Originally named Alfie Hill, he changed his given name to represent the vaudevillian comic Jack Benny, as Hill's television show contained heavy amounts of old-time if naughty humor from the vaudeville era.
On the plus side, he was very talented as a performer, and his humor was sometimes very clever. On the minus side, he repeated his jokes an awful lot over the years, and he depended quite heavily on vulgarian and smutty humor, with jokes about various cleavages, cross-dressing (not funny in and of itself), and other such jokes, the humor often being dirty even if it very rarely depicted actual private parts (a few episodes actually did show bare breasts and buttocks).
Benny Hill said about his show that the women retained their dignity while the men looked like idiots. Yet every woman I've known dislikes the show. Very funny at times, but as I mentioned, the show repeated its jokes too often.
On the plus side, he was very talented as a performer, and his humor was sometimes very clever. On the minus side, he repeated his jokes an awful lot over the years, and he depended quite heavily on vulgarian and smutty humor, with jokes about various cleavages, cross-dressing (not funny in and of itself), and other such jokes, the humor often being dirty even if it very rarely depicted actual private parts (a few episodes actually did show bare breasts and buttocks).
Benny Hill said about his show that the women retained their dignity while the men looked like idiots. Yet every woman I've known dislikes the show. Very funny at times, but as I mentioned, the show repeated its jokes too often.