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Paul Whitehouse's Sketch Show Years review: Bravo Paul, for daring to remind us of Benny Hill's joyful slapstick, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Paul Whitehouse, star of The Fast Show and now Gone Fishing, dared to say it - Benny Hill was brilliantly funny.
Acknowledged geniuses such as Les Dawson and the Python troupe were included too, though the selection was too predictable — the dead parrot, conductor Andrew Preview, fork handles and Bloody Greta Garbo all featured. He took a nostalgic joy in reminding us of Dick Emery's favourite characters — Honky-Tonks mincing in his silks and extravagant hats, and saucy Mandy dispatching every suitor with a shove: 'Ooh, you are awful . During the Cold War, Russians picked up his programme by turning their TV aerials towards Finland, until Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ruled that Benny could be broadcast in the Soviet Union — one of the Kremlin's most popular decisions ever.
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