Should Benny Hill stay cancelled? What happened when Gen Z were introduced to the 1970s comedian

Daily Mail ^ | April 15, 2025 | Maria Chiorando

[MinorityRepublican]

Woke BS and the inability to laugh at life’s foiables drains humor out of society.

This is the 2nd Victorian Age.

Even Jerry Seinfeld said that "Comedy's dead".

[Chickensoup]

Someday someone will sit me down and explain British humor to me.

I find it painful to sit through.

I love their old dramas.

Also Canadian humor?

Second City TV?

Nooooooooo!

[dynachrome]

Dad introduced us to British humour, including Benny Hill, the Carry On movies, Alec Guinness, etc.

[Jonah Hex]

What about Red Green?

[ronniesgal]

he should not be cancelled- just don’t watch if you are that offended.

[HYPOCRACY]

He never came out.

[HYPOCRACY]

These same idiots who think Benny in black face or staring at a chick’s ass is horrifying, have no problem with hulking drag queens reading tranny books to 7 year olds.

[dinodino]

Blackadder was the best...

[who knows what evil?]

Word.

[enraged]

Lower tidmarsh fire brigade.
That one skit summed up the Benny hill show and was really funny if you enjoy btit humor.

[redangus]

Speaking of God’s sense of humor immediately brings Al Gore to mind

[SharpRightTurn]

“Benny Hill was funny.”

Yes.

[redangus]

Very funny. Totally non-PC. Used to watch it every week. Basically, a less intellectual Monty Python. Loved them both.

[exinnj]

“…unacceptable by modern standards….”
Who the hell imposed “modern standards” on us? On behalf of what authority? And what “acceptable” does even mean? Seeing Benny Hill innocent comedy is unacceptable, but rivers of blood and mountains of dead mutilated bodies and body parts in the majority of modern cinema-garbage are OK by modern standards?

[ronniesgal]

that tee shirt is funny

[4yearlurker]

Benny Hill took the bus to the studio everyday. Every scrap of paper and newspaper he would carry, even his arms had jokes and one liners written on them. All the girls in his TV show would bring their perspective boyfriends to meet him and if Hill liked them they would date them. He didn't show up for work one day and did not answer his phone. They went to his apartment and could not get an answer. One fellow climbed up his balcony and found him dead sitting on his couch. I always liked the chase scenes with Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" playing in the background.

[alternatives?]

The jokes were on Benny. But everyone looks for ways to be offended today. Insufferable.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What I’ve begun doing is turning on Barny Saunders/AOK Joan Baez “Hand Clap” concerts. I turn the volume all the way down and play “Yakety Sax” on the CD player on Number !!.

[IYAS9YAS]

Jane Leeves (Daphne from Frasier) was a Hill’s Angel for a few episodes in the 80s. Should she be canceled, too?

[CIB-173RDABN]

Cultural genocide - anything someone finds offensive today must be erased.