Bill Bailey on New Year's Comedy Special | The Jonathan Ross Show 

the phrase 'national treasure' gets thrown about alot, but Bill Bailey truly is and always will be.

as a dutchie I have to say his pronounciation of "dat is de vraag!" was spot on

So much talent - dancer, actor, singer, musician, comedian, ornithologist, husband, father, all round good bloke and human being 🙃

Bill is a legend ❤ There's still huge affection in my household for 'Black Books' and I only have to think of the 'Little Book of Calm' sketch and I'm giggling like a loon 😂

Bill is one of my favorite people in the world.

As impressions go... I don't know the dutch guy personally... But Bill Bailey's impression of a Dutch dude doing an impression of an Englishman is spot on! 😂 So good!

Proves that comedy does not have to be rude and crass, and expletive filled to be funny

Bill Bailey is just a born entertainer.

Classic, talented, bloody marvelous entertainment! There’s not many around like Bill anymore. Amazing!

We Dutch people know our language sounds weird. The most beautiful reference I have heard. It's like someone speaking German with a hot potato in their mouth.

Harmonising on alpine cowbells. Now that’s talent!

10:26 The musos were loving it!

Holy crap! Bill Bailey is one of the most powerful performers on earth.

Absolute legend! I saw him live in 2018 and my sides were in pain at the end of it. I haven't heard so many people laugh as much as the people who were in the that theatre that day. One of only a few people who are 100% pitch perfect when it comes to music.

Ya gotta love that man. He never fails to delight. The gift that keeps on giving.

Only act i ever watch on ytube. Cannot get enough of him. Genius.

Bill Bailey is the guy I want to live forever. So good. He and Tim Minchin.

This guy is so supremely talented it’s insane

Christ, Bill, when will you bring your show to Canada already? I'm stuck watching Jimmy Carr twice this year in Montreal...we need you at Just For Laughs man.

love, love, love Bill Bailey! the definition of fantastic entertainment

I am US based. I have had enough exposure of Bill Bailey [Namely "Black Books"] and Qi that I recognized the name, and had to see the full video. This is amazing. I'm not sure it's humanly possible to do anything else in under 15 minutes. If anyone could I think Bill would be on that short list to attempt. This was great, and I find it to be a perfect "Capsule" of who Bill is. It has the bonus of being something I can easily share with my friends over here, and the jokes still work. Then we get Tequila as Ragtime, and Auld Lang Syne as well?!

Bill Bailey is the best. Love his humor and talent with music.

A home grown proper entertainer. Wonderfully talented. Brilliant!

He’s a good un for sure 5 ⭐️ I saw him at Heathrow some years ago He was at a self check In machine or something I just looked at him and thought 💭 oh that’s Bill Bailey I must have had my gormless face on (normal btw) he just looked smiled and winked I’ll never forget it I Just walked off laughing

OMG as he was coming out I was thinking wow he sure seems to be standing up straight and dancing and moving a lot, and then that's what he opens with is the acknowledgment of it and explains why that's just crazy but it was so obvious that it was the first thing in my head when he was coming out I was like why is he looking so spray? LOL

Bill=legend

One of the few stand ups who doesn't need to eff and blind on stage.

Saw Bill 'live' in Hobart some years back. Great night. Huge room all laughing hysterically 😂

Genius. Pure and simple.

Bill became famous to me the second I watched Black Books.I watched it on release too. god i'm old.

I know he's STR8 but I still have a crush on Bill Bailey He's Quality Yeah Innit.

If you don't love Bill, you're officially broken!

Never heard him before that was Fun Thank you 👏👏👏👍

Love a bit of Bill every now and again.

Brilliant all round entertainer. Fabulous human being. May he share his talents for many years to come.

We love you Bill!

Legend

Master of comedy, and master of music!

Bill is having so much fun 💕

We forbid Bill Bailey to ever die.

Just Brilliant.

I love bill bailey so much. 😊

Just brilliant, always mostly.

Remember Bill playing Gary Newmans 'Cars' using bicycle horns? NEVER gets old/stale.

The clapping along to the music and they get the time signature wrong really fucks me off

Bill Bailey,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,love him

Ledge-bag of epic proportions

A class act. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Bull Bailey always impresses me - and the music is so cool

Bill is awesome!! I just don’t understand, though why Brits always start clapping when someone is giving a music performance. It just interiors Bill’s musical genius! 😂😂

I saw him on this tour in Sydney, it was brilliant. He's an absolute legend IMO.

certainly maturing with age always so entertaining to behold thanks for sharing

This guy is Magic

That made me very happy. 😊

Just Brilliant !!!! / TREPANIC :)

ALWAYS ETERTAINING !!!

Long live the BILL.

his spanish is very good, and funny

Genius

Absolutely gifted genius. No need for offensive language to get attention. Pure class. We need this in today's world as well as the next.

American TV has never been half this good (well maybe when Groucho Marx was alive)

I need more mandolin ska in my life because could there be anything more delightful

isn't it cute when the investment bots all talk to each other, their chitter chatter is amusing and completely useless. bot 1 says, my investments are tanking does anyone know how to make better money? and then a plethora of bots all pop up with spam and disinformation thinking they're going to snag someone reading the comments. LOL

Ross looking like hugh hefner LOL

A Klingon Mugger - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love Jim Jelly

Ah yes! - my absolutely favourite naturally caped comical entertainer ❤ Bye bye 2022; "The Year the Chickens Actually Did March on Kiev"... what remarkable foresight, huh? (No, too soon?) - Takk! føhh køffee... øøøøh... see tømøhh...

I can just about do some vaguely similar things on the violin, but I don't come close to this. I am proposing a vote to any deity that has a RU-vid account to make Bill Bailey immortal.

Top lad. That's all.

Pop songs in a ragtime style... so, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox?

klingon mugger lmao

Dutch person here. Bill Bailey is quite right about Dutch not sounding very agreeable. As a friend from abroad once observed: Dutch is not a language, it's a throat disease. ;)

❤

Bill is genius (in Dutch accent)

"Zijn of niet zijn dat is de vraagggggggggggg" Seems about right, we Dutch take the sledgehamer approach to pronunciation and then there's our music. (We should've given the village it stems from back to the sea ages ago)

Stage isn't the normal type of stage for bailey which is usually all dark lol, but bailey deserves an MBE for comedy

Did you know that Axl Rose's real name is Bill Bailey??? It's a fact!!! lol

Tequila!

Is Bill knighted? If he isn't, he should be, gosh dang darn it.

There's a theater in the Hague looking for a Hamlet

Bailey, Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica

Pure Gold.

Bill next time you are in NL, I can give you a year's content about being an Englishman near Amsterdam.

😂😂😂

I wonder if he hired Al Murray's gong guy for that last number.

Skip the first 8 minutes and 7 seconds… then his genius comes out.

I'd like to hear more about the jams...

Dutch sounds like rocks being dragged across rough concrete and I'm saying that as a Dutch person.

Fair…..😮

That is an extreme haircut.

genius

Anyone else searched for him amd a llama ?

Bill is only 58. I thought he was older.

the excessive clapping. listen to the music ffs

Behold the wisdom of the Dalai Farmer!

Sorry Jonathan, but that jacket makes you look like an After Eight

Stop clapping along to the music!

Mr Bailey , get some waistcoat , black

agreed Bill, I'm Dutch, it's not very 'melodic', shall we say, and for that reason, I've never liked dutch language songs either... (can write great books with it, it's a very rich language), but please , don't attempt singing in it! 🙂

God i hate when audiences clap along to musicians soo goddamn much. Just sit there quietly and enjoy it. It doesn't help that they are NEVER properly in time with the actual beat.