Billy Connolly - Stroke victim - Live in New York 2005

[@Thornus_______]

Working class shipyard worker from Glasgow God bless ya Billy

[@robinbrown2270]

I had a stroke 3 years ago . When the nurse mentioned wheel chair and ramps... I tried to say Fook off but couldn't. She smiled and said you are going to be ok. Home a week later and no fooking wheel chair.

[@ReviveAndDrive-mk1]

Atleast you can walk but not speak ?

[@Owen-w6v]

Terrific. Fook. Them.

[@blokeofkent82]

i worked for 5 years on a stroke unit, i always remember 1 patient he could only say one word when he talked "Whitstable" if you asked him anything he would say "Whitstable" but he was a member of a choir and when he sang could sing a song word for word. the brain is a peculiar organ.

[@craigcampbell7861]

that would be so funny 😆

[@kaylaireland3494]

My dad told a story of a country and western singer with a severe stammer but could sing with no issue. When he was staying in a hotel with another country performer and they where being robbed he tried to raise the alarm and couldn’t get the words out until the other performer told him to sing it! True story. My dads best mate was the producer for country hour on BBC radio and would do all the country festivals and take my dad along with him

[@bigoldgrizzly]

@@kaylaireland3494 I knew a publican with a severe stammer who could sing faultlessly. It was a peculiar sight watching him singing a drunk fellow his 'fortune' as he ejected him from the pub ;

[@AceBanana100]

my grandad had a stroke and died from it - I was pretty raw when I first watched this sketch and hated Billy for taking the piss at what I percived to be my grandad - Move on 18 months and I just love this sketch because its everything my grandad was in his final days and Billy gets it spot on - Luv ya Big Yin ;-)

[@irbennett]

I don't believe a word of that.

[@misslannie73]

I had a stroke a few years back. This is so accurate, it’s bloody brilliant.

[@fionahiggins9412]

Bless you . My Mum had two strokes. Keep on trucking kidddo .

[@user-yw2xx8jv3o]

I hope your all good now.

[@mickdunne981]

Bless you sorry to hear you had a stroke I am in the stitches watching Billy he is brilliant I don't mean to laugh

[@arricammarques1955]

Aye, I don't recommend it!

[@Hailstonepie]

43 years of following this man and still making me laugh.

[@frankmurphyburr3598]

I first heard him when I was 15 in 1974 , 50 years ago 😂

[@seanodonnell5662]

I am a stroke survivor That feeling of trying to say something I understand so well

[@jefolson6989]

Must be extremely frustrating.

[@NS-un3pg]

EFA's

[@johncunningham4820]

Yep ! That's our Bill . Starts a story , and then distracts himself with a random thought . Great Comedian and Showman . Be safe Billy .

[@karlbriggs]

Whenever I feel blue, I watch Billy. He has an almost therapeutic, healing quality and I find myself forgetting everything and losing myself in his stories.

[@EsteemedReptile]

To this day I still use the term "completely different box of frogs"

[@brownie9919]

😂😂

[@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC]

Best observational personality on the Planet Love this man ⚡

[@JUANKERR2000]

With George Carlin - two of a kind.

[@gordonj5669]

Best comedian ever. The End.

[@friggintourist7751]

I just burst out laughing so hard it scared my cat out of her sleep 🤣🤣

[@paullambe9471]

That’s so fucking funny. Tears of laughter running down my face. Cheers Billy 👍

[@mickdunne981]

I was pmsl ha ha 😂 🤣 😆 I couldn't stop laughing for a good half hour afterwards 😆 🤣 😂 😄

[@mickdunne981]

Billy is a comedy genius

[@janekellie3472]

I Have So Much Respect For Billy Connolly - As A All Round Comedian..And As A Private Family Man .

[@1Kent]

Gotta love Billy!🥰😝

[@DaveyL1954]

How can you take a serious subject like strokes, and whilst being totally empathetic makes it so goddam funny?!

[@gixellia8455]

I've worked with stroke victims and people with 'disorders'. Billy is absolutely accurate. I love this man; he is able to elicit laughter even in the direst of circumstances.❤😂❤

[@thejaxter6384]

Only Billy can get away with it. Billy, I love you!!!!

[@deborahwatson5159]

Love You Big Yin and Take Care XXXX ❤❤

[@irbennett]

Same message.

[@WillyDIreland]

Like all families we fought and squabbled but nothing united us more than watch a Billy Connolly special. Thanks for the happy memories Big Yin❤

[@nathanwhite3953]

The genius of this man is he is never malicious. He can make the saddest things in the world hilarious. The GOAT.

[@irbennett]

You should here him talk about climate change, he most definitely isn't trying to be hilarious.

[@irbennett]

He was also involved with Comic Relief for 30 or so years. Do you think he made that hilarious?

[@irbennett]

While I think of it, his first wife would have had something to say about Billy never being malicious.

[@livesatellitestudios]

God Bless Billy, he REALLY changed Glasgow, Scotland the UK and the world with his addictive humor. I went to many shows of his over the years but have never met him in person.... unless you count the time I stopped at lights just behind the Apollo one night, beside Burger King and a Pizza place. Anyway I see directly opposite me waiting at the lights is none other than The Big Yin.... I give him the thumbs up, and like a champ he gives he the thumbs up back......... MADE MY YEAR! Always a true gent, VIVA BILLY!

[@robertdoyle687]

Description of the priest was priceless 😂

[@pauljordan4452]

They work six days a week.

[@drew8958]

This is how you get through life ! THX BC !

[@irbennett]

By having a stroke?

[@echognomecal6742]

I find listening to him comforting...& wonder what on earth I'm blocking from my childhood to explain this...

[@elizabethkuchta5097]

LOVE YOU BILLY 😍💗. STROKE AND PARKINGSONS. ENGLAND 🇬🇧

[@westaussie965]

So why the Union Jack?😂

[@irbennett]

What's Parkingson's? Is Billy having trouble with his car?

[@niksteele715]

Please keep uploading these, this special is one of his best ones. Nobody can tell a story like Billy!

[@emma-janeminshull-turner1242]

Such a warm and very funny man!😍😁💕🏁

[@oliver13809]

What a wonderful man

[@susanfarley1332]

damn, he just made me inhale my smoke the wrong way somehow. He's a genius.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

you need to give up laughing - it's bad for your health ;

[@irbennett]

He is a very very funny man, not a genius.

[@susanfarley1332]

@@irbennett I would like to see you be half as funny. Or even a fourth as funny.

[@irbennett]

@@susanfarley1332 I couldn't be as funny as Billy, then again I don't call myself a comedian. I've never written a book either so I don't call myself an author. See what I'm getting at? Billy is my favourite comedian, but he isn't a genius. Ask Billy if he thinks he's a genius.

[@susanfarley1332]

@@irbennett I was just saying he is a genius at his craft. You are making way too much of a deal about it. I never said he was smarter than Einstein. Even geniuses are stupid in one way or another. But he did make me inhale my smoke the wrong way. Think about it. How could I inhale something the wrong way when I had been inhaling to start with? It felt like when you swallow a liquid and it accidently goes down your windpipe. That doesn't happen when you inhale. You can swallow air but that just makes you burp. Geeze, I'm explaining too much about why I said it.

[@garyjones980]

I love this man...

[@introspectivedreamer3864]

Visiting my 88 year old mother in law in hospital bed in heatwave July I felt I didn’t know what to say, so I unwittingly said “it’s so cool in here, you’re in the best place. I watched Billy here and it touched a nerve, we humans do often are caught in situations we feel lost or scared and we just blurt out random stuff. The brilliance of Billy can never be fully stated. Thank you for finding such insight into such intimate situations and finding humour in such places as many of us wouldn’t expect. You’re a true wonder, Billy ✌🏻😂😂💪🏻🌹

[@irbennett]

You're barking mad.

[@maresnite]

love ya man ❤️✌️🤣

[@michaelrawson6261]

On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me... FUUCK OFF!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@1stinenergylimitedmdevelop533]

I wept

[@elizabethkuchta5097]

@mihaeirawso? Ask yourself why?

[@andrewmartin3960]

I'm laughing so hard at this I'm having difficulty breathing and I'm wiping away tears of laughter. Thank you Billy, I needed that

[@irbennett]

I'm surprised you can post a message, since you are having difficulty breathing.

[@mohamstaz3618]

Might be the only comedian that can make me laugh until it hurts. 😂 Fucking legend.

[@zarasbazaar]

When my mom had a stroke, she couldn't talk, but she had the irritated eyeroll down pat.

[@craigjohn3524]

I lost my father to a stroke way back in 2008 and what Billy says,regarding stroke victims is very accurate indeed,the best comedian i have seen by a long way,will be a sad day on this earth when billy goes,i hope not for a very long time,your a legend billy😀👍.seen him live twice in hobart Tasmania, my lungs got a good workout on both occasions. Lol

[@mickdunne981]

Aww bless sorry for your loss may your Dad RIP 🙏

[@jonnysupreme5796]

Love ya Bigyin!!

[@colebailey5112]

My great grandmother had a stroke in the mid 80s. Apparently her word was "shit." 🤣

[@kaylaireland3494]

My dads was ‘bollocks’ his most favourite word and all he could say for a while ♥️♥️♥️

[@crux570]

I've had a stroke and I find this fucking hilarious!

[@DarthwRath]

You never know what the hell he's gonna say. Even to his own father who's in a stroke... There's only one Billy Fuckin Connolly. To your health Billy. Love you

[@elc1960]

I first heard of Billy 30 years ago when he appeared on HBO in a special hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. He did his story about the man who farted on a Cathay Pacific airliner and I was rendered helpless with laughter. Since that night he has been one of my all-time favorite entertainers.

[@irbennett]

That was more than 30 years ago.

[@RichO1701e]

OH AYE!! THE STROKE THING! 😂😂😂

[@annabeckwith]

🤣🤣🤣🤣OMG!!!🤣🤣🤣 This happened to me. I went to see a relative who had a stroke and I just didn't know what to do! He was staring at me wanting to say something and all I understood was Pffrgrrtgggtrrfffprgtf!!! so I just stood there mortified, and then I said " You look alright!" and my relative started to make funny noises! I panicked and called the nurse,and she said " What did you do to him!? . I was so much in shock I left the room. Then at home my mom asked me "Did you go to see your uncle?" and I said " Yep! He's fine!! and went to my room traumatized! Needless to say I didn't go to see him again! One last thing, thank you for these videos! You're so funny I just can't stop laughing! THANKS!!!

[@davethomas4945]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 You poor woman

[@camillecali22]

I cant believe Billy has been to my Fashion Square in los angeles.

[@MyMags8]

Lol it a huge monstrous place full of knock off designer brands & venders eager to rip you off. The few thins I did buy there either fell apart or only worked for a day or so……

[@irbennett]

Did you buy Fashion Square?

[@tallanvor7755]

He could read a baked beans label and make it sound funny. Guys amazing.

[@batsnackattack]

and that.. that is exactly what is happening. It's a magic trick.

[@gamer-sf6qp]

Agree 👍 he is bloody amazing

[@BillyWillyButcherBollocks]

Baked beans label = B times table🤣

[@Darts4544r4]

Tourette’s billy is my favourite character of all time 🤣🤣

[@mookyyzed2216]

🤣🤣🤣 Just the way he paints a picture... Pure genius🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@irbennett]

Not genius again. Billy is a very very funny man, not a genius.

[@dkupke]

My grandfather had a minor stroke when I was very little. First time is ever been in a hospital, I was expecting him to be covered in wires and tubes. But there was just one tube coming out from under the blankets, into this bag attached to the bed frame. Thinking it was like an IV I told him “I think you need a refill.” Never forget his face as he said “No…I fill it.”

[@4exgold]

George go over that lullaby again. -GA FAH FUCK! 😂😂

[@wightangel]

Thank you 🙏.

[@janethollman7894]

So true people who have never ever sworn. Then after a stroke they do and they have no control. It’s such a shame as family get so upset. Plus we had a lady who really smelt so so bad due to her condition.

[@jambarreturns9060]

Love the Big Yin.

[@keiranhyre750]

Billy is so funny 🤣

[@klimtkahlo]

Here for the accent!!! ❤️🥰

[@mohanicus]

5:17...."FAAAAACK OFF"🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robertcook5049]

You know for a fact he doesn't write a single joke when he goes on a rant mid joke and has to remind himself to get back on track 😂😂😂😂😂

[@irbennett]

He doesn't write any jokes. He tells stories. Quite often he used to ask audience members, particularly in the front row, to remind him where he was before he moved on to something else.

[@allansouthern7332]

BRILLIANT

[@christopherbuss3992]

Similar story my father was coming round after a stay in the ICU first thing he apparently remembers was when i walked in and said " Dad you look like shit" he quietly and in discomfort replied "thats because i feel like shit" like father like son i suppose but i had that moment of "whoops what did i just say". We laugh about it now but feels terrible when you let one of those slip.

[@steveburns5183]

I had a stroke 7 years ago luckily my speech wasn’t affected

[@pauljordan4452]

I had one as a baby, was shunted and my brain wired differently.

[@chrisd3211]

Where is all of Billy’s world tour footage 🤯 can’t find it anywhere

[@nedkelly5866]

Love the world tour stuff... I've still got the Scotland; England, Ireland, and Wales; Australia; and New Zealand ones on VHS.

[@irbennett]

They're on Amazon in the UK.

[@1stinenergylimitedmdevelop533]

Omg this is brilliant

[@cosmiccrusader78]

I had 71 strokes yesterday, playing golf!

[@irbennett]

You see there's humour and the shit you just posted. That's why Billy's funny and you most definitely aren't.

[@irbennett]

Still not funny.

[@SSurname-mi1wu]

If you had a stroke you'd be laughing out the other side of your face

[@JulieMonsees]

Love you Billy you are so funny I too go off on a tangent half way throw chat lol my mum had a stroke she completely lost all filters also was very loud only someone who has loked after a person after a stroke can understand how you need to make light of thing on R else you would be a complete mess

[@RayceJacobson]

I remember this bit, but what happened to Bobby aka John?

[@irbennett]

He's in the High Horse tour.

[@kanekowalski4715]

What always cracked me up about this bit was that he had at no point during the show mentioned his father being a stroke victim until the start of this clip. Billy's fevered mind just couldn't accurately recall what he'd been speaking about for the previous hour.

[@irbennett]

So you were at the show.

[@caseychaos5216]

Fking great bloke 👍

[@Hailstonepie]

My father too.

[@CrInqs52000]

I’m cracking myself up because midway through the alarm I set for my end of lunch went off and I wanted to finish watching and my verbal response was “Fuck!!!” because I couldn’t. I’ll have to finish it later during my next break.

[@jamesfleming6469]

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@IvarWinter]

Am now into Year 8 since my stroke. Messes with their heads that I have regained about 65%. Went directly to coma at the coffee table, the 72 hour death watch to "May never wake up and what comes out, won't be him." When I would "wake" in the coma, ripped out IV lines, destroyed the room. Every word was FUCK

[@christopherwrogers2049]

Anybody know why his shirts usually have that flap in the back by any chance?

[@garywagner2466]

A joke about black tie and tails.

[@bradshawbradshaw8891]

I love this bloke despite the fact he owes me a beer or three. 🙃🤣

[@RONNIEBMW1]

Fuckin genius 😎💪💙

[@mickdunne981]

Lol 👍 😆 🤣 😂 😹 brilliant

[@OldGriz708]

I'm not a big fan of latest fashions so could someone explain Billy's shirt/ass cape thing?

[@westaussie965]

He just looks for the weirdest clothes I guess

[@garywagner2466]

A joke about black tie and tails.

[@irbennett]

It's a shirt and cape thing.

[@nez9751]

Love b Connolly, always have. My dad had a stroke, and died a few yrs later., so this was a bit tough to hear. But I think my dad would have found this funny as he was a billy fan too. Billy’s a mess too now but he doesn’t give a fk, same as my dad.

[@woollett182]

For a moment I thought at the beginning this would be a sad story lol 😂

[@irbennett]

When you consider that Billy's father had 8 strokes, the last of which was fatal, in a way it is a sad story.

[@MrRoberts8855]

The man is a comedy genius

[@joannathompson625]

Good grief this happen to my father in law. Exactly the same. We took our parrot (African grey) . To show Him Jasper the parrot. We didn't have Him insured so we took Jasper every where. So We said to my Father in law. ... Don't stick your finger in the cage....... Yes you are right. my Father in law pushed his fingers in the cage. There was blood and flesh all over. Because of His stroke He could not move quickly so Jasper had a good old bite. Only the word was the one my father in law used. For years after We would hear Jasper screaming F u c k My Father in law passed away So. It was a bit spooky. The bird shouted it at People that word in My father in law's voice.

[@charmoka]

@@111lochinvar Me too! Billy would approve...

[@khogwood81]

Billy your still the best of the best we all love you to bits man. How you can start telling a story and go back to it after telling us 3 story's you are truly amazing 👏 🤣🤣

[@irbennett]

You're lying aren't you.

[@garystefan8550]

I used to work with a guy who stank the office out with this weird ammonia smell. I never asked what was wrong with him

[@irbennett]

It was probably you.

[@susananderson9619]

My long gone Mother had a massive stroke. It destroyed 3/4 of her brain before it finally stopped. When she finally came home she could only say her name Mrs.Meisel. that's because every one refered to her with that name. It's called aphasia

[@bbb462cid]

I had a stroke in 2017. Weird experience. My recovery is about 96%, 97% maybe, even people who have known me my whole life can't tell. I'm really lucky. Anyway. Billy's joke reminds me. I'm in the hospital, they are testing everything to figure out why me, a pretty healthy guy, not overweight, pretty active, only 45, suddenly popped a clot. Unpleasant tests sometimes. Anyway. The doctor running the worst test, in which a camera inside a tube goes down your throat while you're awake to take video of your heart, is a very attractive young Asian woman. maybe 34, 35. She explains that they can't do it any other way, the breastbone is in the way, the camera has to be inside. So she describes this horrid thing and then says, "do you have any questions?". And I said, "Yeah. What's a nice Irish girl like you doing in a terrible place like this?"

[@HiThere-ig5iz]

5:27 I didn't know Seth Rogen was a Billy Connolly fan

[@Karlburmister]

I said, fourth floor, easy passage upwards.

[@elizabethkuchta5097]

His Father had a Stroke and Billy has Parkinsons . He still smiles 😃

[@irbennett]

@elizabethkuchta5097. His father had 8 strokes.

[@elizabethkuchta5097]

Your reply is Beautiful

[@goaway2803]

My Grandma always had a brilliant sense of humour, so we were all able to deal with her stroke and took to the piss which helped us all deal with the awful impact of the stroke on her. Miss her still but humour has to be part of a shitty situation. You're Dad would have been the same me, Mate

[@westaussie965]

His dad molested him

[@irbennett]

It's truth or lies time again.

[@keiranhyre750]

ha ha ha ha ha 😂

[@jerrievans3997]

Just want all the other bottled water drinking comedians out there to notice.....BEER.

[@irbennett]

So what.

[@DIDYOUSEETHAT172]

😮😒☺😁😂

[@westaussie965]

Why would you visit your father that molested you, let alone talk about him??😡

[@irbennett]

@westaussie965 Because Billy forgave his father for molesting him. Inferring that the Catholic Church should take the lions share of the blame. He still visited his father because he loved him.

[@susanbode239]

😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@janloughran1503]

🤣🤣🤣

[@markbraxton1289]

Ive never had the ability to get a laugh out of this guy ...and as i checked this out i can see why ..he's got about as much witt as a dead tadpole.....boring would rather listen to wet paint dry

[@westaussie965]

I find that, some things are wee and poo jokes, but the funniest thing I have seen is the one about political correctness

[@garywagner2466]

That’s because you are a knob.

[@irbennett]

@markbraxton1289. The impression I get from reading your "post" is that you were kicked in the head by a horse when you were younger, which would explain why the majority of your "post" is gibberish.

[@irbennett]

I don't get it. I can understand you not liking Billy, so why are you even here. Are you one of these internet wankers who likes to go on message boards and leave negative comments? Plus what you posted is gibberish.How do you listen to wet paint dry? Watch it dry, yes. Listen to it dry, nope.

[@irbennett]

Why would you listen to wet paint dry. What sort of noise dose it make when it's drying. Does it sceech, rumble,,howl, hum.

[@danbreen6946]

My Father had a massive stroke and this is a load of shite and Billy is not cooking anymore 😴

[@scrimmy45]

I think what you actually mean is that its just not to your liking....

[@garywagner2466]

Boo Hoo.

[@irbennett]

@danbreen6946. My father had a massive stroke, this is hilarious and Billy is still cooking even though he has Parkinsons.

[@Simo258]

I dont know what it is but hes just not funny. Ive tried to like him but just dont seem to laugh

[@garywagner2466]

Lot’s of twits don’t get humour.

[@irbennett]

And yet your here. Why?

[@mickdunne981]

I don't mean to laugh I am sorry if I am offending people who had strokes but Billy is so funny

[@irbennett]

@mickdunne981. I do mean to laugh, I don't care if I'm offending people, but yes Billy is so funny.

[@1stinenergylimitedmdevelop533]

Work shy lout lol