Benny Hill - Hero or Villain ?

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Following on from the Mary Whitehouse programme - Filth - broadcast on BBC earlier this week, please find below some sketches from a man who fell victim to character assassination techniques employed by the Clean Up TV (now) MediaWatch group.







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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

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Benny Hill, a cool guy with a very special humor

Liked him

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Hero, of course

A very special guy Loved his shows

rolfw

Very good in his time, always watched the shows.

Also had a huge following on US tv, I believe that they are still being shown.

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As does a lot of Europe still, on a daily basis

Time Channel Title
31/05 13:00 AB4 Benny hill
31/05 19:35 AB4 Benny hill
31/05 19:35 RTL 9 Benny Hill
31/05 19:45 VTM Sketch Up:
31/05 20:05 AB4 Benny hill
31/05 20:15 RTL 9 Benny Hill
01/06 16:40 AB4 Benny hill
01/06 19:35 AB4 Benny hill
01/06 19:35 RTL 9 Benny Hill
01/06 19:40 VTM Sketch Up:
01/06 20:05 AB4 Benny hill
01/06 20:10 RTL 9 Benny Hill
02/06 21:55 AB4 Benny hill
03/06 15:55 RTL 9 Benny Hill
03/06 21:40 AB4 Benny hill
04/06 15:40 RTL 9 Benny Hill
06/06 15:40 RTL 9 Benny Hill
06/06 22:00 AB4 Benny hill

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

PaulR

A clever and funny man early in his career but later on he just went for lazy semi-smut and ended up as just plain unfunny.

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PaulR

As I get older I find myself thinking about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.

slugworth

Hero,but his best stuff was from the 1970's and early 1980's.
Since a lot of his material was pantomime,he was even popular
in non-english speaking countries.

supapete

Morecambe and Wise got away with inuendo. Benny Hill got away with murder. Hero or Villain ? Ask the girls who were subject to his "interviewing" techniques and his "continuous assessment" as to whether or not they stayed in the show. I didn't find him particularly amusing, certainly not groundbreaking. So it's "villain", I guess for me.

2cvbloke

I'll let you know once I dig out all the Betamax tapes I have with his ITV shows on them, but from what I've seen, some stuff's ok and funny, others are just him being an old perve...

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PaulR

You'll have to go back further than that to find any of his funny work IMHO.

At least the early seventies or even the sixties...

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PaulR

As I get older I find myself thinking about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.

2cvbloke

In one of his sketches he referred to the BT tower as the Post Office tower, dunno when it was renamed but I guess that was an 80's one...

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pgh13

I'd agree. I seem to remember (that far back?) in the sixites he used to produce only a few shows a year. Also, I don't suppose at that time he would have got away with the girlie stuff that later came to be the 'signature' of his shows. Still, what you find hilarious as a 10 year old doesn't always stand the test of time

T_G

My 11 year old boy disagrees with you on that one

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I only believe stuff that comes straight from Mr. Horses mouth

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