Ironically, Brits aren’t too keen on Benny Hill nor Mr. Bean :/ They don’t like that type of humor..
Their style of comedy is very dry to most of us :( I personally can’t stand most of what they find comedy :p (too long and drawn out).
That wasn't true when the shows first came out. We would eagerly await the next Benny Hill episode in the 60’s.
I think they just got old fashioned and regarded as sexist later.
From the Museum of Broadcast -
The statement implied that he was not recognised as a great comedian and was belied by the enormous international popularity of his program and by the fact that in the 1970s and 1980s he was several times voted the Funniest Man in the World by the British television audience.