I was just thinking about comedy, adult comedy, and he came to mind. I'm not British but I can understand the shows. Call it dry humor, call it what ever you want. I just call it good humor..with a little risque fun thrown in in it!
Dragon
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Big fan of Benny Hill -he wrote the theme music to his show & he was a very funny man (though apparently depressed in real life).
"What's that in the road, a head?"
"CUT..No, no, no, it's what's that in the road ahead?"
Skipper1974
Humorous, YES! DRY...NEVER!!!!
Mostly slap stick comedy. I remember the first time I saw a naked woman (Waist up) on television. It was the Benny Hill Show!!!
What an awesomely funny show!
that short bald guy was a riot!!!!!!!!!! then the chase scene at the end of every episode! OMG...comedy lost a Comedy Genious when Benny Hill died!
spyblitz
He's the best comic that came out of the UK since Charlie Chaplin
Died in 1974. His show was the Benny Hill Show. Great Humor.
Anonymous
Sure. There were three British Superstars of comedy at that time period.
Benny Hill, The Goodies and of course, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
sassy
I thought he was funny! Until the last shows.. they seemed to lack the luster.
The Benny Hill Show - First Show 1969 - Last Show 1989.
PERFORMERS - Benny Hill - Henry McGee - Bob Todd - Jackie Wright - Nicholas Parsons
Although all his material was original, Hill nevertheless owed a comic debt to U.S. entertainer, Red Skelton. Like Skelton, Hill worked in broad strokes and sometimes in pantomime with a series of recurring comic personae. Hill even adopted Skelton's departing line from the latter's 1951-71 network program: "Good night, God bless." However, Hill was without Skelton's often maudlin sentimentality, substituting instead a ribald energy and gusto.
Off-screen, Hill lived a bizarre life. He found it difficult to relate to women - proposing marriage to virtual strangers - and money.
Even at his death, when he was worth around £10million, he lived in a tiny suburban house. Unbanked cheques lay in his drawers, and he would live on tins of unlabeled food sold of cheap by the local supermarket.
It also tells of Hill's eccentric lifestyle: his awkwardness around women, his penny-pinching ways and his addiction to casual sex. When Hill died at Easter 1992, drawers in his Teddington home were found stuffed with uncashed cheques and discarded comedy awards.