He watched Benny Hill all the time. All day long I'd come over and he would be playing Benny Hill and now he has a chance to meet him in heaven.

You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

He was kind of a flirt, and he liked to get out and talk to the ladies. He was in good shape physically and I thought he would live to 100, but I guess God had other ideas.

I was hoping he wasn't in there, but he was they found him on the couch.

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.