Tag: Benny Hill

Benny Hill’s Greatest Hits

Benny Hill’s Greatest Hits

(Thames Video, 1990)

VHS cover: “Benny Hill’s Greatest Hits” (Thames Video, 1990)

Hill’s humour was largely one-dimensional, his urgently titillated, naughty schoolboy expressions suggesting an immaturity that persisted through overweight middle-age and somehow found resonance across two decades of British viewership, tainting even the occasional clever (‘Weather Pair’) or madcap surreal (‘Wicked Warden’) piece.

Benny Hill: King Leer

Benny Hill: King Leer

by Jeremy Novick (Carlton, 2000)

Book cover: “Benny Hill: King Leer” by Jeremy Novick (Carlton, 2000)

This ‘celebration’ of Benny Hill’s career is equal parts biography, photographic record, acknowledgement of Hill’s flaws, and ‘sorry, not sorry’ hero worship. Novick tables justifications with the conversational insistence and intellectual rigour of a stranger who has you cornered at the pub.

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