why was benny hill critised?

Question

answers please be detailed with they reasons why he was portrayed as sexist

answers please be detailed with they reasons why he was portrayed as sexist and why he was critisied

Answer 1

Benny Hill shows come out at a time when many comedy series were on television so his show was something different with quick witted sketches that did not require much concentration or intelligence so it appealed to a broad spectrum of people. There was always a sketch at the end where there would be a chase with him being chased by manly women in next to knothing it was more suggestive than anything and then the PC women's right groups and Mary Whithouse come out in force and started to complain. He used women in a lower sence of the word and thousands found him offfensive. He was described as a dirty old man, television porn,and like having a dirty magazine on the television for all to see.
He was actually a very intelligent man and had been an actor for years on cinema/theatre etc. He was believed to be gay which when it come out at the time was a big fat "no" and also a lot of stories come out that he was sexually harrasing women in his show this damaged his career and he become a retired recluse.
He had no relatives other than one aunt I beleive he is classed as a comic genius by many still today.
I did not like him or his humour just did not find him funny at all.

Answer 2

Benny Hill's early comedy was very clever. However, the TV companies were not interested in producing quality programmes. They wanted something that they could sell to America and Australia. The Benny Hill Show descended into sexist and racist jokes and young women whose clothes fell off.

Tastes changed in the UK and viewing figures fell. So they stopped making the shows. However, they are still selling his old shows abroad. Our former colonies can't get enough of it.

Benny Hill found it hard to come to terms with his apparent rejection in the UK. He made a series for Australian TV, then ended his days living a fairly reclusive life in France.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There was a documentry on Benny a few years back where former Hills Angels spoke how they would have to:be nice to Benny in a sexual way if they wanted to continue on the show.It was intimated oral sex was required but having said that they all said he was a very funny man.(Which he was) He was huge in many countries ,Ernie the fastest milkman in the west must be due a re-release or re-mix.

Answer 5

ITV thought they, and the British public, were too sophisticated to want Benny Hill's kind of humour. He was still popular though, as were the Carry On films, at least the earlier, better ones. It was getting a little dated, though.

Answer 6

Benny Hill was actually gay (he was quite fond of women on a friendship basis). In the 1970s, homosexuality was not tolerated very much, especially with someone well known and liked. He was liked very much by both the men and women he worked with; and they kept his sexual orientation on the QT.
In North America, especially in the US, they are priggish when it comes to nudity on national television. In the UK and Europe, no one bats an eye.
I found Benny Hill witty and down-right funny. :D

Answer 7

because he portrayed himself as a womaniser. i really liked benny hill and loved the chase scenes real life comedy !
shame he's gone

Answer 8

Because he didn't play the media game and they couldn't pin any sleaze on him !

Answer 9

Simply put, he was smutty. Being smutty doesn't demand a huge amount of talent.

Answer 10

I guess because he was a little perverted, but I loved him and thought he was really funny!!