Did anyone catch the Benny Hill marathon on BBC America this past weekend? It's been years since I've seen them, but watching the episodes again, they were just as funny as the first time. I love Benny Hill. And the songs and poems he comes up with; he's a very clever storyteller in addition to all the T&A jokes.

NO:mad:, I wasn't able to see it because I don't get the BBC America channel!! But I knew it was on!! When I found out about the marathon, I was like Lucy Ricardo and went WAAH!! I absolutely love Benny!! I've been watching him for years. My sister got me the best of Benny Hill and I watch it all the time, I never get tired of him. I've been wanting to get Benny Hill--the Early Years but each DVD costs $49.95 each. Maybe when I get my tax refund.

When I went to London a couple years ago, we drove by where Benny used to live and some people in my tour group had really never heard of him!! I can't believe that!! They need to get out more!! I mean I know he was British humor but I thought he was one of those who became well known in the US, too.

Funny stuff. I caught the marathon. Forgive me to say this but I became obsessed with the brunette French girl that was part of Hill's Angels. What is her name? :)

Benny Hill was the best!

Did anyone catch the Benny Hill marathon on BBC America this past weekend? It's been years since I've seen them, but watching the episodes again, they were just as funny as the first time. I love Benny Hill. And the songs and poems he comes up with; he's a very clever storyteller in addition to all the T&A jokes.

Did you the feminists had his show cancelled in England? Even the reruns are not allowed to be aired on British TV. :o

Isnt that a nice thought..... Benny Hill will never be shown on UK TV ever again.... GREAT....Fantastic......WONDERFUL..... You Americans can keep him as he is not a good example of British Comedy and is much more suited to American Audiences as they will appreciate his terrible ????Comedy????? preformances (Can I say Comedy??? , i know I cant say acting .... ) along with all of those other so called Comedy shows that America produces.
PLEASE KEEP BENNY HILL IN AMERICA WHERE HE BELONGS
Mark....
Someone who cant stand Benny Hill and American ???Comedy????

Isnt that a nice thought..... Benny Hill will never be shown on UK TV ever again.... GREAT....Fantastic......WONDERFUL..... You Americans can keep him as he is not a good example of British Comedy and is much more suited to American Audiences as they will appreciate his terrible ????Comedy????? preformances (Can I say Comedy??? , i know I cant say acting .... ) along with all of those other so called Comedy shows that America produces.
PLEASE KEEP BENNY HILL IN AMERICA WHERE HE BELONGS
Mark....
Someone who cant stand Benny Hill and American ???Comedy????


Please keep your threadcraps to yourself. If you don't like him, be glad you can't watch him. Don't waste time bitching about it.

So you can praise someone and I cant make critical remarks, what happened to that famous quote 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' .If you cant take flak then dont post such Threads Generally i dont make negative remarks on other peoples opinions , but be serious.... Benny hill was moronically CRAP so dont praise him so much , if you praise him the i will critise , he was terrible and not even a little bit funny. Maybe to Americans hes funny but what can I say
Mark

So you can praise someone and I cant make critical remarks, what happened to that famous quote 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' .If you cant take flak then dont post such Threads Generally i dont make negative remarks on other peoples opinions , but be serious.... Benny hill was moronically CRAP so dont praise him so much , if you praise him the i will critise , he was terrible and not even a little bit funny. Maybe to Americans hes funny but what can I say
Mark

Every post in this thread before yours has been positive towards Benny Hill, so there are obviously fans here. You should be bright enough to realize with your comments that you're fanning flames, not just among Hill fans but American comedy fans as well. That's not what the thread was intended for. You don't like him, start your own thread and discuss how much you dislike him until your hearts content. Let's see if you can "take flak."

So you can praise someone and I cant make critical remarks, what happened to that famous quote 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' .If you cant take flak then dont post such Threads Generally i dont make negative remarks on other peoples opinions , but be serious.... Benny hill was moronically CRAP so dont praise him so much , if you praise him the i will critise , he was terrible and not even a little bit funny. Maybe to Americans hes funny but what can I say
Mark
Well I understand Freedom of Speech, but the fact is I know there must be certain opinions of yours that I don't agree with- as well as a lot of people's, yet I don't go searching around the boards looking to contradict you or them, to make sure my emphatic declaration is known to all. Do you feel the need to be validated?

I could spend all day on the Full House board voicing what is legitmate gripes about that show, but I don't.

Show some restraint and let people enjoy what they enjoy.

Hi,
Vashti1999 if you state an opinion publically, be prepared to take flak , its a bit naieve to expect everyone or all who post here to agree with you, especialy after you make such strong opinions of love for a crap show like Benny Hill.
diemond , your points are very true except for the last one that advises restraint on letting people enjoy what they enjoy. Im am in no way able to influence peoples taste in comedy and what they enjoy, thats up to the individual , BUT this is a public board where people express thier points of veiw.
If someone who makes comments like 'I love Benny Hill' and 'Isnt he a great story teller' .... It begs for negative remarks, if you have them . In the richness and depth of 'Human Intellect' it is good and necessary to have both forms of opinion and not just a one sided one
Mark

When I went to London a couple years ago, we drove by where Benny used to live and some people in my tour group had really never heard of him!! I can't believe that!! They need to get out more!! I mean I know he was British humor but I thought he was one of those who became well known in the US, too.
Even the reruns are not allowed to be aired on British TV. :o
I have noticed that in Britain, beginning with the cancellation of his show in 1989 but accelerating after his death in 1992, there's been a massive, coordinated, concerted effort to erase his name, memory and legacy from the public consciousness (read: out of sight = out of mind) in a manner reminiscent of the airbrushing out of existence of political opponents in Soviet Russia during Stalin's murderous reign. This cabal believes that because of the last ten years' worth of shows, that all but nullifies the accomplishments of his career beforehand, therefore he's unworthy of any legacy whatsoever. Which reminds me, also, of the belief among the so-called "Hollywood left" that because director Elia Kazan "named names" to HUAC in 1952, that somehow disqualified him from being considered for a lifetime achievement award as he was given a few years ago.

It also sickens me how certain groups find Mr. Hill "offensive" but say nothing about the things that, say, Monty Python got away with. Probably because Python's particular brand of "offensiveness" is of the type those hypocrites approve of and/or agree with?

Funny stuff. I caught the marathon. Forgive me to say this but I became obsessed with the brunette French girl that was part of Hill's Angels. What is her name? :)
I don't know about the French part, but there was a brunette (with brown eyes) who occasionally sang French songs, named Louise English who was on the show from 1978 to '86. May that be who you're enquiring about?

Now on a similar tangent: One thing about A&E's Complete & Unadulterated sets is that the shows on them have enabled me to pinpoint with razor-sharp accuracy when certain sketches, quickies et al., originated. And though I appreciate BBC America's airing the show (if anyone has noticed, they took two half-hour syndicated episodes and "melded" them into one "hour-long" show), certainly for the sake of those who haven't gotten any of the Hill DVD's, I'm now more inclined to pop in any of the DVD's currently in my collection (31 episodes in all as of this date) if I were in the mood to watch Mr. Hill. I have noticed that in terms of fan-favorite sketches, many have preferred the 1975-77 period to all else. I think the show was up to snuff right until '77, but the real "jump the shark" moment came in '79 when the T&A started to be ratcheted up - often at the expense and to the detriment of the comedy, alas, alack. Many British fans (those that are left) think his BBC shows up to 1968 were his best, creatively and otherwise, and give a nod to his pre-'77 works.

Funny stuff. I caught the marathon. Forgive me to say this but I became obsessed with the brunette French girl that was part of Hill's Angels. What is her name? :)

Louise English. Is that whom your refering too?

Benny Hill definitely belongs in the Top Ten of the funniest men ever.

Now it appears that BBC America has caved in to the very "mean-faced, clipped-haired" crowd whose counterparts in Britain had whipped up anti-Benny Hill hatred two decades ago. Click here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NUOXEQ05MAXJXQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/04/05/ntv05.xml) for details.

It should be noted to all that public opinion didn't turn against Benny in Britain in the 1980's. It had been turned against him by a then decade-long campaign of "Big Lie" personal destruction, a template of what has been standard operating procedure in American politics since Bill Clinton's presidency in the '90's; and mushroomed into a campaign to wipe his name and memory out of the public consciousness, similar to Stalin's purges in the old Soviet Union.

I didn't know they were trying to erase Benny Hill's memory. That just sounds awful. My mother used to watch his show back in the day, when it was on Swedish television, and I even have some clips left on an old tape from back when I was a toddler in the mid-80s. I even watched a little bit of it today, and yeah, that man was funny. And I actually remember hearing about his death on the radio in a taxi car, that was taking me home from school. I was seven or eight years old then.

Benny Hill, Monty Python, and The Young Ones were three of my favorites and American comedy has yet to arrive at the same level of bawdy humor as these three even in the anything goes 90s the networks were always careful not to step on any toes.

Louise English. Is that whom your refering too?

Speaking of Louise English (yes, I had/still do have a crush on her), she's the daughter of Arthur English, who played Mr. Harman on "Are You Being Served?".

/second reply, after just finding the site tonight... Hello all! :wave:

Speaking of Louise English (yes, I had/still do have a crush on her), she's the daughter of Arthur English, who played Mr. Harman on "Are You Being Served?".

/second reply, after just finding the site tonight... Hello all! :wave:
Actually, they're not related (though the AYBS actor had a daughter named Clare Louise, this isn't the same as the TBHS alum). None of the articles, web references et al. about Ms. English even remotely suggest this - nor do any bios of Benny (including Mark Lewisohn's Funny, Peculiar book). However, she is the daughter of a former dancer, Elizabeth (Liz) English, who'd worked with Mr. Hill way back when in summer stock in Britain in the early '50's.

Actually, they're not related (though the AYBS actor had a daughter named Clare Louise, this isn't the same as the TBHS alum). None of the articles, web references et al. about Ms. English even remotely suggest this - nor do any bios of Benny (including Mark Lewisohn's Funny, Peculiar book). However, she is the daughter of a former dancer, Elizabeth (Liz) English, who'd worked with Mr. Hill way back when in summer stock in Britain in the early '50's.

I heard it on an A & E network biography on Benny Hill a few years back.

I'll have to check it, but if they suggested she was related in any way to Arthur English, they probably got their facts mixed up, a la some Wikipedia entries.

Anyone who doesn't like Benny Hill should get a Benny Hill....slap....slap....slap....slap.....slap............:lol:

Big fan since "The Italian Job" (1969).

Anyone who doesn't like Benny Hill should get a Benny Hill....slap....slap....slap....slap.....slap............:lol:

I remember Jake Wright being on the end of the ''Slap'':lol:

Aitch,

Benny Hill was one of the greatest comedians from the UK!!!