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'''Benny Hill''' (real name Alfred Hawthorne Hill, 1924-1992) was a prolific English comic, actor, and singer best known for his television programme ''[[The Benny Hill Show (TV)|The Benny Hill Show]]''.
His on-screen persona was as a skirt-chasing [[Dirty Old Man]], and there was much [[Fan Service]]. Some of his humour today walks into the sexist, which has [[Values Dissonance|affected his reputation]], although the women involved with his shows have denied that they were sexist. That said, when non-Britons are speaking of British comedy genius, Hill is often [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|mentioned in the same breath]] as, say, ''[[Monty Python (Creator)|Monty Python]]''. This mystifies many Brits, and the series is rarely repeated in his home country. His novelty record [[One
In the mid-noughties there was a TV show entitled ''Is Benny Hill Still Funny?'' in which a cross-section of the British public, most of whom were too young to have seen his original broadcasts, were shown a selection of his sketches and asked the eponymous question. The consensus was "Yes".
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