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Benny Hill. Pervert or Genius?

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    #32
    Bob Harris
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    Guilty of perverting the course of genius.


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    #33
    TheShow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭TheShow


    Danna Polite Flake wrote: »
    The objectification of women is alive and well in rap culture, but the #metoo brigade is silent about that for fear of seeming racist.

    Jay Z was right when he mentioned the 99 problems...


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    #34
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,039 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    A sweaty dude with a stupid grin on his face running after a load of women with huge norks? What’s not to like?

    'Cept it was always the women running after him, Johnny...

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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    #35
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    'Cept it was always the women running after him, Johnny...

    Like myself, so.


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    #36
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Like myself, so.
    You've always come across as a bit of a Benny, alright.


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”


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    #38
    tdf7187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    His programmes have probably dated badly but I can certainly remember getting a few laughs out of them at the age of 11 or 12. I don't buy the argument that they objectified women, Benny was usually the butt of the joke.


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    #39
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You've always come across as a bit of a Benny, alright.

    Sorry, I don’t get it. You’ll have to explain.


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    #40
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Pervert or Genius?

    Neither.


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    #41
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West will always be a very good song indeed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI


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    #42
    antix80
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Sorry, I don’t get it. You’ll have to explain.

    I had to Google it.
    When i was young kids used to say benny as another word for handicap/retard/spa.

    Well... Per urban dictionary
    During the Falklands War, British troops noticed the similarities of many of the Falklands Islanders, to a Character from a British soap opera, ('Crossroads')

    In this soap opera, Benny was a simple (mentally challenged) odd job man, known for wearing old knitted jumpers and a woolly bobble hat.


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    #43
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    OP, if you're concerned about being corrupted by Benny Hill, keep away from "Carry On," "Are you being Served" and "On The Buses."

    And the classic 1969 film 'The Italian Job' where Benny played a 'BIG' woman obsessed computer expert that the gang employed to mess with the traffic light system in Turin.

    His part in The Italian Job film is often forgotten, but the basic character traits lived on in much of his future 70s TV work.


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    #44
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,367 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    antix80 wrote: »
    I had to Google it.
    When i was young kids used to say benny as another word for handicap/retard/spa.

    Well... Per urban dictionary

    nah, benny predates that. i remember it from primary school. and it wasnt a euphamism for handicap/retard/spa. It was a euphamism for homosexual.


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    #45
    whisky_galore
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Genius??? A few groin jokes and a bunch of women dancing around? Are you a Mrs Brown's Boys fan too?

    It was the Mrs Brown's Boys of its day.
    Not particularly funny, but inexplicably popular.


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    #46
    IAMAMORON
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    de de de de de diddle de de de de diddle duuuuu de de de de de de de.

    de de de de de diddle de de diddle diddle diddle de de

    de de de de de diddle de de de de diddle de


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    #47
    Dravokivich
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It was the Mrs Brown's Boys of its day.
    Not particularly funny, but inexplicably popular.

    I guess we'd just have to disagree to agree on that comparison.


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    #48
    Cyclepath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Cyclepath


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    nah, benny predates that. i remember it from primary school. and it wasnt a euphamism for handicap/retard/spa. It was a euphamism for homosexual.

    Can confirm. Was called a benny for most of 6th year in secondary school. Jesus H, just cos I wore GUYliner (not eyeliner). It didn't take much more than being a New Romantic/Depeche Mode fan back then... :cool:


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    #49
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    Dravokivich wrote: »
    OP, if you're concerned about being corrupted by Benny Hill, keep away from "Carry On," "Are you being Served" and "On The Buses."

    And the classic 1969 film 'The Italian Job' where Benny played a 'BIG' woman obsessed computer expert that the gang employed to mess with the traffic light system in Turin.

    His part in The Italian Job film is often forgotten, but the basic character traits lived on in much of his future 70s TV work.
    He is also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and very hard to spot in Monty Python's Meaning of Life as he has heavey makeup and a dread wig on. He is they guy who had his organs removed while alive as he agreed to be an organ donor.

    Modern TV won't hold up well either. The likes of Love Island are just thin excuses to show scantily clad people. Lots or gawker TV around and fake reality TV will be frowned upon.


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    #50
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,367 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    He is also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and very hard to spot in Monty Python's Meaning of Life as he has heavey makeup and a dread wig on. He is they guy who had his organs removed while alive as he agreed to be an organ donor.

    Modern TV won't hold up well either. The likes of Love Island are just thin excuses to show scantily clad people. Lots or gawker TV around and fake reality TV will be frowned upon.

    jeez i've seen that countless times and i never spotted him.


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    #51
    jimgoose
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    De de de de de didddle de de de de didddle de de diddle diddle de.

    de de de de de diddle de de de de diddle duuuuu de de de de de de de.

    de de de de de diddle de de diddle diddle diddle de de

    de de de de de diddle de de de de diddle de

    A.k.a. "Yakety Sax", by Boots Randolph. :cool:

    Personally, I think Benny Hill was a bit of harmless fun.


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    #52
    Mysterypunter
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    All the women running around were innocent victims


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    #53
    IAMAMORON
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    It is a pity the way women were bullied by other women to stop chasing fat men around in their underwear for money. What was the problem?

    I would quite happily chase a few fat birds around a field wearing womens' underwear for a laugh, all you ever have to do is ask.


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    #54
    Marhay70
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    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    All the women running around were innocent victims

    After what Eve did it's small change.


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    #55
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    OP, if you're concerned about being corrupted by Benny Hill, keep away from "Carry On," "Are you being Served" and "On The Buses."

    None of those things have aged well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6bOr5VWo5Y


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    #56
    melmoth77
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    I think this is much funnier - Benny Elton show

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0jm8zlLdk7w


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    #57
    Cyclepath
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It is a pity the way women were bullied by other women to stop chasing fat men around in their underwear for money. What was the problem?

    I would quite happily chase a few fat birds around a field wearing womens' underwear for a laugh, all you ever have to do is ask.

    Count me in, sounds like the craic. They used to call me a benny in school anyway.


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    #58
    Bonzo Delaney
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    Just going to leave this here and say Benny Hills not dead

    Screenshot_20190917-163853.jpg


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    #59
    B.A._Baracus
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    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    You will find you are wrong there. He was known to have relationships with women. He was certainly a little odd and former dancers on the show have said they had sexual relationships with him although it sounded a bit strange. More like certain dancers pleasured him and it was never mentioned outside of his flat.

    Wrong? I'm open to being wrong. But you good man are not certainly right either.
    Rumors about his sexuality came about. Which he laughed off. He led an unusual lifestyle people said tho.

    Fact is the only man who could ever tell you whats what is him and he is not with us. So many others who knew him simply say they never really knew the deal.


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    #60
    Irish Guitarist
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    I thought he was hilarious when I was about seven or eight years old. His comedy wouldn't do anything for me now but it's harmless enough.

    Ernie is still a great song though.


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    #61
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Even the youngsters today love Benny Hill


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