Benny Hill

[Paragon]

Have you ever seen him?

;-)

[madrchsod]

1. never missed a show

when he was on ..there was a special about him several years ago. he was a very interesting man.

[Nikia]

2. My grandparents watched with my little brother

I never watched it but my stepmother was upset that not only did they watch it with him but it became one of his favorite shows. That was when he was in kindergarten so I take it that Benny Hill is usually not considered appropriate for children. Oh well, my grandmother also watched South Park with him.

[Don_G]

4. Benny Hill Was Definately Not Appropriate For Children

Funny as hell though!

[Book Lover]

6. You know, Benny Hill was really harmless

I remember me, my mother and my brother watching on channel 9, I think it was... The vaudville stuff was funny and the burlesque stuff went over my head. I definetly was not harmed by Benny Hill. Now, reading The Amityville Horror in 6th grade, that was not OK....

[alphafemale]

8. American public opinion regarding media/kids Nudity bad-Violence Good

Is it any wonder the culture we end up with?

[ClintonTyree]

3. Great.................

now I have his theme song running around in my head at 1:50 AM. And I was going to go to bed soon........it'll be there all night.

[salmonhorse]

5. Ee-yup ~

Very hillarious dude say, "Aye!". Directed all his own stuff and for all his cavorting w/women? A lifetime bachelor...go figure.

I can hear that theme song right now.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. If you got to work with that many hot babes

why would you want to settle for just one?

[mr blur]

9. Garbage!

Over here on this side of the Pond we grew up with this infantile garbage. Nothing surprises me more than to discover that's it's become popular in the US. Should I be surprised?

[SmileyBoy]

10. He was the fucking BOMB!!!!

Don't even get me started on Benny Hill. I'll be reminiscing all day...

[Paragon]

11. Thank y'all for keeping a goof thread up...

...much longer than it had any right to be. :D

[Ohio Dem]

12. Have you seen this?

The Benny Hill Presidency

http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/bennyhill.htm

[populistmom]

13. My dad used to watch it

I suppose it explains my urges to run around really fast slapping bald men in the head.

[DivinBreuvage]

14. The Old Fiddler

I saw a lot of Benny Hill when I was little because my mother was a huge fan of innocuous British comedy (Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, etc.).

I'm afraid it won't seem funny at all when I write about it, but he had this one bit about a poor old man who comes to a fair. He sees a beautiful old violin but can't afford it; the crowd passes the hat and buys it for him, and the old man begins to "play like a man possessed!"

The comic part is, you can hear him playing in the background and he's just tremendously awful.

Then he dies from excitement (that part is sad).

Françoise

[oneighty]

15. Benny Hill

was funny on the outside. I saw a very sad and unhappy man. That sadness and unhappiness showed through on many of his skits.

IMO.
180

[DivinBreuvage]

16. "Hill's Angels" Testimony confirms this

Jane Leeves ("Daphne" on Frasier) was a Hill's Angel late int the hisory of the show. I read an interview with her (in TV Guide I believe) in which she said, as I recall, that Benny Hill interviewed each Angel privately and that he struck her then as a shy, sad man. She distinctly noticed the sadness in him.

At least he doesn't appear to have been a nasty old bastard, as some allege Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope to have been.

Françoise