Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Ben… Read Full Bio ↴Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. Since its debut in 1969 his television show has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide, with viewership in the millions.

The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In the West)" is a bit autobiographical. Benny Hill had been a milkman in Eastleigh, Hampshire, working for Hanns Dairy whose premises was yards way from Market Street. There was a bakery near the dairy that did indeed have a delivery van. Having been born and raised (and eventually buried) in Southampton, Benny Hill did live in Teddington.

Interview
Benny Hill Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Interview' by these artists:

A.P.G. Crew I'm your girl Ano Damo And we right her on the…
Adam Pascal & Josh Groban Tonight's final item is a Global scoop. The former champion,…
Aposento Alto No era como niño normales No tenia amigos ni vecinos locales…
Artifacts [El Da Sensei] My characteristics be mistic, you ask who is…
B-Mad About Eazy Tell me how y'all felt, when you heard first That…
Big Sean I guess I'm on my... on my Don shit Somebody gotta…
Body Count [knock knock] Yeah 1,2,1,2 let me get this tape recorder…
Bushido Bushido, stimmt das Dass du keine Journalisten magst? Nein, …
C-Luv Yeah I don't know I don't know Yeah I don't know What you th…

Carly Simon A sweet young man sat on my chair With a tape…
Carpenters Yo, Ty cooked this shit up Yo, Listen up to when…
Charles Manson check this man, you're born with a survival instinct, to…
Chase Murphy Yeah (Alright) Times change, seasons change Anywhere I go co…
D-Block All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
D-Boy Ladies and gentleman I would like to welcome stony boy Yeah…
D-Tour All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
Das EFX We haven't lyrics of this song. Please, add these lyrics…
Dickie Goodman & Friends All your marsupial annotations That you carry around may rin…
Eminem and D-12 All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
Eric Nam Hey girl, hello 오늘 기분 어때요 이렇게 만나게 돼서 난 좀 설레요 우선 먼저…
Flint Town's F.O.D. All my life I been underrated man This shit ain't nothing…
G-Rizm I'm your girl Ano Damo And we right her on the…
Gentle Giant Yes it's been hard, going a long time And we're together…
Gleb Blow a hole in ya trunk - afraid of us You…
I-Culcha About Eazy Tell me how y'all felt, when you heard first That…
I.C.P. Yeah I don't know I don't know Yeah I don't know What you th…
IAM Si c'est une interview que vous voulez, je vais vous…
Insane Clown Posse "Hello! How ya doing? I'm here with the Insane Clown…
Iron & Wine Keith Wilfort: How did you feel when you finally learned tha…
J. Paul Jr And The Zydeco Nubreeds Say, We ain't gotta go no cinema. Shawty outta motion pictur…
Jadakiss Anthony Donahue here with the legendary (Ahaa!) Not Steven A…
James Brown What′s special about this album? What's special about it, i…
Kang Daniel Hello hello 널 알고 싶어졌어 Show me somethin′ 하나부터 열까지 물어볼게 넌 하고 싶…
KANGDANIEL Hello (hello) 널 알고 싶어졌어 So show me somethin', oh 하나부터 열까지 물어…
Karl Bartos Instant coffee Commercial break Marmalade Roller blades …
Kevin Ayers I have been called a down Yes you may write that…
L.O.X. The Yeah I don't know I don't know Yeah I don't know What you th…
Lefa Sora YoungK ta prod parle mal, j'vais la kicker Je vais fai…
Les Blérots de R.A.V.E.L что твой внутренний голос говорит тебе каждый день? честно …
Lino Sous les éclats de rire de la foudre et le…
M. Ward что твой внутренний голос говорит тебе каждый день? честно …
Mew You tell me in so many hushed words In your chrysalis…
Michelle Rocqet Did you know that magic needs a habit And this habit…
One on One All your marsupial annotations That you carry around may rin…
Quality Control They say that nigga that don't talk much is that…
R. Nicol Entrea Ay, tantas cosas que quiero Decirte yo quiero Hacer p…
R.C. Sproul and John Duncan Yeah I don't know I don't know Yeah I don't know What you th…
Robert Calvert Officer: So you want to be a fighter pilot. Recruit: A…
roxette www.djdan18.com.ar Entrea Ay, tantas cosas que quiero Decirte yo quiero Hacer p…
S. N. Goenka Dominion Frozen Image had connections with a group from our …
Saga Good afternoon! May I introduce myself? With a story to be…
Shaimus In our lives, how do we perceive? Do we know what's…
Sido Hallo, Ich bin's wieder Frank Furz vom Schulradio Schlaue We…
Simon Bookish I find myself in an imposing boardroom lined in oak for a…
Slim Thug What's good everybody? It's your girl Alana D. Chillin' with…
So Yeon 소연씨, 그분에 대해 이야기 좀 들을 수 있을까요? 처음 느낀 감정…
Styles P & Jadakiss Anthony Donahue here with the legendary (Ahaa!) Not Steven A…
Sway & King Tech The most important artist of this Generation over 21 Grammy'…
TakeOff & Offset They say that nigga that don't talk much is that…
The Holloways Every little bit hurts Every little bit hurts Every night …
The Iron Maidens Keith Wilfort: How did you feel when you finally learned tha…
The Notorious B.I.G. About Eazy Tell me how y'all felt, when you heard first That…
Travi$ Scott Straight from Mexico called a Quintana I got diamonds on my…
U-Roy Ayo shoutout Mayor Penguin Music Who has 24 beats available …
v/a - FUCKED UP Mix Tape vol. 1 Say, We ain't gotta go no cinema. Shawty outta motion pictur…
Weezer Hey Hey, yeah, um, I would like to know Yes Yes Come on g…
WURZEL 5 FEAT. PHANTWO Müpf Phantwo hamer überleit dr name z wechsle wäge dir u…
Young Jeezy Im inside a boudoir Getting head I′m so raw You know why…
Yukarie 目覚えのない私きっとどこかにひそんでいるある朝 TVをつけたらいきなりインタビュー私映ってる (インタビュー)…
Z Ro & Slim Thug What's good everybody? It's your girl Alana D. Chillin' with…
Zooey Deschanel feat. M. Ward что твой внутренний голос говорит тебе каждый день? честно …
강다니엘 Hello (hello) 널 알고 싶어졌어 So show me somethin', oh 하나부터 열까지 물어…
에릭남 Hey girl, hello 오늘 기분 어때요 이렇게 만나게 돼서 난 좀 설레요 우선 먼저…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Benny Hill:

Ernie You could hear the hoof beats pound As they raced across…
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) You could hear the hoof beats pound as they raced…
Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West You could hear the hoof beats pound As they raced across…
Ernie-The Fastest Milkman in the West You could hear the hoof beats pound As they raced across…
Gather in the Mushrooms Lucy went down on a farm, tried to milk a…
Harvest of Love I rise at six and then I feed the chicks, And…
Jose's Cantina When I met you, in Rosie's Cantina, You looked so lonesome…
My Garden of Love Oh the sun and the rain fell from up above And…
Ting-A-Ling-A-Loo Now if you're feeling miserable, if you're feeling blue, He…

Transistor Radio My baby's got a transistor radio She takes it everywhere we…

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Comments from YouTube:

@peterturley1331

3y↑135

An extremely intelligent, learned, charismatic gentleman and truly outstanding comedian. 💜

@retrothingz

3y↑9

Indeed....a very charismatic guy

@TheDoctor1225

51w↑2

He was indeed. I often think, having grown up watching him in the 80's (and as most teenaged boys did, appreciating the women as well as the humor) how sad it was that so many were so disparaging of him, never realizing what would be considered "mainstream" and "acceptable" on TV today, however many years later. I'd watch him any day of the week and twice on Sunday instead of the "comedy" we have now.

@rick182z

19w

He would have been the last to get his round in though

@highwaystar3780

11w

My idol growing up and still❤rip

@mdrew44628

3y↑123

Benny Hill was a genius. I started watching his shows on a local PBS station in the late 70's.

@johnphantom

3y↑9

Yeah he was awesome, a by-gone era that we will probably never see again. I am old and I have 1 seven year old niece, I have a collection of movie and TV stuff with notes I've made for her to go through when she gets older, the entire Benny collection is part of it, one of the very few TV series I have which includes MPFC.

@erickrosales2590

3y↑3

Benny Hill was not in all PBS stations, for example in Chicago it was aired on WFLD in the late 70s thru the 80s and later WGBO thru 91 or 92 before Univision aquired it. Never on WTTW, a PBS station.

@mdrew44628

3y↑3

@@erickrosales2590 yeah, I can't speak for all PBS stations, but in the Capital District, it was on WMHT. The had loads of BBC stuff.....probably still do....😀

@logicalnetwork1611

2y↑3

Probably greatest comedian from our shores

@kylekyle7386

2y↑1

@@erickrosales2590 I grew up in Chicago in the 80's and i thought that channel 11 PBS which did sesame street, i thought that Benny Hill came on late (after all the kids were asleep) came on. I did watch it back then, just don't remember the exact channel but pretty sure it was channel 11.

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@generalzod7959

3y↑78

One of the all-time greats! 👍

@cometbook

3y↑59

Underrated genius, he never got the recognition he deserved.

@Trev359

3y↑15

I wouldn't call him underrated. His show lasted from the mid 50s to the late 80s. That's much longer than any other comedian I can think of. He was hugely popular.

@zanussidish8144

3y↑2

Underrated? Because he didn't win an Oscar?

@pressureworks

No he was not, and Yes he did !!! Are you an iriditt ???

@stubi1103

3y↑19

I'm German and please let me say, I'm missing this great man and artist, Mister Benny Hill, his unique team and the beautiful women so much.....
Thank you for sharing !.....💖

@sheene71

2y↑2

your german is wonderbra danke oops

@stubi1103

2y↑2

@@sheene71 And your German almost as good as Benny Hill's ! LOL...👍 😂

@wpbutt

3y↑54

Streets ahead of any of the modern day so called comedians -- Benny will NEVER be bettered

@northerly86

2y↑7

This is the only interview of this type I've seen with Benny.

@rustydog1236

2y↑8

He's now back on TV 📺 in the USA : for free broadcast Decades TV channel Sunday nights. Over the air for free or check your cable listing, also streaming in the usual places.

@ALEKHINE1927

3y↑19

This just wouldn't be allowed today. That's how sad it's become!!!

@theearthisfallingtheskyisl4801

3y↑24

We miss Benny!

@BB-wc9jx

3y↑49

What a lovely man and a superb comic genius, will never forgive ITV or the pc brigade for driving him off television and sadly to an early grave and look at the vulgar vile crap that we are subjected to on our tv screens now. I had the pleasure to meet him and the Benny hill gang when i was at school and you could not meet a more decent and humble man ❤

@user-iw4gc9vt9p

3y↑19

Benny Hill show was my favorite one when I was in the🇺🇸in the early 90’s.

Although I did not speak English very well at that time, Just watching him made me happy and soothing.

Peace and Love from Japan 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇯🇵🇯🇵

@antonioa7091

3y↑7

Great comedian, great loss, greetings from Italy

@KAZAKHCAT

2y↑7

LOVE YOU LEGEND AND PURE TALENT THANK YOU FOR MY HAPPY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

@colincofield3747

3y↑39

I loved watching Benny Hill when I was a kid.

@jonnilongmire

3y↑2

Yep me too.

@SparkyStevens8899

12w

Me three

@frantzkenol6720

3y↑24

Man, I loved Benny Hill

@user-hv8bu8jx5k

3y↑5

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992)

@Locahaskatexu

2y↑16

I love the bit where he's reading from his diary :P You know that look he gets when he's about to deliver his punchline, that impish smirk he puts on when looking straight into the camera xD I love it. Benny Hill taught me a lot of English, he was an absolute master at wordplay.

@blachubear

3y↑48

WOW!!!! This is a rare treat. Where's the rest of this interview?

@BennyHillTHAMES

3y↑30

I wish I had it! It's a holy grail for me!

@hermanthetosser4219

3y↑4

@@BennyHillTHAMES someone might have access to tv archives. I think university students can be granted access to all these sort of programmes from the past

@celticmist14

2y↑2

Try and find it in the arvive

@celticmist14

2y↑3

Didn't Bob Monkhouse keep an archive. of all television programmes? He said th a in an interview

@westfield90

3y↑7

So good

@djizzah

2y↑10

My stepfather was the boss of a big insurance company here in Australia and he'd come home from New York or somewhere important business sit on the couch watching this guy on TV in the early seventies and laugh until he cried!!

@gustavoibarra8685

3y↑33

BBC should do a movie about his life. I’m not even from Europe but from the far Uruguay , just to get you a picture how far his humor went. My generation grew up with this man. The movie will be a ww success !.

@N1611n

3y↑11

I miss him.

@robadams5799

2y↑4

Benny Hill was brillantly underrated, and he did a great American accent. Sadly, he died on my 23rd birthday. 😞

@rtc9063

2y↑9

Did this interview take place in 1991 (it must have been earlier) considering the appalling treatment by Thames in 1989 when they axed the show. Whilst I never had one good thing to say about Carlton, Thames treatment of Benny to call him in to sack him with no warning after all the income he brought to Thames from overseas sales was utterly disgusting. I know times were changing, but they could have handled it so much better.

@0ConkersBadFurDay0

2y↑3

It literally destroyed him. One of their biggest, if not THE biggest stars on TV. sadly missed 😢 RIP Benny

@seantapper498

3y↑4

Beautiful man GEM

@trevorkeyes6067

19w↑1

Very good interview

@simonedipaola1665

3y↑4

Benny Hill Legend 💖

@nigelwilliams9307

2y↑3

Two lovely men and great natural entertainers.

@JC-ug7rg

1y↑1

Thanks for sharing

@piramida369

3y↑5

Benny Hill...💚💚💚

@cookaboorra

3y↑5

He was SO good

@andylane247

2y↑2

I remember being at a local wine festival in a small Cher valley winery. They had a competition where they'd play a television theme. You would guess the theme and run up to the little stage, first there got a bottle of wine. When Benny Hill theme was played EVERYONE ran towards the stage !!

@trevorkeyes6067

2y↑4

2 legends of showbiz r.i.p

@vickielawson3114

2y↑5

It’s sad to think that just the next year, he’d be found by his producer in his flat having already been gone a couple days. If he’d never been sacked, I’m sure he’d have lived a few years longer.

@lydia5649

3y↑4

Missing you Sir 😉

@michaellarkin7853

37w↑2

somebody please put the full interview up ...we LOVE benny .

@lorrainereeves4466

3y↑4

He comes over as such a nice guy. No dope but maybe an innocent. Bless him.

@beaumichael6359

3y↑5

Named after Jack Benny? WELL!

@mrmeerkat1096

1y↑4

Brilliant, genuinely talented man! He wasn't just a comedy actor he wrote all of his own stuff. Genius. It was definitely not about the money with Benny hill. After his death his colleagues and friends said the amount of uncashed cheques from the TV company he had in a pile. He would get loads of royalty payments from around the world and he had alot of money but he lived a very simple life. He wasn't lavish at all and did it because he had a passion for comedy.

@1964paulsmith

3y↑5

A great and very funny man.

@BennyHillTHAMES

3y↑11

Originally uploaded on YT by VHS Ephemera (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT9qmuzNvdKBCpXtJPT4u7w ) as part of the program 'Benny Hill - An Appreciation'

@arthursteven5601

Two of the greatest tv stars ever 🌟 🌟 ❤🇬🇧

@bradkoski

2y↑2

Love Benny Hill….grew up on this guy’s comedy

@bennyhill4228

49w

brilliant much loved and missed

@MsBackstager

3y↑5

A pretty and lovely guy.

@RushiesBoots

3y↑5

Two greats.
Their like will never be seen again because the society that created them has been destroyed.

@Voxac100b

2y↑1

A nice man and great comic

@stebrad123

I loved Benny Hill. Absolutely hilarious

@giorgiosorrentino5106

2y↑2

Un maestro, un uomo geniale.

@robertbaker5156

3y↑11

Benny Hill the greatest man on tv ever!!!!

@gobravo123

23w

We miss him, dearly.

@drundub73

3y↑2

I miss these old chat shows.

@carrer9892

42w↑1

❤LEGEND

@ShadowPriestBear

2y↑1

Benny was so adorable ❤️

@hermanthetosser4219

3y↑3

Gone too soon...

@andywright3450

2y↑1

Genius Benny nothing else too be said 💯💯💯💯💯💯

@bennyhill4228

49w

@The benny Hill consortium thank you i gotta watch that BMX one again

@user-mj3mx3qt6y

2y↑1

Legends

@markbehr88

2y↑1

Be good to see the whole interview.

@jamsheadaziz3999

2y↑3

Shame how he was treated towards the end. A true comic genius. And a great actor. Remember chitty chitty bang bang??

@xr6lad

2y↑2

And The Italian Job (the original). He had been in a few movies.

@Susan-md6nd

My favourite comedian ❤️

@martinledesma5988

3y↑4

🙏👍

@susiefairfield7218

3y↑11

Still hoping Mike Myers will make a Movie about Benny Hill 🤞

@bennyhillconsideredfunnier3356

3y↑2

Myers has a little to some genuine talent to be sure but nobody playing Hill could justice to him. I am not saying Myers is lousy he is not.But Hill was so much greater!

@scottlin7876

2y↑1

he was great

@jc-d6179

33w↑1

A comic genius.

@Dlweddl68

19w

Benny Hill:The Legend.

@davebeech236

3y↑41

'Asked if he could borrow my pencil sharpener' - only those of us of a certain age know what a great gag that was! RIP Benny, can't wait to meet you in Heaven!

@philbijohn

3y↑6

Can you please explain that joke, Dave? I did not get it.

@davebeech236

3y↑5

@@philbijohn Ray Allan was a ventriloquist and Lord Charles was his dummy.

@philbijohn

3y↑8

@@davebeech236Wow! It just hit me! With the sharpener, he was hoping to perform a circumcision!!! Lol

@nemqone8562

3y↑1

@@philbijohn but how the hell is anyone supposed to get that gag - it's ridiculously hard and still doesn't make much sense. Even if someone finds the connection with Israel>Jewish>Circumcision, and Ventiliguist>wooden male dummy, and pencil sharper>can be used to circumcise a male dummy's private part, but why would the ventriliguist want to circumcise his dummy because he was going to work in Israel????

@philbijohn

3y↑4

@@nemqone8562 i agree, NQ. It took me a while to get that joke and that too with the help of other viewers here. But i feel this shows the brilliance of Benny Hill. People used to accuse him of peddling slapstick and crude humour. But this shows that his jokes could make you think and could be high brow. Some of the jokes he used to crack in his Fred Scuttle character would also make you pause and think and when the joke hits you, it would make the bit only funnier.

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@karenhosey4245

48w

He was my favorite comedian

@samuelkearney880

31w

I do miss Mr Hill. Used to watch him with my late father as a nipper.

@JohnJohnson-tw8qk

3y↑14

Legend sadly missed grew up watching Benny hill still funny and I read somewhere once that Ben Elton had Benny cancelled Benny hill had more funny in his little finger than the unfunny Ben Elton

@marcustibbs2803

20w

RIP Des and Benny

@jimmyallen2008

2y↑2

Jim Davidson joke is an absoloute belter

@NewMessage

3y↑25

That circumcision joke was top notch.

@frantzkenol6720

3y↑9

I actually missed it. Thanks for the explanation

@MsBackstager

3y↑6

I get the point.

@muskymcg

3y↑6

@@MsBackstager so did the Jewish doctor !

@TallSilentGuy

3y↑3

A cut above the rest!

@johnathanryan2117

25w↑2

Easy to dismiss as a relic of a past time, no thanks to certain alternative " comedians" but thats a lazy view, an extremely clever, talented, funny and hardworking complex man whos talent for dialect, wordplay and jokes are sadly missed. One of the few people who it can be genuinely said, we wont see his ilk again. Sadly missed 3 decades after his death.

God Bless you Benny!

@stephenclarke8864

41w

One of the characters of the good old days

@digitalmediafan

3y↑3

Brilliant but where's the rest ?!

@BennyHillTHAMES

3y↑8

It's all I have sadly. I hope someone out there has the whole thing so it can be shared.

@muskymcg

3y↑1

@@BennyHillTHAMES we want more !!! Thanks

@JoaoAntonioFranz

Impressive restoration work! Congratulations!
By the way, what anti-aliasing method you use?

@aurelf3158

Great person,titan actor!

@ruthecker399

loved him always funny

@alecjohnson5269

Legend benny hill

@dogstar5927

The 🐐

@user-pr8my7zb1f

Класс 👍💐 , помню с детства

@bennyhillconsideredfunnier3356

3y↑2

!!!!!!!!!!!

@geofsharp658

Unique.

@nadiadekkari4486

Benny Hill👍 👄 🤩

@robertotuosto3272

Un Grande Comico

@MahlerHolic1860

A comedy legend.

@celticmist14

He looked so handsome there

@kissmy_butt1302

20w

He wouldn't be around that much longer after this. He had a sad ending. He really was the British Robin Williams. Funny as hell and always pleasant but very lonely. God he brought me many smiles in my youth.

@JamesRichards-mj9kw

11w

He was like Jimmy Savile.

@Benlu64

He lived in his mother's house in Shirley ,Southampton a few yards from my first school. Not sure he was a recluse but he liked a quiet ,private life, alone.

@jamesmann756

Does anyone have the complete interview?

@andymcgill354

I used to pass his house in hill lane in Southampton

@lingolarker9318

2y↑1

Watching old Benny Holl Dhows on That’s TV Xmas brought me here. My dad didn’t exactly approve of his comedic style which largely explains why I missed out on so much of his work😄. Funny he should bring up Jim Davidson there. I just saw a sketch featuring the riding boots gag and thought to myself it was Jim Davidson I first heard utter the line ‘you try walking in them’😆

@lingolarker9318

2y↑1

Benny Hill Shows(!!). Bluddy predictive text😡

@kirk93814

3y↑5

Miss his comedic genius 😢

@Cyndithia68

14w

Benny Hill he was a comic genius, Ernie and his milk cart.

@johnlappin5881

2y↑1

A great comedian gone to soon

@itsthegumptionforme6233

29w↑3

He was absolutely hilarious. I don't understand why being a recluse makes some people uneasy, so what? The man lived a quiet life, wasn't involved in any indecent scandals (unless I missed something) and was really passionate about comedy. So what if he chose to be a recluse or not?