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I'm just being contrarian here, I'm with you - on the other hand, the 16-to-22 year old version of me laughed pretty hard at Benny Hill, and doesn't want to apologize for that.
Would I laugh today, no, it seems like it had its own context even for its day; and it felt like the context was culturally twisted; like, it feels very sexist now, but back then, it was pushing a certain boundary to a certain limit, which was actually freeing to its audience in a comic setting.
some of that is: there is a partly naked woman and many people like to see that, but it is not permitted, unless it is in a comedy universe where the rules are different
but there may be some other aspects of it that everyone interprets differently. really that is what drama and comedy should do. so i should defend it even if i disagree with it
Without that context, we are lost in trying to interpret why anyone would take so much time as to set up a bit, where a pretty woman stands at a counter and appears to have enormous naked breasts, until she walks away and it turns out to be two bald men face down in front her at the counter with cherries in front of them.
But the 1980 version of me found that to be a riot.
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