Benny Hill Music

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

The thing about Benny Hill was that he didn't shun anything that was bawdy or risky; he went right after it!     

Be that as is, the man was able to do it in a way that was done w\o any overtly dirty or nasty skits.   He did it in sight gags and innuendo in a way that, to me anyhow, defined him as the last of the giants in his field. 

Also, some of the songs he came up with were downright hysterical, even moreso when he would try to keep his composure when singing them. He was a true master of his craft, and sadly his likes will not be seen again. 

Benny Hill was strongly influenced by Music Hall entertainment, sort of the British Vaudeville, and his style of comedy reflected that. There's a lot of emphasis on song, dance, pantomime, slapstick, performing in drag, working with a straight man (usually Henry McGee), pretty girls in skimpy costumes, and a style of humour that was naughty without being dirty. I've heard the comparison made to pre-adolescent humour, where boys might giggle at talk of "naked ladies" and underpants, while maintaining a degree of innocence.

While I never actually knew that, I did suspect that Vaudeville was a big influence on Benny Hill. The song skits he did, and the "girls and garters" thing and the overall risque atmospehere were sort of a giveaway.  Of note is that Three Stooges also got their start in Vaudeville.

Benny Hill's problem was that as he got older, that sense of innocence was harder to maintain. People started to see him as a dirty old man. Social attitudes were, of course, changing, and his comedy was frequently labelled as sexist. And a new crop of young, "sophisticated" comedians tended to view his old-fashioned comedy with a certain amount of contempt. The irony is that Britain was turning against Benny Hill just as his worldwide TV audience was at its peak. The poor guy just didn't understand what was happening.

Agreed. I've heard a LOT of women complain about Benny Hill. One woman I knew at our local mall (where I helped her run an ornament kiosk every Christmas till about 3 years ago) was the chief plaintiff.

She often touted herself as being "very, very liberal" in her own words, yet whenever I mentioned Benny Hill, she resorted to namecalling, and the nicest (and cleanest) of her opinion was that Hill was  "a fat old pervert who loves to prey on women" and " an insult to common intelligence."   Go figure...

It's tragic. All Benny Hill had was his work. When he lost his TV show, he went downhill fast. It really did kill him.

All because the femi-Nazis and the British TV boards had a stick up their ass.  With the types of moral attitudes in Britian and mainland Europe today, Hill's entertainment is rather tame in the grand total of things..

[AndyC]

Preying on women. That's a good one. The truth is he acted like a father figure to Hill's Angels. He was very kind to them, and tried to help them move ahead in their careers. At least one of them became almost a surrogate daughter to him.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Preying on women. That's a good one. The truth is he acted like a father figure to Hill's Angels. He was very kind to them, and tried to help them move ahead in their careers. At least one of them became almost a surrogate daughter to him.

Well in the 3 year period I knew her, this woman was really trying to have her cake and eat it too: Another big winner with her was the time she told me that I had no right to speak on abortion because it's " a woman's body, and not a man's body" and all that.

She defended Clinton-Lewisnky as "Bill's business" and " a woman's right to do with her body as she pleases."

YET, when I mentioned porn and female actresses, she went ballistic: it was "degrading", it was "morally corrupt", and any woman who did it was "allowing herself to be degraded by men."

And when I reminded her of her earlier cant that it was "a woman's right to do with her body as she pleases," she went off on me and told me to "shut the f*@k up."

She was something else.

[Flick James]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

Did I say I was going to?  This was a personal experience with someone in my own life, not a personal political opinion. Don't start blubbing, alright? Geez...

[Mr. DS]

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[Flick James]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

Did I say I was going to?  This was a personal experience with someone in my own life, not a personal political opinion. Don't start blubbing, alright? Geez...

 

The writing was on the wall, bro.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

Did I say I was going to?  This was a personal experience with someone in my own life, not a personal political opinion. Don't start blubbing, alright? Geez...

The writing was on the wall, bro.

The "writing on the wall"?  That's the biggest excuse I've heard so far.

Flick, you're the only one who said anything about another political thread. Noone else.   I explained to you that it was a personal experience, not a political opinion. And if I offended you, I apologize, but you do not make the rules as to what I can and can't say.

That is up to the Mods and the Administrators. You are not the boss.

I am entitled to an opinion like anyone else, and this is, as I said, the relation of a personal experience with another person.

I offered no political opinion for or against any of the topics I mentioned as they occurred in the story, but I did question the nature of my friend's contradictory state.

I was asked to behave a while back, and I am, and have broken no rules here as far as I can tell.   So please drop it.

[Flick James]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

Did I say I was going to?  This was a personal experience with someone in my own life, not a personal political opinion. Don't start blubbing, alright? Geez...

The writing was on the wall, bro.

The "writing on the wall"?  That's the biggest excuse I've heard so far.

Flick, you're the only one who said anything about another political thread. Noone else.   I explained to you that it was a personal experience, not a political opinion. And if I offended you, I apologize, but you do not make the rules as to what I can and can't say.

That is up to the Mods and the Administrators. You are not the boss.

I am entitled to an opinion like anyone else, and this is, as I said, the relation of a personal experience with another person.

I offered no political opinion for or against any of the topics I mentioned as they occurred in the story, but I did question the nature of my friend's contradictory state.

I was asked to behave a while back, and I am, and have broken no rules here as far as I can tell.   So please drop it.

Goodness, Umaril. I think you're being very defensive. Perhaps I should have thrown in an emoticon or something, but I was joking around, and my follow-up post was also a joke.

You have a tendency to get very involved in socio/political debates, do you not? You are fairly known for it on this board. So, I was making a little joke about it.

I didn't think you were the sensitive type, Umaril, otherwise I wouldn't have poked fun at you, so I will refrain from now on.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Please, please, please, please, please...

Don't turn this into a political thread.

Did I say I was going to?  This was a personal experience with someone in my own life, not a personal political opinion. Don't start blubbing, alright? Geez...

The writing was on the wall, bro.

The "writing on the wall"?  That's the biggest excuse I've heard so far.

Flick, you're the only one who said anything about another political thread. Noone else.   I explained to you that it was a personal experience, not a political opinion. And if I offended you, I apologize, but you do not make the rules as to what I can and can't say.

That is up to the Mods and the Administrators. You are not the boss.

I am entitled to an opinion like anyone else, and this is, as I said, the relation of a personal experience with another person.

I offered no political opinion for or against any of the topics I mentioned as they occurred in the story, but I did question the nature of my friend's contradictory state.

I was asked to behave a while back, and I am, and have broken no rules here as far as I can tell.   So please drop it.

Goodness, Umaril. I think you're being very defensive. Perhaps I should have thrown in an emoticon or something, but I was joking around, and my follow-up post was also a joke.

You have a tendency to get very involved in socio/political debates, do you not? You are fairly known for it on this board. So, I was making a little joke about it.

I didn't think you were the sensitive type, Umaril, otherwise I wouldn't have poked fun at you, so I will refrain from now on.

No, it's OK man,not your fault.   I'm not feeling well today. I apologize.   For the last 4 days I've been finishing a 500 MG dose of Amoxicillin and a saline solution for a severe sinus infection. As per my allergies since childhood, this has been a recurring event for years now.

I kid you not, this is the honest truth. Part of my quick response is from feeling like sh*t the last few days.  It's not you.

The other half is because I thought I was being accused of something where nothing existed.  It's not your fault.  The evil Ayleid sorceror-king DID say he was going to try to be nicer in the Tamrielic New Year, so he should start here.  I'm sorry. 

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I said I was going to try to have a better outlook and attitude this year.

There again,  a change of heart would do me no good because, as Groucho once said, " I still have the same face".   

In fact, my face is probably the only thing that could scare Trevor's underpants whiter than Mr. Clean's slacks, lol     Peace y'all.

[Flick James]

Peace indeed. No worries. Let's just chalk that up to water under the bridge, shall we?

[InformationGeek]

And now since we all hugged and made up, let's get back on track:

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[Flick James]

And now since we all hugged and made up, let's get back on track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SAeSUHo_NY

I'm all for that. So I'm still trying to find out the name of piece that had the jazzed up Fur Elise riff in it.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Peace indeed. No worries. Let's just chalk that up to water under the bridge, shall we?

Indeed...it's alright with me.