Billy Connolly - Lady on the Bus REACTION

[@5imp1]

On a double decker bus you have to come down the stairs and be ready to get off while the bus is still moving because if you don't, you will miss your stop. He is talking about the old Routemaster bus which has an open platform at the rear.

[@irbennett]

Not true. If you're sitting on the top deck of the bus and you see your stop, you ring the bell and the bus will stop. This will allow you to go downstairs and get off at your stop. This is exactly what happened on the bus Billy was travelling on, and the lady got off at her stop. Billy changed the story so that the bus went round a corner on two wheels, and the lady was thrown off the bus and ended up suspended in mid-air. She fell slowly to the ground, and then ran off over a hundred mph. It's the lack of realism in the story that I have a problem with. I've found the story works better if you see Billy perform it live.

[@sjlittler70]

@@irbennettalright fun sponge 🙄

[@stevew3196]

You have to allow Billy some poetic licence in his stories. Ultimately he's a superb story teller. One of my favourites relates to when he worked in the shipyards in Glasgow as a welder. He joined the territorial army (reserves) they went to Germany for 2 weeks training/exercises. He describes in detail how two groups had to stage a battle. One night his group caught someone from the 'enemy' group and in the interrogation they kicked the crap out of this poor guy. Here's Billy's punchline. "I knew this guy. He worked in the same shipyard as me. We spent 2 weeks chasing each other all over the Balck Forest. What a waste of time and money. I could have ambushed him at work and saved the army a fortune!"😂

[@irbennett]

You should never believe what you read on a message board.

[@lorrainehamilton5051]

I still live in Clydebank. Shout out for Bankieland, erstwhile home of Three Queens Cunard Liners and millions of Sewing Machines! 😂

[@clarelawton4653]

Yes finally, you’ve found it, I love this one, thanks 💕

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

I remember being an expat kid growing up in Hong Kong in the 90s with lots of double decker buses around. Being upstairs on one flying through the winding roads of the New Territories in HK with a driver who thought he was Michael Schumacher is the closest you can feel to being at sea in a dingy during a typhoon. 8 year old me loved it! The old ones always had the back door (if there was one?) open.

[@mathewcooper8327]

Any old school Billy connolly when he had a proper glasgow accent (all good thanx for the reactions)

[@Jodi_BoringReviews]

Thanks!

[@dalewyatt1321]

Such a simple little story told with brilliance.

[@singlewhitefemale1707]

Love Billy Connolly!! Great story teller, great comedian!!! Just love him!!!❤❤❤

[@Paul_Allaker8450]

You gotta watch his sketch describing people leaving the shipyards. 😂😂

[@matthewcullen1298]

I was working on the roof of an 80 year old lady's house. I heard a noise and turned around and she was standing behind me. She'd climbed the ladder to get there. She had not taken as much as a paracetamol in 30 years and she was a trained physical therapist. She insisted on adjusting my back and she was ridiculously strong for an old lady. Saying that we had a photo of my grandma grinning from ear to ear sitting on the back of a Harley Davidson at 93

[@irbennett]

What ???

[@mando8469]

The first time i heard Billy do this joke, I nearly died....I had such a hard time breathing I almost passed out in a puddle of my own piss from laughing so hard....

[@irbennett]

Only nearly? Shame. Also you're such an awful liar.

[@irbennett]

If you have to lie, at least make it plausible.

[@mando8469]

@@irbennett You should look up "hyperbole"-Will help with confusion in the future.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

At that time on the UK buses upstairs would be for smoking and downstairs for non smoking so the old lady was probably a smoker. The bus in Harry Potter is the type of bus he was talking about.

[@johnorourke3969]

Rumour has it she's still running 😀😀

[@necessaryevil3428]

Yes! More Billy please 😊

[@markieman64]

Literally as I was watching your reaction here, I was getting on a bus in Glasgow, and a guy getting off it "accused" the driver of slowing down then speeding up right before he stopped at the bus stop. It was a traffic light. They were stopping at a traffic light...

[@bobchr0]

He is the funniest comedian ever. Such a great story teller.

[@natmanprime4295]

great vid!! good reaction! 👍👍

[@markwither796]

Love this story as I'm from Clydebank lol. I know the very hill he is talking about.

[@JH-ty3ic]

At last, so funny it hurts.

[@avandy3]

The very same thing happened to me when I was a kid. When the bus came to a halt the driver tried to blame me for jumping off. When I told my wife this story, many years later, I didn't think she was very going to stop laughing 😂😂😂

[@irbennett]

Of corse it did.

[@kevinduff3584]

The last supper, the crucifiction and football violence are brilliant monologues too!

[@irbennett]

The first two are one and the same. And they're stories.

[@kelvingreen3736]

You should listen to his Ivan the terrible routine. That’s one of my favourites

[@philipevans1027]

Can I just say you look like a prefect couple . Love billy he's got to be the most funny uk comidian a close run with micky Flanagan and Lee Evans .

[@Cobalt-Jester]

I bet you've never seen a stand up comedian that doesn't tell any jokes before. That's why Billy is so good. He c an tell you the most boring tedious story and you'd still be laughing. lol

[@irbennett]

How can they be boring tedious stories, yet people are laughing.

[@ritahamblin1043]

I've just found a 4 minute clip called On the buses. Skid test have a look you'll get the idea what he's described the whole movie is hilarious 😂 and you will laugh your socks off

[@irbennett]

What are you rabbiting on about.

[@ritahamblin1043]

I will simply recommend three movies,. On the busess. Mutiny on the busess. Holiday on the busess.

[@irbennett]

Busess??

[@ImRonDurden]

You should watch the zombie movie starring Billy Connolly called "Fido". Its a fantastic comedy set in a world with domesticated zombies.

[@MrNikolidas]

If you ever find yourself on a double decker bus in the UK, you'll see people queueing from the front door, snaking their way up the stairs to the top deck, in anticipation of the next stop. It's just the done thing, because the driver won't hang around at the stop waiting for you to come down. It might not have been true during the time Billy's story was set, but nowadays there are seats on the lower deck closest to the door reserved for older people and disabled people, so there's no old ladies bumbling down the stairs anymore.

[@irbennett]

What planet do you live on, Mars?

[@MrNikolidas]

@@irbennett Uranus.

[@knowlzer]

He used to do singing of classic songs but he changes the words to be funny 👍

[@gailgreet-wheeler933]

The greatest comedian of all time

[@sumo1756]

I'm thinking if you get time you might be interested in Billys 'incontinence pants' story👍

[@dalbhuie_youtubeaddedanumber]

You going to come to like Billy more and more as you cover his stuff. As for what to watch next, I heartidly reccomend, Billy Connolly - Wildebeast, Billy Connolly - Potatoes of the Night. Billy Connolly - Don't drink the tap water in Ibiza ( I think Nick will really enjoy that one ), the very short ( if you ever do 2 short reactions together ) Billy Connolly - Two men on a golf course. Billy Connolly - Getting Caught Interfering With Yourself. Then of course and my favourite, Rangers V Celtic. There used to be a very good clip entitled sharks, blue ringed octopus, worst pain known to man. This appears to have been pulled and I can only finbd a shorter section named Worst Pain Known to Man. It is still well up there amongst his best stuff. Oh and don't miss Billy Connolly - Mood Bracelets.

[@irbennett]

Billy grew to hate Don't Drink the Water as it reminded him of his first marriage, which shows you how old the story is. So he stopped doing it and it was eventually replaced by Colonoscopy, which is similar but better.

[@JC-yc7of]

Why not try Russell Kane. I’ve seen all the top comedians live, and he is easily in the top 5 . On these “double deckers”, especially in Scotland with its really cold temperatures, travelling in them in winter was terrible, with heaters not much better than a flickering match. When you eventually got home, you had to open the fridge door to get a heat.

[@ayrshiretom]

These things happen in Scotland, you have to live here

[@martinbonner2585]

The bus was an old routemaster

[@everilmatthews3483]

This is Billy's humour, not to be taken seriously as you seem to do,lol. Embrace The Suck have rhe right reaction, watch them!

[@irbennett]

This story, as with all Billy's material, has to be seen live. A video clip is third best. If you don't find something funny, how can you laugh. Pretend?

[@christinestromberg4057]

Have you seen the dwarf on the bus? Equally hilarious.

[@BoringReviews]

Yes. We have a reaction to it.

[@irbennett]

That story is much better. And true.

[@Cyndithia68]

You have to be out of your seat up front while the bus is still going, always fast. The old buses you were at the back and the newer ones up front by the driver. If you are not they don’t stop. You took your life into your own hands on Uk buses.

[@irbennett]

That's rubbish.

[@redf7209]

I'm not sure if this is true but a while back there was a glasgow newspaper story about a women thrown from a bus getting killed

[@keithygadget381]

I think you got this, but though he said ‘doorway’, on those old buses there is no door. It’s an open platform. You stood on the platform holding the pole and there was nothing between you and the outside world. Do the dwarf on the bus video, also funny

[@irbennett]

A doorway is a door.

[@keithygadget381]

@@irbennett a door fits into a doorway. Remove the door and it’s a permanent open doorway. Open platform buses do not have doors on the London Transport Routemaster buses.

[@vincenthewlett4329]

look for " Incontinece pants " or " Fart on a plane "

[@mikerayland]

What on earth does Sick To My Stomach mean,is there any other way to be sick?

[@irbennett]

Sick in the head. Like a lot of people on here.

[@mst1740]

I don't understand why you guys spoil your own fun by trying to guess the funny bit in advance, lol. Just relax and be pleasantly surprised :)

[@BoringReviews]

It doesn’t spoil any fun for us. It’s just a talking point. It would be impossible to really predict. It doesn’t take any of the enjoyment away from the bit. At least not from us.

[@garryellison]

These two still have not figured out its just a story told for comic affect

[@BoringReviews]

Is that how comedy works.

[@garryellison]

@@BoringReviews Being a Christian myself Iam reluctant to shake a stick at you but for goodness sake ....its an act !

[@keithrudd8003]

@@garryellisonbet you’re fun at parties

[@garryellison]

@@keithrudd8003 Iam from a country that people can think on their feet iam from a city renowed for comedians and I ran pubs in Ireland for thirty years so actually i have a bit of fun in me I just have no time for people who are a sandwich short of a picnic.

[@irbennett]

That's what happens on a message board full of crazy people, they insult anybody who disagrees with what other people think.

[@knowlzer]

Very sad to see him now he got Parkinson he a shadow of himself

[@BoringReviews]

No way. I didn’t know that.

[@paddydunne814]

⁠​⁠@@BoringReviews check out the old Dublin 2 decker buses with a passenger opening at the near rear side with a pole and handrail for you to get clear understanding of how hilarious it would be ,but you have to see the bus😮

[@paddydunne814]

And poor billy hasn’t much time left😂

[@irbennett]

@@paddydunne814 And people wonder why Billy doesn't read the comments.

[@irbennett]

@@BoringReviews He is not a shadow of himself, that's a lie.

[@michaelweavers8482]

It's a joke folks, not real.

[@irbennett]

It's a story and some of it is real. Guess which bits.

[@jamesward6175]

Censoring expletives distracts from comedy, and almost kills the energy of a joke for it is the seasoning of joke telling. Is there a reason the swearing has been silenced other than prudishness?

[@irbennett]

It's not a joke, it's a story.

[@jockmason5922]

Ruined it by censoring the swearing

[@lenovo-x7j]

Hi Nick /Jody,you need to listen to Billy talking about incontinent pants,it's really funny,or Frankie Boyle audience anylation,it's a really funny clip, but watch out he really takes the piss out of the audience, from IAN, England

[@happilyeggs4627]

Nothing so funny as self inflicted injuries.

[@irbennett]

What is life if you can't laugh at people less fortunate than you-BC

[@billybunter6659]

I wish they'd stop cutting the swearing out it's ridiculous it ruins the act completely because those expressions are needed to get the full effect of the story.

[@peterdonnelly4495]

See if you can cope with Jimmy Carr, the best comic in Britain today.

[@duncanwyer2460]

Wildebeest next ?