Dave Allen was a lot funnier, but his show didn’t have near the number of boobies in that Benny Hill’s did.
Roomie was channel surfing and came upon Nuns On The Run. She said it was hilarious. She found the film just before the shower scene. I looked up at that scene and said, ‘Boobies! This is a great film!’ 
At least some Benny Hills jokes were a bit more like typical ‘understated’ British humo(u)r’ , 2 that stand out after all these decades in my mind were a shot of a troop ship leaving port while crowds cheered, and the announcer saying something like ‘as the men on the ship left for the war, the crowds on the docks waved and cheered, because they weren’t going’ and another throwaway one - graffiti on a fence - camera focus on one ‘Perserve Wildilfe’ then next shot ‘Pickle a Squirrel Today’. There were probably many more, but they are buried under the masses of old-man getting slapped jokes, men in drag jokes, leering-songs, and the obligatory end of show mad-cap chase scene*.
*If the original shows were 80minutes, and the American re-cuts were 30 (nominal) minutes, where did they get the extra chase-scenes which I always remember the shows ending on - actually, whoever re-edited them did a good seemless job, as it had seemed to be a 30minute show
Bitch. 
I had it as mine for a while, but it used to go off at night and make me almost shit my drawers with its abrupt appearance.
Joe
And then there was the gag that still makes me giggle today.
Benny and the old man are being interviewed by a television reporter. They play extreme bumpkins with strong accents, and they’re wearing huge, theatrical wigs. The interviewer asks them,
“What was the first thing you did when you arrived in London?”
Benny: “We bought toupees.”
Interviewer (puzzled): “Toupees?”
Benny: “Aye. A pay for him and a pay for me.”
Pies, of course. I don’t know what accent he was lampooning, but it still makes me laugh.
Damn, I believe you’re right. Which is a shame, 'cause I hated Laugh-In.
This statement all of a sudden made Benny Hill make a little more sense. It did not make it funny, but is sure seems to be an equivalent to Hee Haw, which wasn’t really funny either.
The jokes were just the right amount of content necessary to show the T&A.
I just have never gotten this. The General is occasionally funny, and the DVD I saw had ***Cops ***on it, so I’ve seen that. Meh. The Navigator didn’t do anything for me and is racist. I’ve seen some of his stuff with Fatty Arbuckle and it’s meh.
The Pilgrim, A Dog’s Life, The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights and Modern Times all make me laugh, and are satisfying stories to boot.
I guess people, I don’t know, have some sorts of…different opinions…from mine. Sometimes.
Calling him ‘Asquith’ was a typical stroke of genius too.
(hehe…i said stroke)
True Story:
My dad and uncle were in Australia. They had lunch with a new friend (Bob) and were having pie for dessert. Bob asked dad what he did for a living and dad told him that he was an underwriter. Bob then asked, “How’s the pie?”
“Delicious” said dad.
“No, the Pie.” Bob repeated.
“What, this pie?”
“No, for your job. Does it Pie well?”
As for the OP: to a boy in the late 70’s, early 80’s Benny Hill was a blessing in those pre-internet days. Almost as good as finding a moldy scrap of a porn mag in the woods and even better than a glimpse of boob on the scrambled porn channel.
That was something I saw remarked in a review of The Kids In The Hall when it was new: it was among the first times that there was a show where the male performers appeared in drag, and being in drag wasn’t part of the joke. That would have been, what, around 1990?
If you liked that, you’ll probably love “Four Candles” from The Two Ronnies.
Kenny Everette came on in the wee hours when I was quite young. I watched it Friday nights and thought myself very mature for getting the jokes.
One I remember that still makes me chuckle was on the cartoon where he was a hero astronaut with a sexy co- pilot. They save the world and are offered little statues of themselves as rewards. “Would you like to have them mounted?” Kenny is asked.
“No. Holding hands will be fine,” he answered.
Ha!
I still have a nostalgic fondness for Benny Hill. It’s not highbrown, Swiftian humor, and it’s not meant to be.
I still love it when he played a Chinese diplomat or something with a heavy accent and the other guy was interviewing him:
INterviewer: “This gentleman here is an expert in karate, kung fu, juijitsu…”
Benny (thick accent): “Gooda heaving h’evy body.”
Interviewer: “…Good at heaving a heavy body…”
Benny (thick accent): “No, no, not ‘good a’ heaving a heavy body… GOOD 'EVING 'EVYBODY!”
Interviewer: “Ohhhhh…‘Good evening everybody!’”
Benny (thick accent): “YEEESSS! (aside to audience) Horry Mackeral!”
Love his Fred Scuttle character:
Fred: “I am endeavoring to be the first British man on the moon, and I will travel in my ship, Indestructible The Second!”
Interviewer: “What happened to Indestructible the First?”
Fred: “It fell apart, sir!”
How about Benny Hill as the owner of a Chinese restaurant and the tall old guy as his Hindu head chef at the arbitration hearing?
“We’re going to have a very nice art collection, mostly abstracts.”
“Pollocks?”
“It’s true, sir!”
“He needs to put more men on the job!”
Should I be proud or ashamed that I came up with the punch line (or a close approximation of it) of that bit from memory, having not seen it in about twenty years?