Funny, Peculiar
The True Story of Benny Hill

By Mark Lewisohn
Sidgwick & Jackson / Macmillan
June 2002
ISBN: 0-283-06369-6
526 pages, illustrated
$29.95 hardcover

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A major biography of one of the world's most popular comedians, published on the 10th anniversary of his death, is the first objective and full account of Benny Hill's life and works. Tenaciously researched yet sensitively reported, it charts the highs, lows, and many paradoxes of a decent man whose strengths-observation, impression, and mime-brought him unimagined success, and whose weakness-especially an inability to change-fashioned his ultimate downfall. The author is a leading radio & TV historian, as well as the world's foremost authority on the Beatles.

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