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lol Jackie!
trisiti 2 years ago
Love Benny - comedy today is too jaded.
dojufitz 2 years ago
Wright's caterwauling in-between tromboning makes this sketch all the more hysterical..
professor1966 3 years ago
Agree! It's so funny that we don't even need to know the meaning of his "lyrics".
coralarch 3 years ago
Just to clarify some details: The first music piece is the Air in D from Bach's Third Suite. The second is The Swan from The Carnival of Animals by Saint-Saens. The keyboard looks like a harmonium, and Jackie Wright is singing notes supposedly higher than the range of the trombone.
jmr1954x 3 years ago
He also did a slight variation on "Prunella" where he sang it like Anthony Newley.
major600 3 years ago
One of the classic Benny Hill skits, looks like they had a lot of fun filming that one. If I could just figure out what little Jackie Wright is singing (or why?)
ertznay 3 years ago
The music is "The Dying Swan", a classical piece, often used for a very famous ballet solo.
Little Jackie Wright really was playing that trombone---very badly, on purpose. In his youth, he was a professional trombone-player in his native Ireland. Unable to find work during the Depression, he moved to the USA. He eventually moved back to the UK, and became a comedy performer.
OofusTwillip 3 years ago
Actually, the first piece is famous for being used in the long-running series of adverts for Hamlet cigars, in which things go terribly wrong for the protagonist, who ultimately decides there's nothing to do, but light up a Hamlet.
The second piece is "The Dying Swan".
Both pieces are very appropriate for such a terrible musical accompaniment to such questionable poetry.
OofusTwillip 3 years ago
But oo's the fat guy?
El135o 3 years ago
Jim Tyson (R.I.P.) He was a professional drummer as well as comic stooge and bit-part extra. The keyboardist was Josie Stewart (as her name was spelled on the March 22, 1972 show from which this originated).
Who wrote the Hamlet cigars piece? I know Saint-Saens wrote "Le Cygne" . . .
wmbrown6 3 years ago
Benny Hill the Late and great
gaiden88 4 years ago
On T.V.They actually edit out the parts where Little Jackie wright says those funny things.
trexx65 4 years ago
Actually, the syndicated version didn't even have "My Mate Ted."
wmbrown6 2 years ago
simply great!!!
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Eitanfirenze 5 years ago
Im still watching the great benny hill on tv.
SETINWAYS 5 years ago