Benny Hill

 Benny Hill, born Alfred Hawthorn Hill, took the stage name Benny in honor of his favorite comic Jack Benny.

There is a bicycle, an auto, or some other type of conveyance, usually. There is fast motion filming the end of each session, with beautiful female chasing a flailing and excited everyman. And there is much blundering and busting out in laughing. This is an subtle   definition, of course, of the enormous Benny Hill, world-renowned British comedian who is best known for the great Benny Hill Show.

 Benny endeared himself to millions the world over by way of what are now called the Thames tv shows, televised hour-long shows (revised to half-hour shows for US audiences) that numbered 58 and ran starting in the late sixties--featuring the bumbling, bubbly, self-effacing chunky, ingenious one as TV star. And bright wit and star he was. As much as his shows still air in re-run and as possible as are, thankfully, his skits on DVD, fascinating facts about Hill are even discussed today:

Not only did Benny work at a number of jobs before landing his own shows bridge operator, driver, drummer, milkman but as a comic he was a compulsive worker, devoting numerous hours to work over socializing.

In addition The Benny Hill Show , which is still in syndication  Hill also acted in  films as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines  and A Midsummer nights Dream 

A apparently unpredictable versatility (and gall) has establish Benny making an presence in Phil Collin's/Genesis music video, Anything She Does; upping to Thames to produce his show with ATV, leaving BBC eccentric and without Hill, whom they had slated in four shows; and making skits that, in the feminist-eighties, were criticized gauche and sexist. (Though Hill reportedly responded by suggesting it was not the females on his show who were exploited for they were depicted in solemn, smart form; it was the men, chasing and being rebuffed by these beauties, who were portrayed as the buffoons.)

A prosperous and wealthy man, Benny made his will out to name his parents as beneficiaries. But when Hill died his parents were already died. The wills contents then would go to his siblings, but they too were deceased. So Hills estate was divided among seven nieces and nephews, who shared somewhere around 10 million pounds.

As rumors circulated about Hills burial that he had been buried sheathed in gold and riches those intent on sharing the wealth uninvited dug up his grave. We who really liked his ditties and his dabbling appearances can usually share in the wealth of one who is still considered one of the most recognized comedians of the UK: we can see the old episodes of his shows, could, if we are fortunate enough, catch a re-run of his appearances on Top of the Pops or What's My Line. And, if we're smart enough, we can rent or buy his acts of buffoonery and bumbling on tape, record, and DVD.

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