Benny Hill in his sixties heyday. "The notion that Benny was a lonely man is so depressing and wrong. He just liked his own company. He was very happy walking alone, living alone, eating alone, taking holidays alone and going to see shows alone. I often wonder whether he needed anybody else in his life at all…except perhaps a cameraman". - Bob Monkhouse On Easter Sunday morning in 1992, and just two hours after he had been speaking to a television producer [...]
Poor Benny Hill . Britain's most popular comic and master of funny songs and witty wordplay gets about as little respect as the equally under-rated Three Stooges. Python's the "Beatles of comedy," the Bonzos get the cult cred, but mention Hill's name and watch people roll their eyes. Songs about wives, mothers-in-law, naughty double-entendres - it's all pretty unhip, music hall stuff. Hill was one of the last of the vaudevillians. His reputation is largely based on his popular, [...]
Benny Hill: The Complete Megaset Hey folks, in honor of Black Friday I'm offering the new Benny Hill DVD Box set for 100% off! Benny Hill: The Complete Megaset - The Thames Years 1969-1989 is an 18 disc(!) set featuring new bonus features, plus 58 full-length episodes of the Benny Hill Show , many of which were never aired in the U.S. in full-length form. Check out the detailed description of the box set below: [...]
What sort of descriptions would you expect people to use when talking about a new single by Lo Fi Fnk ? 'Cutting edge pop'? 'Stunning Swedish electronica'? 'Ethereal dancefloor bliss?' Well, how about ' inspired by Benny Hill '? Because that's exactly how the new Lo Fi Fnk single opens - with a manic trumpet which inspires thoughts of leering old men chasing barely-dressed women around a park. But it's not a bad thing, just a bit of a surprise, and thankfully the rest of 'Sleepless' could be summed up with [...]
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Benny Hills ::: photo courtesy of The Comet Tavern 2009 has been a terrible year for loosing talented, vital members of our community, and sweet souls tragically. The death of Benny Hills, drummer of The Shy Ones and The Knast, Comet Tavern door guy, and perpetual sweetheart is one such an immeasurable loss. Being a door guy, [...]
So people keep on nudging me and saying, 'Hey Dave mate, when are you going to put this top ten list of comedy songs up for us then eh?' and I keep on fobbing them off, telling them I'm busy and they keep prodding me and telling me that I'm not, and shouting at me in my sleep. So, just to keep the imaginary people in my head quiet, I've now compiled this chart. A bit like the one at my doctors, but not quite as scary. Top 10 Comedy Songs 1. [...]
Fourth in a series - find more stories on How Marvellous.. Whilst it's not essential for a Novelty hit to have a good story inside (think the Smurfs & Joe Dolce for starters), it certainly helps, in my opinion. I could argue that it was the Snoopy connection alone which got The Royal Guardsmen 's second single so far up the charts in '66/67, but there can be no doubt that it was a traditional story-song in content, even if not the [...]
Fit to burst are a host of British comedians and comedy actors who all made records between 1959 and 1979. There was a tradition among British funny men (and women) to make records, not just replications of their act, but specially composed songs or comic covers of standards. Some are from singles others are album tracks. But I have opted for the more obscure. Some of these names may be familiar to you and need no introduction, others may not be so familiar. Alan Melville was a playwright and television scriptwriter (Bernard Braden, Beryl Reid, Arthur Askey) but [...]
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