sign up Paralympics host Adam Hills after his late-night Last Leg show became one of the hits of the Games.

Leigh Holmwood, The Sun, 11th September 2012

Adam Hills Last Leg doll fetches £1,700 for charity

A knitted doll of an Olympic Games volunteer with one foot - inspired by a Last Leg presenter Adam Hills - has raised £1,700 for charity.

Bucks Free Press, 8th September 2012

Adam Hills: I'm absolutely loving the Paralympics

Comedian Adam Hills, currently hosting the Paralympics show The Last Leg on Channel 4, talks to Metro about his current TV favourites.

Sharon Lougher, Metro, 6th September 2012

The Last Leg: often tasteless & awkward, alway funny

Adam Hills' irreverent nightly Paralympics roundup on Channel 4 has found exactly the right brand of edgy humour to break down barriers over disability.

Frances Ryan, The Guardian, 5th September 2012

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