I was at a wedding with a staggering amount of guests (half of them from the USA) and the Ceilidh started. They all enthusiastically joined in. The first dance (I don't recall which one) was fine... Lulling them into a very false sense of security. The next dance? An Orcadian Strip the Willow... Carnage. Absolute. Carnage. One guy ended up crashing through the fire doors and into the car park, at pace, screaming.
You start them on the Gay Gordons. That's the easy one . 4 bars, 4 moves, no switching partners and stuff. Stripthe willow... yeah. That can get out of control.
This is spot on. I got dragged into a dance while staying at a little B&B on the the Isle of Skye about 20 years ago. I‘d never been so scared in my life and I played rugby at the time. Just that accordion intro makes me shudder to this day.
I am french and a ceilidh is a great moment, actually. Participated in many of them during my scottish yeaarrrrrs. Get dressed local, jacobite shirt is ok and more convenient than a formal one (the sweat), and wear very very very strong shoes...
It makes me laugh every time. And maybe that's the reason there's a Caller at Western Square Dances to prevent that "one guy", that control freak, from having a conniption or apoplexy.
You also see a lot of when the ladies swing the guys so hard their feet leave the ground, or both of them start whirling into other people and almost fall to the floor and you wonder how they are staying standing but I have NEVER seen anyone fall over...
Loved this entirely! As someone who used to teach Scottish Country Dancing, I can say that Danny's impression of the Person Who Knows The Dance only forgets one phrase, "The music will tell you!"
I still remember when my Australian cousins came to visit and experienced their first ceilidh. They haven’t been back here since haha. And us girls get picked up and spun around like a bloody helicopter on steroids. My older brother once spun me around and let me go mid air and I hit the wall and got a concussion.
OMG, that part about you and your brother and the concussion made me laugh so hard! Sorry about the concussion, but the image you described is just too funny, lol! 🤣🤣🤣
I can’t explain how visceral my reaction was when I heard the music. I was transported through time to every single moment I’ve ever heard it before in my life, all at once.
I nearly died of exhaustion during my first Ceilidh, the songs truly go on forever. I was spun around in the air so fast that my feet weren't even touching the ground and I nearly let go, almost died of a heart attack when that happened. Afterwards, I just had to sit down and try to figure out 'what on earth just happened?' But it was a lot of fun but I probably won't be doing it even again.
Six months after moving to live and work in Scotland I experienced my first ceilidh and it wasn't my last either. This is a PERFECT description of a celidh. They are fantastic because despite everything, everybody gets to dance with everybody else, they are exhausting but great fun.
OMG!🤣🤣🤣 Best description of a ceilidh ever! Lived in the UK for six years in the 70’s. Will never forget my first ceilidh in a remote village hall along the border! And most were farmers in their dotage!!
Went to my first Ceilidh Saturday night... lasted til 4:30 am... went to the chiropractor today for my first adjustment to fix my hip from waltzing too hard 😂 Literally was thrown and tossed about. It was amazing and totally worth it though.
Attended a ceilidh last year on my very first trip to Scotland - everyone was terrific, teaching us how to do the dances. Part of the fun is not everyone knows what to do. There was even a "Watch Me!" type guy there, literally pushing us when it was our turn to dance down the line for the "Strip the Willow" dance. It was great!
Because of a screw up on my part, I got CLOBBERED during it!! I was in Scotland for 5 hours and all I took home were bruises!! Good times! Good times!!
Aah, American contradancing--great fun if you can stand the bruises. My toe was stomped so badly at one dance, the toe nail was damaged and fell off a week later. And "beginners, come early and we will teach you the steps." Yeah, you get a quick walk-through of a half dozen basic steps and no one mentions the 59 other maneuvers you are about to be dragged through at speed.
He's only half Indian. He is also HALF SCOTTISH!!! Therefore Scottish is his native culture as much as Indian. How effin' Ignorant are you of other cultures, jeez!!
@@triplem9805 I have Googled this quote and it is accredited to four people, two of them being Wilde and Beecham. As Wilde pre-dated Beecham by 25 years, it would most likely have been Wilde who first said it. But both men probably quoted it.
Had a frien who was bout 5 foot and long line strip the willow 20 guys and 20 girls after the 8 guy the girl just let themselves get thrown. This girls feet did not touch the ground fro 12 blokes and at the end just got thrown to the floor needed a quick a&e visit. Great night
A Cape Breton Ceilidh is a fun, boozy kitchen party. Yes the musical weapons come out, some oldsters are begged to sing in Gaelic. Good food is passed around. There's a lot of gossip shared. No one is harmed, really. But...if it happens at the local firehall or church hall...well, my son, it can get animated! Especially if the good fiddlers show up. The music is handed down from one generation to the next at the kitchen parties. The kids participate in those ones.
Sandra Nelson i went to cape briefly, lovely place then i had to go back to scotland.. im planning on going to a festival going on in 2020 over there with my family though
Sandra Nelson I’ve been to some great kitchen Ceilidh’s on the West coast too, but I think as the drinkin’’, partyin’ and fiddlin’ carried on across Canada, the name got lost and they just came to be known as Saturday and Sunday :)
My son who is Scottish, last year married a Welsh girl in Edinburgh, they had a ceilidh, it was sooo funny to see " the guy who tries to teach" all the Welsh folk how to dance Strip The Willow.... Danny got him spot on...
Same goes for if youre in Ireland and somehow find yourself lost in the depths of Kerry or somewhere out in Connemara, just run like your life depends on it because it does
I always misjudge how vigorous ma skipping can be, then somehow end up on the other side of the room and spend a few minutes just spinning around, trying to work out where the bloody hell ma partner is.
MY GOD !! This guy has just popped up on my feed from nowhere! Never seen or heard of you before, but I love you ! Absolutely brilliant , and I’ve laughed all the way through !! Seriously disabled through a stroke, I used to love these dances , all the laughs we all had when you went wrong , ( just like how you describe ) and I really miss the fun we all had ! Thank you for your great comedy act !!
I know, this just popped up and I've never heard of this delightful young man but now I love him. I lived in Ireland for a year and can relate to the whole ceilidh thing which is very similar. You need to watch Craig Ferguson as well. Great in every way. You'll fall in love with him too. Here's a clip. Stick with it through the whole bit. It's hilarious. God bless you. I'm so sorry that you are disabled from a stroke. Prayers and blessings for you. :-) ruclips.net/video/SIJRqyxxnSk/видео.html
I grew up in a small village in central scotland, they used to have ceilidh dancing as part of the school curriculum. And also at the community center. I never thought much of it back then, I thought it was what everyone does around the world, now, I just think it's bonkers.
Some of those songs did seem to last forever. I remember this from when I was a kid at the Scottish games. Just when you think the song is tapering off....aaand here we go again! I still enjoy it, though.
I know a few ended up in hospital....'Strip the Willow' dance DON'T DO IT IF YOU'RE NOT MADE OF RUBBER. My own mother was one....in hospital for a month!
Ah yes Strip the Willow. I did that dance at loads of Australian Bush dances and the pride I felt when I finally figured it all out was immense. It took years though.
That has to be the best,funniest,perfectly timed piece of comedy I've ever seen.As a Scot I am SO familiar with the Scottish ceiligh experience and weddings. This is spot on
This is dancing at every medieval re-enactment as well. (Only without the accordion.) It's amazing to see him describe the exact same steps and moves we use. Not changed since at least the 16th century!
And you've always got that one too drunk person (usually me) who can't help but yell out "yeeeeeeeeeee haw!" at the top of their lungs half way through
My friends and I used to go to the Highlander's Institute in Glasgow every weekend in the 60's. That's what it was like sometimes. It was great fun. It is no longer there I think it is a casino now.
I'm from Lancashire - Grammar School PE weeks before Christmas party: learning the Dashing White Sergeant, Gay Gordons, St Bernard's Waltz and Military Two Step - to recordings by Jimmy Shand. For weeks afterwards, Brown's Reel running through your head and mincing your brains.
up here in Scotland it’s PE and weddings and burns night. there’s always some idiot relative at their wedding that gets these things on for the old folks. and you get dragged up by some old codger you don’t recognise but apparently are related to somehow.
We did it too and I'm from the Isle of Wight so it travelled as far as it could 😂 we had an annual knees up with all the island kids in Carisbrooke Castle (of King Charles fame).
So accurate. A few years ago my mate (who's family are originally from Islay) got married to a girl from Bristol and they got married down there. His wife asked for Ceilidh music at the reception, her family were terrified. I ended by doing the Dashing White Sergeant with 2 of my mate's cousin (Islay farm girls!) and was black and blue for a fortnight.
The Woman in the audience with her hands over her face, laughing hysterically is exactly what I'd be doing. Saw Danny live a few years ago - he was great but it was mostly political, and I think he is at his best doing this kind of bit. The Canadian Maritime Provinces are well known for Ceilidhs, too ( Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland and Labrador). A Cape Breton House Party is an Experience ( so I'm told). Would love to attend one as I love traditional music.
I had to look up this dance. Looks like it is the origin of the American square dance which is possible because of the Scotts that took up residence in the mountains.
Not a fair comparison. Morris dancing is not really a dance at all but rather a highly effective, if a bit twee-looking, martial art. The “dance” in the name is just a form of cunning subterfuge to put enemies off their guard. The Scottish equivalent is not Ceilidh dancing but rather something like the Stonehaven Fireballs.
Mergrew 01, well I saw the humor in your comment. And see that (currently) single Thumbs Up to Will’s comment? That was me, that was. So I saw the humor in that too. And so that’s why I added my own, what I thought was humorous, comment too. Of course while I get humor, maybe I’m just rubbish at conveying humor myself. But of course there’s another explanation. I mean, you never saw the humor in my comment, did ya? 😉
You haven't lived until you have danced the Waves of Tory in Nariel creek with everybody naked under a hot Australian sun. I was an Irish and Scots fiddle player for decades until I retired hurt. Christ, the things I've seen and can't unsee. ;-)
@@mac148 had to look up fenian. Don't know what that has to do with me liking this video and you having a problem with me liking the video? What is wrong with you? 🙄
I loved the ceilidhs, and taking the pish out of the americans who thought they knew about it because their greatgreatgreatwhatever emigrated from "there" centuries ago. I have no Scottish heritage, but feel right at home in the western isles.
He's so hilarious! Nearly the same happend tae me exactly 9 years ago, when I was back hame in Alba and visited a wee pub in Breadalbane. Dinnae exactly ken, how I made it, leavin' wi'oot injuries 😂
LetsBeClear HaHa! Exactly like Applachian foot dancing or clogging. Enjoy it from a distance but don't get involved if you don't know what you're doing..
Gary Mcatear no, they just wanted the scots the fuck out of Ulster. After being kicked out of the highlands and then there, they had nowhere else to go but America. Then they were promptly shoved to the most inaccessible reaches of the mountains. Probably felt like home.
Sounds a bit like square dancing here in the US. There is someone who calls the dance but if you don't know the language of square dancing you have no idea what they are telling you to do. So you end up being pushed or pulled about through the whole dance by those who do know. The problem is you don't know when you're going to be pushed or pulled so you are never quite steady on your feet and in constant fear of tripping over your own or some else's feet or just flat out running into one of the other dancers.
Err, not quite. Similar, but the aim of the Ceilidh is to spin the rugby players in kilts so fast that everyone can see if they are True Scotsmen - and kilts are heavy. So are the lads. Vast amounts of alcohol has been consumed, it is fast, and yes, you usually end up bruised. Fun times.
And everyone around you whose pulling and pushing and to whom your being pushed into is perfectly fine with that. And somehow keep you up right the entire time. And you can't ever tell if they're doing it because they're kind or because if you fell they'd have to stop and that can not happen!!
And everyone around you whose pulling and pushing and to whom your being pushed into is perfectly fine with that. And somehow keep you up right the entire time. And you can't ever tell if they're doing it because they're kind or because if you fell they'd have to stop and that can not happen!!
I went to a Scottish Highlands game event in New Hampshire many years ago. While there, I went to a Scotch tasting seminar. The gentleman giving the presentation explained to us why the Scots are such a happy people. Apparently, 1% per year of the scotch that is being aged at the 105 distilleries (at the time) in Scotland evaporates into the atmosphere. That's a lot of scotch. I was able to visit Holy Loch, Prestwick, and Glasgow when I was in the US Navy.
To enjoy this even more, watch the clip of Scottish country dancers performing the eightsome reel, played by the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, in the Great Hall of Borthwick Castle, then watch Danny, genius.
In high school, every November we had to do ceilidh dancing in PE. I loved it - total skive. I'm a teuchter though, live between Skye and Eilean Donan Castle. Pure teuchter and proud! Never, ever attend a ceilidh sober. Get a few drams down and you'll be grand 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
When I was wee my mum sent me to highland fucking dancing where a menopausal woman would slap my bare legs behind the knees with a fucking SWORD when I screwed up! It was a wooden sword right enough, but when you're 5 years old it fucking hurt.
W0w.. ive been waiting for new danny bhoy clips for ages, i honestly thought he stopped doing stand ups now. Do yourself a favor and watch his other vids, thank me later.
I love Scotland, my mother in law came from Carradale. On our second visit hubby proposed, in a tent, me said yes a taken leave of my senses..., no not a beer 🍺 tent ⛺... Ha ha, a small Canadian 🇨🇦 one...
I honestly would love to be a fly on the wall and see a Ceilidh! I'm a terrible dancer, but I in some ways I would love to attempt a Scottish Ceilidh--at least I'd like the music!
I’ve always told my wife that Ceilidh mean abuse and that it is not done properly if no one’s bleeding battered and bruised at the end. That your Honour is my defense.
Oh ... I see ... American Square Dancing. Did that in 6th grade/grammar school. Doing it drunk. Ah, nope! Don't want to end up in the hospital! I'm out!
Ok, so I've never been to Scotland, but I plan to one day. To anyone who has been in Scotland, is this dance a common occurrence?!?!?! I want to know if this is actually something that I should plan for.
I was at a wedding with a staggering amount of guests (half of them from the USA) and the Ceilidh started. They all enthusiastically joined in.
The first dance (I don't recall which one) was fine... Lulling them into a very false sense of security.
The next dance? An Orcadian Strip the Willow...
Carnage.
Absolute. Carnage.
One guy ended up crashing through the fire doors and into the car park, at pace, screaming.
,what a brilliant description. Had me laughing even more
You start them on the Gay Gordons. That's the easy one . 4 bars, 4 moves, no switching partners and stuff. Stripthe willow... yeah. That can get out of control.
They don't call it the Orkney War Dance for nothing lol
Absolutely brilliant.
Probably a bit late to this normally first one is either a gay Gordon's or at Bernard walts
This is spot on. I got dragged into a dance while staying at a little B&B on the the Isle of Skye about 20 years ago. I‘d never been so scared in my life and I played rugby at the time. Just that accordion intro makes me shudder to this day.
Did you wear yer big girls blouse? when playing or dancing lol
I nearly had my ankle broken at my mate's wedding!
I am french and a ceilidh is a great moment, actually. Participated in many of them during my scottish yeaarrrrrs.
Get dressed local, jacobite shirt is ok and more convenient than a formal one (the sweat), and wear very very very strong shoes...
If you don’t have a bruise on the inner part of one of your upper arms when you leave a ceilidh, you’ve not done it properly!
Hahahaha!
yeah. I remember my first Ceilidh. I stumbled out with a skinned knee and bruised. And a drunk Scot asking me, "Do ye want tae ha' a go lass?'
never has there been a more accurate description of a Ceilidh
Couldn't agree more. So accurate I've started using it for reference when introducing foreigners to scottish functions. Just send them the link. 😂
Absolutely.. On the money..
It makes me laugh every time. And maybe that's the reason there's a Caller at Western Square Dances to prevent that "one guy", that control freak, from having a conniption or apoplexy.
we’re Americans and while visiting Scotland checked into an inn in Ft.William on a Friday night!
I love this! Love Danny Bhoy!
He forgot to mention when the guys swing the ladies so fast that their feet leave the ground...
You also see a lot of when the ladies swing the guys so hard their feet leave the ground, or both of them start whirling into other people and almost fall to the floor and you wonder how they are staying standing but I have NEVER seen anyone fall over...
It is really great, I love it! Talking from a girl's point of view of course.
My arm always hurts after strip the willow
@@bluehockey-martin5698 That's how you know it's a good strip the willow :D
ah memories of The Flying Scotsman at school
where the boys would spin the circle insanely fast and us girls would barely be standing in our heels
Loved this entirely! As someone who used to teach Scottish Country Dancing, I can say that Danny's impression of the Person Who Knows The Dance only forgets one phrase, "The music will tell you!"
I still remember when my Australian cousins came to visit and experienced their first ceilidh. They haven’t been back here since haha. And us girls get picked up and spun around like a bloody helicopter on steroids. My older brother once spun me around and let me go mid air and I hit the wall and got a concussion.
LMBO, sorry for laughing but it kinda sounds like a good time none the less.
Strip the willow =broken ankle
Sorry, but your story made me laugh out loud 😀
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
OMG, that part about you and your brother and the concussion made me laugh so hard! Sorry about the concussion, but the image you described is just too funny, lol! 🤣🤣🤣
I can’t explain how visceral my reaction was when I heard the music. I was transported through time to every single moment I’ve ever heard it before in my life, all at once.
me too
I nearly died of exhaustion during my first Ceilidh, the songs truly go on forever. I was spun around in the air so fast that my feet weren't even touching the ground and I nearly let go, almost died of a heart attack when that happened. Afterwards, I just had to sit down and try to figure out 'what on earth just happened?' But it was a lot of fun but I probably won't be doing it even again.
Six months after moving to live and work in Scotland I experienced my first ceilidh and it wasn't my last either. This is a PERFECT description of a celidh. They are fantastic because despite everything, everybody gets to dance with everybody else, they are exhausting but great fun.
OMG!🤣🤣🤣 Best description of a ceilidh ever! Lived in the UK for six years in the 70’s. Will never forget my first ceilidh in a remote village hall along the border! And most were farmers in their dotage!!
Went to my first Ceilidh Saturday night... lasted til 4:30 am... went to the chiropractor today for my first adjustment to fix my hip from waltzing too hard 😂 Literally was thrown and tossed about. It was amazing and totally worth it though.
Attended a ceilidh last year on my very first trip to Scotland - everyone was terrific, teaching us how to do the dances. Part of the fun is not everyone knows what to do. There was even a "Watch Me!" type guy there, literally pushing us when it was our turn to dance down the line for the "Strip the Willow" dance. It was great!
Because of a screw up on my part, I got CLOBBERED during it!! I was in Scotland for 5 hours and all I took home were bruises!! Good times! Good times!!
Ceilidh was the best fun I ever had visiting Scotland. Very happy memories. 😁
I am dying. We lived in Fife for a few years and got invited to two of these. But living in Scotland was so much fun!
True ambassador for his culture. Marketed it in a brilliant way. Respect from India.
SHIVAM DUTTA He is half Indian
Aah, American contradancing--great fun if you can stand the bruises. My toe was stomped so badly at one dance, the toe nail was damaged and fell off a week later. And "beginners, come early and we will teach you the steps." Yeah, you get a quick walk-through of a half dozen basic steps and no one mentions the 59 other maneuvers you are about to be dragged through at speed.
He's only half Indian. He is also HALF SCOTTISH!!! Therefore Scottish is his native culture as much as Indian. How effin' Ignorant are you of other cultures, jeez!!
Oscar Wilde said that there were two things he would never try, Incest and Scottish Country dancing.
@MichaelKingsfordGray I think your confusing Wilde with Byron old chap :)
@MichaelKingsfordGray nah we leave incest to germa (cough) english nobles lol the queens so inbreed she could work for subway
@@@normalin1stofhisname You learn something every day...I didn't know Lord Byron was such a fan of Scottish Country dancing...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was Sir Thomas Beecham.
@@triplem9805 I have Googled this quote and it is accredited to four people, two of them being Wilde and Beecham.
As Wilde pre-dated Beecham by 25 years, it would most likely have been Wilde who first said it.
But both men probably quoted it.
I was once thrown completely over a table during a particularly enthusiastic Orcadian style Strip the Willow. Round and round and round and airborne!
Had a frien who was bout 5 foot and long line strip the willow 20 guys and 20 girls after the 8 guy the girl just let themselves get thrown. This girls feet did not touch the ground fro 12 blokes and at the end just got thrown to the floor needed a quick a&e visit. Great night
A Cape Breton Ceilidh is a fun, boozy kitchen party. Yes the musical weapons come out, some oldsters are begged to sing in Gaelic. Good food is passed around. There's a lot of gossip shared. No one is harmed, really. But...if it happens at the local firehall or church hall...well, my son, it can get animated! Especially if the good fiddlers show up.
The music is handed down from one generation to the next at the kitchen parties. The kids participate in those ones.
Sandra Nelson: I'm from away, but spent a wee bit of time on the Cape. Wish I were down home again. Best wishes for the holidays.
Now that's something I'd like to be part of.
Sandra Nelson i went to cape briefly, lovely place then i had to go back to scotland.. im planning on going to a festival going on in 2020 over there with my family though
Sandra Nelson
I’ve been to some great kitchen Ceilidh’s on the West coast too, but I think as the drinkin’’, partyin’ and fiddlin’ carried on across Canada, the name got lost and they just came to be known as Saturday and Sunday :)
but it is the most fun you'll have (ma's family is from Cape Breton)
My son who is Scottish, last year married a Welsh girl in Edinburgh, they had a ceilidh, it was sooo funny to see " the guy who tries to teach" all the Welsh folk how to dance Strip The Willow.... Danny got him spot on...
This was beautiful! When the opening chord played I was ready to leap into action xD
Me too!
Ditto.
Mairi Stewart me too. I stood up and was waiting. I even took a deep breath!
I actually started going into a bow, that is some serious Pavlovian response.
As an American who lived there for a few months, I can say this was an accurate account.
Same goes for if youre in Ireland and somehow find yourself lost in the depths of Kerry or somewhere out in Connemara, just run like your life depends on it because it does
Interesting fox in Connemara...
Nothing like it
DONT go to Waterford on Christmas, whatever you do! :/
And if you see a guy in a field with sheep that is NOT a farmer, keep walking.
@@monicajewinsky why did I spit laughing at this comment? 😂
I always misjudge how vigorous ma skipping can be, then somehow end up on the other side of the room and spend a few minutes just spinning around, trying to work out where the bloody hell ma partner is.
GunsOnBungees Could this be a fellow Scot who’s also a Supernatural fan? Hooooooch!
😆😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
😂😂😂😂
Your partner is lost, there's no reason to wait around, they've been lost in the fray xD
Your partner is lost, there's no reason to wait around, they've been lost in the fray xD
My GOD! I watched this until I was crying and my stomach hurt and I kept laughing SSssooo much for days! I love him!
I love a good inside joke, even when it's from outside. Great comedian!
one person knows the dance! so true! it comes back from the one thing worth PE at school learning highland dancing!
MY GOD !!
This guy has just popped up on my feed from nowhere!
Never seen or heard of you before, but I love you ! Absolutely brilliant , and I’ve laughed all the way through !!
Seriously disabled through a stroke, I used to love these dances , all the laughs we all had when you went wrong , ( just like how you describe ) and I really miss the fun we all had !
Thank you for your great comedy act !!
I know, this just popped up and I've never heard of this delightful young man but now I love him. I lived in Ireland for a year and can relate to the whole ceilidh thing which is very similar. You need to watch Craig Ferguson as well. Great in every way. You'll fall in love with him too. Here's a clip. Stick with it through the whole bit. It's hilarious. God bless you. I'm so sorry that you are disabled from a stroke. Prayers and blessings for you. :-)
ruclips.net/video/SIJRqyxxnSk/видео.html
I hope you've watched some of his other stuff. He really is hilarious. I particularly like several of his Australian bits.
I grew up in a small village in central scotland, they used to have ceilidh dancing as part of the school curriculum. And also at the community center.
I never thought much of it back then, I thought it was what everyone does around the world, now, I just think it's bonkers.
I love Danny Bhoy, one of the funniest shows ever. We saw him live and now I'm going to find out when he's coming back.
Some of those songs did seem to last forever. I remember this from when I was a kid at the Scottish games. Just when you think the song is tapering off....aaand here we go again! I still enjoy it, though.
Apart from Shropshire, Devon and Cornwall, ALL of the best bits of Britain can be found in Scotland.
Yi can tell where your fae
Excuse me, but you have missed one place, Northern Ireland and our cousins in the ROI.
I am scottish, I just love all things Cornwell, it is indeed my favorite part of England.
@@norabrown5584 ROI is in Britain, is it?
@@mrk45 no it is a different country. Northern Ireland is a cousin as well, just as the Scots are.
I SERIOUSLY doubted the accuracy of the title ... I was wrong 😂
I know a few ended up in hospital....'Strip the Willow' dance DON'T DO IT IF YOU'RE NOT MADE OF RUBBER. My own mother was one....in hospital for a month!
The dreaded stripping the willow! I nearly broke an ankle doing that at an Australian bush dance once.
Ah yes Strip the Willow. I did that dance at loads of Australian Bush dances and the pride I felt when I finally figured it all out was immense. It took years though.
I studied and competed in Irish dancing, and have been to many an Irish Ceili, and this video makes me laugh so hard it hurts. He is spot on! Lol!!!
That has to be the best,funniest,perfectly timed piece of comedy I've ever seen.As a Scot I am SO familiar with the Scottish ceiligh experience and weddings. This is spot on
This is dancing at every medieval re-enactment as well. (Only without the accordion.) It's amazing to see him describe the exact same steps and moves we use. Not changed since at least the 16th century!
Went Scottish dancing in Hobart........Lots of fun but my head didn't stop spinning for days.
And you've always got that one too drunk person (usually me) who can't help but yell out "yeeeeeeeeeee haw!" at the top of their lungs half way through
I thought that was compulsory?!
It's the same in lrish dancing.... N that's me... YEAHAW!!! 🤣 🤣
😂😂😂😂
The Irish shout yeoooow!
And "Wheeeech!".
Danny Bhoy is probably my most favourite comic ever.
Watch Dylan Moran, he's another gem.
Definitely one of the most gorgeous!!!
The Irish are like this as well. We will scream, "YEE HAW!" halfway through.
That was great!!!! Oh God I laughed the whole dance.
My friends and I used to go to the Highlander's Institute in Glasgow every weekend in the 60's. That's what it was like sometimes. It was great fun. It is no longer there I think it is a casino now.
It reminds me of school when you had to do it in P.E
Yes I remember learning Scottish dancing in primary school PE and I am from Yorkshire WTF ??
I'm from Lancashire - Grammar School PE weeks before Christmas party: learning the Dashing White Sergeant, Gay Gordons, St Bernard's Waltz and Military Two Step - to recordings by Jimmy Shand.
For weeks afterwards, Brown's Reel running through your head and mincing your brains.
up here in Scotland it’s PE and weddings and burns night. there’s always some idiot relative at their wedding that gets these things on for the old folks. and you get dragged up by some old codger you don’t recognise but apparently are related to somehow.
We had to do ballroom dancing for P.E 😂😂😂😂
We did it too and I'm from the Isle of Wight so it travelled as far as it could 😂 we had an annual knees up with all the island kids in Carisbrooke Castle (of King Charles fame).
So funny and accurate! I'm the bossy guy he describes always telling people they're doing it wrong 😂
'The Cunt' is the official term for those people, I believe.
So accurate. A few years ago my mate (who's family are originally from Islay) got married to a girl from Bristol and they got married down there. His wife asked for Ceilidh music at the reception, her family were terrified. I ended by doing the Dashing White Sergeant with 2 of my mate's cousin (Islay farm girls!) and was black and blue for a fortnight.
Fantastic! Haven't laughed so much in ages. He's spot on for strip the Willow!
You can hear some of the audience start clapping in time, on and off ...they're ready to go! So funny.
Ceilidh is Scottish marshal arts to music and they train them from a young age.
I saw this bit under the Instagram comedy hashtag, and HAD to find the clip! Laughed enough to worry the neighbors.
This was every weekend for me & my sister with parents from Port Glesga how I miss them such hilarious fun thank you Danny Bhoy
Ahlove the dashing white Sgt.
An excuse for right carry on and mayhem.
As a Piper! Bloody funny. Wholeheartedly agree. Especially when the lassies feet leave the floor swinging around.
😂😆😅😀
The Woman in the audience with her hands over her face, laughing hysterically is exactly what I'd be doing. Saw Danny live a few years ago - he was great but it was mostly political, and I think he is at his best doing this kind of bit. The Canadian Maritime Provinces are well known for Ceilidhs, too ( Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland and Labrador). A Cape Breton House Party is an Experience ( so I'm told). Would love to attend one as I love traditional music.
The original explanation for 'Murder on the Dance Floor'!
I had to look up this dance. Looks like it is the origin of the American square dance which is possible because of the Scotts that took up residence in the mountains.
got to love knowing the exact dance he was trying to describe
If you find that daunting, do not go Morris dancing, they carry sticks, and like to use them.
The bells, the bells...
Not a fair comparison. Morris dancing is not really a dance at all but rather a highly effective, if a bit twee-looking, martial art. The “dance” in the name is just a form of cunning subterfuge to put enemies off their guard. The Scottish equivalent is not Ceilidh dancing but rather something like the Stonehaven Fireballs.
Baked Utah. Humour is not your strong point is it? Read the previous reply from Will Richardson if you need a clue!
Mergrew 01, well I saw the humor in your comment. And see that (currently) single Thumbs Up to Will’s comment? That was me, that was. So I saw the humor in that too. And so that’s why I added my own, what I thought was humorous, comment too. Of course while I get humor, maybe I’m just rubbish at conveying humor myself. But of course there’s another explanation. I mean, you never saw the humor in my comment, did ya? 😉
Scots carrying sticks could be Shinty players
Hilarious because it's true.
Endorsement of all my long-held views - Scottish Dancing is dangerous, baffling, bewildering, and an extreme sport. It is not fun.
You haven't lived until you have danced the Waves of Tory in Nariel creek with everybody naked under a hot Australian sun. I was an Irish and Scots fiddle player for decades until I retired hurt. Christ, the things I've seen and can't unsee. ;-)
I'm in tears!
dramamamaof2 yeah me n all was like my old pe teacher
get a life
@@mac148 I have one. Sounds like you need one.
@@mac148 had to look up fenian. Don't know what that has to do with me liking this video and you having a problem with me liking the video? What is wrong with you? 🙄
@@dramamamaof2 im mental lol
I loved the ceilidhs, and taking the pish out of the americans who thought they knew about it because their greatgreatgreatwhatever emigrated from "there" centuries ago. I have no Scottish heritage, but feel right at home in the western isles.
I still have the t-shirt i was given by Stairheid Dynamite Ceilidh Band. Them guys knew how to throw a party
He's so hilarious!
Nearly the same happend tae me exactly 9 years ago, when I was back hame in Alba and visited a wee pub in Breadalbane.
Dinnae exactly ken, how I made it, leavin' wi'oot injuries 😂
Good god 😆 this explanation of scot heritage makes more sense of how hillbillies through Appalachia behave. Can’t fight who you are
LetsBeClear HaHa! Exactly like Applachian foot dancing or clogging. Enjoy it from a distance but don't get involved if you don't know what you're doing..
The hillbillies are of Scottish decent, the Scots were hired to protect some border in southern America and they never left.
Ahhh! You’re right, aren’t cha’?
Gary Mcatear no, they just wanted the scots the fuck out of Ulster. After being kicked out of the highlands and then there, they had nowhere else to go but America. Then they were promptly shoved to the most inaccessible reaches of the mountains. Probably felt like home.
@@509Gman The Ulster Scots were protestant, sent to Ulster to help push out the catholics, they had nothing to do with the highland clearances.
This is rediculously true 😂😂😂
no it's not, yer talking shite.
I agree it is so true
she's Scottish lol
@Kaian凯安 hahaha you're right LOL! Sorry it offended you so much
@MichaelKingsfordGray once again I apologise I offended you Lol
I can't help but hear Mrs. Doubtfire
Breda Ford eh
The start sounded like the beginning of a horror story, then it turned into something completely wild.
It’s the bestest fun when you know the steps. Old aunties getting their revenge.
I got even after my first mugging...I mean dance. I went back the next night and taught them how to do tequila shots the proper way....
Sounds a bit like square dancing here in the US. There is someone who calls the dance but if you don't know the language of square dancing you have no idea what they are telling you to do. So you end up being pushed or pulled about through the whole dance by those who do know. The problem is you don't know when you're going to be pushed or pulled so you are never quite steady on your feet and in constant fear of tripping over your own or some else's feet or just flat out running into one of the other dancers.
All your square dancing and country music was brought to America by the Scots during the highland clearances.
Err, not quite. Similar, but the aim of the Ceilidh is to spin the rugby players in kilts so fast that everyone can see if they are True Scotsmen - and kilts are heavy. So are the lads. Vast amounts of alcohol has been consumed, it is fast, and yes, you usually end up bruised. Fun times.
And everyone around you whose pulling and pushing and to whom your being pushed into is perfectly fine with that. And somehow keep you up right the entire time. And you can't ever tell if they're doing it because they're kind or because if you fell they'd have to stop and that can not happen!!
And everyone around you whose pulling and pushing and to whom your being pushed into is perfectly fine with that. And somehow keep you up right the entire time. And you can't ever tell if they're doing it because they're kind or because if you fell they'd have to stop and that can not happen!!
ceilidh is a little bit more violent than square dancing , i got a concussion once by being flung into the wall
Sip whisky or whiskey and just go with the flow.
I hit a wall and got knocked out during my first kealy
Cailedh
@@euanross89 cèilidh
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After reading all these comments, yours made me LOL for real !! Tears in running down my face and leaving me with a big smile.
the ceilidh is brutal
I went to a Scottish Highlands game event in New Hampshire many years ago. While there, I went to a Scotch tasting seminar. The gentleman giving the presentation explained to us why the Scots are such a happy people. Apparently, 1% per year of the scotch that is being aged at the 105 distilleries (at the time) in Scotland evaporates into the atmosphere. That's a lot of scotch. I was able to visit Holy Loch, Prestwick, and Glasgow when I was in the US Navy.
Douglas Reeves I never heard of the Scots being characterized as happy people in fact I thought we were known as the “dour Scots”.
@@Timetampering Who are you and why are you using my name?
This video had me laughing. Absolutely hilarious.
I love Scottish Dancing and Ceildihs are such fun
To enjoy this even more, watch the clip of Scottish country dancers performing the eightsome reel, played by the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, in the Great Hall of Borthwick Castle, then watch Danny, genius.
In high school, every November we had to do ceilidh dancing in PE. I loved it - total skive. I'm a teuchter though, live between Skye and Eilean Donan Castle. Pure teuchter and proud! Never, ever attend a ceilidh sober. Get a few drams down and you'll be grand 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
When I was wee my mum sent me to highland fucking dancing where a menopausal woman would slap my bare legs behind the knees with a fucking SWORD when I screwed up! It was a wooden sword right enough, but when you're 5 years old it fucking hurt.
W0w.. ive been waiting for new danny bhoy clips for ages, i honestly thought he stopped doing stand ups now. Do yourself a favor and watch his other vids, thank me later.
@Steven Anderson he sure is, I saw his new show and loved it! Hilarious as always and all new material!
Ordered one of his DVD'S last week off Amazon. Subject to Change, I recommend it!
I love Scotland, my mother in law came from Carradale. On our second visit hubby proposed, in a tent, me said yes a taken leave of my senses..., no not a beer 🍺 tent ⛺... Ha ha, a small Canadian 🇨🇦 one...
I honestly would love to be a fly on the wall and see a Ceilidh! I'm a terrible dancer, but I in some ways I would love to attempt a Scottish Ceilidh--at least I'd like the music!
I now feel a bit cheated by the ceilidh I attended on PEI. 😂
Thanks for posting this.
Danny is Brilliant!!!!!!
Brought back some beautiful memories 🥹
Had a wee burl wi a bonnie wee lass. Let her go she landed in a cheese plant while I pure pished masel laughing
He must be doing well, new pants.
I love this guy. Painfully funny!
I did tour other places in Scotland. Wonderful.
Love this haha 😄 Hello from Sheffield's resident ceilidhboi
I’ve always told my wife that Ceilidh mean abuse and that it is not done properly if no one’s bleeding battered and bruised at the end. That your Honour is my defense.
Useful info as I'm moving to Inverness xD now I know what to watch out for lol
These comments are almost as good as the video! Love it!
Oh ... I see ... American Square Dancing. Did that in 6th grade/grammar school. Doing it drunk. Ah, nope! Don't want to end up in the hospital! I'm out!
Sara Fimm I did to. That was back in 1962 and 1963. Elementary school in New Brunswick, NJ. Dean Elementary School.
Well, "American" square dancing originated from Scottish and Irish people having ceilidh in the south.
Ok, so I've never been to Scotland, but I plan to one day. To anyone who has been in Scotland, is this dance a common occurrence?!?!?! I want to know if this is actually something that I should plan for.
No it's a spontaneous occurrence with very little warning you'll just get caught in the moment literally! 😭😭 😭😭😭
It sounds like a Canadian wedding....
In Cape Breton, yes!
A newfy wedding maybe.
A Scottish wedding is never without them! Try doing the Gay Gordon's or the Strictly Willow or something in 8in heels :,)
He always makes me laugh
His American accent is spot on LMFAO