Benny Hill/Kenny Everett.

[kiwi]

Watching television is like taking black spare paint and covering you imagination in paint. Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssss - until you are no longer able to see clearly.

My thoughts-

That little box in the corner of your room is responsible for more brain washing than anything else, ever.

I never watch TV.

I have one, but I use it only to watch DVDs - I have no connection for terrestrial nor Satellite nor cable TV.

Kiwi

[Foxbark]

The reason I stll love Benny Hill is that he was simply a dirty old man - and completely unashamed of it.

Originally Posted by Greenman

Not cunning, Cupid Stunt.
I was unashamedly a fan of both Kenny & Benny for the same reason-the girls(Hill's Angels & Cleo Rocas, Debbie Linden, Corinne Russell etc respectively) Not all Dads liked them including mine, but the funniest thing that Kenny ever did was grab hold of Terry Wogan's Blankety Blank long-stem microphone and bend it! Benny's stuff was sort of a mix of schoolboy humour and old man lechery(this got him into trouble with the interferring PC brigade-the worst thing he did was to feature the little blonde babe from Hot Gossip dressed as a provocative schoolgirl) but he angered a lot of women's groups and Mary interferring busybody Whitehouse by having scantily-clad women in stockings and suspenders prancing and dancing about-although this was more down to Arlene Phillips-one time member/choreographer of Pan's People(Top of the Pops)

In the end I was grateful to Kenny and Benny for all that but Benny was badly treated by the company he helped to make popular(Thames Television) and he was stabbed in the back-no wonder he took his own life. Kenny died of an AIDS-related illness and was a trouper to the end. Both sorely missed. The one sketch or speeded up film I didn't find funny of Benny Hill was making a pregnant woman fetch and carry for him-I think that was rather tasteless.

[Greenman]

Originally Posted by kiwi

Watching television is like taking black spare paint and covering you imagination in paint. Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssss - until you are no longer able to see clearly.

My thoughts-

That little box in the corner of your room is responsible for more brain washing than anything else, ever.

I never watch TV.

I have one, but I use it only to watch DVDs - I have no connection for terrestrial nor Satellite nor cable TV.

Kiwi

Its not a box anymore mate its a screen and I disagree there are some marvellous programmes, quizzes and speciality programmes-no one has to watch soaps or other drivel, it is the choice of the viewer(imagine being in somewhere like North Korea where you have to watch or do what you are told!) Mind you with the satellite channels I find there is sod all to watch these days but I like the nostalgia stuff when tv was better. There is of course radio as well but try the BBC iplayer for stuff to watch/listen to its the best thing on the Net. I;ve watched tv for years and I can still think for myself, not brainwashed yet-adverts, now they can brainwash you(have you considered new biological RAZZ in your washing? )

[Greenman]

Yes indeed he did have a heart attack thank you to those of you that pointed that out to me.

[HBT731]

I used to watch Benny Hill with my Dad when I was a young teen. It came on after the nightly news at 10 on a cable station from Nashville, TN. Mom hated it and would go to bed and leave us up to watch...lol.

[MaxJoker]

Both were great performers true, but for me you can`t really compare the two as Sir Benny was and will forever remain the Governor of British entertainment comedy.Not only because of his variety and talent of breathing fresh life into old stalwarts , but that the man was just so damn likeable with that twinkle in his eyes, cheekiness of face and childlike manner which continued throughout his stellar career and defied his age.Also the man was a genius (Just thought i`d remind everyone) who knew he couldn`t please everybody so performed what made him laugh whether some of his sketches were a bit hit and miss or not. Plus for another thing he didn`t just break into America he busted it wide open, something the vast majority of British comedians have never done to this day.ITV was born from his sweat and did he ask for rise after rise ? , hell no. But they eventually shoved him aside without even a lunch meeting let alone a swansong

Still unlike most of us the great man will forever live on through his works , and here`s three to help jog that memory


Date insults
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFWimi1LHo

Masterbrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrhB...next=1&index=4

Cinema Vintage Years: Passengers Of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71hf...eature=related

[Deano!]

I thought Spike Milligan and Monty Python were funnier, but the thing I miss about Benny and Kenny is that they were there to give the audience a good time. Many of today's performers seem to be primarily out to show off and demand applause. Its a subtle difference and I guess its a sign of the times.

And of course, being a teenager of the 70's meant I loved 'Hill's Angles'. They started out as 'Love Machine' originally and were probably raunchier at first. That long-haired girl with Asian features used to send me mad.

[DEATHMAN]

Benny and Kenny were the kings of comedy. When I think back to the comedy that was being shown in the 70s, I realise most if not all would never get made in a PC world ( no pun meant). Comedy like Till Death Us Do Part, and the mildly funny Love Thy Neighbour, no way would they get made today, more the pity when you think of the rubbish that passes as comedy today.

[Mad Koala Bear]

Lots of things dont get made anymore. Tastes change, we move on. It can be hard to get over the loss of our favourites from years ago, but if all we had was 30 years old then we would stagnate, socially, culturally, and politically.

[mishmash]

Originally Posted by Greenman

this was more down to Arlene Phillips-one time member/choreographer of Pan's People(Top of the Pops)

Arlene was strictly Hot Gossip and had no part in Pans People,Flick Colby was their choreographer and one time dancer ten years before Kenny's show