Editing Benny Hill (section)

== Celebrity fans ==

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| source = —[[Mike Myers]] lists some of the British pop cultural influences on his own career, June 2007<ref>{{cite news |title=I owe film fame to dad's Scouse sense of humour |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/owe-film-fame-dads-scouse-3510240 |last=Shennan |first=Paddy |access-date=8 September 2019 |work=Liverpool Echo}}</ref>
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[[Johnny Carson]] and sidekick [[Ed McMahon]] were both fans of Hill and tried several times to get him to travel to Los Angeles to be a guest on Carson's ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The {Richard Pryor, Ally Sheedy, Rod Hull} (TV)|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=late&p=162&item=B:44965 |access-date=24 October 2021 |agency=Paley Center}}</ref>

Radio and TV host [[Adam Carolla]] said that he was a fan of Hill whom he considered "as American as the Beatles". During [[List of The Man Show episodes#Season 2 (2000–01)|an episode]] of ''[[The Man Show]]'' in 2000, Carolla performed in what was billed as a tribute to "our favourite Englishman, Sir Benny Hill" (''sic''; Hill was never knighted), in more risqué versions of some of the sketches. Carolla played a rude and lecherous waiter, a typical Hill role, and the sketch featured many of the staples of Hill's shows, including a [[Jackie Wright]]-esque bald man, as well as scantily clad women.<ref>{{cite news |title="The Man Show" Benny Hill (TV Episode 2000) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954672/ |access-date=9 March 2025 |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

During a British tour in the 1970s, [[Michael Jackson]] said in an interview that he was a fan of Hill.<ref>{{cite news |title=The legend of Benny Hill |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-legend-of-benny-hill-9234415.html |access-date=27 June 2019 |work=The Independent}}</ref> In 1987, [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] filmed a video for their song "[[Anything She Does]]", featuring Hill as his character Fred Scuttle, portraying an incompetent security guard who lets a ridiculous number of fans backstage at a Genesis concert.<ref name="classic">{{cite news |title=Benny Hill in Profile |url=https://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/benny-hill-1924-1992 |access-date=27 June 2019 |work=britishclassiccomedy.co.uk}}</ref> In a June 2011 interview with ''[[The Observer]]'', the rapper [[Snoop Dogg]] declared himself to be a fan of Hill.<ref>Day, Elizabeth, [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/19/snoop-dogg-doggumentary-interview Snoop Dogg: 'Women are getting empowered. Now I have a daughter, I understand'], ''The Observer'', Sunday 19 June 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011.</ref> [[Busta Rhymes]] paid tribute to Hill while on the red carpet at the [[2024 MTV Europe Music Awards|2024 MTV EMAs]] in Manchester, England.<ref>{{cite news |title=Busta Rhymes: My love for Benny Hill started in Morecambe |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/big-up-benny-hill-comic-counts-busta-rhymes-as-a-fan-cfnmv5rpz |access-date=9 March 2025 |work=The Times}}</ref>

In the [[Omnibus (British TV programme)|''Omnibus'']] episode, "Benny Hill – Clown Imperial", filmed shortly before his death, several celebrities, including [[Burt Reynolds]], [[Michael Caine]], [[John Mortimer]], [[Mickey Rooney]] and [[Walter Cronkite]], among others, expressed their appreciation of and admiration for Hill and his humour. In Reynolds' case, the appreciation extended to the Hill's Angels as well.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny Hill – Clown Imperial|url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150392303|access-date=17 November 2020|website=Collections Search {{!}} BFI {{!}} British Film Institute}}</ref> The novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] was also an admirer of Hill. Burgess, whose novels were often comic, relished language, wordplay and dialect, and he admired the verbal and comedic skill that underlay Hill's success. Reviewing a biography of Hill, ''Saucy Boy'', in ''The Guardian'' in 1990, Burgess described Hill as "a comic genius steeped in the British [[music hall]] tradition" (as were [[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Stan Laurel]], two of Hill's childhood idols) and "one of the great artists of our age".<ref name="test"/> A meeting between the two men was described in a newspaper article by Burgess and recalled in the ''Telegraph'' newspaper by the satirist [[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]].<ref name="test">{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Craig |author-link=Craig Brown (satirist) |date=21 January 2006 |title=Way of the world |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622509/Way-of-the-world.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622509/Way-of-the-world.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |access-date=5 July 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>