Man, im usually not into british comedy...but this is just the greatest stuff Ive ever seen. My dad purchased the box-set and Ive just been hooked. Benny Hill was certainley a great man Anyone else like his 'work'??
Benny Hill is excellent. His 70s stuff was the best. Bionic Baby, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Woodstick (spoof on Woodstock with elderly people), The Grand Wheelchair Race, etc. I can't say enough about him. He was great at poking fun at American pop culture. A&E Biography did a nice show about his life. I think people who lived through the 70s have a good appreciation for him. Benny took all the crazes of the the 70s that people were supposed to take so seriously and spend money on and literally tore them to shreds. .
He was a sad and lonely man - but he had a command of vaudeville, wit and base humor the likes of which we'll never see again.
I saw that show. I felt kinda sad after watching it though. I used to love watching him on late night tv.
I think that was the bad era.. personaly i watched his 60s stuff and thought why in later years is he hitting a man on the head ?? lazy lazy lazy anyway he was funny whatever (even chasing ladies in fast motion)
Uh... a fat ugly old man chasing after girls in fast forward? I guess that kind of comedy is too sophisticated for me. Okay okay, the bit with BA from the A-team was mildly entertaining...
He wasn't attacking the feminist movement in his 70s work. It was just a spoof on it, much like the wheel chair race was just humor, not an attack on the elderly. I thought Benny's later shows in the 80s were becoming womanizing. He didn't have the sarcastic wit in the 80s as he did in the earlier years. Hill's Angels wasn't anything witty or comical. Just young women dancing around in their underwear. Benny lost his appeal in the U.S. in the 80s as the politically correct movement gained strength. In his 70s stuff, Benny got smacked around pretty good by some of those women. .
Incidentally, Benny is nowhere to be found on regular American TV channels. The politically correct movement in the U.S. did away with his type of comedy. BBC America still carries him in the U.S. HBO used to show some of his shows too. 1989 was the last year that regular TV stations carried him. After that he disappeared. .
In the 70s, Benny was all over the UHF stations in the U.S. Heh heh. I wonder if anyone remembers UHF? .
Poor Benny Hill was sacked by Thames Television after Ben Elton critiscised his show for its sexist attitudes.Benny never recovered from the sacking. I thought his shows in the 1970s were more raunchy & risque than anything else on U.K. tv at the time.(Until 'The Kenny Everett Video Show' in 1978). I think he was stumbling a bit in the 1980s but didn't deserve to be sacked.
They had just gained the rights to syndicate Benny's shows just before they canned him. Not surprising. Typical business operations. .
Really? I didn't know that. It seems weird that you sack your greatest export- $$$$ earner!!. America took to Benny then he was sacked. If Americans like 'The Benny Hill Show' they'd love: 'The Kenny Everett Video Show' .
The thing about Kenny Everett (who I have to say is one of my favourites), despite all the women in skimpy clothing etc, he was acutally gay. Back to Benny Hill, has anyone heard the song he released? Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West. Got quite high in the UK charts when it was released I think
He did a couple of songs. I can't remember any of them off the top of my head, but they're around somewhere (Edit) I remember one..."Egg Marketing Board Tango". I was going to mention it originally, but thought I had the title wrong.
