desprateseagull
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I reckon he's a legend. discuss.
Benny Hill- funny or not?
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desprateseagull
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people may say he was not PC, but i think that was the gag - people chased HIM at the end.
tonight's 'was benny hill funny' show didnt really do the man proper justice.
tonight's 'was benny hill funny' show didnt really do the man proper justice.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
He wass rubbish, I'm afraid.
As a pre-pubescent, the only reason I'd watch was for the chance of seeing some women in their BRA'S before I went to bed on a school night.
As a pre-pubescent, the only reason I'd watch was for the chance of seeing some women in their BRA'S before I went to bed on a school night.
bhaexpress
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Benny Hill was funny in his day but his humour is now dated thanks to changes in the public's tastes. He wasn't too PC but compared to programs such as Love Thy Neighbour and Curry and Chips not to mention Till Death Us Do Part he pales by comparison. His slapstick humour was very popular in the US and I remember well the day he died as I was living in New Jersey at the number and quite a lot of people mentioned his passing to me because they were obviously quite upset.
Clearly the PC brigade like to hold Benny Hill up as an example of bad taste but frankly compared to the likes of Bernard Manning or Roy 'Chubby' Brown he was a saint.
Put it another way, how would Little Britain or The Office have fared in the sixties and seventies ? Doubt whether they would have been aired. Humour is rather subjective and it should be remembered that Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy were hysterical in their day but the world has moved on since then.
Clearly the PC brigade like to hold Benny Hill up as an example of bad taste but frankly compared to the likes of Bernard Manning or Roy 'Chubby' Brown he was a saint.
Put it another way, how would Little Britain or The Office have fared in the sixties and seventies ? Doubt whether they would have been aired. Humour is rather subjective and it should be remembered that Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy were hysterical in their day but the world has moved on since then.
Northstander
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Legend and great in his day!
Tom Bombadil
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The odd thing about Benny Hill is that when he started out on TV in the fifties he was an innovative, groundbreaking performer who quickly got to grips with the possibilities of the new medium. By the time he finished at Thames he was, perhaps not surprisingly a tired repetitive hack whose humour was twenty years out of date and relied on smut and slapstick.
Beach Hut
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What teally pissed me off was the way Ben Elton and the likes comdemned his humour as not funny.
So how funny was one-trick Ben Elton the political comedian ? Good at writing it but not performing it.
So how funny was one-trick Ben Elton the political comedian ? Good at writing it but not performing it.
Tom Bombadil
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Simster said:
I'm not old enough to have seen anything but the crass late years stuff either.
He was by all accounts a total shit. My Dad who worked for Thames and it's predecessor Redifusion worked with him several times and was of the opinion that he was a nasty little weirdo and I've heard tales from others that new him that he was a creepy pervert.
Dave the OAP
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I remember Wednesday night was a stay in night - after doing homework, Benny Hill was on.
It is a generation thing I think
People today are used to the "in your face" swearing a lot type of comedy, Ricky Gervaise, Lee Evans, etc etc, whereas people I found incredibly funny are not regarded by people as funny these days .
Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, Morcambe and Wise, Frankie Howerd, Tony Hancock, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Dick Emery, Peter Sellers
It is a generation thing I think
People today are used to the "in your face" swearing a lot type of comedy, Ricky Gervaise, Lee Evans, etc etc, whereas people I found incredibly funny are not regarded by people as funny these days .
Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, Morcambe and Wise, Frankie Howerd, Tony Hancock, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Dick Emery, Peter Sellers
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Easy 10 said:
Summed up nicely.
Tom Bombadil
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Dave the Gaffer said:
Since when are Cooper, Morecombe, Howerd, Hancock, Williams and Sellers considered not funny?
Beach Hut
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doh - quoted myself
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Dave the OAP
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Voroshilov said:
when it comes on the telly or the radio, certainly my two dont find it funny. they would rather watch Lee Evans
Bluejuice
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Dave the Gaffer said:
I wouldn't call Ricky Gervais or Lee Evans "swearing a lot" comedy.
Also, whilst I have never been a fan of Benny Hill I would argue that the rest of your list of old comedy legends are all regarded in high esteem today. The likes of Morecambe and Wise and Peter Sellers are timeless comedy greats.
Benny Hill wasn't very funny to begin with, and is probably even less so as time goes on
Dave the OAP
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Icy Gull said:
possibly
Bluejuice
Ricky Gervaise, not swearing comedy - listen or watch the Politics DVD. Its pure filth
I remember on HIGNFY, Ian Hislop having a right go at one of the so called "alternative" comedians when he ( It was the Palace fan bloke) ran out of funny things to say and just started saying the worst swearword he could to try and make the audience laugh. Hislop regarded swearing as the last bastion of unfunny comedians.
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