Benny Hill C/D?

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Hilarious or deplorable?

― Dolly Bird, Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

Neither, just fucking dull. He's chasing some women and it's sped-up a bit; what the fuck is funny about that? And that "Ernie" song blows too.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

one of the UK's most successful and popular comedy exports ever natch

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

And Snoop Dogg's comedy mentor. That would explain a few things.

― pete s, Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

Benny Hill was a strange man - has anyone read that recent bio of him by the guy who's also done bios of Python and the Beatles (Roger Wilmut, IIRC)? I read an article which excerpted bits from it and it revealed he was quite a sad, pathetic sort of bloke.

Main thing that comes to mind from that article is the anecdote about how badly he went down in front of stage audiences before he got his big TV break - he was once singing a song that went "A, I'm simply amazing, B, I'm beautiful" and an audience member interrupted him by going "C, you're a cunt" and throwing his pint over him.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently in real life he liked to be fussed over by two women at once.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

dull dull dull

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

his shows had some pretty interesting sight gags.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

and his slapping that old guy on the head = CLASSIX.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

The Benny Hill Show was a pre-emptive metaphor for ILX - Hill is the (ex)moderators, the scantily clad nurses are c-man, Momus is the slaphead obv.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

so the mods lust after the posters?

― arf, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

no they just chase them with intent to administer a jolly good spanking.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

A classic but total dud once the singing commenced. I never understood a word after that.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

'Naughty Samuel peeps!'

There was a whole song based around this punning conceit. That's all i can remember, really.

― pete s, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

ha!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

ha!

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

I finish watching The Manchurian Candidate for the first time (good film but at this distance its paranoid weirdness sometimes doesn't work) and one of the first things I see is a link to a thread where I said "Dan I lick your frosting." So much is clear. I am off to play solitaire.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

watch it again. it takes abt 5 viewing b4 you see everything

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'm thinking that would be the case, yes. Anyway, more ruminations on the revived Manchurian Candidate thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

Ned, where is this bizarro universe you inhabit and can we send you puppies and croutons?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

Sure. Mind you, it's a bit hard to crawl inside my skull if you want to come visit...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

REVOL

― bump, Saturday, 24 January 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

his humor always seemed like some caricature of a ghost of silent movie slapstick, like the result of misremembering bad 8mm prints of harold lloyd sped up to incoherence.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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