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To appreciate Benny Hill, you have to recognize both time and space. It's not 1965 anymore.
by mbg721 4y ago
To appreciate Benny Hill, you have to recognize both time and space. It's not 1965 anymore.
- lostlogin 4y agoHowever… put the music on and I expect to see a fiasco play out.
- mbg721 4y agoI would expect a similar result if someone had a record of the "The Price Is Right" theme music.
- DyslexicAtheist 4y agoYakety Sax[1] :) but everybody knows it as the Benny Hill theme song. Benny Hill helped popularize it but it was there earlier, and itself inspired by Yakety Yak (which is a name of Ubuntu release 16.10 - now we're full circle :)) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Sax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Sax
- mattkevan 4y agoThere were amazing scenes just the other day when someone blasted Yakety Sax outside of Parliament as the government was collapsing. Made for some wonderful TV - and apparently was due to a suggestion by Hugh Grant, no less. https://mobile.twitter.com/nickfthilton/status/1544992559692480512 https://mobile.twitter.com/nickfthilton/status/1544992559692...
- mbg721 4y agoI was going to say something snarky about Hugh Grant and Pierce Brosnan and other charming Englishmen in suits getting to embrace the full national experience with Benny Hill, except evidently Pierce Brosnan is actually from Ireland. Today I learned.