tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post8557689881978406930..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: No Stamp for Benny Hillmybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-8000641144109055172010-03-10T17:07:56.536-06:002010-03-10T17:07:56.536-06:00I love Benny Hill, but I've been told that he ...I love Benny Hill, but I've been told that he never caught on in Britain in the same way that he did in North America. Most of the shows that we remember him for were in fact done for a North American audience. He was apparently regarded in Britain as an "end of pier" comedian lacking in the sophistication that the British claim to embrace. Saucy is at the heart of that sort of humour, much as it was in the grand old days of North American burlesque, before it became all about strippers.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-33801854659848089472010-03-09T08:24:04.497-06:002010-03-09T08:24:04.497-06:00But Henry VIII has been on plenty of British stamp...But Henry VIII has been on plenty of British stamps--and he chased more women than Benny Hill (and, I suspect, with more purpose).<br /><br />Oh, will this classist double standard in stamping never end?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-78204372155864150922010-03-09T08:14:23.980-06:002010-03-09T08:14:23.980-06:00I won't be heartbroken. I still remember the &...I won't be heartbroken. I still remember the "critical" assessment, perhaps by Micheal Arlen but I hope not for his sake, that made much of how much more tv-savvy Benny Hill was than the Monty Python troupe, the latter being very dull boys in comparison.<br /><br />Though it is a typically bureaucratic misreading of his Geist in some ways, not so much in others.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-68333958147172469692010-03-09T08:09:43.420-06:002010-03-09T08:09:43.420-06:00Booooooooo !Booooooooo !Victor Gischlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503919715676328059noreply@blogger.com