Popular British comedian too sexist
We read:
"He famously ended his shows chasing after scantily-clad women. But that running gag has cost Benny Hill his place in history. Documents yesterday revealed how the comic was dumped from appearing on a set of stamps to commemorate 50 years of ITV because of concerns about his saucy style.
Royal Mail deemed that his jokes were 'in direct opposition to the company's policies on harassment in the work place'.
The revelations about the rejection of Benny Hill angered Bettine Le Beuu, who appeared on his shows. She said: 'It is absurd. To have a jovial and loveable face such as Benny Hill's, who made millions feel good with his humour and was appreciated by many all over the world, would have enhanced the Royal Mail.'
The Benny Hill Show ran from 1955 to 1989 and was aired on the BBC and Thames Television in the UK and broadcast in more than 140 countries. Slapstick, burlesque and double entendre were always his hallmark. Some critics accused the show of sexism but Hill maintained that the female characters kept their dignity while the men chasing them were portrayed as buffoons. The comic died in 1992.
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The Benny Hill show was lightweight fun (a fairly typical excerpt here) but it DID feature attractive women and we are not supposed to notice when women are attractive, of course.
16 comments:
When are the Brits going to vote these a**holes out of power ???
Benny Hill was the last Brit with a sense of humor, and reality. If he were running the country, it wouldn't be shining example of FUBAR that it is!
What - you mean as PC-crazy as the States?
NB. I don't think those running the UK Post Office are "voted into power".
I've never really gotten the British sense of humor but I watched Benny Hill for many years here in the US and always found the show to be funny. He was a classic and is missed to this day.
I just wish people would have a sense of "historical" and "cultural" context, and not judge everything from their own time and place. Isn't that just another kind of "phobia"?
poor Britain, trapped by all their pharisee like laws and in bondage to them.
Here we still go with the generalizing about Britain which you don't do for the US when PC cases are randomly reported on Jay's site. Get over the xenophobia already, it's so puerile!
So people who express themselves have a mental condition, a phobia? How Stalinistic of you to believe so.
But it is ok for the clown clinton to have chased women in the white house and the talentless hump letterman to sleep around, they are treated like heros.
That's because they are heros. Scum like Bush and Darth Cheney are the true traitors.
ghoward - you have a stupidly superficial view of the Revoltionary War! It wasn't a match between two sides one called The Americans and one called The British. The former were colonists mostly of British origin, some who supported the revolution and some who didn't; and those who did were fighting the King's troops with the help of the French, though many of the King's troops were actually German mercenaries, as other British troops were involved in fighting the French elsewhere in the world. And back in Britain there was a lot of support and sympathy for the colonists.
Sorry if I have made this too superficial but it's better than your childish view of history!
Like Benny Hill or not he was a legend of British comedy. Of course by today's standards his humour was irreverant and possibly offensive - but it was all in good fun, no one got hurt (except maybe that little bald guy whose head got slapped all those times - that was hilarious!).
Judging the heroes of the past by today's standards means junking all those pesky slave-holding founding fathers etc.
the British pride hasn't left town just their talent, wisdom and money LOL
Come on people. Do you REALLY want Benny Hill to be taken INTO contemporary culture by being placed on a stamp or given an award? He is the very definition of a subversive.
Some of our apparently foreign friends here say that the US also has a serious problem with political correctness, and we surely do. But Britain is "totally" consumed by it, and that couldn't happen without the approval and full participation of the people.
FCUK 'EM ALL!! (except Benny)
More of your ridiculous exaggeration and generalization! Just admit you're an anglophobe, pure and simple.
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