Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Benny Hill Comedy 🇬🇧 Fast motion, raised eyebrows, and absolutely zero subtlety 😅 Pure visual chaos from a time when British comedy didn’t even pretend to behave. Another classic moment from The Benny Hill Show — outrageous, ridiculous, and completely unapologetic. You wouldn’t make it today… which is exactly why everyone still laughs. Vintage British comedy at its most shameless 😂📺 #britishcomedy #bennyhill #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold 🇬🇧 😆"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Benny Hill Comedy 🇬🇧 Fast motion, raised eyebrows, and absolutely zero subtlety 😅 Pure visual chaos from a time when British comedy didn’t even pretend to behave. Another classic moment from The Benny Hill Show — outrageous, ridiculous, and completely unapologetic. You wouldn’t make it today… which is exactly why everyone still laughs. Vintage British comedy at its most shameless 😂📺 #britishcomedy #bennyhill #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold 🇬🇧 😆"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🍞🤣 The Hovis Advert… But Make It Comedy 😎 🇬🇧 The original ad was pure nostalgia — a boy pushing his bike up a cobbled hill for Hovis. The Two Ronnies took that sacred British moment and turned it into perfect parody. 70s humour at its finest. #TwoRonnies #BritishComedy #70sNostalgia #SketchComedy #Parody"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🍞🤣 The Hovis Advert… But Make It Comedy 😎 🇬🇧 The original ad was pure nostalgia — a boy pushing his bike up a cobbled hill for Hovis. The Two Ronnies took that sacred British moment and turned it into perfect parody. 70s humour at its finest. #TwoRonnies #BritishComedy #70sNostalgia #SketchComedy #Parody"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "Classic Benny Hill — Comedy From Another Era 😂🇬🇧 A slice of old-school British humor that would definitely raise eyebrows today… but that’s exactly why it’s such a time capsule. Absurd, cheeky, and pure 70s chaos. They really don’t make comedy like this anymore. #BennyHill #ClassicComedy #BritishHumor #RetroTV #Throwback"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "Classic Benny Hill — Comedy From Another Era 😂🇬🇧 A slice of old-school British humor that would definitely raise eyebrows today… but that’s exactly why it’s such a time capsule. Absurd, cheeky, and pure 70s chaos. They really don’t make comedy like this anymore. #BennyHill #ClassicComedy #BritishHumor #RetroTV #Throwback"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Another Classic Not the Nine O’Clock News Skit 🇬🇧 Sharp, surreal, and brilliantly uncomfortable — this is classic British satire at its peak 😅 Not the Nine O’Clock News aired on BBC from 1979 to 1982 and completely rewrote the rules of TV comedy. It mixed absurd sketches with biting satire, wordplay, and deliberate nonsense — often pushing right up to the edge of what was acceptable at the time. The show helped launch the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith,
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Another Classic Not the Nine O’Clock News Skit 🇬🇧 Sharp, surreal, and brilliantly uncomfortable — this is classic British satire at its peak 😅 Not the Nine O’Clock News aired on BBC from 1979 to 1982 and completely rewrote the rules of TV comedy. It mixed absurd sketches with biting satire, wordplay, and deliberate nonsense — often pushing right up to the edge of what was acceptable at the time. The show helped launch the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith,
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Rowan Atkinson 🇬🇧 Serious news delivery… entirely through hand gestures 😅 A brilliant bit of visual satire where politics meets perfectly timed mime. Another unforgettable moment from Not the Nine O’Clock News — sharp, clever, and effortlessly funny. Pure Rowan Atkinson at his deadpan best 😂📺 🇬🇧 #rowanatkinson #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Rowan Atkinson 🇬🇧 Serious news delivery… entirely through hand gestures 😅 A brilliant bit of visual satire where politics meets perfectly timed mime. Another unforgettable moment from Not the Nine O’Clock News — sharp, clever, and effortlessly funny. Pure Rowan Atkinson at his deadpan best 😂📺 🇬🇧 #rowanatkinson #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold"
242.2K views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🤣🦌 The Moose Head Can Talk! 😆 🇬🇧 One of the all-time great Fawlty Towers moments — the Major convinced the moose head was speaking English, when it was actually Manuel behind the desk practicing. Pure absurd British comedy at its finest. #fawltytowers #manuel #johncleese #britishcomedy #sitcomclassic"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🤣🦌 The Moose Head Can Talk! 😆 🇬🇧 One of the all-time great Fawlty Towers moments — the Major convinced the moose head was speaking English, when it was actually Manuel behind the desk practicing. Pure absurd British comedy at its finest. #fawltytowers #manuel #johncleese #britishcomedy #sitcomclassic"
687.6K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Another Classic Not the Nine O’Clock News Skit 🇬🇧 Sharp, surreal, and brilliantly uncomfortable — this is classic British satire at its peak 😅 Not the Nine O’Clock News aired on BBC from 1979 to 1982 and completely rewrote the rules of TV comedy. It mixed absurd sketches with biting satire, wordplay, and deliberate nonsense — often pushing right up to the edge of what was acceptable at the time. The show helped launch the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith,
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Another Classic Not the Nine O’Clock News Skit 🇬🇧 Sharp, surreal, and brilliantly uncomfortable — this is classic British satire at its peak 😅 Not the Nine O’Clock News aired on BBC from 1979 to 1982 and completely rewrote the rules of TV comedy. It mixed absurd sketches with biting satire, wordplay, and deliberate nonsense — often pushing right up to the edge of what was acceptable at the time. The show helped launch the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith,
1.2M views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "Hale & Pace — Classic British Comedy Gold 😂🇬🇧 Hale & Pace at their absolute best. Sharp timing, ridiculous situations, and that perfect 90s British chaos. Some sketches never age — they just get funnier. Pure classic comedy. 👏🤣 #HaleAndPace #BritishComedy #ClassicTV #90sComedy #Throwback"
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "💷🤣 I Think I’m Richer Than You! 🫵😅 Harry Enfield’s iconic sketch — pure 90s British comedy gold. Still cracks people up decades later! 😅💂‍♂️ #harryenfield #britishcomedy #90stv #classiccomedy"
421K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper | 🇬🇧🏨 Classic Fawlty Towers Misjudgement 😂 This moment perfectly sums up Basil Fawlty: overconfident, suspicious, and absolutely convinced... | Instagram
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "Jeremy Clarkson’s Face Says It All 🤯🐖🇬🇧 One of those classic Clarkson’s Farm moments where the conversation goes somewhere you absolutely did not expect… and just keeps going. A calm discussion. A farming explanation. And then a story so outrageous it completely breaks Jeremy’s brain. No shouting. No drama. Just pure disbelief written all over his face. Hilarious 😂🔥 #reels #reelitfeelit #reelsinstagram #post #jeremyclarkson #clarksonsfarm #britishtv #classicmom
33.6K views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🤣🇬🇧 The Two Ronnies — Classic Comedy Short Classic 🇬🇧🤓🔥 British comedy legends serving pure gold, one sketch after another. 🎭 🥇🏆 Who Were The Two Ronnies? Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett were one of the greatest double-acts in UK television history. 😎🤓 From wordplay to musical spoofs to surreal sketches, they defined British humour for over two decades — and their comedy still goes viral today. 🇬🇧 🕶️ 👓 #reels #reelitfeelit #reelsinstagram #post #engl
30.3K views6 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🎶📺 Do you remember this classic comedy? Was it the 70s… or the 80s? 🇬🇧 That unmistakable flute intro, those opening credits, and suddenly you’re right back in front of the TV — legs crossed, biscuits on a plate, waiting for chaos to begin. 🤣 “Oh Betty… a cat’s done a whoopsie in my beret!” If you know, you know. Frank Spencer was something else — nervous, innocent, accident-prone, and somehow always loveable. Week after week he turned everyday life into a disast
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "😂🇬🇧 Classic British Comedy, LOL “All you can eat for £3.” “That is all you can eat for £3.” 😂 Love good old English humour — nothing beats it. #britishcomedy #uktv #ukhumour #comedyclip #retroTV 🇬🇧"
18.8K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🛩️ Up Diddly Up… Down Diddly Down 😂 Only Blackadder could make flying training sound like a jolly day out — with a side of impending disaster. Hugh Laurie’s grin says it all. 🎬 About the show: Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) is the legendary final series of the Blackadder saga — set in the trenches of World War I. Starring Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny, it’s a razor-sharp mix of satire, wit, and dark humour that defined a g
370.5K views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🤣🇬🇧 “Becoming Prime Minister… simple, right?” 😂🇬🇧 Another classic moment of political chaos — the look, the hesitation, the panic behind the eyes… absolute comedy perfection. Only the British could make bureaucracy this funny. Dry humour. Sharp timing. Still hits today. ⸻ Hashtags (copy & paste): #reels #reelitfeelit #reelsinstagram #post #england #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #funnyvideo #throwbackcomedy #funnybritain #tvnostalgia #iconicmoments #laughou
24.1K views6 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🎭😂 Benny Hill — The Master of Cheeky Comedy Alfred “Benny” Hill was a one-of-a-kind British comedian known for his physical humour, silent sketches, clever wordplay and wildly expressive faces. From deadpan interviews to high-speed chase scenes, he pioneered a style that became globally iconic — and still gets laughs decades later. #bennyhill #britishhumor #comedylegend #nostalgia #retroTV"
1.8M views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper | 🤣📺 This is why Not the Nine O’Clock News was unbeatable comedy. Sharp. Silly. Savage. And way ahead of its time. There was just something... | Instagram
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Basil Moments 🇬🇧 “I know nothing!” Confusion escalates, patience disappears, and chaos follows 😅 A legendary moment — sharp timing, perfect misunderstanding, and British comedy at its absolute peak 😂📺 #fawltytowers #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold"
4K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🚀🤣 Star Trek… but make it Scottish. Chewin’ the Fat took Star Trek and turned it into pure comedy genius — phasers, starships, and the most gloriously deadpan Scottish crew you’ll ever see. Warp speed? Aye, maybe after a cuppa. This sketch never misses. Scottish humour + sci-fi chaos = comedy gold. Only Chewin’ the Fat could turn the USS Enterprise into the USS Glesga. 🖖🏴 #reels #reelitfeelit #reelsinstagram #post #chewinthefat #scottishcomedy #startrekspoof #ukc
145.9K views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🍷🤣 “The Good Life” — So Very British 🇬🇧 Classic 1970s British sitcom energy: gentle humour, cosy suburban chaos, and that unmistakable BBC charm. If you know, you know. 🇬🇧 #BritishComedy #ClassicTV #TheGoodLife #UKHumour #RetroComedy"
12.4K views3 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Not the Nine O’Clock News – When Comedy Pushed Boundaries 😅🔥 Fearless, outrageous, and way ahead of its time. Shows like Not the Nine O’Clock News didn’t just make people laugh — they poked, prodded, and pushed every boundary they could find. Political satire, media parody, social commentary… nothing was off-limits. Compared to today, it’s wild how far they went — and how brilliantly it landed. Bold 70s/80s British comedy at its sharpest 🇬🇧📺 #notthenineoclo
3.8K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper | 🤣🇬🇧 Classic Benny Hill chaos — pure visual nonsense that’s STILL funny decades later. Nobody did cheeky, over-the-top British humour quite... | Instagram
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "“Mulligan & O’Hare – Rose” 🌹🎵😂🇬🇧 Only Reeves & Mortimer could create something this weirdly wonderful. “Mulligan & O’Hare” — two awkward, soft-voiced folk musicians in polo-necks — deliver a heartfelt ballad to Mulligan’s missing wife, Rose. The result? Equal parts tragic, tuneless, and totally absurd. This is British surrealism at its absolute best — awkward charm, odd sincerity, and brilliant deadpan delivery. The kind of ske
554K views6 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🇬🇧 Classic Hotel Troubles 🇬🇧 Leaving Manuel in charge… what could possibly go wrong? 😅 Phones ringing, instructions misunderstood, and confusion spreading fast. Pure British farce — misunderstandings, panic, and perfectly timed chaos 😂📺 #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold #uktv"
105.7K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🎩🤣 When Benny Hill Took Over Mastermind… Back when British comedy could make you laugh in two seconds flat. Benny Hill’s legendary “Masterbrain” sketch was pure chaos — deadpan delivery, ridiculous subjects, and that classic straight-faced BBC style. Short, sharp, silly… and still funnier than most modern TV. A perfect slice of 70s/80s humour. 😂📺 #reels #reelitfeelit #reelsinstagram #post #bennyhill #britishcomedy #uknostalgia #classiccomedy #throwbacktv #masterm
1.1M views5 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "📺 She Turns 16 at Midnight 😂🔥🎂 Early 80s satire at its wildest. A young couple in a car, a policeman knocking on the window, and everyone waiting for the clock to strike… legal. Only Not the Nine O’Clock News would go there 😂 #NotTheNineOClockNews #RowanAtkinson #80sComedy #BritishHumour #SketchComedy"
579.2K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "Bless This House — Sid James being Sid James 🇬🇧😂 Sid James in peak form — that voice, that face, that perfectly grumpy dad energy. For anyone who grew up with British comedy, he’ll always be the legend from the Carry On films… and this show kept that magic going at home every week. Pure 70s comfort TV. ☺️ #SidJames #BlessThisHouse #CarryOnFilms #BritishComedy #70sTV"
18.8K views3 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🦇 Classic Only Fools and Horses 🇬🇧 “He who dares… wears tights.” 😅 Two brothers. Zero superpowers. Maximum confidence. Del and Rodney as Batman and Robin — ridiculous outfits, big ideas, and British comedy legend in the making. Absurd, fearless, and still unforgettable decades later 😂📺 A truly iconic moment from Only Fools and Horses. #onlyfoolsandhorses #britishcomedy #classictv #ukhumour #comedygold 🇬🇧"
17.6K views4 months ago
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Simon Cropper on Instagram: "🙌 HALLELUJAH TO 2026! From Mr. Bean 🙌😂 🎶🎺📖💥🤣✨🎆 One of the greatest comedy moments ever from Mr. Bean 😂 Mr. Bean turns up to church with no hymn book, no idea of the words… so he quietly mumbles nonsense while desperately trying to peek at the man next to him 📖👀 Then suddenly… 🎶 ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! 🎶 At FULL volume. Full confidence. Zero shame. Absolute chaos 🤣🙌 Pure British comedy gold from Rowan Atkinson — a show that ran from 1990 to 1995, became a
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