Benny Hill, yes or no

city2 said:
Yesterday’s comedians were funny to that generation Arthur Askey , Jimmy Edward’s,Max Wall,Tommy Cooper, Jasper Carrot, Mike Harding, Dave Allen, Benny Hill, the Comedians,and loads more would not be appreciated in today’s fucked up world and many of today’s comedians would have been booed off by that generation. Times have changed that’s all.
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Jasper Carrot is on tour currently I believe.
 
He stopped to watch our Tyro match once, in Romsey - actually chatted to my excited Dad for a bit after I knocked one in (or more likely tolerated him for a while :-) ).

It's totally unfair to judge him by today's anaemic standards, I think. The girls on his show all spoke very highly of him, even after his death. Said that they always enjoyed working with him.So many of the 'old' jokes you hear originated on Benny Hill:

"You off on holiday, this year?"
'Yes, we're going abroad for a couple of weeks'
"Very nice - where?"
'The Isle of Wight'
"That's not abroad"
'NO? YOU TRY WALKING THERE!!'
 
cleavers said:
Some was funny, some wasn't.

Wasn't a great fan, but I have to say when united fans put our game v bayern, speeded up, to the theme tune, I thought it was pretty funny, and showed how out of our depth we were against them. We've come a long way, and now I supect the boot would be firmly on the other foot.


Most of us probably sniggered at that photo.
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jimharri said:
Never heard it called "sniggered" before!
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I never knew that laughing made your wrist hurt
 
noseve said:
Stupid comment that - why wouldn't anybody have come forward by now?

So every comedian who ever used an attractive girl in his sketches must be a paedo - is that what you're saying?
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Stupid comment that. Pair of wrong uns but possibly not paedos, just massive sexual perverts.
 
It was a case of art imitating life.

It probably didn't change much since he started out, but in the 80s I thought it was puerile crap and preferred Kenny Everett.

I may be wrong but I thought Jacko was a big fan and bought a book of his writings or sketches about the time he died.
 
As a kid growing up his show was hugely popular and funny to the audiences of thst era. Nowadays of course it wouldn't get past whoever decides what makes it onto television. As a young teen at one point i of course loved viewing all the beautiful scantly clad women. The little bald bloke getting his head slapped would be disected to death these days as bullying, ageist and whatever else they could come up with, mind you they want to read some of the cimnents on here about old people lol.

I just had to Google the man and just how huge and popular he was surprised even me.

The BFI called Hill "the first British comedian to attain fame through television" and "a major star for over forty years".[2] Making his television debut in 1949, he appeared on BBC variety shows where he developed his parodic sketches and, in 1954, was voted television personality of the year.[2] The Benny Hill Show, which debuted in 1955, was among the most-watched programmes in the UK; his audience was more than 21 million in 1971.[3] The show was also exported to over 100 countries, a global appeal which the BFI attributed to "Hill's emphasis on visual humour transcending language barriers".[2][4]

Hill received a BAFTA Television Award for Best Writer and a Rose d'Or, and he was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety. In 1990, Anthony Burgess described Hill as "a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition".[5] In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.[6]
 
Corky said:
It was a case of art imitating life.

It probably didn't change much since he started out, but in the 80s I thought it was puerile crap and preferred Kenny Everett.

I may be wrong but I thought Jacko was a big fan and bought a book of his writings or sketches about the time he died.
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If it's peurile you want, Norman Wisdom says hello.
 
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