Benny Hill - Work in Progress

Funny what you find when you're looking for something else.

Found this Charles Bronson art in my storeroom today. 

Benny Hill was a man of many hidden layers.  Bit like the earth’s structure.. From a calm disinterest at the surface to a white-hot fire at the centre 4000 miles deep.. (Nobody’s ever reached the centre of the earth but it is known that a fire rages at its’ core). Nobody ever reached the centre of Benny’s being but some of us drilled  thru the first 25 miles to his upper mantle (complex, complicated)  and some of us, unwittingly, reached his molten outer core 1800 miles deep……the beginning of his white-hot rage (at women).

Benny Hill sketch I wrote.
Great to see it's up on the internet.  The sketch I wrote for Benny Hill about a pretty bride wolfing down all the cakes at her wedding reception and getting fatter and fatter. The groom (Benny)  then scarpering and the guests and bride all chasing Benny.   

Benny referred to it as my Fat Lady sketch.  

Here's the postcard he sent to me from Spain in 1976 telling me "Your Fat Lady is going into show 1, & should be out in Jan" 

click here to see the sketch from the Benny Hill show
Fat Lady sketch

It's well known that Benny used lots of writers but although he paid them he never gave them a credit on the show. Shame really. No repeat fees.

This pic was taken whilst we were filming the Benny Hill Show in the 70's.
Left to right: Cherri Gilham, Ed Stewpot Stewart, Sue Bond & Bob Todd.

Notes from a dvd
>>>>The "drop-dead gorgeous" (per Robert Ross in one of his A&E box set liner notes) Cheryl (a.k.a. Cherri) Gilham, seen here from her last TBHS appearance on 9/24/75 (as Eddie Buchanan, with backing from "Arsenic and Old Lace," was starting off with the song "Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like").  Her high-water mark on the show was Feb. 7, 1974, where she figured in the opening "Gondor" quickie (with her famous line, "Oh, that's my fravorite!"), the "Mervyn Cruddy, Spy Catcher" sketch (she was the secretary who could see through Mervyn's disguise in the opening part of the sketch), "The Minstrel Boy" ("You must be out of your medieval mind!"), and, of course, her Mae West impression (opposite Benny's W.C. Fields) in the "Lulubelle" sketch. She also conceived the "I Have To Watch My Figure" sketch (for which Benny , as with any contribution from others, took full writing credit
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