#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 40 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 6 April 1986
1. #EastEnders 22.10m
2. #CoronationStreet 16.55
3. Grand National 15.45
4. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 15.05
5. The Medusa Touch 14.90
6. The #BennyHill Show 13.55
7. This Is Your Life 13.20
8. Antiques Roadshow
VHS cover: “Benny Hill’s Greatest Hits” (Thames Video, 1990)
Hill’s humour was largely one-dimensional, his urgently titillated, naughty schoolboy expressions suggesting an immaturity that persisted through middle-age and somehow found resonance across two decades of British viewership, tainting even the occasional clever or madcap surreal piece. #BennyHill
#FamilyGuy #TheATeam #BennyHill
Ladies & Gents....The B Team
#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 44 years ago
📺TV Ratings for the whole of February 1982
1. This Is Your Life 18.10m
2. #CoronationStreet 18.00
3. Wish You Were Here 15.50
4. The Gaffer 15.45
5. The #BennyHill Show 15.35
6. Last of the Summer Wine 15.30
7. Family Fortunes 15.10
#OnThisDay 26 February 1988
WORTH £10 MILLION - BUT HE STILL USES A TESCO'S PLASTIC BAG TO CARRY HIS SCRIPTS
Comic #BennyHill, revealed as one of Britain's richest people with a £10 million fortune, walked to work as usual yesterday with his scripts in a supermarket plastic bag . . .
#OnThisDay 10 February 1982
Thames take out newspaper ads to invite us to -
ENJOY A LITTLE SAUCE WITH YOUR DINNER TONIGHT
8.00 The #BennyHill Show
A new one hour special . . .
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#TodayInNerdHistory #January21 #StarTrek #TheSchizoidMan #ProvingGround #ObserverEffect #StarTrekDiscovery #VaultingAmbition #BennyHill #TellySavalas #GeenaDavis #WolfmanJack #CharlesAidman #Birthday
Born 21 Jan 1924, comedian Benny Hill. At its peak, The Benny Hill Show was one of the most-watched programmes in the UK with audiences reaching 21 million viewers in the early 70s. In 1972, Hill received a BAFTA TV Award for Best Writer. He died in 1992 at home alone, aged just 68. #BennyHill
Happy Heavenly Birthday to UK comedian #BennyHill 🎭🕊️🕊️
#inremembrance #celebritynews #unitedkingdom #comedy
“Quei pantaloncini erano così dannatamente aderenti, che facevo fatica a respirare.”
Alfred Hawthorn Hill
conosciuto come Benny Hill
Nato il 21 gennaio 1924
#21gennaio1924
#20aprile1992
#bennyhill
Happy Heavenly Birthday to comedian/actor, Alfred Hawthorne Hill ( 1/21/24 - 4/18/92 ), better known as Benny Hill. Gone but never forgotten. 🥳🎉🎊🎭🎬🕊️🙏🏻 #BennyHill #TheBennyHillShow
📣 New Podcast! "Jan 21st-Mariachi music, Kojak, Wolfman Jack, Mac Davis, Billy Ocean, Geena Davis, Baby Spice" on @Spreaker #babyspice #bennyhill #billyocean #carterpardoneddraftdodgers #chastitybelt #delorean #educational #emmabunton #entertainment #geenadavis #georgeorwell #history #macdavis
This needs to have the #BennyHill music playing behind it. 🤔😂
Vibrant, over-the-top book cover for the erotic comedy novel "Buber Babes: The Ride of Your Life... Literally" by Bevan Chambers. The artwork shows a shiny pink convertible Mustang speeding forward with the top down. Behind the wheel is an exaggeratedly curvaceous woman with extremely large breasts (size 32KK implied), wearing a tight, low-cut top that strains against her chest, with visible streams of milk dripping/lactating down the front. She has long hair blowing in the wind, a playful/seductive expression, and bright makeup. The car's license plate reads "BUBER" or similar pun. Bold, retro-style title text in large pink and white letters dominates the top, with the subtitle in smaller playful font below. Tagline or additional text reads something like "Drip and Drive?" The overall aesthetic is a cheeky, campy, Russ Meyer-inspired pin-up style with saturated colors, heavy emphasis on cleavage and fetish elements, blending 1960s exploitation poster vibes with modern erotic comedy.
Drip and Drive? #BUBER #lactationfiction #GaryOobs #BevanChambers #bigboobfiction #eroticcomedy #sexromp #russmeyer #bennyhill #cleavage #breastobsessed #boobfetish #32KK #BuberBabes🥛
Thank you Antenna TV I grew up watching #BennyHill and now after a long day of football and @nbcsnl I’m just chillin enjoying Benny until I fall asleep.
Benny Hill's £20million fortune and mysterious grave robbery sparks intrigue and speculation #BennyHill #ComedyLegend
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Old, but still funny 🤣🤣 #bennyhill #gay #funny
“Can’t miss it.”
“I’ll try not to.”
#Svengoolie #BennyHill
The #zxspectrum #retrogaming #Christmas Selection #BennyHill #MadcapChase . It wouldn't be Christmas without Benny. Perhaps not too politically correct these days but you have got to love these massive graphics on the speccy.
11 Dec 1971 - Comedian #BennyHill was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the innuendo-laden novelty song, 'Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)', giving Hill his only No.1 and the Xmas No.1 of 1971. The song was originally written in 1955 about Hill's milkman experiences.
#YAKETYSAX TIME!!!
#Eagles
#Chargers
#MNF
#NFL
#BennyHill
#Fumble
