Monday, January 05, 2004 |
The Footy Hill Show
Spending this Christmas at my Wife's parents place had the added benefit of access to Foxtel.
Now whilst I will admit most of the stuff on Foxtel is a load of crap, (usually 30 year old crap at that) there are some interesting things on there from time to time.
This is especially so when contrasted against Free to Air television at Christmas time.
When watching Foxtel I will usually stick to about 4 different channels being Discovery, National Geographic, Music Maxx if they have on something about a band I like and the History/Hitler channel.
As the show went on the parallels between The Benny Hill Show and Paul "Fatty" Vautin from the Footy Show grew more startling.
For those of you not familiar with the National Rugby League version of the Footy Show, let me draw you a picture.
On one hand we have an hour long show packed full of grown men prancing around in dresses, making funny faces, spouting line after line of sexual innuendo and the occasional glimpse of scantily clad young women.
The other is the Benny Hill Show.
After you draw the connection you can clearly see that little head waggle that Vautin does - Stolen from Benny.
The way that most of the Footy Show sketches have no actual dialogue and instead rely on a series of funny faces, noises of sexually suggestive poses - Stolen from Benny
Paul "Fatty" Vautin's facial features - Stolen from Benny
I suppose it goes to show that whilst we still have footy players regardless of the code, there will always be a market for guys in dresses making jokes about each other's sexual preferences.
If Benny has passed the torch onto Fatty, who shall bear it next?
Spending this Christmas at my Wife's parents place had the added benefit of access to Foxtel.
Now whilst I will admit most of the stuff on Foxtel is a load of crap, (usually 30 year old crap at that) there are some interesting things on there from time to time.
This is especially so when contrasted against Free to Air television at Christmas time.
When watching Foxtel I will usually stick to about 4 different channels being Discovery, National Geographic, Music Maxx if they have on something about a band I like and the History/Hitler channel.
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The Free to Air side of the coin however would be forcing the choices of A Very Ray Martin Christmas or the age old battle of religion trying to wrestle the attention of children and adults alike away from Santa and Presents.
Sadly I was not in possession of the remote control however so one afternoon saw us watching UKTV as we sheltered in the comfort of air conditioning from the ridiculously hot temperatures outside. For anyone not familiar with Foxtel's UKTV channel, they basically only have 3 shows. Firstly the Bill, Secondly East Enders and thirdly The Benny Hill Show. I've seen the Benny Hill Show once or twice before when I was younger but when Benny came on for his first sketch in a dress along with 2 other old guys also dressed in frocks I thought, "What is Fatty Vautin doing on the Benny Hill Show?" |
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As the show went on the parallels between The Benny Hill Show and Paul "Fatty" Vautin from the Footy Show grew more startling.
For those of you not familiar with the National Rugby League version of the Footy Show, let me draw you a picture.
On one hand we have an hour long show packed full of grown men prancing around in dresses, making funny faces, spouting line after line of sexual innuendo and the occasional glimpse of scantily clad young women.
The other is the Benny Hill Show.
After you draw the connection you can clearly see that little head waggle that Vautin does - Stolen from Benny.
The way that most of the Footy Show sketches have no actual dialogue and instead rely on a series of funny faces, noises of sexually suggestive poses - Stolen from Benny
Paul "Fatty" Vautin's facial features - Stolen from Benny
I suppose it goes to show that whilst we still have footy players regardless of the code, there will always be a market for guys in dresses making jokes about each other's sexual preferences.
If Benny has passed the torch onto Fatty, who shall bear it next?
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