The Scene That Took the Benny Hill Show off the Air for Good
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- The Scene That Took the Benny Hill Show off the Air for Good
For decades, the Benny Hill Show was a staple of television comedy, renowned for its fast paced slapstick and cheeky humor. Hill's iconic persona and the show's signature laugh track were a global phenomenon. But behind the laughter, a darker undercurrent began to emerge. One particular sketch would irrevocably alter the show's path, igniting a firestorm of controversy that ultimately led to its demise. Let's delve into the infamous details that got the television comedy canceled.
An era of comedy that included the likes of Dame Edna that was a whole new level that comedians today can only dream of aspiring to. The brilliance and genius level of comedians like Benny Hill taught us to laugh and not take life seriously, unfortunately todays comedy is all about swearing, body functions, personal attacks and agendas called gutter comedy. Benny Hill will always be one of the best.
Benny Hill was a very funny actor and most enjoyable to watch!
This is the 12th scene that I’ve seen that took Benny off Air!
Just look at what is on TV these last few years - - much much worse : nudity, language, open sexual activity, degradation and immorality never seen before and yet no offenses, complaints by the pubblic - - PATHETIC Reaction for what was a cheeky banter--I'd like to hear what BEN ELTON has to say now about not only on BENNY but the sleazy, foul language of today's comedians
He had some beautiful girls on his show!
So! Ben Elton is right, and 21 million people are wrong!
The Benny Hill show was aguably THE funniest and least offensive show on TV and I never missed one. Ben Elton, on the other hand was NEVER in the least bit funny. Not even slightly. Hill was a total legend.
RIP MR FUNNYMAN. I live in Australia every Benny Hill show not only l but my parents and other siblings all laughed so hard to tears. Since Benny Hill has stopped such laughter, I've never experienced it again. To the jealous young one like Ben Elton, l say you destroyed other people happiness from what l heard Ben was a flop. RIP BENNY HILL.
Hill also had co-starring roles in the movies "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines".
I watched a Benny Hill show at the BP truckstop in Zaragosa, although in Spanish I couldn't stop laughing, along with several locals, what a showman.
Jenny Hill I remember, who was Ben Elton? Sour grapes spring to mind. Hill achieved more than Elton ever would.
Ben Elton was one of the least funny dipsticks ever to foist himself on the public.
It was obvious that he was very jealous of Benny Hill's success.
I always enjoyed his comedy.
Benny Hill is very funny. Ben Elton is not and sucks.
Hill was attacked by ben elton, the kumars guy and other p.c. younger socalled comedians to get him out of the way. Comedy hhas not been easy and free ever since.
Guy was a genius… loved watching it.. esp when he does the Americans… his mannerisms so precious… and he a bloody good reciter… of sleazy poems.. haha
Benny Hill was a genius!😃
His routines are still funny today!😁😁😆
And of course, Hills Angeles were awesome sexy!🤪🤪🤪
Quote: We Live In A Time Where Intelligent People Are Being Silenced So Stupid People Won't Be Offended....
Used to watch his shows on VHS, growing up with his shows, endless laughter. I bet Ben Elton thought if Benny is out he could get a gig on TV, jealousy!
My friends thought outdated and offensive was what we loved. It poked it finger in propriety. Loved it! True liberals would not have had such thin skin. It's a joke.
I remember being a teenager in the 70s staying up late to watch the Benny Hill Show. I liked the scenes with women in their lingerie.
Hill got kicked off the air thanks to politically correct horsehockey!
A very unique and much treasured talent.
For some reason Benny Hill was very popular in Europe especially in France. My french girlfriend's mother found him hilarious.
Ben Elton's 'alternative comedy' = the alternative to comedy, not funny, that's why he got upset by actually funny comedy. My preferences were Monty Python, Steptoe, Fawlty Towers, Open all hours & various others - don't remember them whining about Benny Hill...
Loved it .
Benny Hill is my favorite comedian next to Johnny Carson.
He was great!😢
Wokeness destroyed it. That and a bunch of other great shows.
Love the yakatysax.
The women all agreed to come in it, no one made them,
Bless you Benny x
so bottom line.....Ben Elton ruins everything
Ben Elton was and is a nobody in the comedy scale of things compared to Benny Hill, and his jealousy was why he attacked Benny Hill and the show. This whole video is rubbish, there were no scenes, jokes or humour that caused the shows demise, it was an agreement that Benny Hill himself instigated as he was getting tired and humour was changing in a way he was not geared to!
He was a comedy genius
One of Hills angel's ended up being in Frazer.
Ben elton is about as funny as texas chainsaw massacre.Benny hill was hilarious,the times when comedy was just that .... COMEDY 😂😂😂
35 years since his cancelation...and i still have one episode burned in to my mind. I admit he exuded British humor to the max and I feel certain it offended many folks. But-at least for that one episode-I found myself laughing in hysterics. I'm sure his many fans would identify this episode. I just call it the wishing well scene. Honestly, it shared comedy, satire and basic British cynicism. Ok, so the idea of perversion did affect me and I ended up wiping it off my list of things to be entertained by. But all his cast were very talented...
Brilliant comedian
Benny Hill's cousin was Holly Valance's grandfather!
His edgy material was magic but would be seen differently now. Unique. RIP. Elton was funny but arrogant.
He disliked Thames television enormously as he felt they had stabbed him in the back he told me while I was driving him from teddington to bexleyheath to visit his aunt who lived there, one thing that sticks in my mind is dropping him off at Tesco's in bexleyheath and watching him wheeler trolley around to pick up some bits and pieces for his aunt rest in peace Benny
Ben Elton was only like that because he wasn't funny and was loose tv spots to bennyhill and that was the only way Elton could get tv time spot because he was jealous and frustrated because benny Hill was getting all the great time slots and Elton was only getting late late time spots as euro trash and the goodies where beating him to it in comedy and Elton was looseing audience amounts were at the all time lows attacking sir benny hill was the only way he had to knock him of the top spots the only way possible shamefull attempt to win
I always thought that Benny Hill was a bit odd,and about as funny or entertaining as being slapped around the face with a wet kipper, but everyone that knew him says he was really nice, great to work with, and he was very well liked. 🎉
It died of old age. Ratings falling and high production cost.That is all.
The beging of the end !
The early woke people cancelled the show.
He was funny risque and the sketches were clever .. now its 'inappropriate' because of BIG SISTERING
His mistake was Americans
Ben Elton had very little if any talent - a dull man! Benny was loaded with talent and gave us decades of laughs. Unfortunately, times changed and the moral code changed - probably Benny was out of date. But look at the people who thrived - Jimmy Saville etc. where was the moral standard?
Ben Elton was a new breed of comedian who blew a lot of tired old programmes off the air. Something that annoyed the establishment was his left wing direction and his challenging material and big attraction to a younger audience. He contributed to Blackadder and authored several funny books.. and yes I was a big Benny Hill fan too. I've seen a couple of documentaries where one of his female cast claimed to look after his comforts !
Hackney Empire as well was doing comedy.
I liked Benny Hills brand of comedy unlike his weak kneed detractors.
Ben Elton got on TV.
I think he came from comedy store in London.
He denies performing there.
Where did he practice.
To see if it was funny
He made Thames over 100 million pounds and he never left, he was fired by a bitter Monty Python producer John Howard Davies who pretended to leave the BBC as a freelance but was in fact on a mission to destroy the competition from within and he did destroy Thames firing 300 staff and making deliberately terrible programs like Andy Capp sending viewers to the BBC and then he went back to the BBC not so freelance after all.
I enjoyed a few of his sketches, and Bennys personas, but much of it was tedious titillation, that became outdated.
benny hill was very funny... never liked ben elton he was not funny
they all get it wrong bennt hill was chased by the women not the other way round
Ben Elton was never funny!
Never liked h ome creepy man
I really never liked Benny Hill I always found him a bit sleazy. I preferred people like Les Dawson and Norman Wisdom, much funnier and without the smut
Comedy is of course subjective but personally I never found him funny at all.
Never thought it funny. Cheap tricks
he was never funny, he was pathetic and elton was not far off the mark.
@alejandrayalanbowman367. Humour doesn’t always travel well. It’ll never reach the pompous.
That Ben Elton snot was just a jealous prat. Given the chance, HE would have done exactly the same thing as Benny.
SO FUNNY IN SHOWBUSINESS AND SO SAD IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE