If not for Kenny Everett no one would have heard of Bohemian Rhapsody. He was the only one that would play it, he played it over and over again. The rest is history.
@@John.M.Gannon Sorry, don’t know what you mean. I think I watched Wayne’s world, but don’t remember it at all. I’m old enough to have a brain like Swiss cheese.
@@davidharwood104 I honestly don’t know. In the back of my brain I somehow feel he had already been fired and was at a kind of pirate station, which was how he was able to play it. But I can’t remember.
God love him, a horrendous home life and school life where he was unloved, abused, physically, sexually and mentally, and told he was never going to amount to anything; genius will always shine through - you will always be a legend Billy - intelligent, articulate and a wonderful speaker
"Pressure makes diamonds" or something like that is how the saying goes. Not excusing anything that happened to Billy but I guess that's what made him the legend he is.
I saw Billy on the Empire Theatre in Liverpool back in 1979. My brother Joe took me, I was 15. I had sore ribs for a week after from all the laughing. What a legend and a genius.
Love how generous Billy was with his laughter & support of Kenny....not a hint of nastiness or one-up manship. Joyful to witness...contrasting humours working beautifully in harmony.
I wouldn’t swear to it but I think they were on very friendly terms at some point. Billy had appeared in a number of Kenny Everett sketches and was clearly having a ball. My favourite was a pair of posh old ladies they played - a bit like Hinge And Bracket, only with beards.
Actually, I don't think Billy Connolly has a nasty bone in his body. Kenny Everettt was probably (apart from Billy) one of the funniest men in Britain.
I remember that. One of the funniest things ever. Kenny is trying to interview him in a toilet about his job as the attendant. And Billy is in utter hysterics, all the time Ken is doing the intro, and when he comes to ask his first question (Billy is still in creases) he just goes...."Ah cant remember mah lines!" Which sets Ken off and the Audience. And they do so many takes where they both collapse in giggles, its funnier than what they are trying to do, which was pretty funny anyway. They were both friends with each other and Billy puts in many appearances on Kens shows from the Video Show on ITV to his Television Show on the BBC, right up to the end of the run. Its amazing to see, Video show starts in 1978 and I think his last Tv Show is 1989 and then he goes back to radio for his few remaining years. @@synthonaplinth5980
Watching this 12/5/24 Laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes. Got up walked in the living room, and my Mrs is sat watching Billy on TV laughing her head off. That can't just be a coincidence, surely it's a sign that this man was meant to make humanity happy. Kenny was no less funny . Two utterly wonderful beings X
No one, before or since, has come close to the genius of Kenny on the radio. His technical wizardry was just stunning and with all of the electronic advances of today nobody could surpass his fabularity.
Oh i know, I remember him on Radio London, playing his favourite tracks twice, back to back, cos he liked them! Joy! We liked them too. I will always miss him.
Loved growing up in the 70s. We only had 2 tv channels in Tasmania, but back then, there was more worth watching than now. Loved all the British comedies of the time. 😂
@@Torana-gz5lsfunny isn’t it… I grew up with channels 2 7 9 and 10 and there was always a relatively reliable run of good stuff on when you needed it but these days there’s a thousand options and 95% of it is shite.
It's quite remarkable how Kenny overcame his nerves and shyness, very much in the way Robin Williams did. You can tell they're petrified, but get up in front of an audience anyway, because they have so much to share and just want to make people happy.
I thought the exact same thing,; both had their own fair share of depression and anxiety but once in front of the camera they were on fire. A shame Robin and Kenny's paths never crossed, it would have been an unstoppable force.
I was born in 92 and brought up on Billy's stand up, I discovered his musical skills later and also Everett, I just love how Billy is giggling away to everything Kenny is doing 😂 you can really see the child in both of them shining through, something we should all aspire to be: Not too serious! Both absolute legends 💖
Two comic geniuses, together in one place. You can't get any better than that👍😎.... . Unless... Rick Mayall and Robin Williams (My comedic heroes growing up 😭)
This is crazy that this was filmed over 40 years ago. It makes me feel so old. 2 legends of comedy. 1 being in the top 5 greatest stand up comedians in the world ever, IMO, and one of the greatest TV/radio comedians ever (atleast in the UK). Kenny Everett was taken away from us way too soon. HIV, and AIDS was a horrible disease (still is!) But it is great that the treatment available, and the drugs that can prevent it are far more advanced these days, it isn't such a killer that it once was.
@@7henke7 yes I think Billy Connelly is in the Top 5 of all time (obviously just my oppinion) he was like the Scottish Richard Pryor, and one of the first do the true story telling stand up acts, just like Pryor. All the other comedian's of the time were just telling jokes with punchlines. I guess it is called observational comedy. You've got to remember he went to Hollywood to star in movies and sitcoms, and only the best British stand up comedian's get that kind of offer.
Billy Connolly was and is a person of pure, spontaneous joy! From his instinctive distrust for all things pompous, or political, to his utter, lunatic appreciation for the little guy and the absurdity of life, he is a gift! Lang may yer lum reek, Billy!
There's a show he did in 1991 when he spoke about when he and his mate went for a bike ride when they were both drunk, he hit a bump in the road and took off into the air and landed in a field. The way he told it was so funny😂😂
early 80s as a kid i couldn't wait for 6pm on ABC Australia for the Kenny Everett Video Show. My mum hated the raunchy girls and his humor but it was hilarious .That was followed by The Goodies . British are the best comedians imo.
I still remember the lines - nobody here in Christchurch gets them! - "The Kenny Everett videocassette", "...all done in the best possible taste", "now it is time for a break - so let's break!".
@@rebecca6125 haha , "now it is time for a break - so let's break!".i would use that saying at school come lunch break. Also remember the Capt Kremmin mission cartoons and his offsider Carla or as Capt said with effect "oh Carla"! pant ..pant.. interesting fact if you seen a cartoon ' Danger Mouse ' was done by the same company in same style.
Without ANY doubt BC is the Best comedian/entertainer of our time regardless of others!! NO ONE else can tell a story like BC can!!!! NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Australia was not prepared when Kenny came to town .. but he was well loved here .. his video show was still being aired across the nation at this time. R.I.P. KE
There is just one and only Billy Connolly. Love him to bits and can watch him hours on end. He is so talented and I think of him as the best story teller, in his unique funny way, rather than just being a comedian.
At the time we thought the early 80's were difficult times but now I look back and they were the golden age ,lots of money cheap booze cheap houses great music and I had a good job and was also in the territorial Army -great fun . God it's so much harder for my kids today.
I must have watched thousands of interviews, performances and other series with and about Billy. I even met him once by chance in an Indian restaurant we both often used. We had a rather serious conversation then and that is the side of him you see here. He's a genuinely intelligent man with a lot more to say than most people realise. This is the interview where he really explains what both he and his humour are really about.
I said hello to him one day on Grafton Street, Dublin. It was late 80s and I would have been 16 or so. We were standing watching a busker. He just completely blanked me. I was devastated.
Ahhh, don't believe you... ... Only joking pal, cool story, my family is all from Scotland but moved to England, I watched alot of Billy Connolly growing up still got a VHS tape and an old record with him on lol before video tapes were invented. My grandfather retired from pro football due to serious knee operations, came for industrial work at Rover(crazy, from one end of spectrum to the other ay) can you remember what the deep conversation was about, if you dnt mind me asking or you telling
'He's a genuinely intelligent man with a lot more to say than most people realise.' - I sometimes wonder why fans have to be so patronising about artistes. I'm sure Mr Connolly was impressed by your superior intelligence.
Not forgetting Ken being all 3 Beegees (at the same time) complete with teeth, and having to take pills till he got the falsetto voices just about right.
Billy is the epitome of enjoy life and live it to the full and don’t ever take anything too seriously and most importantly have fun and laugh I love him
If I had a magic wand I would have him at that age and have him live forever as young , healthy and funny as he was before age and I'll health slowed him down ...To make someone laugh is almost as important as a doctor who heals the sick ...Thank you Billy for all the years of laughter...
Forgot how insanely funny Kenny was - in Australia we had the Goodies , Doctor Who and The Kenney Everett video show 4 days a week - Wish we had shows like that now , Doctor Who is still going but not what it used to be imho. Was lucky to see Billy at the Opera house in the late 90s - always has been and will forever will be my favourite comedian .
I grew up with the likes of The Goons, Monty Python, and all that you mentioned. What a great time for truly funny, edgy original humour. Try playing this stuff on the ABC TV OR radio and the entire staff would need counselling for weeks and demanding that laughter be banned so no one's feelings got hurt. Their phone lines would dissolve in a huge puddle of tears from their supporters.
@@rebecca6125 Yeah but back in those days you learned young and sort of worked it out for yourself 🤣🤣 My initial introduction to doctor who was Tom baker then a few years later this older guy appeared and I was mortified- but as time went by he sort of grew on me and I look back now so happy I got to see the John Pertwee version of the doctor ! I used to watch the goodies, doctor who then Kenny and if they did re runs of those old shows I would be glued to the tv !
50 years later and he was funny up to his last performance i met him in sydney and we shook hands he was with teenage daughter walking through the mall it was fun even though it was only a few minutes and i was with my daughter as well we introduced our daughters to eachother it was a memorable moment for me at least anyway we walked on and i said to my daughter That was fun meeting Billy Connely just spontaneous like that 😂😂🤭🤭❤️😄⭐️⭐️⭐️🌺🌻🌸🍀👋👋🌈🌈🌈🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘☔️☔️☔️🙏🙏🙏
Oh how wonderful two of the most delightfully irreverent comedians ever to walk on a stage, I love both of these two, we live in a world now where people are offended by the way you roll your eyes, Billy has had me actually crying with laughter, so much so my stomach ached, and Kenny was so daft he cracked you up, my late husband once went to a fancy dress party dressed as one of Kenny's characters Mr Angry, where he was dressed in a suit at the front and naked down the back, I laugh just thinking about it, life was so much funnier then, happy days 😎😎🖐
Parkinson in Oz loved this show, used to watch it with my grandfather. The best way to do a spin-off series. Rather than find a “clone” and mimic what’s good badly, bring the talent to where you want to see it. Parky, Billy and Kenny were all iconic in Australia when I was growing up
Absolutely brilliant!... massive fan of Kenny Everett and Billy Connolly. I was devastated with the passing of Kenny. He was the most entertaining TV personality of the time! Billy can and always will be 'that' person that can actually make a goose farting in fog so funny and good at the same time! Thank you for posting this!
I remember being on a school camp in 1982, sould have been about 13 at the time, and listening to The Kenny Everett Radio Show on the radio one evening...
Absolute gold.. true giants of comedy. Privileged to have enjoyed watching them in their prime… “all in the best possible taste!!” Billy’s style of comedy will never be bettered.. no point in trying, strive to be original instead.
Always appreciated Billy Connolly, in various interviews his descriptions of Glasgow were often dark and foreboding, and based on that and some time spent in Glasgow in 1976 made me bless my great grandfather who made the magnificent decision in 1848 to emigrate from Scotland to the province of Otago ( Port Chalmers) New Zealand departing from Elgin. Now having lived in Australia for decades and having paid to see Billy........the money was well spent and we laughed ourselves silly, Billy yelled out to our group, " what have you guys been drinking"? and indeed we had, ...Irish whiskey....and we were loud in appreciation....on ya mate! As a family we never looked back however maintain the view of Scottish independence from Britain and the origins of the sad history that ultimately created such great numbers of migration to the new worlds.
Thank you Kenny you gave me such an amazing education, you as well Billy without you pair I might have been lonely and possibly sensible so cheers for helping me avoid being boring.
I’ve always liked Billy and seen many TV appearances. But as I get older I really appreciate him more. I understand him more and realise just how much of an influence he has on other peoples lives. I find him funnier as get older too which is a mark of how brilliant he is. Thank you Billy, and all the very best from a fellow Scot 🏴
Went 2x to see Billy in Auckland, NZ a few years apart. My face hurt from laughing for days. I was stunned to find out all his shows were off the cuff, no preplanning. He looks like Jesus on this show.
Kenny Everett was one of the funniest people on television when I was growing up. I miss him so much. What a beautiful talent for making people laugh at the simplest of things :) xx Techmoan got hold of some of Everetts 8Track carts he made himself in his home studio with radio jingles on them. Bloomin marvellous!
Brilliant! Just brillllliant!!! When it was the start of the 1980s, the best decade ever known and its so well known for it to. Billy connolly is the greatest comedian i have seen and kenny everets tv shows around this time where just a pure scream to watch. Every one i knew would rush home or already be in the house to watch kenny. He was away ahead of his time. When tv in general was so much better and so was music and football. I have never heard billy connolly laugh so much!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I'm a huge BC and KE fan and I've never seen this hilarious episode before. MP has a way with his guests/friends to make them relax and Kenny was on fire. Billy's song was the cherry on the cackle cake. I love it.
Two of my all time heroes, comic genius's and legends. Everett was a creative marvel & technical wizard in the radio studio, discovered and promoted the band Queen. Connolly is the stand up comedian to measure all others by and a fabulous serious actor. Thanks for posting this 👍
Only Kenny Everett could make shooting silly string at people so funny as you can see Billy loving the anarchy of it. He was a gloriously childish rebel who left us far too early. Interesting that both he and Billy fought with their inner demons for years and both were marvellously inventive and unique. The BBC never really seemed to know how to handle Kenny, yet they kept hiring and firing him. Even when he was very sick towards the end of his life he kept his madcap sense of humour and wit. Kenny was also one of the few music journalists/DJ's that British musicians trusted. He got on well with the Beatles when they were still together (possibly because he didn't represent the establishment) and people like David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Freddie Mercury were more than happy to let him lampoon them as they knew there was no underlying malice in it.
Thank God for (the late) Parkinson, will be watching his interviews with such wonderful guests like Billy and Kenny and Dame Edna and hundreds more for years to come There are no shows like this now with one on one conversations with such interesting people who have great stories to tell. The world is loosing out now these people are slowly leaving us. But we have these shows.
I had heard that in Kenny's private life he was quite shy, but never realised quite how much until I watched this video. But yes, these were two great comedians.
Roll on 43 year's and there is not one thing on the millions of 24/7 channels that are as funny as the best days of British tv
If not for Kenny Everett no one would have heard of Bohemian Rhapsody. He was the only one that would play it, he played it over and over again. The rest is history.
What about Wayne's world.
@@John.M.Gannon Sorry, don’t know what you mean. I think I watched Wayne’s world, but don’t remember it at all. I’m old enough to have a brain like Swiss cheese.
@@John.M.Gannon waynes world was many years later. Original '75 ww '92. She is talking about when it first came out. Kenny was a DJ
Wasn’t he sacked by the BBC because of that?
@@davidharwood104 I honestly don’t know. In the back of my brain I somehow feel he had already been fired and was at a kind of pirate station, which was how he was able to play it. But I can’t remember.
God love him, a horrendous home life and school life where he was unloved, abused, physically, sexually and mentally, and told he was never going to amount to anything; genius will always shine through - you will always be a legend Billy - intelligent, articulate and a wonderful speaker
Is Zeus your God?
"Pressure makes diamonds" or something like that is how the saying goes. Not excusing anything that happened to Billy but I guess that's what made him the legend he is.
@@mattkinsella9856 something like that
He is dead
No?
Billy Connolly and Kenny Everett on the same stage - too much awesomeness for me to handle
me too ...
I just about whet myself .
And Michael Parkinson as interviewer is wholesome and solid too
@@kc3654 only one for the job...not even Johnny Carson could weather this storm of sheer brilliance
Thank you
When TV was worth watching.
During the 60s to the early 90s, is that a satisfactory answer? if not tough shit, its true.
@@mikmacarthurNot sure what your reply means
I think, therefore AM
@@napoleoninrags3050 I lost myself somewhere, but I stand by my answer no matter how much sense it doesn't make! See what I did there?
Yes
Billy Connolly and Kenny Everett together, what a classic episode.
Billy Connelly and Kenny Everett. In their own unique ways two of the most hilarious comedians Britain has ever produced.
I bet Noel Fielding is a Kenny Everett fan 😊
@@AletaHinterlandMama Kenny would have enjoyed The Mighty Boosh methinks.
I agree, but the forerunner was spike milligan
Billy Connelly is Scottish.
@@jamesharoldbardwell2182What's your point?
I saw Billy on the Empire Theatre in Liverpool back in 1979. My brother Joe took me, I was 15. I had sore ribs for a week after from all the laughing. What a legend and a genius.
Love how generous Billy was with his laughter & support of Kenny....not a hint of nastiness or one-up manship. Joyful to witness...contrasting humours working beautifully in harmony.
I wouldn’t swear to it but I think they were on very friendly terms at some point. Billy had appeared in a number of Kenny Everett sketches and was clearly having a ball. My favourite was a pair of posh old ladies they played - a bit like Hinge And Bracket, only with beards.
Actually, I don't think Billy Connolly has a nasty bone in his body. Kenny Everettt was probably (apart from Billy) one of the funniest men in Britain.
@@GrilloTheFlightless If you watch the 'Gentlemen's Convenience' sketch, Billy cannot stop laughing. They had to tell him not to laugh.
I remember that. One of the funniest things ever. Kenny is trying to interview him in a toilet about his job as the attendant. And Billy is in utter hysterics, all the time Ken is doing the intro, and when he comes to ask his first question (Billy is still in creases) he just goes...."Ah cant remember mah lines!"
Which sets Ken off and the Audience. And they do so many takes where they both collapse in giggles, its funnier than what they are trying to do, which was pretty funny anyway. They were both friends with each other and Billy puts in many appearances on Kens shows from the Video Show on ITV to his Television Show on the BBC, right up to the end of the run. Its amazing to see, Video show starts in 1978 and I think his last Tv Show is 1989 and then he goes back to radio for his few remaining years. @@synthonaplinth5980
@@synthonaplinth5980 Is that on UA-cam?
Everett and Connolly together ..... what a recipe. Love it.
Everybody knows about Billy, but not so many know about that much underated amazingly funny man Kenny Everett. Sorely missed.
That's True.
He was magic hysterically funny
Kenny was well loved in our house ,he is sadly missed, a very funny talented man 💕
Kenny was brilliant also........
Aye, just not seen Billy Connolly for yrs!? Bless KE (not too far off 30 yrs a goner!) 🔥
The absolute genius of Kenny Everett. He'd not get away with half of what he did today. So funny.
They will never be another Billy Connolly , the lad is a Comedy legend .
Or Kenny
Watching this 12/5/24
Laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes.
Got up walked in the living room, and my Mrs is sat watching Billy on TV laughing her head off.
That can't just be a coincidence, surely it's a sign that this man was meant to make humanity happy.
Kenny was no less funny .
Two utterly wonderful beings X
@@2NatoStandard .weird 😂
@@Will-bz3yt defo
I'm in America thinking WHAT? December 5 2024 hasn't happened yet! LOL! Whoopsie.
Kenny Everett was an absolute genius and lightyears ahead of his time💜
No one, before or since, has come close to the genius of Kenny on the radio. His technical wizardry was just stunning and with all of the electronic advances of today nobody could surpass his fabularity.
@@jeremymitchell995 Fabularity relates to the word fable, which means liar, not fabulous.
@@petesmitt interpretation of words from heart shifts the compass of origin to the now culture. Or be what you are.
@@soundvision10
I want some of what you're smoking..
Whatever the meaning , it is still a really cool word!
In a radio studio there is nothing to compare to the genius of Kenny Everett, the best ever.
I remember him playing the record, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Captain Kirk actor.
Yeah he was brilliant.
Absolutely, and so much work to splice those jingles together! Real dedication.
Oh i know, I remember him on Radio London, playing his favourite tracks twice, back to back, cos he liked them! Joy! We liked them too. I will always miss him.
Grew up watching Kenny and the goodies and dr who …yes to be a kid in Australia in the 70s..good times
Yup!
ken oath xx
And all on after each other...was gold
Loved growing up in the 70s. We only had 2 tv channels in Tasmania, but back then, there was more worth watching than now. Loved all the British comedies of the time. 😂
@@Torana-gz5lsfunny isn’t it… I grew up with channels 2 7 9 and 10 and there was always a relatively reliable run of good stuff on when you needed it but these days there’s a thousand options and 95% of it is shite.
I used to love the Kenny Everett show.
“It was all done, *uncrosses and crosses legs* in the best possible taste!”
Oh yes 👍
I would fall off the chair with laughter. Were did ALL that great stuff go. 😢😊❤
@@elizabethsamways7624 all done in the best possible taste!
It's quite remarkable how Kenny overcame his nerves and shyness, very much in the way Robin Williams did. You can tell they're petrified, but get up in front of an audience anyway, because they have so much to share and just want to make people happy.
Wow so true! Kenny did have very much Robin vibes, like I said - we need to embrace the child within ourselves
I thought the exact same thing,; both had their own fair share of depression and anxiety but once in front of the camera they were on fire. A shame Robin and Kenny's paths never crossed, it would have been an unstoppable force.
Kenny making billy laugh now that is perfect
I was born in 92 and brought up on Billy's stand up, I discovered his musical skills later and also Everett,
I just love how Billy is giggling away to everything Kenny is doing 😂 you can really see the child in both of them shining through, something we should all aspire to be: Not too serious!
Both absolute legends 💖
❤❤❤❤
Two comic geniuses, together in one place. You can't get any better than that👍😎.... . Unless... Rick Mayall and Robin Williams (My comedic heroes growing up 😭)
agreed..... SNOT FACE!!
This is crazy that this was filmed over 40 years ago. It makes me feel so old. 2 legends of comedy. 1 being in the top 5 greatest stand up comedians in the world ever, IMO, and one of the greatest TV/radio comedians ever (atleast in the UK). Kenny Everett was taken away from us way too soon. HIV, and AIDS was a horrible disease (still is!) But it is great that the treatment available, and the drugs that can prevent it are far more advanced these days, it isn't such a killer that it once was.
Top five????
@@7henke7 yes I think Billy Connelly is in the Top 5 of all time (obviously just my oppinion) he was like the Scottish Richard Pryor, and one of the first do the true story telling stand up acts, just like Pryor. All the other comedian's of the time were just telling jokes with punchlines. I guess it is called observational comedy. You've got to remember he went to Hollywood to star in movies and sitcoms, and only the best British stand up comedian's get that kind of offer.
Still hilarious in 2023, such a shame died so young, i listened to him on radio and watched his tv shows, all done in the best possible taste 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Billy Connolly was and is a person of pure, spontaneous joy! From his instinctive distrust for all things pompous, or political, to his utter, lunatic appreciation for the little guy and the absurdity of life, he is a gift! Lang may yer lum reek, Billy!
There's a show he did in 1991 when he spoke about when he and his mate went for a bike ride when they were both drunk, he hit a bump in the road and took off into the air and landed in a field. The way he told it was so funny😂😂
early 80s as a kid i couldn't wait for 6pm on ABC Australia for the Kenny Everett Video Show. My mum hated the raunchy girls and his humor but it was hilarious .That was followed by The Goodies . British are the best comedians imo.
I still remember the lines - nobody here in Christchurch gets them! - "The Kenny Everett videocassette", "...all done in the best possible taste", "now it is time for a break - so let's break!".
Bring on Hot Gossip..❤
@@rebecca6125 haha , "now it is time for a break - so let's break!".i would use that saying at school come lunch break. Also remember the Capt Kremmin mission cartoons and his offsider Carla or as Capt said with effect "oh Carla"! pant ..pant.. interesting fact if you seen a cartoon ' Danger Mouse ' was done by the same company in same style.
Without ANY doubt BC is the Best comedian/entertainer of our time regardless of others!!
NO ONE else can tell a story like BC can!!!! NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kenny was a major influence on my childhood silliness.
And Billy was the obscene humour I devoured as a young adult.
Thanks for posting this show.
I have never known Billy Connolly to be obscene. Who are you; where are you?
@@SuzyQ334 Some of his early stuff. Recorded on a 12” album. Such a strong accent Snd really rude! Young me loved it!
Billy was never obscene
Yep
Australia was not prepared when Kenny came to town .. but he was well loved here .. his video show was still being aired across the nation at this time. R.I.P. KE
Yes. I had a crush on him.
My old Scottish mum used to say 'Don't educate me, entertain me', and Billy does it right.
There is just one and only Billy Connolly. Love him to bits and can watch him hours on end.
He is so talented and I think of him as the best story teller, in his unique funny way, rather than just being a comedian.
Classic Billy Connolly and Kenny Everett comic geniuses.
I thought I had seen every Parkinson interview with Billy Connely but this one is new to me and joy of joys another one of my favourites Kenny.
2 of the Greatest right there Billy Connolly, and the late Great Kenny Everett!!!
Being interviewed by the Great Sir Michael Parkinson!
Great upload
At the time we thought the early 80's were difficult times but now I look back and they were the golden age ,lots of money cheap booze cheap houses great music and I had a good job and was also in the territorial Army -great fun . God it's so much harder for my kids today.
Classic…
Kenny is the kind of friend you needed growing up, fun, silly, outrageous and animated. He’d take any dark day and shine some light on it.
As a kid growing up I loved the Kenny Everett show .
I love his Cupid Stunt sketch with the Michael Parkinson cardboard cutout
@@WarrenPeace007 the bbc bosses made him change Cupid Stunt name when they realised.
He changed it to Mary Hinge and they said , " ah, that's better."
@@fluorosco Cupid Stunts. I think my all time favourite is the Bee Gee pills sketch
All in the best possible taste
I must have watched thousands of interviews, performances and other series with and about Billy. I even met him once by chance in an Indian restaurant we both often used. We had a rather serious conversation then and that is the side of him you see here. He's a genuinely intelligent man with a lot more to say than most people realise. This is the interview where he really explains what both he and his humour are really about.
I said hello to him one day on Grafton Street, Dublin. It was late 80s and I would have been 16 or so. We were standing watching a busker. He just completely blanked me. I was devastated.
Ahhh, don't believe you...
... Only joking pal, cool story, my family is all from Scotland but moved to England, I watched alot of Billy Connolly growing up still got a VHS tape and an old record with him on lol before video tapes were invented. My grandfather retired from pro football due to serious knee operations, came for industrial work at Rover(crazy, from one end of spectrum to the other ay) can you remember what the deep conversation was about, if you dnt mind me asking or you telling
'He's a genuinely intelligent man with a lot more to say than most people realise.' - I sometimes wonder why fans have to be so patronising about artistes. I'm sure Mr Connolly was impressed by your superior intelligence.
Well I never knew Billy once worked in an Indian restaurant. Thanks for the info
@@BruceRobboFanClub celebrities often have doppelgängers. Sadam Hussein for example.
Both geniuses of their generation. And I love the softer, perhaps kinder, Billy in this interview.
Kenny Everett helped me through the 80s.
Love him. ❤
When he dressed up in drag?
@@riboid no, when he was imitating Rod Stewart and his ass ballooned and flew up in the ceiling to "do yaa think I'm sexy".
Yeah I can see how those giant hands would have been helpful
Not forgetting Ken being all 3 Beegees (at the same time) complete with teeth, and having to take pills till he got the falsetto voices just about right.
@@martinjonsson9348 I remember seeing that skit when his arse became comically huge....nowadays, people like the Kardashians aspire to this look!
Gotta love how Billy draws the audience into the performance so they all totally enjoy it and feel like a part of it. 🧡
Speak for yourself primate
I mean that's what folk music is about but Billy is particularly talented at it
Billy has that unique talent of making it seem like he's talking to everyone individually, not many have that gift.
Still miss Kenny Everett- he was a one off❤
Billy is the epitome of enjoy life and live it to the full and don’t ever take anything too seriously and most importantly have fun and laugh I love him
If I had a magic wand I would have him at that age and have him live forever as young , healthy and funny as he was before age and I'll health slowed him down ...To make someone laugh is almost as important as a doctor who heals the sick ...Thank you Billy for all the years of laughter...
40 fucking years.... jesus time flies...
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41 years and 8 days.😎
It hasn't been 40 years, it was 1981, which was only. . . .uh. . .oh. . . .fuuuuuuck. . .
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Jesus time is like drug dealer time; 40 seconds or 40 years.. It's all the same.
😂❤fraid so..
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When we had such fantastic talent on our TV screens... Still had tears of laughter watching this 41 years after it first aired... 😆😅😅🤣
Forgot how insanely funny Kenny was - in Australia we had the Goodies , Doctor Who and The Kenney Everett video show 4 days a week - Wish we had shows like that now , Doctor Who is still going but not what it used to be imho.
Was lucky to see Billy at the Opera house in the late 90s - always has been and will forever will be my favourite comedian .
Totally agree on all accounts
I grew up with the likes of The Goons, Monty Python, and all that you mentioned. What a great time for truly funny, edgy original humour. Try playing this stuff on the ABC TV OR radio and the entire staff would need counselling for weeks and demanding that laughter be banned so no one's feelings got hurt. Their phone lines would dissolve in a huge puddle of tears from their supporters.
I really miss those shows - really inappropriate for kids (except dr who) but we loved them.
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Yeah but back in those days you learned young and sort of worked it out for yourself 🤣🤣
My initial introduction to doctor who was Tom baker then a few years later this older guy appeared and I was mortified- but as time went by he sort of grew on me and I look back now so happy I got to see the John Pertwee version of the doctor ! I used to watch the goodies, doctor who then Kenny and if they did re runs of those old shows I would be glued to the tv !
Kenny Everett was my first comedy hero ! Used to find him hilarious back then!
Billy Connelly has a lovely singing voice
Kenny was a hilarious , unique natural comedian.
50 years later and he was funny up to his last performance i met him in sydney and we shook hands he was with teenage daughter walking through the mall it was fun even though it was only a few minutes and i was with my daughter as well we introduced our daughters to eachother it was a memorable moment for me at least anyway we walked on and i said to my daughter That was fun meeting Billy Connely just spontaneous like that 😂😂🤭🤭❤️😄⭐️⭐️⭐️🌺🌻🌸🍀👋👋🌈🌈🌈🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘☔️☔️☔️🙏🙏🙏
Billy and Kenny. Beautiful, anarchic genius.
Beautiful song. Must find the whole version. Thank you Billy.
The Big Yin laughing at his buddy. These two will always be legends .
Oh how wonderful two of the most delightfully irreverent comedians ever to walk on a stage, I love both of these two, we live in a world now where people are offended by the way you roll your eyes, Billy has had me actually crying with laughter, so much so my stomach ached, and Kenny was so daft he cracked you up, my late husband once went to a fancy dress party dressed as one of Kenny's characters Mr Angry, where he was dressed in a suit at the front and naked down the back, I laugh just thinking about it, life was so much funnier then, happy days 😎😎🖐
That's a lovely memory x RIP
You're absolutely right! People are easily offended these days and cannot take a joke, sadly!
Kenny Everett was so funny. I used to watch his show the Kenny Everett show when I was child. He is sadly missed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Starring Sid Snot.
Brother lee
Parkinson in Oz loved this show, used to watch it with my grandfather. The best way to do a spin-off series. Rather than find a “clone” and mimic what’s good badly, bring the talent to where you want to see it. Parky, Billy and Kenny were all iconic in Australia when I was growing up
Absolutely brilliant!... massive fan of Kenny Everett and Billy Connolly. I was devastated with the passing of Kenny. He was the most entertaining TV personality of the time! Billy can and always will be 'that' person that can actually make a goose farting in fog so funny and good at the same time!
Thank you for posting this!
Apparently, both Kenny and Freddie Mercury caught HIV from a Russian soldier, Nicolai Grishanovich.
I remember being on a school camp in 1982, sould have been about 13 at the time, and listening to The Kenny Everett Radio Show on the radio one evening...
Awww, dear old Cuddly Ken. A celebrity that seemingly no-one ever had anything bad to say about.
Absolute gold.. true giants of comedy. Privileged to have enjoyed watching them in their prime… “all in the best possible taste!!” Billy’s style of comedy will never be bettered.. no point in trying, strive to be original instead.
Always appreciated Billy Connolly, in various interviews his descriptions of Glasgow were often dark and foreboding, and based on that and some time spent in Glasgow in 1976 made me bless my great grandfather who made the magnificent decision in 1848 to emigrate from Scotland to the province of Otago ( Port Chalmers) New Zealand departing from Elgin.
Now having lived in Australia for decades and having paid to see Billy........the money was well spent and we laughed ourselves silly, Billy yelled out to our group, " what have you guys been drinking"? and indeed we had, ...Irish whiskey....and we were loud in appreciation....on ya mate!
As a family we never looked back however maintain the view of Scottish independence from Britain and the origins of the sad history that ultimately created such great numbers of migration to the new worlds.
Back in the day when the interviewer actually let the guest get through a sentence without being interrupted.
He’s the only comedian that can make me cry with laughter until it actually hurts.
Phenomenal man.
Thank you Kenny you gave me such an amazing education, you as well Billy without you pair I might have been lonely and possibly sensible so cheers for helping me avoid being boring.
Laughter, the thing that gets us through life
When you can make Billy laugh you know you got something!!!
But them together was bloody brilliant!!
I don't think it would be hard to make Billy laugh. He can see the funny side of anything
@@michaelharrison3602 I mean, he laughs before he can get through his own stuff!😂
@@michaelharrison3602 yeah you might have a point there 😂😂
The Kenny Barbara skit… you know what’s coming but that doesn’t stop the tears steaming down your face 😂
I’ve always liked Billy and seen many TV appearances. But as I get older I really appreciate him more. I understand him
more and realise just how much of an influence he has on other peoples lives. I find him funnier as get older too which is a mark of how brilliant he is. Thank you Billy, and all the very best from a fellow Scot 🏴
Went 2x to see Billy in Auckland, NZ a few years apart. My face hurt from laughing for days. I was stunned to find out all his shows were off the cuff, no preplanning. He looks like Jesus on this show.
I've laughed till i cried! I was critically ill with PEs, and my hubby sang if it waesne for ya wellies!!!! I have forgiven him!!!
I could listen to Billy sing for hours
the brilliant kenny everet, loved his radio show evry saturday morning, great seeing him n billy
Dear old Kenny,funny lad.and a clever chap that put his heart into his radio shows.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a chat show before. Kenny at his finest
Kenny Everett was one of the funniest people on television when I was growing up. I miss him so much. What a beautiful talent for making people laugh at the simplest of things :) xx
Techmoan got hold of some of Everetts 8Track carts he made himself in his home studio with radio jingles on them. Bloomin marvellous!
Yeah that was a good Techmoan episode!!
Brilliant! Just brillllliant!!! When it was the start of the 1980s, the best decade ever known and its so well known for it to. Billy connolly is the greatest comedian i have seen and kenny everets tv shows around this time where just a pure scream to watch. Every one i knew would rush home or already be in the house to watch kenny. He was away ahead of his time. When tv in general was so much better and so was music and football. I have never heard billy connolly laugh so much!
When Rubik's Cubes and Silly String
were wowing us, "The Latest Thing"
I'm that old 😭😂
Still love you Kenny 2024 ❤
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I'm a huge BC and KE fan and I've never seen this hilarious episode before. MP has a way with his guests/friends to make them relax and Kenny was on fire. Billy's song was the cherry on the cackle cake. I love it.
I so agree my two favourite comedians, thanks
These are two giants. One we still have and one we have lost. A sad day when they're both behind us.
Billy is talented, that song on the autoharp was great!!
two legends.. on one show!! love this vid and laughed out loud too much!!
We need more of these people in the world true funny men
Back in the good ol' days when enough time was given.......
Two of my all time heroes, comic genius's and legends. Everett was a creative marvel & technical wizard in the radio studio, discovered and promoted the band Queen. Connolly is the stand up comedian to measure all others by and a fabulous serious actor. Thanks for posting this 👍
Only Kenny Everett could make shooting silly string at people so funny as you can see Billy loving the anarchy of it. He was a gloriously childish rebel who left us far too early. Interesting that both he and Billy fought with their inner demons for years and both were marvellously inventive and unique. The BBC never really seemed to know how to handle Kenny, yet they kept hiring and firing him. Even when he was very sick towards the end of his life he kept his madcap sense of humour and wit. Kenny was also one of the few music journalists/DJ's that British musicians trusted. He got on well with the Beatles when they were still together (possibly because he didn't represent the establishment) and people like David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Freddie Mercury were more than happy to let him lampoon them as they knew there was no underlying malice in it.
What great info, I never knew any of that. He did have a Liverpool connection with the Beatles, they always trusted locals to their backyard.
His Rod Stewart send up was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Shall always remember it.
@@Freespeech141 Ken accompanied the Beatles on their 1st USA trip and did a daily bulletin of their progress.
He was a fine looking man... aswell as hilarious ❤️
Billy Connolly can not not be funny, he sees the funny side of life.
Yes he can. The Old Fashioned Tennessee Waltz" was beautiful.
Thank God for (the late) Parkinson, will be watching his interviews with such wonderful guests like Billy and Kenny and Dame Edna and hundreds more for years to come There are no shows like this now with one on one conversations with such interesting people who have great stories to tell. The world is loosing out now these people are slowly leaving us. But we have these shows.
I loved them both. Still miss Kenny on the TV.👏👏👏👏
Still nothing has come close to replacing his zany and inventive radio shows on Capital Radio in the 70s.
How long have you been in love with them now?
Bloody Brilliant! Back when TV had substance.
I had heard that in Kenny's private life he was quite shy, but never realised quite how much until I watched this video. But yes, these were two great comedians.
Just watched this brilliant recording 41 years later and have laughed my head off. Thank you for posting.
Billy is magnificent... such a talent.
that is a complex instrument and Billy plays it very well!!
Billy Connolly is one of the funniest men on the planet.,
I love him. To be fair he paints quite an accurate picture of us Scots most of the time. He's a comedy genius
Its been absolute joy to watch this. Thank you for posting.
Kenny was a genius very sadly missed.
Well said, it’s why I’m here. Found Billy funny as a kid, but not anymore.
More like a Clown 🤡
Now that's what I call comedy.