Billy Connolly

James T Kirk

Inspired by the other thread about Des Bishop.

I think Billy is one of the funniest men alive!

CrazyBiscuit

Funny

Widely regarded as one of the greatest stand up comedians ever dont you know.

Killer Pigeon

Unfunny

James T Kirk wrote: »

Inspired by the other thread about Des Bishop.
I think Billy is one of the funniest men alive!

1. "Look at me, I'm a crazy highland nutter!"
2. ?????
3. PROFIT!!

In fairness OP, he does 1 and 2 quite well and probably 3 too because he's so good at both 1 and 2.

mixed up

I know lots of people who like him but i really can't stand the man.

yoshytoshy

Unfunny

I think Billy connolly is gas ,also peter k aint bad.

MadPatrick

Crap

2nd most over-rated comedian ever, beaten only by Lee Evens

yoshytoshy

Unfunny

Comedy is almost certainly a funny business to be in.

scientific1982

Crap

He has some good stuff but hes very overrated too. If you're Irish you have to like Father Ted and Billy Connolly. Its the rules.

CrazyBiscuit

Funny

There are an awful lot of heretics around these days. :eek:

Jesus Wept

Crap

He's a tit.

Caitlinn

I used to find him funny but in recent years he made a really insensitive joke about a British man being held hostage in Iraq, something to the effect of - just behead him already - and since then I don't find him very funny. And I admit that stupid purple beard he sported didn't help.

Nowadays I find him a pain in the arse and the sickening appearances at this year's Strictly Come Dancing (which lets face it were a desperate ploy to try to raise his wife's popularity) didn't help.

So, no, I don't find him funny in the slightest.

MadPatrick

Crap

Caitlinn wrote:

;69946703 And I admit that stupid purple beard he sported didn't help.

The purple beard was for me an admittance that he had no more funny material and had to rely on silly beard colouring for a cheap laugh

First Post

Unfunny

What's with all the standup threads? I've only been here a month and even I know there's a forum for that.

yoshytoshy

Unfunny

Whatabout this guy ,don't want another thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI95r6nzVZ0

James T Kirk

Funny

Well, I just watched his latest DVD, and found him to be just as - if not more - funny and anarchic as any of the "cutting-edge" comedians that I've seen on TV recently.

Granted he's almost 70, but I still laughed lots.

Caitlinn

Well that's fair enough, people have different ideas of what they find funny.

yoshytoshy

Unfunny

I would of regarded Billy connolly as one of those few that many people like.

Caitlinn

yoshytoshy wrote: »

I would of regarded Billy connolly as one of those few that many people like.

Really? I find him a very hit-and-miss comedian. To my mind he too easily (and regularly) crosses the line between controversial and downright ignorant/offensive.

markesmith

Unfunny

If he was Irish, ye'd all hate him on here. Oh, wait, you don't like him.

Ah well, haters gonna hate

yoshytoshy

Unfunny

Caitlinn wrote: »

Really? I find him a very hit-and-miss comedian. To my mind he too easily (and regularly) crosses the line between controversial and downright ignorant/offensive.

Ah ,I suppose it's down to taste like anything else.

A jokes a joke ,but a comedian is a different story.

OutlawPete

Funny

Billy Connelly was and is a genius.

Many stand-ups are heralded as "geniuses", but few fit the bill.

There is nothing genuinely funny about most of them and everything they tend to say and do on stage is very contrived and about as far away from who they really are as individuals that they can get, which is fine - but I just don't find those type of comedians one bit funny, they have to work to hard at it and it's very obvious.

Stand ups like Bill Hicks for instance rabbiting on about commercialism and the like and how he is sooo above that. His whole act was just him trying to come across as cool, clever and point out how dumb and ignorant others are: the most narcissistic comedian ever to take to the stage.

Stand-ups like Billy on the other hand, are natural born comedians. You just know if he had never made it, he would still have been cracking up his mates in bars instead. Same goes for guys like Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, Frank Carson, Les Dawson, Dylan Moran etc etc etc.

All naturals, but Billy Connelly is far and away the greatest stand-up of all time bar none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4YOeRPYP0

Napper Hawkins

Unfunny

I tend to judge a comedians talent based on how well I think they could verbally destroy you if you ever had the chance to berate them face to face.

He'd barely make my top 15 but I can safely say that the man would make sandwiches out of each and every one of you if you tried.

James T Kirk

Funny

OutlawPete wrote: »

Billy Connelly was and is a genius.

Many stand-ups are heralded as "geniuses", but few fit the bill.

There is nothing genuinely funny about most of them and everything they tend to say and do on stage is very contrived and about as far away from who they really are as individuals that they can get, which is fine - but I just don't find those type of comedians one bit funny, they have to work to hard at it and it's very obvious.

Stand ups like Bill Hicks for instance rabbiting on about commercialism and the like and how he is sooo above that. His whole act was just him trying to come across as cool, clever and point out how dumb and ignorant others are: the most narcissistic comedian ever to take to the stage.

Stand-ups like Billy on the other hand, are natural born comedians. You just know if he had never made it, he would still have been cracking up his mates in bars instead. Same goes for guys like Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, Frank Carson, Les Dawson, Dylan Moran etc etc etc.

All naturals, but Billy Connelly is far and away the greatest stand-up of all time bar none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4YOeRPYP0

Agree with every word of that. Couldn't have put it better.

There's 'cool' and 'right on' comedians, like Hicks. While funny in a "stick it to the Man" kind of way, they have NEVER made me piss laughing like vintage Connolly has.

The irony is, BC has touched on all the same subjects as them. But he's delivered the laughs without making it feel like political science!

And he always gets number one in that show too.

A Dub in Glasgo

Funny

His cookbook sketch is feckin hilarious, anybody growing up on a corpo estate in Dublin will relate to this as well!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ou4nagOck

OutlawPete

Funny

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

His cookbook sketch is feckin hilarious, anybody growing up on a corpo estate in Dublin will relate to this as well!!

Yeah, class

Was actually looking for that for the other thread


I like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZRXNoeCjQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y1YRC92rqk

James T Kirk

Funny

Hahahaha! Tobogganist! Genius stuff.

Was gonna post some of his more recent stuff here.

But talk about Frankie Boyle!

bungler

Funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpZl718y0dk

loves this one so much

bungler

Funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZo07Ot-uA

allprops

Great comedian. Terrible actor. From x files to dodgy American school teen comedy to gulliver's travels. He made dodgy movies even worse.

bungler

Funny

imo this is his funniest clip.

Mick Shrimpton

Unfunny

Ah, i absolutely loved him to a point. He's like the simpsons...there's almost a perfect visible point where the tone of his whole show changed, and that's where I left him. Bought his Dublin dvd a few years back and it's painfully evident he'd lost his edge. Same with another one of my favourites, Eddie Izzard...you can pinpoint when he became mediocre...it was after huge success and hollywood calls. I suppose the less hungry you are, the less funny you come across(or need to be?)..?!