In Australia, when I was a lad, I worked underground with Scottish miners, most of them originated in some place called “ the Gorbals” fearsome men, fearsome drunks, fearsome fighters, nicest blokes you would ever want to work with, lend them money and they chased you to repay it, give them a helping hand and they would repay it tenfold if you didn’t stop them.
@Joe Blow Yeh he's still alive, he has recently retired from performing after over 50 years and recently led the annual New York City tartan day parade
I know Billy won't see this ,but he was a guest at my friend's place for dinner,he tried calling me,but I was working overtime in a tower crane in Auckland nz,I didn't have a cellphone then ,.......and missed out on having dinner with this legend.till the I shuffle off this mortal coil I will always regret that evening.CHEERS.
Have you got a video when Billy is telling a story about a time that he fell off his motorbike n his friend is looking for him shouting Billy Billy where are ye.. very funny.😂🤣😂😅😆😁😄
Fast forward 5 years from your post and Billy will be frowned upon as he is funny as hell (and the best ever) and that today (2022) having a sense of humour or being a comedian will get you cancelled as some nitwit will be offended by a joke.
I wasn't allowed to watch this when I was I kid, but my older brother recorded it off the tv on to an audio cassette for me without my parents knowing. I listened to that cassette over and over for years. Such a great comedian, Glasgow's finest. Love you Billy x
The old ones are the best...comedians as well as jokes...I've dined off this gag for so many years...including the diced carrot and tomato digression...thanks Billy...I owe you dearly...
total and utter genius, thanks Billy for making so many folks feel better because of your amazingness! love the subtitles also, you are loved worldwide xx
@@irbennett My point is that his material is so thin - an incident on a bus - but he has his audience in stitches. Call it what you will - that’s masterful.
@@irbennett Sorry, I thought this clip included his story about a dwarf on a bus. My point remains - whether in Rome or on a bus, his genius is crafting an hilarious monologue from weak material. You may not find it funny but he has the audience in stitches.
Sir, Billy i have cried laughing at your stories and jokes , you have taken simple stories and made them epic thank you for everything thanks for your honest down to earth Glasgow humour bless you
The words just keep rolling out if his mouth. The laughter just keeps coming. I actually think I start laughing before the story us even concluded because he is just funny. His whole essence is comical and he oozes infectious laughter
One of his best stories. He was great in the old days when he was still drinking and had the stories to go with it. No criticism of him giving up the booze.
If he hadn't given up drinking, he would be dead, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. And as abundantly became clear he didn't need to drink to be funny.
@@irbennett I'm not denying that his health, or anybody's health for that matter can benefit from not drinking. However, I still think he was funnier then. Obviously that's a matter of opinion. His stories were often from his experiences. Many of his stories were drink related and as such were very funny. I think and again it's my opinion, that he isn't as funny as he was. I refer you to my last line, 'No criticism of him giving up the booze'
@@paulbradford8240 Interesting, as Billy has been very critical of his early days as a comedian. He has said he just wasn't good enough, and was drunk most of the time he was onstage. Sure he was popular, but he couldn't carry on the way he was going. His career would grind to a halt, and if he didn't stop drinking he would be dead. The upturn began when he stopped with the drink, and in the process became much funnier. The man is unique, but at least he's still alive.
I first heard this on the album called The :Pick of Billy Connelly which was a best of album back in 1983 it cracked me up when I first heard it over thirty years later it still does classic billy
The first time I heard this routine, it was on a record or something. I just about peed my pants, and I quote this regularly to this very day. Love you, Billy.
He's absolutely right about diced carrots and tomato peel,the first time I got drunk (1 pint of lager), was in a pub in Aberdeen at the back of Woolworths on Aberdeen green I remember spewing up against the toilet door, every time I went back to the pub The hinges of the door to the toilet still had bits of carrot and tomato peel stuck in the hinges, just showed you they never cleaned the bloody place properly, and I never had any diced carrots or tomatoes for weeks previous to that so Billy is spot-on.
Normally i don't like bad language but in the case of Billy Connoly he is pure genius and it just doesn't bother me. I laugh right through all the bad words. I am too busy laughing and trying to hear what he is saying over my loud belly laughs to worry about a bad word here and there and everywhere.
Love how the subtitles aren't even that far off from how he sounds. Dutch has to be the easiest language to learn for a native English speaker - moreso for Scottish folk
I heard this on his pick of billy conolly album even though this version has bad audio it’s an all time classic but he laugh at his own jokes that’s what it makes it so funny
I'm a big Connolly fan, but I've got to admit his early stuff was the best. This looks like it was from the '70's. Imo from the mid 1980's his comedy lost something, its still brilliant but somehow missing something. I think maybe its because back then Connolly was fresh from Glasgow and the shipyards, but for the past 20 odd years he's lived a "luvvie" sort of lifestyle, and its taken the edge off of his comedy. be interested to hear what other people think
The classic "Wreck-on-Tour routine. I first heard the album when I was 14 years old. I was in so much pain with laughter. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I think the birthing video follows this, I cannae be sure. 😅😁😄😄😆😆
connolly at his best!, the thing about Billy is, he has propbably bean on stage about a millioon times and every time he has a different act, thats the sign of a great comedian, he does not need an act, he just gets on stage and shoots the shit, and he is funnny every time.
Though he hails from the Catholic side o' Glesca he's perfect at describing the typical Presbyterian Scottish attitude towards anything foreign to the UK. Mind you, I'm a Scottish Presbyterian and proud tae be!
I guy I know said he first saw this many years ago in a cinema(?) in Norway, with Norwegian subtitles. All was fine until it got to the punchline. The Norwegians read the subtitles a second or so before Billy said, and they laughed so loud he never heard the punchline himself. I loved his earlier stuff. He seemed to mellow after the 80s, and was never quite the same. His meandering storytelling style was unique, and the way he pull true stories into the mix made him without doubt the best comedian of his generation.
LOL, who papered the ceiling? Ha haa! I canny believe there's subtitles, lol! How the hell do you subtitle Billy Connelly, awe brilliant!!! Hughey and Ralph Green, awe, I've actually got tears in my eyes!
NW6 I know but I don't even know if it would be as funny in another language, I think Billy Connolly is actually funnier that the story sometimes, or his unique way of telling it, lol! "I canny feel ma legs!" "there ma legs" lol Awe, too funny! ;)
There was a psychiatrist in San Francisco that would tell his clients if they were feeling depressed to go home and watch a Billy Connolly dvd. I wonder how much he charged?
In Australia, when I was a lad, I worked underground with Scottish miners, most of them originated in some place called “ the Gorbals” fearsome men, fearsome drunks, fearsome fighters, nicest blokes you would ever want to work with, lend them money and they chased you to repay it, give them a helping hand and they would repay it tenfold if you didn’t stop them.
I LOVE the Scotts and Scotland. Some of my favorite memories. And I'm English 😁
I was born in Glasgow. Suckey hall street. The southern infirmary . 👍😊
@@tolkienfan1972 Scots not Scotts.
@@barnsybarns3659 sauchiehall street but I'm sure you know that since you're a weegie.
@@graememckay9972 right
Who is watching Billy 2022 ! ME ! scoucer here Thailand 17 years craving for britt humour !!!!!
Billy is one of a kind. Never, ever will be another. Legend, simple as that.
@Joe Blow Yeh he's still alive, he has recently retired from performing after over 50 years and recently led the annual New York City tartan day parade
I know Billy won't see this ,but he was a guest at my friend's place for dinner,he tried calling me,but I was working overtime in a tower crane in Auckland nz,I didn't have a cellphone then ,.......and missed out on having dinner with this legend.till the I shuffle off this mortal coil I will always regret that evening.CHEERS.
Adore this man's ability to tell a story.
Billy, you're an absolute legend, and even when you are long gone, your videos will still be making bellys hurt, and tears fall. Thanks for it all xxx
He's no fucking dead yet.
Have you got a video when Billy is telling a story about a time that he fell off his motorbike n his friend is looking for him shouting Billy Billy where are ye.. very funny.😂🤣😂😅😆😁😄
Mans immortal 🙌🏻 true icon of comedy 👌🏻
'Bellys'? Missed the class on take-off-the-y-add-ies, eh?
Fast forward 5 years from your post and Billy will be frowned upon as he is funny as hell (and the best ever) and that today (2022) having a sense of humour or being a comedian will get you cancelled as some nitwit will be offended by a joke.
I needed that. A bit of classic Billy during social distancing
I've heard this gag so many times, but it still makes me laugh every time. Genius comedy from a comedy genius!
I wasn't allowed to watch this when I was I kid, but my older brother recorded it off the tv on to an audio cassette for me without my parents knowing. I listened to that cassette over and over for years. Such a great comedian, Glasgow's finest. Love you Billy x
What a wonderful memory 👍
My parents had the record learned the advantages to wearing wellies and how to get out of the full pretzel
The old ones are the best...comedians as well as jokes...I've dined off this gag for so many years...including the diced carrot and tomato digression...thanks Billy...I owe you dearly...
Thank you for keeping the world full of laughter 🌟❤️🌟
total and utter genius, thanks Billy for making so many folks feel better because of your amazingness! love the subtitles also, you are loved worldwide xx
Such a classic sketch,absolutely brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂
A master at work! Taking a simple joke and crafting an hilarious sketch filled with observation from life.
It's neither a joke or a sketch.
@@irbennett My point is that his material is so thin - an incident on a bus - but he has his audience in stitches. Call it what you will - that’s masterful.
@@CAquas So what was with the nonsense you first posted. There wasn't a bus in the When In Rome.
@@irbennett Sorry, I thought this clip included his story about a dwarf on a bus. My point remains - whether in Rome or on a bus, his genius is crafting an hilarious monologue from weak material. You may not find it funny but he has the audience in stitches.
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LOVE Billy Connolly always has me in bits.
His autobiography is Brilliant!! I highly recommend it.
Brilliant!. An exquisete story teller the like we'll never see again!. On ya Big Un!.... Nuff said.
All that shoulder walk and pointing with one leg is just evolving to the wind and rain.
I had tears rolling down my eyes watching this
I have tears running down my legs Billy I love you 😂😂😂😂
If you have tears running down your legs, I would check to make sure you haven't wet your pants.
The mark of a great comedian is that it's the journey as well as the destination.
Sir, Billy i have cried laughing at your stories and jokes , you have taken simple stories and made them epic thank you for everything thanks for your honest down to earth Glasgow humour bless you
So much love for this hilarious comic. Never fails
to split my sides!
It's never about the punch line with Billy it's the journey, I lost it at Huey and Rolf....😂😂😂
Huey and Ralph.
HUEY!!!
So did the Scotsmen!
Diced carrots
Billy connolly one of my absolute favourite comedians ever, love the 'jobbie weecha joke", a real legend.
God bless this Legend ❤ Billy from your home town 🏴
Can you think this man is part Pakistan?
The words just keep rolling out if his mouth.
The laughter just keeps coming.
I actually think I start laughing before the story us even concluded because he is just funny. His whole essence is comical and he oozes infectious laughter
Can only understand half of it and it's still hilarious. I love this man so much.
🏴 Sir Billy Connolly, Legend 💜🌟
That was somethin else, the detail he put's in his jokes are what makes the so good.
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I’m English, so thank god for those subtitles!
In all seriousness, genius comic, laid many foundations, much missed
Edd, do you know something we don't???
Behave yersel
I first heard this in the seventies and fell in love. That love continues.... Billy's phrases are part of the collective.... "Hughie /Ralph" lol
Billy, this man will never ever be forgotten. Thee funniest man on this planet. I hope his health keeps him with us for many years to come.
A legend.
One of his best stories. He was great in the old days when he was still drinking and had the stories to go with it. No criticism of him giving up the booze.
If he hadn't given up drinking, he would be dead, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. And as abundantly became clear he didn't need to drink to be funny.
@@irbennett I'm not denying that his health, or anybody's health for that matter can benefit from not drinking. However, I still think he was funnier then. Obviously that's a matter of opinion. His stories were often from his experiences. Many of his stories were drink related and as such were very funny. I think and again it's my opinion, that he isn't as funny as he was. I refer you to my last line, 'No criticism of him giving up the booze'
@@paulbradford8240 Interesting, as Billy has been very critical of his early days as a comedian. He has said he just wasn't good enough, and was drunk most of the time he was onstage. Sure he was popular, but he couldn't carry on the way he was going. His career would grind to a halt, and if he didn't stop drinking he would be dead. The upturn began when he stopped with the drink, and in the process became much funnier. The man is unique, but at least he's still alive.
Absolute Legend ❤👏👏
I first heard this on the album called The :Pick of Billy Connelly which was a best of album back in 1983 it cracked me up when I first heard it over thirty years later it still does classic billy
andrew Baker
A wreck on tour was good
FUCK me...I have that cassette and i forgot.
2021, still funny and about the 100th time have watched this!
I had this on his album years ago. In the seventies. I don't know what happened to it but I've never forgotten it. I nearly died laughing at him once,
Nearly. Shame.
Billy is the best no script he's brilliant.
Thats why hes brillant, you cant remember his stuff unless you watch it all the time because he does digress like that all the time its great.
Excellent find! Great stuff, he was at his best in the early years.
The first time I heard this routine, it was on a record or something. I just about peed my pants, and I quote this regularly to this very day. Love you, Billy.
best story teller ever
That brings back memories. Dryborough's Heavy.
McEwans Heavy.
I canny feel my legs. Lol gets me every time
Oh yes he was good, very good, still is, but seeing him in his prime doing stand up, unbeatable.
I love that he cracks himself up lol. It cracks me up when he laughs at himself 😂😂😂
I never knew he was a comedian. Ive only known him as an actor. Loved him in Boondock Saints
Best comedian who ever lived!
Carlin is right there.
PreserveBigCats fy
Tony Dean definatly
Ton
Bold statement but he's deffo up there ☝
That diced carrots, tomato skins observation is so true!
oh. lol.... ""Corn?... When did I eat corn?.".... lol
mo O Just
Jezus H Christ can you not think of anything else to write than the idiot "lol"?
,k
My old man was a Scotsman, when he drank he would have everybody on the floor pissing themselves from laughing. Some of the stories he would tell.
lol as a jock myself it must be in our genes
"Jimmy, give us two pints 'a heavy!" LMAO
funniest fucker I've ever heard in my life.......genius
a true living legend
My favourite joke of all time!!! Legend indeed.
Hughie Green and Diced Carrots - stupendous!!!! :-)
I love two things about Billy Connolly: 1) that he laughs at his own jokes. And 2) that he looks like a muppet in this particular vid. XD
Big Yin Is A Legend,
"Eh Jimmay, giv us tuu pints a heava".
They still dinnae serve Heavy in Rome, the daft buggers.
and what is that?
Blahblah Bluhbluh
Scottish Ale. :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_Beer_of_Scotland
Blahblah Bluhbluh What the rest of Britain call Bitter.
***** ill just have a cocio then
Legend
I had this on audio years ago and it is still as funny as ever.
Parknest. Me too but i cant remember the what gig it was?
He's absolutely right about diced carrots and tomato peel,the first time I got drunk (1 pint of lager), was in a pub in Aberdeen at the back of Woolworths on Aberdeen green I remember spewing up against the toilet door, every time I went back to the pub The hinges of the door to the toilet still had bits of carrot and tomato peel stuck in the hinges, just showed you they never cleaned the bloody place properly, and I never had any diced carrots or tomatoes for weeks previous to that so Billy is spot-on.
🤢Ah, but were they YOUR bits of carrot and tomato peel, or did they get replenished every so often ?
Billy wasn't spot on, he made up the whole diced carrots and tomato skins thing.
Normally i don't like bad language but in the case of Billy Connoly he is pure genius and it just doesn't bother me. I laugh right through all the bad words. I am too busy laughing and trying to hear what he is saying over my loud belly laughs to worry about a bad word here and there and everywhere.
He still makes me laugh til I cry funniest guy ever! Huey Green LOL!
Never be a another comedian like him.
Love how the subtitles aren't even that far off from how he sounds. Dutch has to be the easiest language to learn for a native English speaker - moreso for Scottish folk
Sometimes reading the subtitles helps me understand what he says -- and I don't speak Dutch.
Loving the Dutch subtitles
I heard this on his pick of billy conolly album even though this version has bad audio it’s an all time classic but he laugh at his own jokes that’s what it makes it so funny
Billy is Eternal.
I'm a big Connolly fan, but I've got to admit his early stuff was the best. This looks like it was from the '70's. Imo from the mid 1980's his comedy lost something, its still brilliant but somehow missing something. I think maybe its because back then Connolly was fresh from Glasgow and the shipyards, but for the past 20 odd years he's lived a "luvvie" sort of lifestyle, and its taken the edge off of his comedy. be interested to hear what other people think
That's bollocks and you know it.
Big man's a legend..oh aye
The classic "Wreck-on-Tour routine. I first heard the album when I was 14 years old. I was in so much pain with laughter. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I think the birthing video follows this, I cannae be sure. 😅😁😄😄😆😆
Legend... Irish Fan
A great comiedien, the best
The Last Suppper. Billy's best skit on Scots natives in Rome.
Shaun Bauidh No Bas the last supper is the funniest things I've ever heard!
connolly at his best!, the thing about Billy is, he has propbably bean on stage about a millioon times and every time he has a different act, thats the sign of a great comedian, he does not need an act, he just gets on stage and shoots the shit, and he is funnny every time.
Billy Connolly Th Best Comedian Ever Along With Richard Pryor. Very Funny Story.
Though he hails from the Catholic side o' Glesca he's perfect at describing the typical Presbyterian Scottish attitude towards anything foreign to the UK. Mind you, I'm a Scottish Presbyterian and proud tae be!
reminds me of growing up
Silly Billy, you always make me laugh!
Its his life. Its real storys where he has been a part of. When he said this story is about 2 guys in rome, he really means me and a friend.
"who papered that ceiling" hahaha
When I was in England in 1984, I enjoyed a dark colored beer. Would that have been stout?
I guy I know said he first saw this many years ago in a cinema(?) in Norway, with Norwegian subtitles. All was fine until it got to the punchline. The Norwegians read the subtitles a second or so before Billy said, and they laughed so loud he never heard the punchline himself.
I loved his earlier stuff. He seemed to mellow after the 80s, and was never quite the same. His meandering storytelling style was unique, and the way he pull true stories into the mix made him without doubt the best comedian of his generation.
That's rubbish. In fact he would become angrier after the 80s. If you'd seen him live during this period you would know this. He was funnier as well..
LOL, who papered the ceiling? Ha haa! I canny believe there's subtitles, lol! How the hell do you subtitle Billy Connelly, awe brilliant!!! Hughey and Ralph Green, awe, I've actually got tears in my eyes!
+lyndsay crawford To be fair, it's subbed in Dutch (I think). It is, still, laugh out loud funny alright. 'In Italian' ;'-O
NW6 I know but I don't even know if it would be as funny in another language, I think Billy Connolly is actually funnier that the story sometimes, or his unique way of telling it, lol!
"I canny feel ma legs!"
"there ma legs" lol
Awe, too funny! ;)
+lyndsay crawford Yeah, "Two pints of heavy" Lmao ;-D
I just watched it with the sound off. His body language is hilarious in itself ;'-)
+lyndsay crawford My ex was from Bells Hill and turned me onto him. Saw him in concert in the mid-80's in Vancouver and I swear my sides still hurt.
Holy shit, volume is a little HIGH at the beginning.
LMAO !! ''No wonder they carry the Pope in a chair hey ??!!''
There was a psychiatrist in San Francisco that would tell his clients if they were feeling depressed to go home and watch a Billy Connolly dvd. I wonder how much he charged?
Must have cornered the market on Billy's tapes...lol
Liisa varhalla. True story 😊
Great advice. :)
Nice story. It does seem laughter is the best medicine.
I see where robin Williams got his drunk Scottish guy origin of golf impression from
God I would've loved to see those two on stage together
@@fisherking7798That would never have happened.
Never old!!!
A genius.
+Free speech for all That he most certainly is..
Hey Big Yin..closest thing to Christ I would follow.
Oh my jaesus, i'm pessin myself laughing!
Brilliant,
If you are at your computer or tablet watching Billy Connolly for the first time, put away anything you are eating or drinking. You’ll thank me later.
Love Billy Connolly xx
Unique and very funny guy. 👍
not only but he was hot too.
Oh...yes he was and is...he still has that impish twinkle in his eye...wonderful man
Greatest comedian!!!
We love you Billy ..
he looks so much like robert de niro here amazing comedy love him