Benny Hill seems to have been one of Britain's finest - ehem - cultural exports. He was hugely popular in Germany (and is still screened there, and all his shows are sold in German versions on dvd). I've also met people in ex-Yugoslavia (notably in Macedonia) who are avid fans of Benny Hill.
Python humour seems to have travelled along different routes - I assume because a lot of it is verbal rather than visual? Americans seem to know a lot of Python material, although they pronounce it in the way John Cleese did in the opening credits
I quite liked the tiny clip of Evil Machines, on the basis that is at least an entirely new piece that isn't a reworking of tired old ideas - but the clip is too short to be able to get any measure of the piece overall. I wish them luck with it, anyhow! The "new opera" world needs as many ideas as it can find
All the best for the New Year to you, too, SW!!
