Favorite skit - The Benny Hill Show Discussion

The billiards match. It still makes me cry.

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If I had to pick only one, it would be "The Grass is Greener," in which Benny's character Mervyn Cruddy is interviewed by the lovely Andree Melly. This sketch is the source of some of my favorite lines of the whole show.

Mervyn [talking about a dodgy party]: There was witches there - and not just lady witches there, men witches! There were MEN witches there!

Andree: Warlocks.

Mervyn: It's true, I tell you!

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Andree [asking about Mervyn's showbiz career]: I understand you played leads.

Mervyn: Oh yes - Leeds, Lancaster, Birmingham, all over the place.

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Mervyn: We used to go out drinking every night, six or seven pints of shandy, straight off.

Andree: You lived life with a big L!

Mervyn: And sometimes I felt the pain. With a big P.

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[–] EmilMuzz 15 years ago

The Jeckyl & Hyde skit is my favorite. I always laugh when he cracks open the piggy bank and a bunch of little piggies fall out. It was hilarious when I was a little kid and it's just as funny now that I'm an adult.

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[–] gmansi 12 years ago

"The Jeckyl & Hyde skit is my favorite. I always laugh when he cracks open the piggy bank and a bunch of little piggies fall out. It was hilarious when I was a little kid and it's just as funny now that I'm an adult."

So good !!

And also on the same skit he buy a pet... a python pet.... ha ha ha ha

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[–] nhanina 14 years ago

The Flu skit is one of my favorite skits of Benny Hill.

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[–] willydoe71 14 years ago

The A-Team one was great, but one of my favorites has always been one where they were all in a dance club. Bob Todd was dressed as a Hindu and had to remove his turban, which took hours to unwrap, Benny Hill & Jackie Wright were dressed as black men and Jackie Wright lost his wig, showing his bald white head.

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[–] Movie_Piranha_1979 14 years ago

LOL! I love the parody of the A-Team too, in fact, i can´t watch the A-Team without think in that skit!

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

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[–] caracallac 14 years ago

Apart from the famous wishing well skit, there was one that almost choked me as a kid. Benny is playing the tramp, Sue Upton is playing an old lady. Both are sitting on a park bench eating their packed lunches. The tramp is hiding a swan in his coat. If you've seen it you'll know what happens, if not I won't spoil it.

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[–] tmaj48 13 years ago

My all-time favorite segment isn't really a skit; it's just Hill, in the
guise of a young man, reciting a poem called "The Birds and the Bees."

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

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[–] jaddjamar 13 years ago

The A-Team, and the runner up would be The Carmen Spoof.

Do you understand the words that I am saying to you?

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[–] imbluzclooby 13 years ago

New York, New York is a great skit that involves a couple of dance routines that segue into a New York style street scene vignette. It's not a real funny scene at all, but I like it because it marks a transition from the 70's to the new 80's decade. It's cool, chic and edgy in a tame way. I also like the song and the other one, "Rosie".

It premiered on the March 25, 1980 episode.

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[–] LoveMyLittleBunnyThumper 13 years ago

The one where Benny send little Jackie on holiday was the best. Also, does anybody know the name of the song playing during that sketch?

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[–] imbluzclooby 13 years ago

Poor old Jackie! he was always the fall guy for every joke. Bless his heart.

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[–] gw333 12 years ago

The funniest skit that I remember is when Benny was a little French boy being interviewed by Henry McGee. He said "peeneumonia." Henry corrected him and told him the "p" was silent to which Benny replied, "Oh, like in swimming pool!"

I wish I could find that on youtube!

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[–] gollytim 12 years ago

Loved the 'wishing well' and the "A Team", particularly where Benny (as Mr. T.) removed his bling, but still clanged as he moved about. Also loved skit where he was wealthy and married a golddigger who pushed unhealthy stuff on Benny and had a tennis pro who ran Benny ragged. After Benny's character succumbed, widow married the tennis pro and tennis pro started pushing excessive dring on her (ROTFL).
But... my favorite is a Kojak skit involving Jack and Jill and a pail of water where Benny played both Kojak and the Brother (Stavros) and McGee played Crocker. ("Did you check the tires?" ..."Yeah, there are still four".... "These guys don't even suspect".)

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[–] hiptoyou2 12 years ago

I love the one when he is on a ship with a lovely lady and they are singing...
You made me ( boat horn), I didn't want to do it.. I didn't want to do it..
You made me (fart sound from beach volleyball ) and all the time you knew it..
oh yes i know you knew it...

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[–] Ana_Banana 10 years ago

'Jekyll and Hyde' and 'The Short Unhappy Romance of Ted Tingle' are masterpieces. Absolutely hilarious: 'Fred Scuttle as a security guard', 'Jackie Wright's Holiday' and the one with Benny as a barber.

We can't be lost; we don't know where we're going.
All that matters is that we're going.

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[–] THX1701 9 years ago

Which is the episode where Benny Hill and the old man change into superheroes and jump out of a window and chase an angry woman with a corset and a whip?

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Use the Force.

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[–] W.B. 9 years ago

"Superteech," from Jan. 5, 1983. Perhaps one of my least favorite of all Mr. Hill's sketches, for a variety of reasons.

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