Paul Whitehouse’s Sketch Show Years, review: is Benny Hill really a forgotten comedy genius?

• Is it time to give Benny Hill the respect he deserves? Paul Whitehouse thinks so. In Paul Whitehouse’s Sketch Show Years (Gold), a love letter to the comedy genre, we’re treated to clips from The Benny Hill Show. In the 1970s, it attracted audiences of 20 million and was regarded as saucy postcard humour. However, Hill’s career fizzled out at the end of the 1980s, as Whitehouse laments: “Despite his shows being huge in America, he was falling foul of the ‘you can’t say that no more’ rule here at