Benny Hill
Sped-up chase comedian
Benny Hill was an English comedian known for his slapstick television variety show, which ran from 1955 to 1989.
The show featured bawdy humor, double entendres, and chase sequences set to the saxophone theme "Yakety Sax." His name evokes a particular style of lowbrow British comedy—scantily clad women, leering faces, and frantic pursuits at comically sped-up film rates.
- humoristOne who creates comedy
- farceurCreator of absurd comedies
- comedianProfessional humor performer
- variety showProgram mixing different performances
- sketchesRough, quick drawings
gags · slapstick · chase scene · entertainer · parodist · physical comedy · double entendres · clowning · Charlie Chaplin · funnyman · British · Dick Van Dyke · mime · British comedy · caricatures · Fawlty Towers · puns · Rowan Atkinson
- British comedyMonty Python, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, The Office
- British HumorBritish humor, dry humor, deadpan, Monty Python, Blackadder
- British SitcomsFawlty Towers, Blackadder, The Office, The IT Crowd, Absolutely Fabulous
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
- British SatirePrivate Eye, Spitting Image, Blackadder, Monty Python, John Cleese
Benny HillOscar Wilde
Frasier · Stephen Fry · dry wit · Monty Python · intellectual humor
Benny HillSamuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot · deadpan · Ricky Gervais · The Office · cringe comedy
Benny HillLaurence Olivier
Kenneth Branagh · Royal Shakespeare Company · critically acclaimed · award-winning · Judi Dench