Monday, 20 October 2008
Pepamill hero # 8...Benny ill
Alfred Hawthorne Hill (21 January 1924 – 19 April 1992,better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show.....I was just gonna put clips up but tought...fuck that pepa this dude is a Don king.
In 1969, his show moved from the BBC to Thames Television, where Benny hill Show remained until cancellation in 1989, with an erratic schedule of one-hour specials.
Ben Elton denounced him as a "dirty old man, tearing the clothes off nubile girls", and other British alternative comedy performers in the 1980s followed, portraying themselves by contrast as "alternative", enlightened and socialist. The Independent newspaper opined the vendetta was "like watching an elderly uncle being kicked to death by young thugs". Since Elton achieved his own mainstream success with similar material he has been denounced in his turn as a "hypocrite" and "sell-out" and everyone knows just how funny ben elton is all those classic sketchs….like um like um…like none pompous prick.
A common criticism was that Hill played a dirty old man who chased women in public places, but his producer, 1979-89, Dennis Kirkland, said it was the women who chased Hill in anger for undressing them, all of which were done accidentally by some ridiculous means. An article on Saturday, 27 May 2006 in The Independent quoted Hill and Dennis Kirkland as saying they believed this misrepresentation demonstrated critics could not have watched his programmes. Cherri Gilham, who worked as a featured artist on the shows from 1972 -75, remembers the 'runoff's', as they were known, to alternate between chasing and being chased in a crocodile, which sometimes would change midway behind a tree coming out the other side with the chasers being chased. To quote his biographer Mark Lewisohn, "In Britain, Benny Hill is taboo . . . " His show is rarely repeated on terrestrial, satellite or cable TV, although it has recently been aired on the BBC America cable channel. An Australian channel, Seven Network showed some episodes as part of a "Great Comedy Classics" slot. This is a shame Hill brought up a nation on his slapstick postcard humor…instead he was outcast and left in bits….a true icon and Pepamill hero.
Benny Hill died on or about 19 April 1992, Easter weekend, alone in his flat at 7 Fairwater House, Twickenham Road, Teddington, South West London, at the age of 68. On 21 April, neighbours called the police, who then found Hill, deceased, sitting in his armchair in front of the television. On the day Hill died, a new contract arrived in the post from Central Independent Television.
Hill was too ill and gets props to this day still anyone who doesn’t find hill funny should go back to getting fondled by their dad and uncles.
Benny Hill Gold
Benny hill Bitch fall back Nerk
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