RAPPER Busta Rhymes has revealed he is a huge fan of Benny Hill.
The American said of the saucy slapstick comic who died in 1992: “Benny Hill is the funniest motherf****r ever to me.
“He wasn’t just funny — he pushed that envelope.
“So, it was shock value, but it was also funny.”
New York-born Busta, real name Trevor Smith, spent summers visiting his aunt in Lancashire in the 1980s.
The 51-year-old said: “I spent time in England when I was a little boy, staying in Morecambe, Preston and Blackpool.
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“Wham!, Culture Club, David Bowie — all that s*** was popping.
“My mother would send me off from New York for a month to stay with family overseas and we had a lot who emigrated from Jamaica to England.
“It was also so I would stay out of mischief in Brooklyn.”
The Benny Hill Show ran from 1955 until 1989 and attracted audiences of about 20million.
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