He honed his craft in the Glasgow shipyard’s where some larger than life characters had so much untapped humor, and Billy saw a chance and took it. The stories he tells seem far fetched but extremely funny, no one’s safe from the razor wit of his genius. I don’t think he’ll ever tour again but we must respect his health, he couldn’t have the stamina he once had. It’s a long evening on stage alone at his age, a glimpse of him now and again being interviewed certainly fulfills my needs, because you know he won’t do it straight, it’s in his blood. Keep on keeping on Big Yin, you’re the tops❤️❤️🕊️🕊️🕊️👍
Billy Connolly told a story of when he was walking one morning on a visit to England when a wee boy ran up asking Billy if he would please tell him to F### off, so Billy obliged the youngster the boy smiled widely saying …Yes!
My Dad told us he knew Billy from school and from the pubs in an area of Glasgow called Partick and me & my brother were like yeah yeah... Until one day we were sitting with my Dad in the Smiddy bad in Partick and in walks said Mr Connolly. He spies my father and greets him and my Dad nods and says hello back. You've never seen 2 sons eat such humble pie in ur life.😂
That is Billy's style. Beigeism is one of Billy's go-to words. I've seen him twice and cried laughing on both occasions. He does use quite colourful language, but his stories are hilarious. He's more than just colourful language, He's very intelligent.
Once had the great good fortune to see Billy Connolly live, I don't think I have ever laughed so hard for so long, from the minute he came on stage to the minute he walked off. I ached all over. I felt like I'd gone two rounds with Mohamed Ali!!😂😂😂😂🇬🇧
Years ago, ironically in Glasgow (I'm a proud fellow countryman of Billy's) a car once told me to respect its personal space. In shock, I actually said "pardon?". And found myself having a conversation with a car, from a place of inferiority. Until the owner came out and screamed for me to get away. I replied "WE WERE HAVING A CHAT!"
I absolutely agree with his sentiment. I am not an abusive person BUT there is not a chance in hell that I will comply with this rubbish. We have existed for a few centuries using English without succumbing to the abuse of "politically correct" morons.
Actually, our entire society is built on political correctness. We don't walk down the street insulting each other, do we? The whole "culture war" fight is being fought by racists and misogynists, and they can go play on the motorway!
For the record i was born in 1980, and i love my homegrown British comedy. For that reason i don't get offended by anything, not quite true, recently some tv and films announce trigger warnings before they start, the audacity of the warnings annoy me more than offend. I am very fat, thanks to my beer belly, and my body has decided that only my several chins should have a grey beard, not brown hair, like the rest of me. I look weird, but i don't care!😋
He is alwasys so bang on. My girlfriend keeps getting annoyed with me whenever I point out how stupid "Ambulace" written at the front in reverse for the sake of the rear view mirror. What the hell else is a van with flashing lights and a red cross on it if not a bloodly f*cking ambulance?!?
I don't get that either. I know what an ambulance looks like, everybody does. So why reverse the name for the benefit of people in a car, when it is so obviously an ambulance.
So, for context: Billy uses the term "Beigeist" to describe people he thinks of as beige. He calls it the most boring or dull colour, and so uses it todescribe boring or dull people.
Tell Jodie that her hair looks great! Regarding the truck story, i was once almost run over by a hearse reversing out of the funeral home, on the plus side, if it had killed me, it would cut out the middle man😂😂😂
Lol i sympathise on the Vegas hotel view. About 10 years ago, my ex-girlfriend and i stayed in a Manchester hotel. A major City, in the middle of England our hopes weren't high on the view, but we expected slightly more than the rubbish bins we got, luckily she saw the funny side of it too.😂
As Aussie comedian, Kevin "Bloody" Wilson once said in regards the term.. politically correct... "If it's political, then it is very unlikely for it to be correct"
I love Billy Connolly - Can't help remembering two people who were crushed to death though, a local woman crushed by a big wagon reversing - she pushed her baby's pram out of the way in time but she was trapped - and a 7 or 8 year old kid when I was that age got run over by a bus reversing at the bus station so after that someone had to watch the buses reversing from behind (so they got run over instead I guess lol) I thought they would have CAMERA'S instead of loud warning noises.
Reversing beeps on delivery trucks..waste of time when half the population have earpods in connected to cellphones not paying attention to the world around them!!
I think political correctness began when 'No Win. No Fee' lawyers came to the fore. People began to fear getting sued for the most trivial thing and so companies and people began to introduce things in an effort to ensure they didn't get sued or threatened with legal action. As companies introduced new 'safety' features the lawyers just went a step further and the implied thought of getting sued just made companies and people spiral down. The fact that you get a packet of nuts with the warning 'May contain nuts', shows just how far it has gone. It didn't take lawyers too long to realise they could then start litigation procedure for hurt feelings.
My first experience with political correctness was at school when it was decided that white chalk on a blackboard was racist, which is bollocks. The name was changed to chalkboard accordingly. Also the introduction of the word chairperson, even though you had chairmen and chairwomen. Nobody was consulted about any of them.
@@irbennett I remember a case a few years ago when a customer accidently spilt hot coffee on herself at a McDonalds restaurant and sued because she and her lawyers claimed it was too hot. She won and it cost McDonalds a fortune. After that everybody got scared, not only out of a fear of compensation pay outs but also the cost of litigation so they sought to do damage limitation to prevent it even happening. So then the stupidity kicked in with everybody thinking of whatever possibility there could be for getting sued. Her lawyers knew that if they got he case before a jury then they would win because every member of the jury could relate to it happening to them and if it did they too would want a substantial payoff. I'm actually shocked that somebody has not sued a company for their coffee being too cold. It should not be called political correctness because in reality it has nothing to do with politics but rather fear of litigation. Maybe if it was renamed protection against frivolous lawsuits, not only would people see the cause but it might make people think twice about where their anger should be directed.
I had the pleasure of seeing Billy Connolly at the Circus Tavern, in Essex 1991. What a brilliant night that was. Billy was Epic. Thanks guys, for your reactive video. 😊
Reversing noise is right on the nail. What use is this if your deaf "deafist!". Or why not "bleeping" going forward? Common Sense is the PC brigade's cryptonite. Go for it Billy!
Had tractors working late into the evening in a field not too far away the other night - Sat wondering why I could hear regular reversing beeps after 10:30pm lol Your conversation at the end about a hotel stay that included people thinking you were Canadian and Nick having no clue… just needs that old song, 🎶 Ah yes, I remember it well 😊
in 2021 nearly a quarter of all deaths involving Workplace transport occur during reversing. Many other reversing accidents do not result in injury but cause costly damage to vehicles, equipment and premises. The numbers before the reversing alarms are not known but lives saved are in the thousands. However since the 90's pedestrians had become so used to the ‘beep-beep’ sound of reversing alarms that they were often ignored. It was also discovered that drivers tended to lose the perception of responsibility for being vigilant behind the wheel, relying too heavily on their alarms for avoiding collisions. New less annoying sounds that carry less far are being explored.
Angry Billy😂did meet him once in John Lewis (department store) in Glasgow, just shopping, managed to speak to him for 2-3 minutes. Great fella🤘🏽👍🏽🫶🏽great reaction 👌🏽
Billy, still my favourite of all time. P.C. started in the UK started in the mid 70s, we got things like; Chairperson, Personal access hatch(man hole), no more blackboards or white chalk (greenboards with yellow chalk instead), not more black bin bags, (rubbish receptical bags). The 80s appeard to level off. Now its gone ballistic, you cant have a colour, a gender, or a definition of any kind. In with Billy beigeists can " feck off "
I know it may sound harsh, but if people are injured by reversing vans or lorries they only have themselves to blame. Common sense should tell them to look out for such things. That's what I used to do before the reverse alarms were introduced and I survived. Reverse alarms which nowadays most people ignore.
The important thing to remember when being a people pleaser is they are not f***ing grateful. 😁 My advice. Please yourself and to hell with people. (Note: I don't mean ALL people, just those you're trying to please.) 😉 Billy is universally loved because he is a great observer of, and commentator about, all things beige.
It's strange I've always liked Billy Connolly growing up without my Mom realising I liked him and it was the one thing She had with my Grandad who sadly I never met! Now we will watch him always together even if it's a documentary where he's going your end (Stateside) whatever like. Weirdly enough he has a place in our home even if he's a Odd Jock like !! 🖤 Edit: We now have Ambulances that tell you they're reversing here! 🤣
Just waiting for the day when EVERYONE must wear a hi-viz jacket and hardhat at ALL times regardless--'it's for your own safety',those words will haunt us one day.
Politically Correct is actually just the second half of the full phrase "Not factually correct, but politically correct". So it was a term of abuse for someone who lied to support a view they could not hold if they were honest. As far as I am concerned it still is.
Agree with Billy, Ditch the reverse beeps. The road is one place that demands your utmost attention, and if you don't, c'est la vie! Problem these days, is the state has become so NANNY, it has taken away the ability for people to be aware of their surroundings and think for themselves! BILLY FOR PM!
Nick is hot and I love your laugh 😊 I have to say your one of the people I see that I think if you were a dog you definitely would be a st Bernard.. lol I don't know why.
Political correctness started in the 1917 and stems from Marxist-Leninist politics. I'm with Billy on the H&S stuff, I think we should remove all of these annoying buzzers, warning signs and stickers from things and let Darwin theory run it's course with natural selection. We are surrounded by cretins that nature would normally take care of, leading to a need for ever more artificial protections that annoy or inconvenience regular alert people.
That's a great idea, but idiots don't just harm themselves. The fact that you don't realise that means you are the sort of person you want removed from the genepool.
We hired a marvellous villa in Madeira with the best views from on high next to our private pool it was paradise only to find before sunrise every morning next doors cockerel would do it’s loud cock a doodle doo for an hour or two just to remind us not to relax and be well rested
It's miserable sods in Governments that do this. I believe in live and let live just I might not like something it doesn't me everyone else should. If it's in jest then fine. If it's malissious it should be stopped but don't stop things just because you don't like it. Not you two personally
That's why going to a comedy club nowadays and watching comedy on TV is shit because of political correctness and the fear of upsetting anyone. Its un funny and not worth watching. Bring back the good old comedians. Let's have a laugh again instead of this woke bollox we have now
Billy is my hero but the truck thing is health and safety not wokeism. People are still around at 5 in the morning. Sorry Billy but your wrong on this one.
What Billy actually said, " at 5 in the morning behind hotels is thronged with children, thronged with children". Sarcastically. Also it was illegal for lorries to use those alarms around hotels at certain hours of the morning, hotels where people are sleeping. Get your facts right.
Why do you break into the joke and miss out on the actual meaning. This a a really bad review and your others sadly are no better. Listen before you speak.
