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jemtheflute wrote: At least we have comedy! ;-)
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What does FSO stand for?
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Comedy & Americans. Like this?
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Anyanka wrote:What does FSO stand for?
Let me guess at this and say FSO = flute shaped object
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Anyanka wrote:Comedy & Americans. Like this?
Yeah, kinda like that...

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@ Steve, Nah, Benny Hill was just embarrassing - which I guess is why the Americans seem to (still) like him more than we ever did.
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I liked Benny Hill. Most people did. It's only people with foibles who don't. [sniff]
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benhall.1 wrote:I liked Benny Hill. Most people did. It's only people with foibles who don't. [sniff]
Foibles, shmoibles. It was quaint, charming, chuckleworthy, and Veddy English. The last gasp, really, of classic music hall/vaudeville. The only time I really didn't like it was when he tried to do contemporary pop songs. Those were epic fails: no concept of the vagaries of the bluesy third interval. In all honesty, that made me grit my teeth. But, maybe that was by intention. As a Merkin, I have no way of knowing.
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jemtheflute wrote: Nah, Benny Hill was just embarrassing - which I guess is why the Americans seem to (still) like him more than we ever did.
I'm with Jem on this one. And here's a really damning fact about Benny Hill: the Germans found him hilarious.
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Anyanka wrote:
jemtheflute wrote: Nah, Benny Hill was just embarrassing - which I guess is why the Americans seem to (still) like him more than we ever did.
I'm with Jem on this one. And here's a really damning fact about Benny Hill: the Germans found him hilarious.
Oh, dear. Just like our own Jerry Lewis and the French. :o
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Anyanka wrote:Comedy & Americans. Like this?

Very funny! Thank you.
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Benny Hill was just on all the time when I was a kid and cable just came out so instead of 4 channels (we lived closed to Pittsbugh), we got 12 channels. There wasn't much to choose from and sadly, he was a better choice.
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I really don't know why foreigners think of Benny Hill when they think of British comedy. It's just not typical. Look at Blackadder, Red Dwarf or Faulty Towers if you want to point at something more representative.
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... or To the Manor Born, The Good Life and Keeping up Appearances (all slightly dull, to my taste, but still, representative). For my money, the best, most enduring British comedy ever is, by a very long way, Dad's Army, which has me in stitches every time.
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I think Benny Hill, Monty Python, Keeping Up Appearances, The Good Life and Are You Being Served were the early British comedies that came on in the US on our Public television stations...and I'd not be surprised if that wasn't the case in other foreign markets as well. I think you'd need to blame BBC for chosing which Britcoms to market to other countries instead of those of us who in the US who watched them.

To a preteen and young teen boy, there were certain, um, qualities of Benny Hill which were greatly entertaining and most involved scantily clad women running around.

I much prefer the likes of Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Hardware, Black Books, Father Ted and Faulty Towers, but I confess to a fondness for The Good Life.
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