When I was a kid we had 7 TV stations to watch on our antenna TVs. Channels 3, 6, and 10 were NBC, ABC, and CBS. Our UHF stations were 17, 29, and 48. Channel 12 was PBS. It was PBS that carried the risque shows during that time. The British guy below was the talk of grade school and parents tried to keep their kids from watching his slapstick humor, sprinkled with hot scantily clad babes. It was probably funnier than 99% of the crap they put on today. Do you remember him?
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Benny Hill.
Benny Hill
Oh man, I loved Benny Hill!
Absolute classic.
Earworm for the day will be the music that played while he chased women around the park.
It was named Yakety Sax.
Theme song and the famous chase scene at the end of the episode.
My nurse is coming round for my therapy later this morn, and she looks just like that.
I sure remember Hill’s Angels.
Head slapping fun:
Benny Hill & the women had real breasts.
Reruns were on “air” tv recently for a while. I always liked Monty Python’s flying circus better.
“…And now for something completely different!”
Those were the two shows I watched most on PBS.
They wouldn’t go near that type of programing now.
Ah, the cultural subversion of yesteryear, slowly eroding cultural values, guiding us towards the shit show we have today.
I take it you prefer Gumby?
This is true. He was a smutty bastard. Much as I loved to watch his show, in retrospect I realize he was part of the slippery slope leading us to where we are now.
Maybe the Puritans had it right. Can’t fault them for burning the odd witch.
meh, if it wasn’t for drag or allusions to gay shit, I can’t think of many slipperslopes.
Almost enough to make us wonder what it was our parents really were doing in their bedroom.
I have yet to find the 1% you speak of.
Loved watching Benny Hill.
(Cue kazoo music…)
Benny Hill.
Today he would be banned and fined in Britain for being sekcyst and rayssiss by the Tories and Labour and everyone else.
Enoch Powell was right.
I don’t remember many of the details but, I do remember reading that Benny Hill was very, very frugal.
I found this article detailing this on the Daily Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6961481/The-sad-life-Benny-Hill-comedian-lonely-depressed-scared-spending-money.html
I think Daily Mail projected “sadness” onto him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill
All the British are cheapskates. Even the Queen was known to be a miser.
Oh yes I do. I even remember seeing the first pair of titties on TV because of his show.
Always better when they are a pair.
The harder question is the proper name of the musical theme popularly identified with Benny Hill.
Even harder is the recording artist of the track.
And hardest of all is the original composer.
Boots Randolph,
The song was called YaKity Sax. I think that I saw Ace Cannon play it on his album.
Correction: It was Yakety Sax and Boots Randolph did compose it. Spider Rich also was in on the composition. King Curtis was Randolph’s inspiration.
Guitarist Spider Rich did the original composition, which Boots then turned into the sax piece we all know and love, with inspiration from The Coasters recording of Yakety Yak ( Leiber and Stoller), with the sax solo played by King Curtis.
Benny is the most versatile funny-man ever!
I watched it on Channel 32 WFLD-TV after the 10 PM news before going to bed. My mom even sent me a condolence card when he died cause she knew I was such a big fan.
A few years ago, I downloaded every single episode ever of his.
As tame as his humor seems today, no way it ever sees the airwaves again because snowflakes could never handle it.
It took me awhile before I got his brand of humor, but this is the moment it clicked on for me, and I became a fan ever since.
I’ve noticed the version for American tv has a lot cut out of it.
He’d always pat the short guy on the head. Playingv Fred Scuttle, he was asked on a quiz show, “What is the more expensive therapy? Hormone or gene?”
Benny/Fred: “A pair of hormones is much more expensive than a pair of genes.”
wasnt that benny hill?
Loved watching this and the Red Green show with my dad. Great memories.
I was going to reply that to a comment above.
I think BH gave me the appreciation for dry humor that I found so funny on Red Green.
‘If the women don’t find you attractive…at least let them find you handy.”
Best advise ever.
You can watch the Red Green show free on Tubitv dot com. Watched a few episodes myself lately!
Benny Hill and Abbott & Costello. Sunday mornings on Channel 11 out of NYC.
The good ole’ days.
We must have grown up in the same area.
late nights on weekends on WKBD out of Detroit. Channel 50 UHF.
This channel and 3 men on it pretty much raised me. Mo, Larry, and Curly.
First channel to have Speed Racer and Simba.
Benny Hill was hilarious. And he had naked people on his show. It was the only place you could see naked people on tv.
Benny looks like a sneaky jew
Great stuff. Loved watching him. Wish more women had his troupe’s sense of humor. But, the best use of that music ever was when the fucking dimwits delivered the articles of impeachment:
Yakkety Sax.
Just a reminder of the most famous of “Hill’s Angels.”
Jane Leeves of Frasier fame:
Alfred Hawthorne “Benny” Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) and my favorite tune as his Show’s theme song: “Yakkity Sax”
Benny Hill was awesome. He was from a time when the British still had some pride and humor, unlike the politically correct dweebs they are now.
I remember watching Monty Python on UHF in Philly and seeing full frontal nudity…..BIG BUSH, LOL