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Video: 'The Walking Dead' meets Benny Hill just because

Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon and Tom Payne as Paul "Jesus" Monroe - The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 10 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC

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Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon and Tom Payne as Paul "Jesus" Monroe - The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 10 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC
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Feb 23, 2016

By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Tuesday, February 23, 2016

"The Walking Dead" can be relentlessly grim. But this past Sunday's episode had some lighter moments.

An ingenious person online synced the "Benny Hill" theme song "Yakety Sax" to the chase scene with Rick, Daryl and Jesus and it's significantly funnier as a result.

Here's an original Benny Hill chase scene for the unitiated:

"The Benny Hill Show" aired in various forms from 1955 to 1991 and involved slapstick, mime and silly chase scenes, usually of scantily clad women trying to take down Hill after he gropes them. It was not subtle and has not aged well. But that song for anyone of a certain age sticks out.

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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