Billy Connolly - Sewer Maintenance Joke - Hand Picked by Billy 1982

Here’s a story about a Glasgow City worker called Aloysius McGumpher!
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[@RobertFairhead]

I saw this skit on TV in Sydney in 1985 and cried tears of laughter. And then, in the late '80s, I went on a Victorian Sewer Tour in Brighton, England, and shared the skit with my fellow sewer tourists ... AFTER we'd done the tour!

[@laurenceegan6136]

I recall Billy reminding us on quite a few occasions that he never tells jokes - only stories. Now that itself is a tall tale...Aloysius McGlumpher! 😄

[@zerg9523]

_”They made me feel about as welcome as a fart in a space suit”_ - The Big Yin

[@marmyafia6307]

Such a nice man. He may be less able to do the live shows these days but what a legacy he's left for us all! A comedy genius - and those words are bandied around far too easily these days. A true master of his craft.

[@OffGridInvestor]

I think he officially retired from comedy like 6 months ago

[@ajayredonkulus6628]

I was privileged to see him on his last tour and honestly it was hard to see Billy like that but you soon forget and he really is still the same man. Stood without support for nearly 2 hours, no intermission and absolutely knocked it out of the park. Belfast made him know he was loved.

[@zerg9523]

@@ajayredonkulus6628 - High horse tour?

[@ajayredonkulus6628]

@@zerg9523 It was indeed. Cracking seats, if I'd been so inclined I could have spat on the man I was so close. Absolute delight honestly didn't think I'd get to in my lifetime. Saw Dolly Parton that year too. What a year.

[@SuzyQ334]

Billy Connolly is one of the funniest comedians the UK has ever produced. Stay with us Billy. We love you. xxx

[@stuartbaxter9682]

Not only the funniest comedian Scotland, has ever produced, but the funniest the world has produced. (Well done Glasgow).

[@bobmarleystoe]

yes the greatest the world has ever known.

[@andygalloway461]

Other comedians have often said that they couldn't believe that every night he went onstage without any script or preparation and every night was a different show, he really did just make it up as he went along

[@crazydavec3861]

I knew a guy who worked in the sewer, he didn't enjoy his job very much... he used to turn up for work each day and just go through the motions! 😁

[@alanjones5786]

Same as swimming in the Mersey before sewage treatment.

[@These4walls05]

😂

[@crazydavec3861]

@@alanjones5786 - They're what's known as Mersey Salmon ;) ... I do actually live a short walk from the edge of the Mersey!

[@joandar1]

CrazyDave C, Have you ever thought about being in comedy as a career as your comment is efing brilliant as well as subtle. John, Australia.

[@priscillaroberts7945]

@@alanjones5786 like now you mean? Who'd have thunk it?

[@magnuswalker7957]

My friend who was a sewage engineer had a patch badge on his overalls, it read, "Dont swim in the lumpy water".

[@eamonnc9525]

I've seen him live twice. My ribs are still recovering. Genius.

[@1998TDM]

You too? I saw him with my restaurant crew many years ago, we couldn't open for lunch the next day.

[@SuperMikado282]

What did he do?🤣

[@zootzallures7044]

As a sewer worker for 35 years ,I find there is a lot of truth here

[@deborahwatson5159]

Love You Big Yin, take care and Keep Safe, XXXX Keep Safe Everyone

[@rogerpedersen5036]

I still have pain of laughing. Live long and healthy Billy, we all love you

[@sherimacmahon3075]

Billy.. My favourite human being. Funny, clever, talented, and being the best we can be as a human.

[@annismith8575]

A legend in his lifetime - long may he reign!

[@whitesapphire5865]

Just imagine the delights to behold on Boxing Day morning!

[@edsalinas9996]

Ba doom Cha!

[@robertmcdonald1195]

tears running down my face with laughter.:)

[@billyb23]

Always a great way to start the day

[@2042mark]

I had the good fortune of going to his show in Adelaide at the Festival Theatre I parked my car and got in the lift with my wife and got out at the wrong level at the back of the Hyatt hotel to run into THE BIG YIN on his way to the show, I yelled out to him and spoke briefly saying my mum was Glaswegian and grew up in the Same tenement buildings he did. He gave me his autograph and said I’ll see you at the show and shook my hand. My wife and I were very impressed he was humble polite and happy to spend a couple of minutes talking to a fan he was a gentleman. Still have his autograph in a frame at home.

[@aanunkitch2426]

Not just a "funny bones" comedian but truly a legendary story teller . You get sore cheeks just loving the man. ( No jokes please )

[@djgovan4422]

Never gets old ...just like potatoes of the night.

[@user-kl7xw4xs6f]

What a fantastic person

[@tonig8348]

Funniest man in the world 🤣

[@louisecrouch7724]

Brilliant

[@bradstephens4268]

Thank you for uploading this, I've been trying to find this one for years

[@MarkStabler]

Fantastic :D absolutely brilliant

[@languagetruthandlogic3556]

Brilliant!

[@jonathanmowat8576]

Class! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@christrudell7966]

Cool joke. Note: Is it just me or does he look like a young Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull?

[@TonyWhite22351]

It’s the way that you tell ‘em !

[@jgruen1066]

Fantastic humorist!

[@scottishalwaysdixie1638]

Billy u mite laugh at this # Your Simply the best ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 forever big yin Glaswegian Legend

[@Eowyn3Pride]

Gosh! He's so handsome there!🥰❤😍

[@markneedham8726]

'n we're still pissing in their Bovril...! You are a Good Man, Bill Connolly.

[@lindastanley229]

Love Billy loads

[@mikeminno5956]

Who is Billy Loads!

[@lindastanley229]

@@mikeminno5956 very funny

[@garethcouhig6055]

The best

[@petelarosa282]

God loves you.

[@bobmarleystoe]

hes retired now and he deserves to be

[@samday6621]

Really Billy that’s quite silly though I nearly laughed till teary.

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

Nice try mate !

[@david5263]

👏👏

[@harleyrobertson6746]

The end of the video 😂😂😂

[@jonss1948]

I had to give up my job at the sewage plant. Felt like I was just going through the motions every day.

[@icedragon9988]

The job was fine,but the pay was shitty.

[@bradstephens4268]

As long as you weren't swimming in the lumpy water

[@jonss1948]

@@bradstephens4268 I could have been swimming, undeterred.

[@bradstephens4268]

@@jonss1948 just a bit more smell

[@SuperMikado282]

A good jobbie then.

[@EddieGaster]

The song the guy was singing is 'Sugar Time' by The McGuire Sisters and Perry Como.

[@stephenguppy7882]

Much better known in the UK by the fabulous Alma Cogan. Better version, too.

[@forbeshutton5487]

In the whole history of mankind, there is not a single person that could have guessed that punchline.

[@jmckendry84]

I'm sure at least one person could have guessed.

[@paulnutter1713]

been searching for a version of this joke for years, wonder who told it originally

[@zingystardust4082]

You hardly ever hear use of the word jobbie nowadays. Sad to see it's decline, combined with the word wheecha it can reduce any Scottish person to a giggling wreck.

[@biggic2004]

Not only Scottish. 😉

[@rowgli]

What's a wheecha?

[@zingystardust4082]

@@rowgli Something that goes wheech! It is actually in the dictionary. If you like Billy Connolly check out the jobbie wheecha, customarily fitted in airplane toilets, they just wheech your jobbie away.

[@jazzman1626]

@@rowgli A wheech is a swift movement of something. It’s not pronounced like “peach,” it is pronounced like the ch is in the word “Loch”. Wheech!

[@petowilson548]

my kind of man so overcoming strong and very good looking come and get me william

[@striverfor7628]

Omg, the punchline

[@lunn77]

🤣😂

[@iwbarke]

Nothing seems to makes us laugh as much as a turd joke! 👍

[@SuperMikado282]

Yes, and farts as well.

[@iwbarke]

@@SuperMikado282 Of course, but not always as much substance .......

[@SuperMikado282]

@@iwbarke Hahaha, yes . A lot of hot air.

[@pauljordan4452]

@@SuperMikado282 Farts are as I say the world's oldest form of humour.

[@SuperMikado282]

@@pauljordan4452 Exactly, and long may that remain the case.

[@susanbode239]

😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sallysmith9733]

Where

[@davec8730]

YUP!

[@guywhoistooparanoidtousere3758]

I can't make out the punchline because of his accent! 'My sandwich is tied there'? I know how good he is, I want to get it so bad!

[@pauljordan4452]

The joke is that the sewage worker's wife's shit has the sandwiches attached to it.

[@zennow5073]

To you, its nasty work, but its his bread and butter.

[@stephenirons1892]

Hahahahaha

[@dalemcmenamin4864]

Thanks for translation!

[@susananderson9619]

Can the Scotts understand my East coast American accent? I have a tough time understanding everything this comic genius says

[@jonathanmowat8576]

Easily! My missus is from Berkshire County, Western Massachusetts and I'm from Glasgow. Been together now since 2001. 👍💯😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@edsalinas9996]

I've heard plenty of gross jokes like that (In which I like to tell), and that's a new one.

[@Welshwarrior85]

One always been a bit confused why there was sawdust in the butchers Jobby? 🤨

[@gp85hkg]

You've never seen the floor of a butchers' shop..?

[@Welshwarrior85]

@@gp85hkg no 🤨

[@jazzman1626]

In the 1960s, all butcher’s shops had sawdust on the floor to help absorb liquid like blood, making it easier to clean. The jannies (janitors) in the schools used sawdust for when kids had been sick.

[@Welshwarrior85]

@@jazzman1626 thank you 🙂👍

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

@@jazzman1626 It was the same in many other establishments as well, they used to sprinkle damp sawdust on the floor and when they swept the floor the dust used to stick to the damp sawdust thereby not clouds of dust and it was easier to scoop in the dust pan.

[@sallysmith9733]

Will.

[@sallysmith9733]

Well?

[@claymcdermott718]

man

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

Peanut butter sambos no doubt... 😏

[@sallysmith9733]

While

[@paulhatcher8450]

Only Billy could make a joke out of poop 💩

[@timl.b.2095]

I can't hear him.

[@seanbrassil2936]

I don’t get it?

[@markcarey8426]

No, nor do I.

[@top40researcher20]

@@markcarey8426 she ate billys lunch that he forgot to take

[@markcarey8426]

@@top40researcher20 Oic. Thanks v much.

[@trishstyles6514]

What he meant was, his wife was sending the guy's lunch to him, she tied his sandwiches to her jobbie and sent it all down the toilet so he could retrieve it out of the sewer for his lunch.

[@markcarey8426]

@@trishstyles6514 Oh, OK. Now it makes more sense. But, alas, too late to laugh. Thanks though.

[@gp85hkg]

Oh, look...10 people don't know shit (".)

[@deusvult8251]

Is he saying the wife literally flushed his sandwiches down along with her poo or did she eat them

[@vanpenguin22]

Instant total regret upon delivery of the punchline. 🤮🤢

[@johnohara54]

Couldn’t understand a fuc$&* thing he said.

[@markmark5269]

Oi, ya see that jobby coming around the corner? That belongs to Mr Wilfred on Smith st, he's gay you know? That's amazing, how do you know that? Ya see it's got dents in the end of it ....

[@gedhuffadine1873]

Totally unfunny

[@flappospammo]

Brilliant