I wasn't allowed to watch this when I was I kid, but my older brother recorded it off the tv on to an audio cassette for me without my parents knowing. I listened to that cassette over and over for years. Such a great comedian, Glasgow's finest. Love you Billy x
@Joe Blow Yeh he's still alive, he has recently retired from performing after over 50 years and recently led the annual New York City tartan day parade
Have you got a video when Billy is telling a story about a time that he fell off his motorbike n his friend is looking for him shouting Billy Billy where are ye.. very funny.😂🤣😂😅😆😁😄
Fast forward 5 years from your post and Billy will be frowned upon as he is funny as hell (and the best ever) and that today (2022) having a sense of humour or being a comedian will get you cancelled as some nitwit will be offended by a joke.
The old ones are the best...comedians as well as jokes...I've dined off this gag for so many years...including the diced carrot and tomato digression...thanks Billy...I owe you dearly...
The classic "Wreck-on-Tour routine. I first heard the album when I was 14 years old. I was in so much pain with laughter. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I think the birthing video follows this, I cannae be sure. 😅😁😄😄😆😆
In Australia, when I was a lad, I worked underground with Scottish miners, most of them originated in some place called “ the Gorbals” fearsome men, fearsome drunks, fearsome fighters, nicest blokes you would ever want to work with, lend them money and they chased you to repay it, give them a helping hand and they would repay it tenfold if you didn’t stop them.
connolly at his best!, the thing about Billy is, he has propbably bean on stage about a millioon times and every time he has a different act, thats the sign of a great comedian, he does not need an act, he just gets on stage and shoots the shit, and he is funnny every time.
I heard this on his pick of billy conolly album even though this version has bad audio it’s an all time classic but he laugh at his own jokes that’s what it makes it so funny
LOL, who papered the ceiling? Ha haa! I canny believe there's subtitles, lol! How the hell do you subtitle Billy Connelly, awe brilliant!!! Hughey and Ralph Green, awe, I've actually got tears in my eyes!
NW6 I know but I don't even know if it would be as funny in another language, I think Billy Connolly is actually funnier that the story sometimes, or his unique way of telling it, lol! "I canny feel ma legs!" "there ma legs" lol Awe, too funny! ;)
I guy I know said he first saw this many years ago in a cinema(?) in Norway, with Norwegian subtitles. All was fine until it got to the punchline. The Norwegians read the subtitles a second or so before Billy said, and they laughed so loud he never heard the punchline himself. I loved his earlier stuff. He seemed to mellow after the 80s, and was never quite the same. His meandering storytelling style was unique, and the way he pull true stories into the mix made him without doubt the best comedian of his generation.
MY FAVOURITE JOKE EVER . THE BEST THING ABOUT BILLY . HE CANNOT STOP LAUGHING DURING THE TELLING OF THE JOKE , THUS BREAKING THE CARDINAL RULE OF STAND UP COMEDY .
My favorite joke with Scotsmen in it was from *Dave Allen* and was recently adapted for use in *Game of Thrones* and goes like this: An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar and orders a round of whiskeys. When they arrive, each glass has a fly floating in it... the Englishman frowns, pushes the glass away and asks the bartender for a new one, sans fly. The Irishman looks at his glass, plucks the fly out, throws it over his shoulder and downs the whiskey. The Scotsman looks at his drink, picks the fly up and holds it over the glass and shouts *_”spit it out you wee fooker, spit it out !!!”_*
That was told by a character on the movie adaptation of Louis Lamour's Crossfire Trail as well. No idea where it actually originated but it will always be gold.
@Rosida Andriyana Favorite and favourite are both correct spellings, depending on whether you use American or British spelling standards. Favorite is preferred in American English, while favourite is preferred in British English.
I saw this routine on TV back in the 70s. The punchline then was a little different. The guys wake up in shock at the sick on their jackets and shout "EURGH!! Its Huey Green". You have to know who Huey Green was to find it funny!
The tape I had on this story had a bit of extra dialogue in the beginning, where the two Glaswegians were walking around Rome and one says to the other, "the sun is just baking doon on ma heid" and the other said lets find a pub for a pint.
yes. just did another tour program December 2018. he lives in Florida now and looks great. the parkinsons seems to be controlled because he's walking, talking and everything fine. Pamela looks great too. Still beautiful.
I was in Rome recently and came across my daughter taking photo's of two bottles of Tennants Super Lager (empty of course) in the city center.Make ye think eh :D
The vomit/tomato skins bit is similar to bit in a 1968 novel called 'Barney Snip-Arist' by Frank Norman: "Barney looked down at the pool of vomit and wondered why it had tomato skins in it. Why did vomit always have tomato skins in it even if you hadn't eaten eaten any tomatoes for a fortnight? It was always the same every time he chucked up, tomato skins all over the place. He thought there must have been a bloke, employed by the council, whose job it was to go around with a bucket full of tomato-skins and sprinkle a few in every pool of vomit he came across."
Sounds like a bit of a reach to say it's stolen. Could be that he read that and forgot where he first heard it. Could also be that two people came to the same conclusion, considering it's not the most fascinating discovery in human history.
Adore this man's ability to tell a story.
I wasn't allowed to watch this when I was I kid, but my older brother recorded it off the tv on to an audio cassette for me without my parents knowing. I listened to that cassette over and over for years. Such a great comedian, Glasgow's finest. Love you Billy x
What a wonderful memory 👍
I've heard this gag so many times, but it still makes me laugh every time. Genius comedy from a comedy genius!
Billy is one of a kind. Never, ever will be another. Legend, simple as that.
@Joe Blow Yeh he's still alive, he has recently retired from performing after over 50 years and recently led the annual New York City tartan day parade
Billy, you're an absolute legend, and even when you are long gone, your videos will still be making bellys hurt, and tears fall. Thanks for it all xxx
He's no fucking dead yet.
Have you got a video when Billy is telling a story about a time that he fell off his motorbike n his friend is looking for him shouting Billy Billy where are ye.. very funny.😂🤣😂😅😆😁😄
Mans immortal 🙌🏻 true icon of comedy 👌🏻
'Bellys'? Missed the class on take-off-the-y-add-ies, eh?
Fast forward 5 years from your post and Billy will be frowned upon as he is funny as hell (and the best ever) and that today (2022) having a sense of humour or being a comedian will get you cancelled as some nitwit will be offended by a joke.
The old ones are the best...comedians as well as jokes...I've dined off this gag for so many years...including the diced carrot and tomato digression...thanks Billy...I owe you dearly...
The mark of a great comedian is that it's the journey as well as the destination.
His autobiography is Brilliant!! I highly recommend it.
That brings back memories. Dryborough's Heavy.
Billy connolly one of my absolute favourite comedians ever, love the 'jobbie weecha joke", a real legend.
Can only understand half of it and it's still hilarious. I love this man so much.
God bless this Legend ❤ Billy from your home town 🏴
Can you think this man is part Pakistan?
I have tears running down my legs Billy I love you 😂😂😂😂
If you have tears running down your legs, I would check to make sure you haven't wet your pants.
So much love for this hilarious comic. Never fails
to split my sides!
I first heard this in the seventies and fell in love. That love continues.... Billy's phrases are part of the collective.... "Hughie /Ralph" lol
Brilliant!. An exquisete story teller the like we'll never see again!. On ya Big Un!.... Nuff said.
I’m English, so thank god for those subtitles!
In all seriousness, genius comic, laid many foundations, much missed
Edd, do you know something we don't???
Behave yersel
Absolute Legend ❤👏👏
That was somethin else, the detail he put's in his jokes are what makes the so good.
Tom Davies 26
Thats why hes brillant, you cant remember his stuff unless you watch it all the time because he does digress like that all the time its great.
That diced carrots, tomato skins observation is so true!
oh. lol.... ""Corn?... When did I eat corn?.".... lol
mo O Just
Jezus H Christ can you not think of anything else to write than the idiot "lol"?
,k
My old man was a Scotsman, when he drank he would have everybody on the floor pissing themselves from laughing. Some of the stories he would tell.
lol as a jock myself it must be in our genes
The classic "Wreck-on-Tour routine. I first heard the album when I was 14 years old. I was in so much pain with laughter. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I think the birthing video follows this, I cannae be sure. 😅😁😄😄😆😆
a true living legend
Best comedian who ever lived!
Carlin is right there.
PreserveBigCats fy
Tony Dean definatly
Ton
Bold statement but he's deffo up there ☝
Billy, this man will never ever be forgotten. Thee funniest man on this planet. I hope his health keeps him with us for many years to come.
A legend.
"Eh Jimmay, giv us tuu pints a heava".
2021, still funny and about the 100th time have watched this!
"Jimmy, give us two pints 'a heavy!" LMAO
Oh yes he was good, very good, still is, but seeing him in his prime doing stand up, unbeatable.
Billy Connolly Th Best Comedian Ever Along With Richard Pryor. Very Funny Story.
funniest fucker I've ever heard in my life.......genius
Billy is Eternal.
Excellent find! Great stuff, he was at his best in the early years.
Hughie Green and Diced Carrots - stupendous!!!! :-)
I had this on audio years ago and it is still as funny as ever.
Parknest. Me too but i cant remember the what gig it was?
Big man's a legend..oh aye
Never be a another comedian like him.
In Australia, when I was a lad, I worked underground with Scottish miners, most of them originated in some place called “ the Gorbals” fearsome men, fearsome drunks, fearsome fighters, nicest blokes you would ever want to work with, lend them money and they chased you to repay it, give them a helping hand and they would repay it tenfold if you didn’t stop them.
I LOVE the Scotts and Scotland. Some of my favorite memories. And I'm English 😁
I was born in Glasgow. Suckey hall street. The southern infirmary . 👍😊
@@tolkienfan1972 Scots not Scotts.
@@barnsybarns3659 sauchiehall street but I'm sure you know that since you're a weegie.
@@graememckay9972 right
reminds me of growing up
A great comiedien, the best
Legend... Irish Fan
We love you Billy ..
Love Billy Connolly xx
They still dinnae serve Heavy in Rome, the daft buggers.
and what is that?
Blahblah Bluhbluh
Scottish Ale. :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_Beer_of_Scotland
Blahblah Bluhbluh What the rest of Britain call Bitter.
***** ill just have a cocio then
Legend
connolly at his best!, the thing about Billy is, he has propbably bean on stage about a millioon times and every time he has a different act, thats the sign of a great comedian, he does not need an act, he just gets on stage and shoots the shit, and he is funnny every time.
he looks so much like robert de niro here amazing comedy love him
I heard this on his pick of billy conolly album even though this version has bad audio it’s an all time classic but he laugh at his own jokes that’s what it makes it so funny
"who papered that ceiling" hahaha
So funny, "Green Huey, Huey Green"
LOL, who papered the ceiling? Ha haa! I canny believe there's subtitles, lol! How the hell do you subtitle Billy Connelly, awe brilliant!!! Hughey and Ralph Green, awe, I've actually got tears in my eyes!
+lyndsay crawford To be fair, it's subbed in Dutch (I think). It is, still, laugh out loud funny alright. 'In Italian' ;'-O
NW6 I know but I don't even know if it would be as funny in another language, I think Billy Connolly is actually funnier that the story sometimes, or his unique way of telling it, lol!
"I canny feel ma legs!"
"there ma legs" lol
Awe, too funny! ;)
+lyndsay crawford Yeah, "Two pints of heavy" Lmao ;-D
I just watched it with the sound off. His body language is hilarious in itself ;'-)
+lyndsay crawford My ex was from Bells Hill and turned me onto him. Saw him in concert in the mid-80's in Vancouver and I swear my sides still hurt.
He was and srill is The Best 🙏
LMAO !! ''No wonder they carry the Pope in a chair hey ??!!''
Brilliant,
I guy I know said he first saw this many years ago in a cinema(?) in Norway, with Norwegian subtitles. All was fine until it got to the punchline. The Norwegians read the subtitles a second or so before Billy said, and they laughed so loud he never heard the punchline himself.
I loved his earlier stuff. He seemed to mellow after the 80s, and was never quite the same. His meandering storytelling style was unique, and the way he pull true stories into the mix made him without doubt the best comedian of his generation.
That's rubbish. In fact he would become angrier after the 80s. If you'd seen him live during this period you would know this. He was funnier as well..
Always be one of life's mysteries diced carrots.
I see where robin Williams got his drunk Scottish guy origin of golf impression from
God I would've loved to see those two on stage together
@@fisherking7798That would never have happened.
If you are at your computer or tablet watching Billy Connolly for the first time, put away anything you are eating or drinking. You’ll thank me later.
LEGEND
To answer the age old question: diced carrots and tomato skins, as the Big Yin put it, is actually bits of your stomach lining! :)
Billy Connolly is the Scottish answer to America's Robin Williams. He is hysterical and so animated. 💕💕💕 him!!
❤Billy❤
MY FAVOURITE JOKE EVER . THE BEST THING ABOUT BILLY . HE CANNOT STOP LAUGHING DURING THE
TELLING OF THE JOKE , THUS BREAKING THE CARDINAL RULE OF STAND UP COMEDY .
There are no rules of stand-up comedy.
amazing...
legend
still magic
I agree Billy Connolly is a ledgeen
Hey Big Yin..closest thing to Christ I would follow.
Oh my jaesus, i'm pessin myself laughing!
Put the subtitles on and have another laugh.
Funny stuff. Even to an American. 👍
It is said Billy belongs to Glasgow but Glasgow belongs Billy true Scottish and like me am proud to be Scottish love you Billy
Billy the original showbusiness personality
My favorite joke with Scotsmen in it was from *Dave Allen* and was recently adapted for use in *Game of Thrones* and goes like this:
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar and orders a round of whiskeys. When they arrive, each glass has a fly floating in it... the Englishman frowns, pushes the glass away and asks the bartender for a new one, sans fly. The Irishman looks at his glass, plucks the fly out, throws it over his shoulder and downs the whiskey. The Scotsman looks at his drink, picks the fly up and holds it over the glass and shouts *_”spit it out you wee fooker, spit it out !!!”_*
That was told by a character on the movie adaptation of Louis Lamour's Crossfire Trail as well. No idea where it actually originated but it will always be gold.
@Rosida Andriyana Favorite and favourite are both correct spellings, depending on whether you use American or British spelling standards. Favorite is preferred in American English, while favourite is preferred in British English.
@@yomo1690 Like "armor" and "armour".
Unique and very funny guy. 👍
I don't know what is funnier, Listening to Billy Connelly or trying to translate his conversations into Frankish.
haha fuckin hilarious when he is putting on the voice for the two guys haha
I saw this routine on TV back in the 70s. The punchline then was a little different. The guys wake up in shock at the sick on their jackets and shout "EURGH!! Its Huey Green". You have to know who Huey Green was to find it funny!
Hughie.
great!
Wee Heavy is a beer in Scotland
Huey and Ralph... lmao
He’s damn funny......even though I can only understand about half of what he’s saying.
long joke, pretty funny in parts, the punchline was the real funny bit. It actually made me laugh.
The tape I had on this story had a bit of extra dialogue in the beginning, where the two Glaswegians were walking around Rome and one says to the other, "the sun is just baking doon on ma heid" and the other said lets find a pub for a pint.
AHHH When Billy was Scottish... nice to be reminded he still is eh!
When I was in England in 1984, I enjoyed a dark colored beer. Would that have been stout?
Holy shit, volume is a little HIGH at the beginning.
makes me proud to be a scott lol xD
I'm still at school and I'm 26! Those bits of diced carrots are really shredded bits of your stomach lining- Huey! Ralph!
Dear gods, is this man still alive? Please say he is. PLEASE.
yes. just did another tour program December 2018. he lives in Florida now and looks great. the parkinsons seems to be controlled because he's walking, talking and everything fine. Pamela looks great too. Still beautiful.
THE BEST STAND UP IT IS THE WAY BILLY GETS TO THE PUNCHLINE , GOING OFF AT TANGENTS .
HAHAHA! I first heard Ronnie Corbett tell this joke once in one of his chair monologues!
No you didn't.
the carrots and tomato skins are actually stomach lining... :O
When was this originally recorded?
Funny clip, but my head exploded.....
Never had diced carrots, but there's always corn and rice.
You and me both, brother.
Volume was only at 50% and the fucking roof nearly caved in.
I was in Rome recently and came across my daughter taking photo's of two bottles of Tennants Super Lager (empty of course) in the city center.Make ye think eh :D
Aaaaand that's why I tell my jokes in a Scottish accent.
The vomit/tomato skins bit is similar to bit in a 1968 novel called 'Barney Snip-Arist' by Frank Norman:
"Barney looked down at the pool of vomit and wondered why it had tomato skins in it. Why did vomit always have tomato skins in it even if you hadn't eaten eaten any tomatoes for a fortnight? It was always the same every time he chucked up, tomato skins all over the place. He thought there must have been a bloke, employed by the council, whose job it was to go around with a bucket full of tomato-skins and sprinkle a few in every pool of vomit he came across."
Sounds like a bit of a reach to say it's stolen. Could be that he read that and forgot where he first heard it. Could also be that two people came to the same conclusion, considering it's not the most fascinating discovery in human history.
Probably right. "Similar to" would be more accurate. Let people draw their own conclusions. @@geordieny