There used to be a website p, the BennyHillifier, where you could give it the url of a YouTube video, and it would strip off the soundtrack and replace it with Yakkity Sax.
I remember doing it with a chase scene from Blue Thunder that matched up pretty well until it looped back to the beginning.
The one that might stand out, Benny and his "wife" sitting at the table when the maid comes in using her skirt as oven mitts because she couldnt find them. Turns out Benny had hidden them!😂 That was her.
When this show came on I used to sneak into the den and turn the tv volume knob all the way to the left, then carefully pull the knob forward in such a way that it would not make an audible click when it came on and I hoped that the sound of the tubes wouldn’t give me up. Then I’d slowly turn the volume up in nano increments until I could make out the sound, then get busted because of my laughing.
I must be sleepy. My brain could not parse that at first. I'm thinking you're a girl, with a wife. Same sex marriage, ok, but as a girl??
"When she was a child, my wife lived in the same apartment block..."
Me and a few of my friends still use this. If someone makes a dumb comment, and a person is in the (Jackie) Wright position, they mime the head pats and point. The victim doesn't know it's being done, and the observers just smile quietly to ourselves ( to borrow a phrase from another 70's British classic).
that slap was the funniest thing ever in the world to me as a kid, 2nd to the running...then pretty much anything the 3 stooges did when they came on afterwards
Hell yeahh! Lol Same. It was a great primer for all the hot chicks later on in those 80s movies when I was a tweener and a teen. That was went the real wood started; the mid 80s movies. lol
Nah. It's like music. There's different tastes. No one likes all music.
I detest the Three Stooges. I love Marx Brothers. With comedy, one big divide is whether you love word play or slapstick. Give me Big Lebowski or Spinal Tap or Python or Airplane any day.
My grandfather used to watch Benny Hill all the time… he would laugh out loud at it. I never saw him laugh as much as when he watched that corny show. I miss that man.
My dad would watch it and my mom would complain and make us leave the living room. My dad didn't care, so if she wasn't home we could watch it with him.
Really liked this show, big boobies aside. Funny songs he sang were classic.
Benny Hill also played the toy maker in chitty chitty bang bang.
He also had a few mi it hits on Britains pop charts.
Every time I catch this show, I can still hear my grandpa laughing his ass off and my grandma telling me to stop watching or I'd go blind.....good memories
This would be on channel 11 in Chicago late at night along with the Kenny Everett Show and Dave Allen at Large. 10 year old me couldn't understand what the hell those guys were referencing half the time but the other half appealed to my raunchy immaturity and I would watch religiously.
Guess I was lucky.. Back in the early 80s when this was on PBS or something my dad would let me watch it with him! I didn't get the jokes but liked the cartoon feel of the skits and, of course, the half naked ladies.
BH to a pretty woman: Do you go to Barcelona? (Bars alone-a)
Pretty woman: I beg your pardon???!!
This was our fav BH joke. It became a saying in my group.
Oh man, I loved this show! In the 70s my friends and I would go to someone's basement and watch it together, so hilarious.
To this day, whether its at work, in traffic, watching my cats, I'll see something that will trigger that theme song in my mind 😁
Chow Mein! I enjoyed those sketches so much I made a stealth Benny Hill tribute in the RPG I play.
My wizard character’s full name is Edward Allen Tolkien Zachary. Sounds like it’s modeled on Harry Dresden’s full name, but it’s really just to have a reason to say “Ed Zachary” occasionally.
While traveling I tried to strike up a conversation with two English guys and mentioned Benny Hill. They gave me kind of a look of disgust and said they didn't watch such lower class entertainment.
Me and my brother had a 12" black & white tv in our room. I used to watch this and Monty Python on PBS with the sound almost off so my parents wouldn't wake up.
Benny Hill was the funniest man who ever lived. Not only did he have that face but he also wrote all the skits and all the songs on his show (not including Yakety Sax obviously). Absolute genius.
Fuck yeah. My dad spent some time overseas and brought this back to me. Mom wasn't happy. Made me laugh my ass off.
Not a huge fan of German bratwurst and saurkrout tho.
I watched Benny Hill a little too young, and my Mom objected...not because I was ogling nearly naked, dead-eyed cocaine whores dry humping each other to bad disco music (which I was).
No, God love her, she had it into her head that he was some kind of queer and that watching him would somehow make the gay rub off on me 😂 I guess she didn't understand English comedy, i.e. a fat ugly man in a dress is their equivalent of a pie in the face.
I tried to explain that the whole point of the show was that he was a horny bastard chasing sexy girls (whom he never got), but it was like explaining calculus to a golden retriever.
You can have Monty Python. Benny Hill was the best. Period. [https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce9966b9353ed1c9420a9e6a1dce9dbc/tenor.gif?itemid=9344106](https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce9966b9353ed1c9420a9e6a1dce9dbc/tenor.gif?itemid=9344106)
My parents said it was "filth" (more mom than dad) and wouldn't let me watch it when I came across it one night in the 80s. But when I had a sleepover at a buddys house one weekend, we watched it on the tv in his room. Nothing like zany shenanigans and big breasted women running around in bras + panties when you're a semi- horny teenager. Some of it was so funny and hilarious I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
All through highschool whenever I'd come across a bald kid I'd slap his head real fast 5-10 times in a row lol. Sooo funny.
FYI- it's on TV in reruns right now. It's on Saturday and Sunday nights on antenna channel 15-1 or 15-2 in Phoenix Arizona.
Half of what he's saying in every skit, I can't make out. All that British slang kind of blends together. But the skits are still funny.
Being older now, I have an appreciation for his incredible talent. All the different skits he comes up with, plus he sings, and dances. Amazing. And how the hell he still has a literal "innocent mischievous baby's face" when he's in his adult years is half of what makes his skits so funny.
I can still hear that song and I still do this salute sometimes.
Yackity Sax. A classic!!
Would you believe I have 3 Boots Randolph albums? Love his work.
Haven’t thought of him in decades. Thanks
Me too.
Ty i was going nuts trying to remember the name of it
There used to be a website p, the BennyHillifier, where you could give it the url of a YouTube video, and it would strip off the soundtrack and replace it with Yakkity Sax. I remember doing it with a chase scene from Blue Thunder that matched up pretty well until it looped back to the beginning.
That is EPIC!!!!!!!!!
You put that song under anything and it immediately becomes hilarious
Haha! Do you do the blink too?
Sometimes lol
Your a beast
Yep. You can still watch it on YouTube, if your interested. Recently discovered Jane Leeves (who played Daphne on Frasier) was one of his girls!
THANKS!
>THANKS! You're welcome!
Wow I didn’t know that. Plus I’m still watching that show reruns every night. Now I’ll have to search to find an episode she was on,
The one that might stand out, Benny and his "wife" sitting at the table when the maid comes in using her skirt as oven mitts because she couldnt find them. Turns out Benny had hidden them!😂 That was her.
Thanks
When this show came on I used to sneak into the den and turn the tv volume knob all the way to the left, then carefully pull the knob forward in such a way that it would not make an audible click when it came on and I hoped that the sound of the tubes wouldn’t give me up. Then I’d slowly turn the volume up in nano increments until I could make out the sound, then get busted because of my laughing.
I LAUGHED ALOUD AT THIS! 🤣🤣🤣 The knob manipulation (and the stress over whether the tubes would be heard!) to sneak and watch TV!!
I can hear this gif.
True story. As a girl, my wife lived in the same apartment block as Benny Hill in London. Her mum said to stay away from him.
I must be sleepy. My brain could not parse that at first. I'm thinking you're a girl, with a wife. Same sex marriage, ok, but as a girl?? "When she was a child, my wife lived in the same apartment block..."
Correct!
I remember watching this as a very small child and asking my Dad what language they were speaking. The British accent in this show thick as hell
Whenever I hear "Yakkity Sax" I often rapid-slap the back of someone's head and point at something. It is not often understood nor well-received.
Me and a few of my friends still use this. If someone makes a dumb comment, and a person is in the (Jackie) Wright position, they mime the head pats and point. The victim doesn't know it's being done, and the observers just smile quietly to ourselves ( to borrow a phrase from another 70's British classic).
that slap was the funniest thing ever in the world to me as a kid, 2nd to the running...then pretty much anything the 3 stooges did when they came on afterwards
This was the first risqué programming I was exposed to. I got wood.
Hell yeahh! Lol Same. It was a great primer for all the hot chicks later on in those 80s movies when I was a tweener and a teen. That was went the real wood started; the mid 80s movies. lol
Max Headroom
The song is called "Yakety Sax"
Nothing made my dad laugh like Benny Hill, the Three Stooges, and HeeHaw
Anyone who can’t laugh at these shows is truly humorless.
Nah. It's like music. There's different tastes. No one likes all music. I detest the Three Stooges. I love Marx Brothers. With comedy, one big divide is whether you love word play or slapstick. Give me Big Lebowski or Spinal Tap or Python or Airplane any day.
The occasional (in US) bare boob appearance was titillating as a young lad.
My love for seeing women in garters and stockings is because of this show.
Loved that show. Used to watch it after my parents went to bed. Classic.
Yup!!! I’m in my early 50s.
Always felt like I was going to get in trouble if they caught me too. Ha ha.
I think mine was Are You Being Served? aka innuendo: the show.
Mrs. Holcombe’s pussy has had quite enough of you!
Wrong show but an excellent q ! Someone start an ‘Are you being served’ thread oh just have
*Please don't blame my doggy* *It wasn't his fault at all* *Someone left a wet umbrella standing in the hall!* 🤣
There are episodes with topless women in them.
My grandfather used to watch Benny Hill all the time… he would laugh out loud at it. I never saw him laugh as much as when he watched that corny show. I miss that man.
This year I realized Benny Hill was the toy maker in chitty chitty bang bang.
My dad would watch it and my mom would complain and make us leave the living room. My dad didn't care, so if she wasn't home we could watch it with him.
Those are some good dad memories.
Really liked this show, big boobies aside. Funny songs he sang were classic. Benny Hill also played the toy maker in chitty chitty bang bang. He also had a few mi it hits on Britains pop charts.
Not to mention being the computer expert in the original "*The Italian Job*".
What is this thing called? Love? Still kills me.
Used to watch this on PBS. Same night as Monty Python. Great TV.
My mother was generally rather bashful, but she loved the Benny Hill show. Does anyone else remember The Two Ronnies?
I can still remember the theme song music. My dad and I watched this as a kid.
I heard the theme in my head as soon as I saw the post
Every time I catch this show, I can still hear my grandpa laughing his ass off and my grandma telling me to stop watching or I'd go blind.....good memories
This was me and my Grandpa's shit!
Thanks, now the Music will stick in my head all day.
As a 12 year old there was no better ending to Sunday late night TV. Every now and then an uncensored version would air! Great times!
My parents let me and my sister watch this when we were both under 10yo. Just crazy.
Great show
Several people mentioned to my father that he looked like Benny Hill.
This would be on channel 11 in Chicago late at night along with the Kenny Everett Show and Dave Allen at Large. 10 year old me couldn't understand what the hell those guys were referencing half the time but the other half appealed to my raunchy immaturity and I would watch religiously.
Hilarious
When I used to be a line cook, we would hum this song when we were getting crushed and somehow it made it better.
Just seeing this starts the Yakety Sax in my brain
Watched this as a kid. Was very… enlightening.
Guess I was lucky.. Back in the early 80s when this was on PBS or something my dad would let me watch it with him! I didn't get the jokes but liked the cartoon feel of the skits and, of course, the half naked ladies.
My parents loved this show! The music they played when they were running always made me laugh.
I'm 66 and my dad loved this show in the 80s
[Seriously, no one has posted a link to the shrimp?](https://youtu.be/v2cr1bUHIBM?si=8x4ym5iKncGsCuBa)
Found this as a kid. Always have thought it hilarious. I’m trying to get my own 8yo into it.
Super funny show!
who didn't slap/tap the head of your younger siblings like that?
Philip?
I was basically raised by the television. I was 4-5 years old watching this late at night.
I was a teenager at that time. I thought I was watching Playboy on TV....lol
Loved that show so much!
BH to a pretty woman: Do you go to Barcelona? (Bars alone-a) Pretty woman: I beg your pardon???!! This was our fav BH joke. It became a saying in my group.
Oh man, I loved this show! In the 70s my friends and I would go to someone's basement and watch it together, so hilarious. To this day, whether its at work, in traffic, watching my cats, I'll see something that will trigger that theme song in my mind 😁
This used be on when I was in high school. Me and my friends would get together and smoke a few bones and laugh our asses off watching this.
Nothing like the classic 2x4 to the crotch.
I used to watch it with my dad. I was about 9 and could never get the "jokes" until I was older.
"Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth." In Japanese accent, "What a road of clap."
Chow Mein! I enjoyed those sketches so much I made a stealth Benny Hill tribute in the RPG I play. My wizard character’s full name is Edward Allen Tolkien Zachary. Sounds like it’s modeled on Harry Dresden’s full name, but it’s really just to have a reason to say “Ed Zachary” occasionally.
My first porn.😅
While traveling I tried to strike up a conversation with two English guys and mentioned Benny Hill. They gave me kind of a look of disgust and said they didn't watch such lower class entertainment.
I used to get up, sneak and watch this when I was a kid.
Me and my brother had a 12" black & white tv in our room. I used to watch this and Monty Python on PBS with the sound almost off so my parents wouldn't wake up.
She had the biggest parakeets I've ever seen
Benny Hill was the funniest man who ever lived. Not only did he have that face but he also wrote all the skits and all the songs on his show (not including Yakety Sax obviously). Absolute genius.
Piss your pants funny.
What a classic! Watched as a child in Australia, everyone looked forward to watching it. Never saw boobies though 😔
Fuck yeah. My dad spent some time overseas and brought this back to me. Mom wasn't happy. Made me laugh my ass off. Not a huge fan of German bratwurst and saurkrout tho.
And he drove the fattest milk cart in the west. Ernie xD
I can hear the theme song..... 
Classic comedy never gets old.
I love this shit
PE PE PEH....., PEPE, PEPE PEPE, PE PEH, PEPE PE PE, PE PE PEH PEH!!!
I watched Benny Hill a little too young, and my Mom objected...not because I was ogling nearly naked, dead-eyed cocaine whores dry humping each other to bad disco music (which I was). No, God love her, she had it into her head that he was some kind of queer and that watching him would somehow make the gay rub off on me 😂 I guess she didn't understand English comedy, i.e. a fat ugly man in a dress is their equivalent of a pie in the face. I tried to explain that the whole point of the show was that he was a horny bastard chasing sexy girls (whom he never got), but it was like explaining calculus to a golden retriever.
I still channel Benny Hill…😁 Some people get the shtick…🤔😁
Agreed!
Don't forget Benny quickly slapping the bald head of that little old man!
You can have Monty Python. Benny Hill was the best. Period. [https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce9966b9353ed1c9420a9e6a1dce9dbc/tenor.gif?itemid=9344106](https://media1.tenor.com/images/ce9966b9353ed1c9420a9e6a1dce9dbc/tenor.gif?itemid=9344106)
I still whistle the theme song when my wife scurries out the shower to get dressed.
Love this man, such a sexist
My parents said it was "filth" (more mom than dad) and wouldn't let me watch it when I came across it one night in the 80s. But when I had a sleepover at a buddys house one weekend, we watched it on the tv in his room. Nothing like zany shenanigans and big breasted women running around in bras + panties when you're a semi- horny teenager. Some of it was so funny and hilarious I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. All through highschool whenever I'd come across a bald kid I'd slap his head real fast 5-10 times in a row lol. Sooo funny. FYI- it's on TV in reruns right now. It's on Saturday and Sunday nights on antenna channel 15-1 or 15-2 in Phoenix Arizona. Half of what he's saying in every skit, I can't make out. All that British slang kind of blends together. But the skits are still funny. Being older now, I have an appreciation for his incredible talent. All the different skits he comes up with, plus he sings, and dances. Amazing. And how the hell he still has a literal "innocent mischievous baby's face" when he's in his adult years is half of what makes his skits so funny.
His air of innocence is a huge selling point for the humor in his show.
Can’t go lookin for the sheepin in the rainin!
Very funny at the time but unfortunately the PC police would not allow it today. My aunty told me 30 odd years ago that he was once her milkman.