Benny Hill - Comic genius or complete prat?

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Most of his work was puerile, sexist adn racist yet he was obviously a comic genius.

Thisthe man who came up with:

Never assume

because it makes an ASS out of U and ME

Pity it went in the wrong direction.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Neither probably. For me a run of the mill 70's comedian.

 

[bhaexpress]

To be fair, most people were asking that back in the 70s as well...

But I take your point about the rest. We were easily pleased in those days - remember when Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game followed by Mike Yarwood and his hilarious 'silly billy' impression of Denis Healey was considered a top night in on a Saturday?

Sadly yes

 

[bhaexpress]

Most of his work was puerile, sexist adn racist yet he was obviously a comic genius.

Thisthe man who came up with:

Never assume

because it makes an ASS out of U and ME

Pity it went in the wrong direction.

Very different times and as far as being any sort of 'ist' he was in a different league completely to the likes of 'Till death do us part' and so on. Not that funny though, Sun reader stuff.

 

[BLOCK F]

To be fair, most people were asking that back in the 70s as well...

But I take your point about the rest. We were easily pleased in those days - remember when Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game followed by Mike Yarwood and his hilarious 'silly billy' impression of Denis Healey was considered a top night in on a Saturday?

Saturday night telly is still shite....possibly worse than above,'cos at least Mike Yarwood was talented!

 

[Trufflehound]

Saturday night telly is still shite....possibly worse than above,'cos at least Mike Yarwood was talented!

But the difference is these days it's shite because the programme planners know no one's staying in to watch.

The Generation Game, Mike Yarwood etc used to get 25 million viewers on a regular basis - half the blooming country.

 

[The Large One]

The only mildly amusing line I ever remember from Benny Hill was when he was dressed up someone brought in at the last moment to read the news...

"A spokesman said 'it doesn't matter whether you're laboratory'...
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... sorry, Labour or Tory..."

 

[BLOCK F]

But the difference is these days it's shite because the programme planners know no one's staying in to watch.

The Generation Game, Mike Yarwood etc used to get 25 million viewers on a regular basis - half the blooming country.

I would suggest that a lot of people stay in on a Saturday night.Not everyone is out partying.
The question is....are they not watching telly because it is shite or are they doing something else at home anyway,regardless of whether the telly is shite or not?
Reckon a lot of DVD's get rented out on a Saturday night because of crap telly!
Me,I usually drink far too much wine and eventually stagger upstairs!

 

[The Large One]

Saturday night telly makes you want to go out and do... something. Anything.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Slapping little old men around the head, half naked women, etc, etc.

f*** it, still funny in a 12-year-old sort of way.

 

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[bhaexpress]

But the difference is these days it's shite because the programme planners know no one's staying in to watch.

The Generation Game, Mike Yarwood etc used to get 25 million viewers on a regular basis - half the blooming country.

Yes but we had only three channels and no internet back then, no videos or DVDs either.