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  The Biography Channel - Benny Hill Biography
Hill honed his comic technique in music hall’s across the country, as was the traditional route at the time, before turning his sights to a new technology, television.
Hill was a pioneer performer in television and in the 1950s he hosted a number of variety shows for the only television channel, the BBC.
Hill branched out into cinema in 1956, in the film ‘Who Done It?’ It was not a huge success, but Hill continued to perform in various films, such as the hit ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, throughout his career, although television remained his primary medium.
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 Hill, Benny
Benny Hill was born in Southampton in the south of England in 1924.
Hill saw army service in the later years of World War II and it was there that he began to perform as a comedian.
Hill's humour with its smut and double-entendres was never entirely acceptable to the moral standards of some and his sexism made him seem increasingly old-fashioned.
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 Benny Hill - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Benny Hill (born 1927, London) is a prominent British politician, famous for his revolutionary acts of Parliament including the 1942 Reformation of Wigs and Head Adornments Act, the 1946 Gay and Lesbian Slavery Act and the 1997 Free money for retired MPs Act.
Benny proved extremely popular in continental Europe, and to this day is adored in France.
Despite being born in 1927, Benny Hill managed to found Microsoft in 1882 by using a time machine, which was built using schematics designed by Microsoft.
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 The Benny Hill Show
However, what most audiences outside of the United Kingdom know as The Benny Hill Show, was in fact a compilation series of 111 half-hour episodes, composed of sketches and numbers drawn from his British ITV series produced over a 20 year period from 1969 to 1989, and syndicated on American television from 1979 onwards.
Hill's television career was launched in 1955 and his show ran, off and on, on the BBC until 1968 with a brief season with ATV in 1967.
Hill was adept at buffoons who on a slightly closer inspection turned out to be both sly and lecherous.
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 Benny Hill Ville - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Benny Hill Ville is one of the largest cities in France.
It was named after comedian, politician and pervert Benny Hill, who became a French icon during the 1980s, when he forced the entire nation to surrender (yet again) through his toilet humor.
Aside from being the home of the legendary Benny Hill Memorial statue, Benny Hill Ville is also the location of the annual Running of the Boobs festival, which sees topless, well-endowed women chased through the streets by Benny Hill look-a-likes and small perverted bald men.
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 The Benny Hill Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Benny Hill was a genius who could mix, reshape and twist the human language as well as be daring enough to invent the inflatable bra.
Benny Hill was one of the giants of comedy in the twentieth century.
Hill went out of his way when writing his scripts to make certain that the ladies on the show always retained their dignity and that he (or the other men) were always made the butt of the joke.
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 Benny Hill Summary
Hill was always criticized for his sexist obsessions, and his series in England was finally cancelled in 1989 because of complaints from the moral right and the politically correct left.
Benny Hill shows sold to over 140 countries around the world, and his audience could be counted in billions.
Benny worked compulsively and had only a few friends, although colleagues who knew him closely insist that he was never lonely, but content with his own company.
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 BBC - Comedy Guide - The Benny Hill Show
Hill's unusual twist was that rather than him chasing them, the girls chased him, and every programme ended with an extended, speeded-up sequence - set to corny but unforgettable music - in which the posse became longer and longer.
A selection of the best Thames TV sketches from 1969 to 1973 was released as a theatrically distributed movie, The Best Of Benny Hill, in 1974 (director/producer John Robins), and people paid in their droves to see it on the big screen.
That it did, and that Americans embraced Hill in such an all-encompassing fashion, owes much to his skill as a mime artist - many of his best sketches were without dialogue - and also to the shock factor generated by the more risqué material at a time when, generally, US TV was much more tame.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/b/bennyhillshowthe_7773365.shtml   (721 words)

  
 Benny Hill: The Early Naughty Years - Complete and Unadulterated (Volume 3) | PopMatters Television Review
Hill occasionally donned a dopey red fright wig and short pants to play a kind of universal shmoe (of various names) who always got his comeuppance.
Joining Hill was an exceptional cast of character actors who often upstaged him by playing "straight." Though Henry McGee looked inane when he tried to match Hill joke for joke, as a reporter haranguing Hill, his timing was perfect.
Hill adored the concept of humor without words, and it was the foundation for his most famous bit, the "Yakety Sax"-style fast motion chase where the comedian played the fox to the rest of the company's clamoring hounds.
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 Benny Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hill was a distant relative of the Australian actress and singer Holly Valance (Hill's cousin being Valance's grandfather).
Hill was also big on Spanish music acts, and gave the first major exposure to groups such as Luis Alberto del Parana and Los Paraguayos on his show.
Hill had previously discovered that his childhood idol Chaplin was a fan when he was invited to Chaplin's home in Switzerland by Chaplin's family and discovered that Chaplin had a vast collection of Benny's work on video.
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 IGN: Benny Hill: The Naughty Early Years, Complete & Unadulterated - Set Four Review
Making their debut in these episodes were the Hill's Angels; a group of Benny's female costars who knew how to move around in leotards like nobody's business.
Hill's character looks "up" to the TV above him and notices the Hill's Angels dancing around, so he blows upwards in order to cause their skirts to flutter.
While the episodes on this set don't sizzle with the wit and energy they had during the '70s, they still remind you that puns, women in their underwear, and chase sequences, set to that classic music, are always funny.
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 tvdvdreviews.com -- The Benny Hill Show: Complete and Unadulterated - The Naughty Early Years: Set One DVD Review
For the uninitiated, Hill is a talented performer/writer who combines the moron humor of The Three Stooges, the old-fashioned verbal humor of Abbott and Costello, the physical comedy of silent film comedians, and the novelty-song stylings of Weird Al or early Ray Stevens.
Hill also performs comedic sketches that would not be out of place on Saturday Night Live.
Hill also lacks the respect of critics because of the source of his laughs.
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 LOUISE ENGLISH - BENNY HILL AND HILL'S ANGELS PHOTO GALLERY
Louise got her big break in show business when she was selected by Benny Hill to appear on his show as one of the original members of Hill's Angels.
Louise says of working with Benny, "He was a lovely, lovely guy, and great fun to work with." And the admiration was mutual with Benny saying of Louise, "She definitely has that bit extra.
Even though he was ill at the time, Benny always went to see Louise perform in the theatre and refused to miss seeing her star as the Lambeth lass, Sally Smith.
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 "Benny Hill" Resource Page
Have yourself a "Hill" of a good time with this special two-disc set featuring boisterous Benny and company in the wildest, funniest moments from the long-running TV show.
Britain's own ``Baby Blue Eyes,'' that loony Benny Hill, is back in a collection of his most outrageous TV skits, complete with bawdy humor and beautiful women.
Have yourself a "Hill" of a good time with this special five-tape set featuring boisterous Benny and company in the wildest, funniest moments from the long-running TV show.
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 The Benny Hill Show - The Benny Hill Show
This The Benny Hill Show Web site is provided as a service of The BennyHill Site to help you find the best in Benny Hill show information, Movies, TV shows, DVDs, VHS, music.
Benny's appearance varies significantly from shot to shot as the material is taken from shows spanning nearly three decades.
Yes, the Hill's Angels make several appearances, but Benny chose the girls because they are wonderful singers and dancers and some of them, Louise English and Sue Upton in particularare also excellent comic turns.
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 Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated - The Hill's Angels Years, Set Four (1978-1981) | PopMatters Television Review
Perhaps Hill gets away with consistently playing the dirty old man, because he always has an obvious twinkle in his eye.
Hill's dirty old man is really nothing more than a curious little boy -- albeit in grown up skin and bones -- that simply wants to sneak a peek at some girl's private parts.
That's because every episode ends with Hill and his cast involved in a speeded up chase scene, which is always choreographed to this same music.
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 The Benny Hill Show - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
While many British comedians of the 50s and 60s simply transferred their talents to TV, Benny Hill was the first comic to be purely a product of television He went on to become a British institution.
Benny was aided by his regular ensemble (hardly an episode went by without Henry McGee and Jack Wright) and the famous Hills Angels (who were without doubt my personal favourites!).
During the sixties, Benny also appeared in a number of my favourite films: In 1965 he featured as the Fire Chief in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, in 1968 he played the Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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 Benny Hill Photos - Benny Hill News - Benny Hill Information
It was his gandfather who introduced him to Burlesque Shows and the theatre from where the young Benny Hill was to draw much of his comic inspiration.
This show was a live sitcom anthology in which Benny played a different character in every episode.
This guide strives to be as complete a resource as possible for the third TV series to bear Benny Hill's name in the title, which ran on Thames Television (ITV) from 1969-1989, and has appeared...
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 Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: Benny Hill: Set 5
I had been keeping my eyes and ears open for any news that there would one day be a DVD release of “The Benny Hill Show”, and though there had been a couple of compilations out there, it wasn't until about 2 years ago that full volume collections began to be released.
Extremely satirical in nature, the Benny Hill Show never failed to raise the ire of the ‘powers that be’, but he became a comedy icon to millions and to this day (even years after his passing) is unsurpassed in terms of popularity.
If you’re not familiar with Hill's Angels, they were the aforementioned bevy of beauties that Benny Hill surrounded himself with in order to make up for any of the skits that fell flat.
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 British Government Releases Scandalous Benny Hill Tapes | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Hill, formally denounced by Thatcher and Parliament in 1983, died in 1992 when a pair of oversized inflatable novelty bloomers he was wearing exploded upon contact with a haystack.
Another highly controversial aspect of the tapes is the frequent appearance of the "Hill's Angels," a chorus line of scantily clad dancers whose alleged gyrations sparked a 1994 U.N. petition for full disclosure of the tapes.
Hill grabbed women's chests, it would usually be as the result of an accident: Often, he'd do so unaware of the fact that a mannequin he'd been undressing had been switched with a real woman while his back was turned," Fripp said.
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 Benny Hill
Benny Hill was attacked by feminists not because he was insulting women, and not because his programmes demeaned them.
They hurled the ludicrous accusation that Benny Hill hated women, and that he was promoting a hatred of women - misogyny - to everyone else.
But, as must be obvious to anyone who has seen his shows, the idea that Benny Hill didn't like women has to be one of the most ridiculous, nonsensical, vindictive and spiteful notions spun in the cause of feminism.
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 Review: Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated
It was not till 1969 that Benny Hill struck success with the “Benny Hill Show” airing 30 years through 1989 on Thames television (ITV) in the UK.
In 1989 Thames Television was forced to cancel the series, not too to a lack of popularity (the series was still extremely popular), but rather due to the numerous complaints they received due to the poor “social qualities” that the series had, including but not limited to sexism.
Benny Hill was one of the most popular British comedians at the time (some would argue of all time).
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 TVINews Yes90 / Soul Find / Benny Hill, Television performer
Although Hill's lascivious antics were thought to be vulgar and sexist by many, the show immediately gained an international following and remained in network syndication until the late 1980s.
BENNY HILL Premier UK He was a saucy seaside postcard come to life, a comedian with a naughty choirboy's smirk and gift for choreographed slapstick that nearly always involved girls with unfeasibly large breasts.
BENNY HILL: LAUGHTER AND CONTROVERSY The program chronicled the life of the man who, for millions of fans, was the funniest man in the world.
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 Amazon.ca: Best of Benny Hill (Full Screen): DVD: John Robins,Benny Hill,Jack Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Benny Hill was always best at quasi-silent slapstick, so it's no surprise that some of the best stuff on The Best of Benny Hill seems to owe more to the work of Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle than to mainstream TV comedy.
I am very much hoping that I can get some more Hill programming on DVD from the 1970's, as presented on this DVD because as I said this is but a mere taste of Hill's early era of original and very funny yet risque humor.
With all the good shows Benny Hill did, it is hard to imagine putting out a DVD with consistantly mediocre material.
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 Amazon.com: Benny Hill - Golden Greats: DVD: Geraldine Burnett,Pamela Cundell,David Hamilton (III),Hill's Angels,Benny ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Benny's TV show is represented here in 6 programs, 3 on each of the discs, each nearly an hour long.
Benny is joined here by all his usual gang: Henry McGee, Jackie Clayton, Bob Todd and the beautiful and talented Hills Angels, particualarly Sue Upton, Erica Lynley and the delightful Louise English.
Benny Hill is still a unique performer who deserves to have a place in your comedy library.
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 Benny Hill | Biography (1924-1992)
Benny Hill's film career, though, has been surprisingly spotty considering his consistent popularity on television through four decades.
But the nature of his material is sketchy, in all senses of the word, and so it was perhaps not surprising that one of his most popular film outings was a compilation of his TV material: a very rare occurrence even in British film comedy.
The most famous person to appear as a Hill's Angel was Jane Leeves who later found fame as the character Daphne in the US tv show Frasier.
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 The Benny Hill Show
The Benny Hill Show was a comedy series loaded with classic slapstick (and sometimes sexy, smutty and raunchy) comedy.
Benny Hill's silent, high-speed chase skits are reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton except that instead of being chased by cops, Hill is usually being chased by a bunch of beautiful, well-endowed Blondes.
Jane Leeves (better known as Daphne Moon on the TV show, "Frasier") was one of Benny Hill's often scantilly-clad Angels.
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