Benny Hill: Golden Classics
Pleasures do not come any guiltier thanThe Benny Hill Show. If  Austin Powers had a favorite TV show, this would definitely be it, with its  "yeah, baby" lascivious grins, "oh, behave" bawdy bits, and cheeky compromising  positions, all set to the frolicsome "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph. This  two-DVD set contains four shagadelic compilations previously released on VHS:Benny Hill's One Night Video Stand,Benny Hill's Video Spotlight,Benny Hill's Video Follies, andBenny Hill's Video Spotlight. The  stateside success ofMonty Python's Flying Circuspaved the way for the  introduction here of Hill, whose mostly visual humor, while every bit as silly,  was born not of Cambridge university, but of burlesque and the music hall. For  Hill, the world is divided into the cuckolded husband and the playboy on the  make, the goosed and the gooser. Setting feminism back even further into the  Stone Age are Hill's Angels, the scantily clad objects of lust--among them,Frasier'sJane Leeves (check out the "Gay Caballero" musical number that  opens disc two). Depending on your place on the evolutionary ladder, this is  either timelessly funny or outrageously dated. Will it make you horny, baby?  Perhaps not, but it will make you laugh, often in spite of yourself.--Donald  Liebenson