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.

@alicedemaria1

Жыл бұрын

My heart goes out to you Katherine.

@LilyKittyCatto

Жыл бұрын

im so sorry that is so tragic :( hang in there 💜

@anniewilliams9939

Жыл бұрын

So sad. Bless you.

@lyntalbot394

Жыл бұрын

So sorry, a wee dram, or two, would definitely be in order! 🌹

@kirstyhoward7257

Ай бұрын

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 ♥️

@aileenbell2248

2 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong 🙏🇦🇺

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC

2 жыл бұрын

💯

@wayne20uk

Жыл бұрын

Hes not dead? Sounds morbid

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC

Жыл бұрын

@@wayne20uk the legend lives, 🤟

@craigkelly4278

Жыл бұрын

He is not dead yet.

"Don't be so fucking bourgeois" is the go-to in-joke for my wife and I.

This guy pulls me out of depression

@m.m.9684

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

25 years and still hilarious. Few comedians can say that.

2:24 "Overpowering smell of cat's piss..... he didn't have a cat...." 😂🤣

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 ❤❤

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 ⚡🤟⚡

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC

2 жыл бұрын

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. ❤

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.🤣😂😜🤣♥️

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

I live in Glasgow and this is an accurate picture! I love it and it gives me chills at the same time.

@colincampbell437

Жыл бұрын

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 ...

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..

Could listen to Billy Connolly all day... 🙏🤣❤️🙌

definitely the best comedian that ever is or ever will be. cheers billy..all the best pal

Fabulous stories. Such a brilliant comedian.

@margaretlerlee8164

Жыл бұрын

There will Never be another Billy Connolly. He's the best l Just Love him. X

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.

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

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!

My backdoor cigar this afternoon just got better... cheers, Billy!

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC

2 жыл бұрын

😉Best enjoyed with Billy at his best 🤟

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

The greatest storyteller period.

Namaste 🙏 thankyou God bless 🙏 🙌 💖 ❤️ ✨️ all

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.

@Canalcoholic

2 жыл бұрын

All unscripted and no two shows ever the same.

@nedkelly5866

2 жыл бұрын

@@Canalcoholic I always forget he's actually doing a show, it just feels like a pal talking to me about things.

@rebeccagriffin1449

Жыл бұрын

Same

@xymonau2468

Жыл бұрын

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.

1:45 they did NOT get the actor joke at all!! jeez!! OMG! i was on the floor!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

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. ❤️

Absolute gold, one of the best there will ever be

Master of making others laugh

Simply the greatest comedian ever.

Love ya Billy! Absolutely love ya!

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.

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.

@paulasonny2797

Жыл бұрын

Think it’s prescription windscreen, too funny!!

@nzeastlake7397

Жыл бұрын

@@paulasonny2797 Excellent, thank you Paula.

You're a Bloody Legend, Mate. I've loved your work for years.

At his very best here, legend

One of the Best comedian ever!

Just love this funny man. Always cheers me up.

those wild eyes telling his stories man what a legend haha

These are my favorite of Billy's many excellent pants

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

The stories he can tell🤣

Love You Big Yin and Take Care xxxx ❤❤

Love it for the story line ,much more interesting than most,

AH MAN, I was falling of my chair laughing.

I love you Billy, you are a legend.

this man needs to be cloned.he is humanity saviour

He's one of my favorite comedians of all-time. Huge fan from the states!

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.

I think this show was the best of all his releases, he was in the best form.🙂

@deaninnes2633

Жыл бұрын

What show is this one?

@nellypringle2875

Жыл бұрын

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.😄✌️

@deaninnes2633

Жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you, the trousers don't ring a bell hopefully haven't seen it before!

Billy is the Best by far loveya Billy

❤ love Billy! Ef'n hilarious 😂

Funny! Thumbs up even before I watched it.

Fuxking love ya Sir William

I have been to a few, and it's an experience

People need to see this man. Ha ha

Billy is my spirit animal!

Where can we buy digital versions of Bills stand up?

@Welshwarrior85

2 жыл бұрын

There’s some on Amazon prime

@joecantdance494

2 жыл бұрын

"Don't be so f-cking bourgeois!"

I always hope the stories true ish , one of my heroes

Long Live big yen ❤️

Keep goin’ bigin’

Love you Billy :))

Spiderman lol

Amazing insight....👍

The greatest Scottish

Brilliant

Aah the random bumps, bruises and scrapes from the drunken stumble home from the pub.

nice one, Billy.

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.

Genius 😀

The g o a t

This guy Harkens….. did he ever exist? or was he just Billy’s creation? Genius either way especially when Harkens worked in the morgue….

@colincampbell437

Жыл бұрын

Billy was a grave digger at one point in his early life.

Such a handsome attractive funny man ❤️

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

Жыл бұрын

Great memories bro.

@ravenmadd1343

Жыл бұрын

@@slowmo9642 Good times and not as uptight and regulated as things are now :)

@slowmo9642

Жыл бұрын

@@ravenmadd1343 no camera phones either mate, recording yer sins.

@ravenmadd1343

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Glaswegians always stretch it for a laugh

I don't think the full set of this night has ever been released. Anyone know otherwise?

Trust me, I AM Spider-Man. Most of my mates too, we share the role around. Thanks Billy..

rad

Does anyone know where we can find any of Billy’s live shows in full?? It seems really hard to get hold of them!

@jonnysupreme5796

Жыл бұрын

Ebay, amazon and believe it or not, charity shops

@rebeccagriffin1449

Жыл бұрын

Yeah my gaff, remember VHS

The Big Man,

Comic genius.

G'on yerself Billy..funny as ...

👍😄

Hilarious 🤣

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... 🤷🏼

Don't be so bourgeois! 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.

@rebeccagriffin1449

Жыл бұрын

Billy I hear some people can't understand your accent. Billy. Sorry?

Fucking Spiderman🤣🤣🤣

Glasgow’s first son

Harkins.

Dear Google, This is not the clip I'm looking for and contains none of the search terms. Please fix your broken AI.

Is this the same Harkins who made a giant out of corpses while he worked as a mortician?

Imagine he and Robin both in Mrs Doubtfire

@RonkleBonk

2 жыл бұрын

No

Then why would you risk thermo nuclier war. If you love Scotland so much. Nice to have the scots in no 11 next door.

I av spider maned it a few times