In the last two months both my Dad and Mum have died. Mum this morning and in her memory this evening, having cared for her in the last part of her Dementia life, I have had a wee dram, listening to Jake Thackery and watched Billy Connolly videos. Thank you Billy for the relief from the emptiness.
Billy connolly is a massive inspiration in my life, I can't imagine life without his observational comedy, this world would be a dreary wee place withoot him ⚡🤟⚡
I used to go and see Billy in the clubs & pubs when he was much younger, and purely a folk singer who told the odd joke, until he became a comedian who sang occasionally. He is one of a kind. ❤
I think it's a shame that Billy doesn't do his music anymore. He considered himself rubbish musically, but I think he was being unfair on himself. He chose the right career, being a comedian, but even so.
I have loved watching him since I was a kid I used to steal my dad's DVDs to watch him and when I was 27 I got to see him live in Dublin and he pointed at me and shook my hand, I cried it made my night! It had become a ritual for me after being out drinking to come home with my take away and stick Billy on, I once fell through a wall when I was drunk watching him I couldn't stop laughing, this man is a one of a kind ❤❤
@@TheTargaryen91 People in general. The poster above you says "Billy has nearly suffocated me at times. He has me laughing so uncontrollably that I can't draw breath. I'm practically turning blue from lack of oxygen." Now that person is either lying or dead. Or both. If they're dead RIP.
@@TheTargaryen91 Then why don't they express their admiration for Billy like normal people. Why do they come out with the crap they do. If somebody is turning blue from lack of oxygen, there is harm in that. Unless they're lying of course.
Billy has nearly suffocated me at times. He has me laughing so uncontrollably that I can't draw breath. I'm practically turning blue from lack of oxygen.🤣😂😜🤣♥️
And the funny thing is, I could never see someone from "auld reekie" telling a story with such warmth, compassion and humour, the way the big yin does. But I see it as a natural ability in many Glaswegians. Just my observation ...
It's been wonderful to catch all these clips of Billy Connolly.Above all else is the marvelous revelation that I am not the only one who cries himself to sleep with acheing ribs & tears soaking my face & pillow.
@@irbennett Have you never laughed till you cried ? If not I'm sad on your behalf. Billy always puts me on that edge of pain.....your ribs ache with pain from laughing so much & you're one joke from those tears you ask about.........
@@PhilipShand I've laughed until I had tears in my eyes. I've never cried myself to sleep. I've seen Billy live several times over the years but I've never come away with pain in my ribs. I didn't realise when I was watching Billy at a live gig that I was surrounded by people dying, suffocating, in pain, wetting their pants, people with broken ribs, crawling around on the floor and some such. St Johns Ambulance should have been there.
@@PhilipShand Billy is my favourite comedian, so yes I have laughed and my eyes water. Have I been in physical pain whilst watching him, no. There was a nut job on another Billy message board who claimed he broke two ribs from laughter whilst watching Billy. That's rubbish. I'm convinced people on his boards think he reads the messages. As if. They would scare him to death.
The big yin fae glesga is the funnies man on earth 🌍, there is no doubt, he sets the standard that everyone else dreams ov achieving.. A lot of Glaswegian are like this..
For me Billy is the greatest. Made me pee my pants more times than I care to admit. Laughed so hard my ribs felt broken. So miss the wee folk clubs of the 70s. Danny Kyle was a great comedian.
@@margaretlerlee8164 Scotland and Ireland are full of Billy's, it's what makes them so unique. He's just the public face of their spirit - and the rich one too ha.
@@Damien616 And I bet those people are still in Scotland and Ireland. Because Billy has the talent and the money. He deserves the money he's earned it.
Wonderful as always. I don't like stand up comedians, but I have loved the Big Yin all my life... The greatest storyteller ever. Always interesting hilarious stories and observations, with no side or nastiness to them.
He got quite animated and nasty as he got older. To the point where at times he seemed to be using the stage as a place to dump his personal hates and they were not amusing at all.
Hello from New Zealand. I remember years ago watching Billy tell the story about his mum. She had busted the windscreen of her car so Billy or his father fixed it. Because she had bad eye sight he put a windscreen that was magnified in her car. When she was driving up the road towards home all Billy could see was his mum behind the wheel of the car and she was magnified. He said she looked like Mr Magoo. Anyone no what that story was called, love to see it again. funny as hell.
Billy is the best. Been following him since the seventies (The Big Yin)… But I think this is the first new skit I’ve seen in ages. As always… pure, dead, brilliant!
@@slw0599 Actually Billy is my favourite comedian. But I would never say he's the greatest comedian who ever existed because I wouldn't know, not having existed forever. Though in my lifetime the best comedian I've seen is Spike Milligan. Oh and what the OP said is not called having an opinion, it's called madness.
Billy is the most amazing person that ever existed. Without him we'd never be the same. Omg he is the most influential comedian that ever done existed. He shaped my life as a human being. He was my mother and my father figure. I love you Billy. ❤️
Oh Billy ... no it can't be possible that this be just the past. There is a future to you, I promise. This is just a wee break: you'll be carrying on with your humour. I can't imagine paradise without you, you know? All my love from Switzerland
What I love about billy is , he just tells stories about his life , he is the funniest man I have ever listened too . He puts you in the room with him as he tells it . Genius
He used to leave have a window opening onto the roof, so every cat in the neighbourhood used to sneak in and piss in his flat. I said "Why do you leave the window open? He said "To get rid of the cat piss". Genius . .
That Spider-Man story has a an amazing coincidence. I used to work with a guy who had a problem with his spine (can’t for the life of me remember what) but he always had to use his hands on the wall to get up and we called him Spider-Man I just cannot get enough of The Big Yin Even though I’ve not seen his older stuff in years, I still remember it all
Just wonderful, these types of things and stories were always happening,.people were much funnier back then. Now they just stick their heads in their phones and look up once In a while to be offended.
I’ve laughed so much watching Billy, I’ve been unable to breathe. Parkinson said he’d have to leave the Concert Halls watching Billy otherwise he’d die.
@@irbennett It may have been a documentary on Billy. Really not sure or during one of his shows. I get breathless too to the point I can’t breathe. Parky used to be a smoker too so even more danger with laughing.
This reminds me when i was young and the mad stuff we used to do. Surfing down the street on the roof of a car with music blasting out of it, you'd get shot by the PC police these days. My mate's father was a panel beater, one night were heading out the club in the next town over from where we lived, 12 or 15 miles away. it was wet so my mate sneaks up to the garage and swipes the only car that was not getting fixed, a hearse. Did you know you can fit seven teenagers into a hearse? Anyway, we land over all set for a night out and five teenagers exited the back of the hearse and hit the club. 😁 Two of the seven are gone now including my mate but at the time we were indestructible and out for the craic :) Ireland in the 80's could be a bit mad so I can relate to this story.
@@slowmo9642 Oh yeah, no evidence :) I drove by my old school the other day and they were installing artificial grass to go with the nice soft artificial tarmac. The world is gone mad, we had real grass, real tarmac and real cuts, bruises and scars to show for it. :) I'd say a lot of people have scars on their knees if they went looking :) Now you'd get sued for sneezing near someone or saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time on the wrong day :D
I think I know that flat.. 😂 30 years later they offered it for rent, when I was looking for a flat in Glasgow... 😉 Well, at least there were a lot similar ones... 🤷🏼
First saw this bastard, me as a fu'nkn sassenach stud'nt in 1969; McKewen (?) Hall, when he was with the Humblebums, (I think). Hilarious then and thereafter. A Gem.
He's become quite the artist since beginning knocked down by Parkinsons. Hell, he's making so much off his drawings and paintings he could have retired from standup years ago if had the idea to do so. There's no way Billy would have retired from his love of a good joke and an even better story, there's just no end of the laugh he loves to give people. Oh, by the way, those pictures; yah, there's so much demand for them that ya couldn't afford to buy the pencil shavings😅.
He retired because he had Parkinsons. He was also in his seventies. His drawings came to the fore after he retired so he wasn't making money off his drawings beforehand. You said so yourself. They are drawings not paintings. He keeps up with demand by photocopying his work. By the way he loves stories, not jokes. By the way, you're full of shit. Adios.
In the last two months both my Dad and Mum have died. Mum this morning and in her memory this evening, having cared for her in the last part of her Dementia life, I have had a wee dram, listening to Jake Thackery and watched Billy Connolly videos. Thank you Billy for the relief from the emptiness.
My heart goes out to you Katherine.
im so sorry that is so tragic :( hang in there 💜
So sad. Bless you.
So sorry, a wee dram, or two, would definitely be in order! 🌹
I am so sorry. My absolute condolences to you and your family. I hope you are doing well xx
There will never be another comedian like Billy, the world is such a better place because of his work ♥️
You are not wrong 🙏🇦🇺
💯
Hes not dead? Sounds morbid
@@wayne20uk the legend lives, 🤟
He is not dead yet.
25 years and still hilarious. Few comedians can say that.
Billy connolly is a massive inspiration in my life, I can't imagine life without his observational comedy, this world would be a dreary wee place withoot him ⚡🤟⚡
His trick is the mental images he always projects to our mind, much love for the big yin fae glesga ❤️
I used to go and see Billy in the clubs & pubs when he was much younger, and purely a folk singer who told the odd joke, until he became a comedian who sang occasionally. He is one of a kind. ❤
I think it's a shame that Billy doesn't do his music anymore. He considered himself rubbish musically, but I think he was being unfair on himself. He chose the right career, being a comedian, but even so.
"Don't be so fucking bourgeois" is the go-to in-joke for my wife and I.
I have loved watching him since I was a kid I used to steal my dad's DVDs to watch him and when I was 27 I got to see him live in Dublin and he pointed at me and shook my hand, I cried it made my night! It had become a ritual for me after being out drinking to come home with my take away and stick Billy on, I once fell through a wall when I was drunk watching him I couldn't stop laughing, this man is a one of a kind ❤❤
Why do people insist on lying when they're on the internet.
@@irbennett are you referring to me?
@@TheTargaryen91 People in general. The poster above you says "Billy has nearly suffocated me at times. He has me laughing so uncontrollably that I can't draw breath. I'm practically turning blue from lack of oxygen." Now that person is either lying or dead. Or both. If they're dead RIP.
@@irbennett lol they are just expressing how happy he makes them feel, there's no harm in that.
@@TheTargaryen91 Then why don't they express their admiration for Billy like normal people. Why do they come out with the crap they do. If somebody is turning blue from lack of oxygen, there is harm in that. Unless they're lying of course.
Billy is an absolute treasure to humanity ,not many people can say they're truly loved everywhere they go .......the G.O.A.T of comedy
Billy has nearly suffocated me at times. He has me laughing so uncontrollably that I can't draw breath. I'm practically turning blue from lack of oxygen.🤣😂😜🤣♥️
This guy pulls me out of depression
Me too.
Just don't think Billy can cure depression, that's dangerous.
@@irbennettGET A LIFE!!!!!
@@irbennett but he sure can help
I live in Glasgow and this is an accurate picture! I love it and it gives me chills at the same time.
And the funny thing is, I could never see someone from "auld reekie" telling a story with such warmth, compassion and humour, the way the big yin does. But I see it as a natural ability in many Glaswegians. Just my observation ...
Billy Connolly. King of Scotland and honorary leader of the rest of the world.
Go away. Now imagine how Billy would say that and RUclips won't let me. Then do it.
Could listen to Billy Connolly all day...
🙏🤣❤️🙌
It's been wonderful to catch all these clips of Billy Connolly.Above all else is the marvelous revelation that I am not the only one who cries himself to sleep with acheing ribs & tears soaking my face & pillow.
Why do you cry yourself to sleep?
@@irbennett Have you never laughed till you cried ? If not I'm sad on your behalf. Billy always puts me on that edge of pain.....your ribs ache with pain from laughing so much & you're one joke from those tears you ask about.........
@@PhilipShand I've laughed until I had tears in my eyes. I've never cried myself to sleep. I've seen Billy live several times over the years but I've never come away with pain in my ribs. I didn't realise when I was watching Billy at a live gig that I was surrounded by people dying, suffocating, in pain, wetting their pants, people with broken ribs, crawling around on the floor and some such. St Johns Ambulance should have been there.
@@PhilipShand Billy is my favourite comedian, so yes I have laughed and my eyes water. Have I been in physical pain whilst watching him, no. There was a nut job on another Billy message board who claimed he broke two ribs from laughter whilst watching Billy. That's rubbish. I'm convinced people on his boards think he reads the messages. As if. They would scare him to death.
The big yin fae glesga is the funnies man on earth 🌍, there is no doubt, he sets the standard that everyone else dreams ov achieving.. A lot of Glaswegian are like this..
So I assume you're not from Glasgow.
@@irbennettwhy would you assume that? 😂
@@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC Because you try too hard to appear Scottish.
@@irbennettI’m Scottish, Glaswegian. 👍
@@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC Yeah right.
For me Billy is the greatest. Made me pee my pants more times than I care to admit. Laughed so hard my ribs felt broken. So miss the wee folk clubs of the 70s. Danny Kyle was a great comedian.
My backdoor cigar this afternoon just got better... cheers, Billy!
😉Best enjoyed with Billy at his best 🤟
Fabulous stories. Such a brilliant comedian.
There will Never be another Billy Connolly. He's the best l Just Love him. X
@@margaretlerlee8164 Scotland and Ireland are full of Billy's, it's what makes them so unique. He's just the public face of their spirit - and the rich one too ha.
@@Damien616 And I bet those people are still in Scotland and Ireland. Because Billy has the talent and the money. He deserves the money he's earned it.
The greatest storyteller period.
Wonderful as always.
I don't like stand up comedians, but I have loved the Big Yin all my life... The greatest storyteller ever. Always interesting hilarious stories and observations, with no side or nastiness to them.
All unscripted and no two shows ever the same.
@@Canalcoholic I always forget he's actually doing a show, it just feels like a pal talking to me about things.
Same
He got quite animated and nasty as he got older. To the point where at times he seemed to be using the stage as a place to dump his personal hates and they were not amusing at all.
@@xymonau2468 That's the Scots for you.
You're a Bloody Legend, Mate. I've loved your work for years.
Going through an extremely rough time at the moment and feel that billy is the only one that can cure me at times ❤ thank you billy.
RIP.
2:24 "Overpowering smell of cat's piss..... he didn't have a cat...." 😂🤣
Absolute gold, one of the best there will ever be
Hello from New Zealand. I remember years ago watching Billy tell the story about his mum. She had busted the windscreen of her car so Billy or his father fixed it. Because she had bad eye sight he put a windscreen that was magnified in her car. When she was driving up the road towards home all Billy could see was his mum behind the wheel of the car and she was magnified. He said she looked like Mr Magoo. Anyone no what that story was called, love to see it again. funny as hell.
Think it’s prescription windscreen, too funny!!
@@paulasonny2797 Excellent, thank you Paula.
The prescription window story was about his father. His mother left home when Billy was 4.
Billy is the best. Been following him since the seventies (The Big Yin)…
But I think this is the first new skit I’ve seen in ages.
As always… pure, dead, brilliant!
Don't you ever buy the DVDs, or are you just a freeloader.
@@irbennett Nope, I didn’t buy 1 DVD. Just LPs and tickets to his shows (sorry for not living up to your high standards)
Love ya Billy! Absolutely love ya!
Simply the greatest comedian ever.
Do you know every comedian who ever existed.
@@irbennett it's called having an opinion.....I should imagine you've got one (favourite comedian, or film or band etc)
@@slw0599 Actually Billy is my favourite comedian. But I would never say he's the greatest comedian who ever existed because I wouldn't know, not having existed forever. Though in my lifetime the best comedian I've seen is Spike Milligan. Oh and what the OP said is not called having an opinion, it's called madness.
Just love this funny man. Always cheers me up.
He's one of my favorite comedians of all-time. Huge fan from the states!
Love You Big Yin and Take Care xxxx ❤❤
I think this show was the best of all his releases, he was in the best form.🙂
What show is this one?
I think it was called One Night Stand Down Under or something, from maybe 1997 or 1998 (or thereabouts). I still have the old VHS somewhere.😄✌️
Awesome thank you, the trousers don't ring a bell hopefully haven't seen it before!
At his very best here, legend
Namaste 🙏 thankyou God bless 🙏 🙌 💖 ❤️ ✨️ all
Love it for the story line ,much more interesting than most,
Master of making others laugh
those wild eyes telling his stories man what a legend haha
These are my favorite of Billy's many excellent pants
Billy is the most amazing person that ever existed. Without him we'd never be the same. Omg he is the most influential comedian that ever done existed. He shaped my life as a human being. He was my mother and my father figure. I love you Billy. ❤️
Oh for God's sake, that's sickening.
I love you Billy, you are a legend.
Oh Billy ... no it can't be possible that this be just the past. There is a future to you, I promise. This is just a wee break: you'll be carrying on with your humour. I can't imagine paradise without you, you know? All my love from Switzerland
Please please shut up'
What I love about billy is , he just tells stories about his life , he is the funniest man I have ever listened too .
He puts you in the room with him as he tells it .
Genius
He doesn't just tell stories about his life.
Billy is my spirit animal!
What??????
He used to leave have a window opening onto the roof, so every cat in the neighbourhood used to sneak in and piss in his flat. I said "Why do you leave the window open? He said "To get rid of the cat piss".
Genius . .
That Spider-Man story has a an amazing coincidence. I used to work with a guy who had a problem with his spine (can’t for the life of me remember what) but he always had to use his hands on the wall to get up and we called him Spider-Man
I just cannot get enough of The Big Yin
Even though I’ve not seen his older stuff in years, I still remember it all
Funny! Thumbs up even before I watched it.
1:45 they did NOT get the actor joke at all!! jeez!! OMG! i was on the floor!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
They did get tha actor joke, you must have been on the floor at the time and missed it.
❤ love Billy! Ef'n hilarious 😂
I always hope the stories true ish , one of my heroes
Amazing insight....👍
Long Live big yen ❤️
Billy is the Best by far loveya Billy
I have been to a few, and it's an experience
Keep goin’ bigin’
Love you Billy :))
The stories he can tell🤣
Fuxking love ya Sir William
Brilliant
So funny
nice one, Billy.
Duffle, what volume do those hold & what material are they made 😎♥️🍊🕛🪂
Where can we buy digital versions of Bills stand up?
There’s some on Amazon prime
"Don't be so f-cking bourgeois!"
Just wonderful, these types of things and stories were always happening,.people were much funnier back then. Now they just stick their heads in their phones and look up once In a while to be offended.
I’ve laughed so much watching Billy, I’ve been unable to breathe. Parkinson said he’d have to leave the Concert Halls watching Billy otherwise he’d die.
When did he say that.
@@irbennett
It may have been a documentary on Billy. Really not sure or during one of his shows. I get breathless too to the point I can’t breathe. Parky used to be a smoker too so even more danger with laughing.
The greatest Scottish
People need to see this man. Ha ha
Such a handsome attractive funny man ❤️
The Man Could Get Away With Murder .
Genius 😀
This guy Harkens….. did he ever exist? or was he just Billy’s creation? Genius either way especially when Harkens worked in the morgue….
Billy was a grave digger at one point in his early life.
He did.
Aah the random bumps, bruises and scrapes from the drunken stumble home from the pub.
This reminds me when i was young and the mad stuff we used to do.
Surfing down the street on the roof of a car with music blasting out of it, you'd get shot by the PC police these days.
My mate's father was a panel beater, one night were heading out the club in the next town over from where we lived, 12 or 15 miles away.
it was wet so my mate sneaks up to the garage and swipes the only car that was not getting fixed, a hearse.
Did you know you can fit seven teenagers into a hearse?
Anyway, we land over all set for a night out and five teenagers exited the back of the hearse and hit the club. 😁
Two of the seven are gone now including my mate but at the time we were indestructible and out for the craic :)
Ireland in the 80's could be a bit mad so I can relate to this story.
Great memories bro.
@@slowmo9642 Good times and not as uptight and regulated as things are now :)
@@ravenmadd1343 no camera phones either mate, recording yer sins.
@@slowmo9642 Oh yeah, no evidence :) I drove by my old school the other day and they were installing artificial grass to go with the nice soft artificial tarmac. The world is gone mad, we had real grass, real tarmac and real cuts, bruises and scars to show for it. :) I'd say a lot of people have scars on their knees if they went looking :)
Now you'd get sued for sneezing near someone or saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time on the wrong day :D
The g o a t
Glaswegians always stretch it for a laugh
Trust me, I AM Spider-Man.
Most of my mates too, we share the role around.
Thanks Billy..
I don't think the full set of this night has ever been released. Anyone know otherwise?
Spiderman lol
I think I know that flat.. 😂 30 years later they offered it for rent, when I was looking for a flat in Glasgow...
😉 Well, at least there were a lot similar ones... 🤷🏼
AH MAN, I was falling of my chair laughing.
The Big Man,
this man needs to be cloned.he is humanity saviour
SFU.
G'on yerself Billy..funny as ...
Does anyone know where we can find any of Billy’s live shows in full?? It seems really hard to get hold of them!
Ebay, amazon and believe it or not, charity shops
Yeah my gaff, remember VHS
Amazon.
rad
Comic genius.
Is anybody here going to comment on the video? Do people here think Billy reads the comments?
Hilarious 🤣
👍😄
First saw this bastard, me as a fu'nkn sassenach stud'nt in 1969; McKewen (?) Hall, when he was with the Humblebums, (I think).
Hilarious then and thereafter.
A Gem.
Billy I hear some people can't understand your accent. Billy. Sorry?
Fucking Spiderman🤣🤣🤣
Don't be so bourgeois! Hilarious.
🤣😂👍
Dear Google,
This is not the clip I'm looking for and contains none of the search terms. Please fix your broken AI.
Imagine he and Robin both in Mrs Doubtfire
No
Glasgow’s first son
Is this the same Harkins who made a giant out of corpses while he worked as a mortician?
Then why would you risk thermo nuclier war. If you love Scotland so much. Nice to have the scots in no 11 next door.
Harkins.
At 70 plus,B.C. Is still not funny
He's become quite the artist since beginning knocked down by Parkinsons. Hell, he's making so much off his drawings and paintings he could have retired from standup years ago if had the idea to do so. There's no way Billy would have retired from his love of a good joke and an even better story, there's just no end of the laugh he loves to give people. Oh, by the way, those pictures; yah, there's so much demand for them that ya couldn't afford to buy the pencil shavings😅.
He retired because he had Parkinsons. He was also in his seventies. His drawings came to the fore after he retired so he wasn't making money off his drawings beforehand. You said so yourself. They are drawings not paintings. He keeps up with demand by photocopying his work. By the way he loves stories, not jokes. By the way, you're full of shit. Adios.