I was about to ask why Elvis is so popular in Britain, but then I realized that the response I'd get would be, "Why are the Beatles so popular in America?"
Well, he hasn't been doing a lot of TV appearances lately. Being dead can really put the kabosh to ones career.
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I may also be due to the exposure that certain British comedians had in the US. Monty Python was regularly shown on PBS (public broadcasting) in the 70s and 80s. Benny Hill was part of a syndication package that meant it would be shown on higher rated stations (WCCO in Minneapolis) in the late 70s and early 80s. If Dudley Moore and Peter Cook's series (too name one) had been shown here, US citizens would probably remember their show as well. One problem is that many UK series from the 60s to 80s were not very prolific, and it wasn't worthwhile for a syndicator to distribute them, and stations need to fill schedules for longer than a few weeks. The rule of thumb in this country is 100 episodes are needed for a good syndication run. What usually happened instead is that we would just adapt a sitcom for US TV. I remember when CCO showed episodes of "Man About the House" and "Robin's Nest" late at night and thinking "this is 'Three's Company.'"You know what I mean. When I travel, I frequently have Americans telling me how much they like British comedy and roughly half of the time they're talking about The Benny Hill Show as if it is some cornerstone of our culture (which it isn't). The rest of the time they're usually talking about Monty Python, which is fair enough because that most definitely is a cornerstone of our culture
Sorry, I think I may be getting off topic here... was Benny Hill a Freemason?
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STILL DEAD
