Some of my favorite Benny Hill gags are "out of character" with his raunchy image. I remember a sketch in which he was a moving man being interviewed for a job by Henry McGee, and Benny said, "I'd like you to meet my helper, Atlas." Enter little bald Jackie Wright. McGee (incredulous): "You call HIM Atlas?" Benny: "Well, 'e's got no 'at on, 'as 'e?"

And another where he was "on the set" running down a script with one of his beautiful girls; in the background two prop men enter, each carrying a huge burlap bag. They open the bags and begin piling up telephones, one after another, on a table in the background. Benny watches them, puzzled; then it dawns on him. "No, no, no, I said we needed two SAXOPHONES!"