November 27, 2004

• I think Benny Hill is funny. Like, really funny. Not funny like 'man hands' on Seinfeld, but funny like the Great Cosmic Joke.

  Now, Benny Hill is not about the Great Cosmic Joke. He's an NC-17 rated vaudevillian with nothing deeper on his mind than how to get men to laugh at jokes about sex. But he has moments of transcendence, especially when it comes to language and his inside-out perspective on TV production. He is the cosmic joke. He's just seeing what he can get away with. Sometimes he cracks up at his own jokes, amazed that the audience is buying it.

  He is the sage who repeats the same lesson a thousand different ways, only the lesson involves tits. And ass.

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