Benny Hill's video Revue: 2 hours of the Best of Benny Hill

Buy This Item Benny Hill's video Revue: 2 hours of the Best of Benny Hill by Hbo Home Video  Available from Amazon  $9.98  on 8-10-2008     Benny Hill's talent for visual comedy made him one of the world's most popular comedians. This compilation, which offers a typical selection of sketches from his long-running TV show, stars the lad himself along with Henry McGee, Bob Todd (who frequently demonstrates just how bad a middle-aged man can look in women's underwear), and Jack Wright (the little old man who was always getting slapped on the head).<p> Two hours is an awful lot of Benny, and this tape is best dipped into unless you have a very high tolerance for buxom blondes being chased at high speed by lecherous men. Hill's silent sketches, filled with rapid-fire sight gags, are what made his show successful in so many different countries. Comparisons with Chaplin and Keaton might be stretching the issue (and he does steal one gag from Jacques Tati's <I>M. Hulot's Holiday</I>) but this tape shows that Hill was an inventive comic writer. Highlights include a spoof of <I>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</I> and a sketch in which Benny portrays a gallery of '70s TV detectives, from Kojak to Ironsides.<p> It's impossible to escape the fact that some of the racial and sexual stereotypes in <I>The Benny Hill Show</I> are more likely to cause offense than laughter today. Nevetheless, if you can fast-forward through the most embarrassing sketches (Benny as an incomprehensible, squinting Chinaman, for example), there are some great gags, and although skeptics are unlikely to be converted by this marathon compilation, fans of Benny Hill will be thoroughly entertained. <I>--Simon Leake</I> Reader Reviews I can't say it is the best of Benny Hill in my opinion, but that's only my opinion.... the biggest problem is the quality of the picture... not so good.

Benny Hill's video Revue: 2 hours of the Best of Benny Hill Available from Amazon Price: $9.98 Updated on 8-10-2008.

SPONSORED LINKS