Ot benny hill

[frogmiller]

Benny Hill a solid gold comic genius. He still has a cult following in Australia even after all the years since he passed.

Not just in Aus. The French love him!

[Ronners]

Classic light hearted Benny Hill.

https://youtu.be/DLU7ScidljM?si=xEaT06SHoahw7WLR

[howdydoo]

Even as a kid thought Benny Hill was a bit ****e. More a Dave Allen kind of child.

..... and Ben Elton, I bet .


Benny Hill? Never got it. Too creepy.

[ragingpup]

..... and Ben Elton, I bet .


Benny Hill? Never got it. Too creepy.

Thoought Ben was a great comedy writer with Blackadder and Filthy Rich and Catflap but never too keen on him as a comedian. Used to go and see Billy Connelly much more as young adult. Wife got me tickets to see Elton a couple of years ago doing stand up and I was surprised how good he was - uch more focused on wider human issues and general observation than simple politics, and it works better for him.

[Tigerish]

Totally crap. Ernie the milkman? Are you having a laugh? I wasn't

[mellowmiller]

Brin you’re right of course I guess what I meant to say is that now there is just nothing on tv that even remotely looks like comedy woke brigade, left wingers , adverts with black and white families with Chinese kids in them, we are brainwashed into what we watch, think and breath that s what I mean by we lost our sense of humour and sense too

Added to that it seems that people who claim to be offended by Benny Hill's type of comedy are apparently OK with the fact that a lot of current "comedians" are unable to put a joke together without including the "F" word.
What a crazy, mixed up society we live in.

[KerrAvon]

Was he 'cancelled' or did we just move on?

I can only speak for myself, but recall watching bits of him in the 1970s (usually because someone else in the house put him on) and finding him vaguely amusing at times. I was shocked when I googled him to find that his ITV show ran until 1989 ? I don?t think I was even aware of him by the 80s. I was getting my TV comedy from The Young Ones, Blackadder and Red Dwarf and eventually The Fast Show and stand up on the likes of Saturday/Friday Night live.

I don?t think there?s any conspiracy here. He had his day and the day moved on.

[KerrAvon]

Added to that it seems that people who claim to be offended by Benny Hill's type of comedy are apparently OK with the fact that a lot of current "comedians" are unable to put a joke together without including the "F" word.
What a crazy, mixed up society we live in.

This feels like a confected scenario to allow you to feel a sense of grievance or do you have examples of ‘people who claim to be offended by Benny Hill's type of comedy [but who]are apparently OK with the fact that a lot of current "comedians" are unable to put a joke together without including the "F" word’?

If you are correct, doesn't your point merely illustrate that people hold differing tastes when it comes to TV comedy?

In my view, the UK viewing audience simply lost the taste for Benny Hill - presumably because there are only so many times that you can watch a man chasing lingerie clad women round a park at double speed with a saxophone soundtrack and find it amusing.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Yep we lost the taste for Benny Hill and moved on to the superior humour of Rosie Jones et al

[Eternal Optimist]

And how could we forget Nish Kumar?