Billy Connolly - Dwarf on a Bus REACTION

[@BlueBarchetta67]

The thing with Billy, throughout his most of career, is that he never has a set of stories to tell. In his early days he certain routines he would do, but as he grew in stature he just went on stage with nothing planned and just talked to the audience for hours. He is a naturally funny man who loves life, and was born to make people laugh.

[@irbennett]

Billy has a backlog of stories he can use. It will be up to him to decide which one to use. Invariably he will change the story, as he assumes he's told the story before. All this is done onstage.

[@johnwhear9600]

Gotta love the Big Yin, one of the all time great story tellers. The other one is old lady on a bus.

[@ladykaycey]

That's another and I think even better story 😊

[@Blue.723]

Legend has it she's still running.

[@ritahamblin1043]

Yes old lady on a bus is a must watch. It is hilarious. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Abernis]

Aaand "Afghan Melon" 😊

[@ChristopherMckissack-e2y]

God father of comedy 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@primalengland]

This is when Billy started his continuous walking to hide the Parkinson’s symptoms. Bless him. I love Billy.

[@firbane9703]

Wasn't this routine in 2010 and he was diagnosed in 2013?

[@TheJpf79]

He was always walking around the stage unless he was playing the guitar and singing, what on earth are you on about?

[@irbennett]

@@firbane9703 You are quite correct. The routine was filmed at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 2010, whilst his diagnosis was in 2013. I know when and where the routine was filmed because I was there.

[@ukdnbmarsh]

Billy - The Big Yin, for me the best comedian to have ever lived, how i have howled in laughter at his comedy, what a time to be alive

[@Seanadun]

I have seen Billy twice at gigs and i swear from the very start us the audience were crying with Laughter. Brilliant Billy at his very best

[@irbennett]

I've seen Billy quite a few times live, I've never seen the audience crying with laughter from the very start. Quite often Billy is slow starting which is not surprising considering he works without a script. But then, BAM.

[@victordevonshire807]

It's even better because he laughed. Real. Beautiful. ❤

[@jamesalexander5623]

I could listen to Billy talk all Night!

[@dodosmamma1692]

This is one of my favourites , Billy Connolly is a legend. I grew up listening to him and he still makes me laugh. If you haven’t seen his take on incontinence pants, take a look. It’s a killer. 💕

[@richardedgar9670]

His ‘Wildebeest’ video is exceptional, one of the few standup routines that makes me laugh every time I watch it.

[@Audard]

Brings me to tears everytime.

[@stumpy2000]

Agnes!

[@irbennett]

Wildebeest is my favourite Billy routine, it's also Billy's apparently.

[@TheMeerkat2323]

I'm so glad that you guys really loved this story, I hope and pray that it's true as well. This is my absolute favourite story of Billy's amongst the thousands he's ever told, I didn't see the Snow White reference coming at all but it makes the story so great that it does

[@irbennett]

The story is true. It was told to him by his sister Florence, who gave Billy some of his best material, and was told to her by a friend who was a Supply teacher and she was on her way to her job. Flo would tell him the story and he would tell it his way. But he would never make Flo out to be a liar, so the story is true.

[@ImRonDurden]

Billy Connolly was in a very underrated zombie movie called "Fido". Well worth checking out for those interested.

[@ladykaycey]

Every town has one is another fantastic story. It's about the Glasgow shipyards and I used to work in a dockyard in another part of Scotland in the offices and we watched the shenanigans he describes every afternoon 😊

[@irbennett]

Every Town Has One isn't about the Glasgow shipyards, it's about the different ways people walk. It is very funny but HAS to be seen live.

[@ladykaycey]

@@irbennett it's based on his days in a Glasgow shipyard when he was an apprentice. And it's very funny

[@irbennett]

@@ladykaycey Every Town Has One is as I said it was. I believe it's on KZbin if you want to check. Billy did another routine based on the time he was an apprentice, when he discovered the lame workers employed by the shipyard were allowed to go home an hour before everybody else so they weren't caught up in a crowd of people rushing to get home. Part of the routine involved Billy Imitating these lame workers walking.

[@stevew3196]

A very talented story teller. He started out as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards and played in a folk band and morphed into comedy. He's an accomplished Actor on of his best roles was in the film Mrs Brown which tells the story of a close relationship between Queen Victoria and one of the game keepers (John Brown) on her scottish estate after her husband died. Ssdly he's now suffering with Alzheimers living in Florida with his wife Panela Stevenson and is expressing himself through artwork.

[@everilmatthews3483]

Parkinsons........

[@jaylupin8680]

Billy is my absolute favourite comedian. I simply love everything he does. He did a brilliant show touring Australia back in the late 90’s/early naughties. If you like him, give it a go. Sadly, his health is declining with Parkinson’s and prostate cancer. I don’t think we have much more time with him. 😔

[@irbennett]

Thankfully the prostate cancer has gone, he's in remission.

[@simonday9013]

True story (sadly). I worked at a tourist attraction called York Dungeon. It's a historical horror museum with a number of small performances in it. One called the judgment if sinners where I played a judge. I called a member of the public into the dock to start the show only to find it was Billy Connolly. Turned out he was performing at the opera house next door. I had to continue and accused him of being a cross dressing prostitute who was robbing men. He took it very well.

[@EessaTube]

After I retired from teaching, I did supply work for a year and that was enough. Never again.

[@dalewyatt1321]

Is that an Andre the Giant shirt for a dwarf story? Interesting. Billy's Old Lady on a Bus is also brilliant.

[@thequietman760]

Over the last 30 yrs I've be fortunate enough to see The big Yin every time he's been to Dublin. Best live sets I've been to. Love Billy da bollix

[@secondchance6603]

I miss the late great Dave Allen.

[@irbennett]

@@secondchance6603 So do I.

[@jamesbond3235]

I first heard this as a young child mind you I'm only 27 now. It was absolutely hilarious 😂 never forgot it since. Iconic piece of comedy by the legend that is Billy connelly ❤

[@jyesucevitz]

and speaking of dwarves, not only has Disney nixed them in Snow White now, but the new Time Bandits remake has too! they were the main characters!

[@YOYO-mx6ie]

Sir billy connolly has been doing standup comedy for over 50years around the world, I do millions of Americans had no clue about that, but America is a massive country, so that's expected. He truly is the GOAT of standup comedy,

[@chrisnicholes1176]

Love the England cricket hat 👍🏼

[@martinmillar7137]

Billy is a national treasure and a world heritage site ❤

[@margehutchinson6004]

Have you watched Billy Connelly telling the story of the bomb attack at Glasgow airport. Hysterical

[@andersgulowsen2814]

I saw him in glasgow. on this tour.. how I got tickets was dumb luck as i'm norwegian.. I do have a scottish stepdad, and he could not believe it. We went over together tho. was great fun.

[@philcleghorn701]

You should watch Dave Allen. Irish comedian, look at his Teaching your kids the time, Religion, Adam and Eve. They are so funny and I'm sure you both will laugh.

[@MERISI001]

The Big Yin is a bloody legend.

[@shaun-hoppy]

I once was holding the door open for two young women, when one told me I was a male chauvinist pig, they failed to notice afew people have gone through before them men and women, some people just can't see a good deed as a simple courtesy, and itvsays more about their mindset than yours

[@yips_way]

I once opened a door for a woman (I do it all the time for anyone) and she said "I should think so!", I couldn't believe she'd said that as it was something I do all the time. I let go of it immediately knowing it had a very strong springed hinge due to the windy location (the reason I held it open) and it slammed into her. I hope she got the message from that action & was a little more curteous in future. No pleasing some people!

[@plow76]

We usually say supply teacher in Canada too.

[@EessaTube]

Every so often, just think about the punchline to that dwarf story and I guarantee you'll start laughing again.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

_A little person is one of the more than 200 medical conditions known as dwarfism. Dwarfism is a medical or genetic condition that usually results in an adult height of 4'10” or shorter, although in some cases a person with a form of dwarfism may be slightly taller than that_ _There are two main categories of dwarfism -- disproportionate and proportionate. Disproportionate dwarfism is characterized by an average-size torso and shorter arms and legs or a shortened trunk with longer limbs. In proportionate dwarfism, the body parts are in proportion but shortened_ My aunt is a proportionate dwarf, it is actually a recognised condition. She's actually married to a huge 7ft tall giant of a man, a big, heavy "Andre The Giant" type build. We never saw anything wrong with them giant and dwarf. The stigma comes from you not them. Why is a person's size or the real terminology for it so stigmatised you aren't even say it? You're the one with the problem not them, it's probably why this dwarf on the bus flew into a rage, years of people like you deciding the very word is unacceptable...

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

It’s a bit like the word ‘spastic’. It’s a medically correct term to describe a condition that relates to muscular spasms (which is usually applied to cerebral palsy, although not exclusively so). My grandmother used to help raise money for a U.K. disabled charity called The Spastics Society. But the word got hijacked and turned into something derogatory, even though it really isn’t. The Spastics Society was renamed Scope and you can’t even say “I’ve got a spastic colon”, which is what irritable vowel syndrome used to be called. And when English singer Ian Dury, who was disabled himself, released a song called Spasticus Autisticus for the National year of the disabled, no radio station would play it. I think too many people are worried about causing offence where there isn’t really any to be taken. The word ‘dwarf’, when used in a biological context, means something that is smaller than is usual for its type or species. Why the word ‘little’ is considered less offensive than ‘dwarf’ is a mystery to me because they both mean pretty much the same thing.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@GrilloTheFlightless Words only get highjacked or redefined if you let them do it... It's common practice now to redefine words and censor others, don't let them. The language is being used to control people instead of permitting clear communication. If you fear insulting someone - you don't communicate clearly and you tend to find relations deteriorate, or you fail to get your intent across. Language is there to prevent fighting as a first response. If you can't tell them your pissed-off you end up showing it... An insult is far better than a physical confrontation.

[@gggggggg3542]

Well, being Scottish and the fact I used to make deliveries into Glasgow, more than likely this is a true story......... it's one of the weirdest, funniest and unusual places in the world - - - - strangest sight I ever seen there was a man riding a bicycle while wearing a kilt

[@CEP73]

Wonderful Billy! 😂😂😂

[@jrswinhoe58]

Substitute Teacher over there ,Supply Teacher over here.

[@charlesnelson7598]

You should watch the great late Dave Allen on trying to explain how to read a watch to a child and more of his monologues

[@steakandkidney3142]

"Gone are the days of the casual vomit" - B. Connolly

[@gregphillips24]

He was in a series in the US where he played a teacher.The series was called Billy.

[@JohnHF1957]

Two series in the US where he played a teacher. "Billy" was a spinoff from "Head Of The Class".

[@rb2312]

Ironic that he played a dwarf in one of the Hobbit films😂

[@bobclarke1815]

I`m the worlds only solo comedian. When I tell jokes, I`m the only one who laughs at them.

[@MrVidification]

The UK will say both supply or substitute teacher. In the UK there's a Dwarf Sports Society, as well as 'little people' named support groups, but I think the latter sounds more patronising (not that you'd often need to use either to descibe anyone, one to one)

[@jimmy-stourbridge-fc8980]

The big Yin the greatest comedian the world has ever seen.

[@ange1098]

I loved it when he tells the story about swimming in Australian waters, I’ll stop there so not to ruin it.

[@glastonbury4304]

Love Billy and Brigish comedy as its so cuttingingly funny, especially Scottish humour

[@grahamsangster1042]

The last supper is one of his most risky skits haha i'm a roman catholic and never once found it offensive 😇

[@irbennett]

It wasn't meant to be offensive and it isn't.

[@coot1925]

The reason comedians don't laugh when they tell these stories or jokes is because they've heard them before. 😂✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@handsolo1209]

He was the murderer in an episode of Columbo. Quite surreal!

[@gailgreet-wheeler933]

The all time greatest comedian

[@daveofyorkshire301]

There's a better old woman on the bus story...

[@stevenperry9826]

The old woman and the manhole cover is brilliant

One word Wildebeest

[@MumaBoo]

You should hear him tell the story about his dad's windscreen.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Great story but have a watch of ‘old lady on the bus’,it’s bloody hilarious. Billy is still King of stand up for me.

[@chriscjad]

Colonoscopy is very funny by Billy Connolly

[@jeffstevens4262]

One of Billy's very finest routines of which there are many to love and enjoy.

[@dennisamos1430]

I love comedians and one of my favorite is Rodney Carrington...I saw him live in Dallas...You need to check out his show from The Majestic

[@Ingleborough111]

For your interest, there is an activity called 'Dwarf Tossing'. Google it.

[@teostarmer3478]

Nice hat.

[@christinestromberg4057]

Billy's been in a number of films, he's a good actor, but that's obvious from his stand up routines. :) Re dwarfs, the paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds says her condition is called dwarfism, so therefor she is a dwarf. So there you go. Was Snow White violent? You have to remember that this was Glasgow. It's a way of life there. :) If Snow White was in Glasgow she probably would have been .

[@irbennett]

People seem to forget that Snow White was fictional.

[@christinestromberg4057]

@@irbennett No, it was just an amusing reference. A joke.

[@alisonrodger3360]

Terrorist attack Glasgow airport - No, really 😁 And yeah, the other bus one.

[@soulgalorememories9921]

Something has been bugging me for months……I have to ask you this. In your opening titles, what does the big guy with the beard and cap back to front actually say???? I think my hearing is fine, but I cannot make out what he is saying. Any clues? Or just give it to me straight..hahahaha 😂

[@BunniMonster]

He seems to say "Only YOU can be a/on Patreon".

[@dougmoodie8713]

Funniest ex paratrooper on the planet 😂

[@chrisaskin6144]

I always presumed that "Dwarf" was the PC term to use - but they do not like being referred to as midgets. Your substitute teachers are our supply teachers.

[@irbennett]

Well with the word dwarf, it was one of the many times the PC mob got it wrong. I have a friend, Michael, who is a dwarf though I call him Michael because that's his name. The word dwarf is a medical term for somebody who has dwarfism, it's not an insulting word. What they hate being called is midgets and, ironically, little people because it makes them sound like children.

[@royburston8764]

The wildebeest story imo is his best.

[@KingBuster90]

comedians have probably said the joke a thousand times before it goes on camera billy just walks on stage & talks about what ever comes to mind, no well rehearsed set just random funny memories or thoughts

[@irbennett]

We're now into double figures.

[@stephenchantler7309]

Most of the humour in that joke for billy was the fact some random women was so quick witted to think of that so quickly and of the cuff

[@irbennett]

What Billy liked was that there were funny periods throughout the story.

[@tackleberry357]

I honestly got called a male chauvinist pig on a bus in Falkirk once because I offered my seat to a pregnant woman, not a funny story but true.

[@Stuart_Cox1969]

If you have any idea about Glasgow, then this is probably true, my Mum knew Billy a long time ago.

[@irbennett]

No she didn't.

[@natmanprime4295]

Nice 👍

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

I was watching this one evening, not realising my ten year old was listening at the door. He thought this was hilarious! Shame he decided to repeat the line “one of them’s a f*****g dwarf” ad nauseum. 😂

[@irbennett]

Why do people have to lie on the internet.

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

@@irbennett I don’t know. To which lie are you referring?

[@irbennett]

@@GrilloTheFlightless Your whole post.

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

@@irbennett Firstly, there is absolutely nothing in my post which is a lie. Secondly, I can see nothing about my post which could lead someone to think I’m telling a lie. Thirdly, there is nothing I could possibly gain by making up and posting the above so I have no need to lie about it. That’s all I’m going to say to you on the matter as it speaks for itself. Whether or not you choose to believe me is entirely up to you.

[@handsolo1209]

Nick, wasn't he in House as House's mom's lover?

[@georgethomson7405]

Nick, Jodi + boys, follower from Scotland here🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸. There's a comedy show here called Mrs Brown's Boys, all the cast are either family or friends . The main character is man playing an else elderly woman. Irish show shot, I think in Scotland. Hilarious on many occasions.🤣👍🖥 .

[@irbennett]

Mrs Browns Boys is garbage. I don't know how the BBC, once the home of British comedy, can put out rubbish like that.

[@fredastair3338]

Billy doesnt write his shows he as libs thats why hesca genius

[@stevencrutchley3234]

Try Billy and the old lady on the bus

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

You need to see Billy Connolly colonoscopy Billy Connolly’s wife was a very famous popstar in her own right but gave it up to go back to what she trained as in the medical profession

[@irbennett]

She wasn't a popstar, she was a comedienne and appeared in Not The Nine o'Clock News and Saturday Night Live.

[@secondchance6603]

Please do a reaction to Dave Allen, Teaching your kid time.

[@nelsonduffy9520]

They don’t laugh at their own jokes because they’ve heard it before lol 😂😂😂😂

[@timglennon6814]

Nothing wrong with using the word ‘dwarf’.

[@sociallyferal4237]

Never fear - you should be able to still keep your belief that Snow White isn't violent. The person in the story only 'hoped' Snow White would kick their behind. :D

[@irbennett]

Snow White was fictional.

[@VXGaming]

It is a very Scottish thing to point out the obvious then end it with a insult type joke. The chances of this being true is very likely.

[@speedyreedy4878]

You mentioned Billy leaning , that’s a sign of Parkinson’s disease which he has been diagnosed with.

[@irbennett]

They mentioned him leaning forward, which isn't a sign of Parkinsons, and he was diagnosed with that in 2013. This gig was in 2010.

[@mnomadvfx]

If you think this is bad toward Snow White then you shouldn't watch the music video for Rammstein's "Sonne" song, or read the Neil Gaiman short story called "Snow, Glass, Apples" which is actually borderline horror 😅

[@irbennett]

It's not bad towards Snow White. Don't forget, Snow White is fictional. She's hardly going to complain.

[@stuwhyte479]

I can see you 2 struggling with his glesca accent..Glaswegians who are in the public eye be it comedy or what ever. Will generally tone it down..They go "native" so to speak,it's a whole different level..Cheers 🥂 ach aye the noo

[@battleofnerves]

You do realise you’re wearing an England cricket cap?

[@Cobalt-Jester]

You can watch all of his stand up dvds one after the other, back to back, and you will never hear him tell more than a small handful of "proper jokes". He just tells funny stories and because he's so animated and a colourful character he just takes you on journey through that story. This is a 10 minute video with 1 lousey punchline at the end that would never normally get a laugh. It's terrible. But they way he tells it is where the comedy comes from. Most comedians build you up to a big finish and a big laugh. Billy doesn't do that. He keeps you laughing constantly. And probably why he was voted the comedian's best comedian ever. It was a public vote, where you could tick a box or text a number. He was voted the best comedian by his peers and other comedians. So that says something...

[@irbennett]

Comedians best comedian award is voted for by comedians. That's why it's called comedians best comedians award. The story was one of the very few that had a punchline, which I loved.

[@misolgit69]

See Karens come in all shapes and sizes

[@1djsymac]

Nick, you are very cool and jodie, you're soooo hot...lovin' your reactions.... i'm from the UK and lovin' you two

[@irbennett]

Now that is very creepy.

[@AnneSmith-t6e]

Americans will not show sense of humour come on Scotland are not making fun its things that happen god bless you billy

[@irbennett]

That's gibberish.

[@mairiconnell6282]

Just enjoy the Joke!! For goodness sake!!!!

[@irbennett]

It's a story, not a joke.

[@hammadkhan7702]

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[@jrswinhoe58]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKSWkminiZieZ5o Micky Flanagan piece from the Out Out Tour

[@duncanwyer2460]

Waiting for you to do the wildebeest one 😊

[@bobclarke1815]

A really good Billy movie is "The Man who sued God."

[@peterkane1591]

Please don't compare Trevor Noah to billy. Billy is funny...one of the funniest people alive. Noah is as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

[@irbennett]

Trevor Noah is very funny, Billy likes him. Have you seen a fire in an orphanage. Didn't think so.

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[@scottosborne2915]

why the hell can't we say dwarf i find it is more offensive to say little people or little person when saying little person are you saying a baby or what even a dwarf says that they are a dwarf we can't even say the title of a story it has to be snow white and the 7 little people no f that it is snow white and the seven dwarfs it's the same for baa baa BLACK SHEEP now it's ba ba whatever sheep so what about the rolling stones song paint it black you know what i mean right Political correctness gone wrong and now to the video billy always wore that T-shirt it was to bring him luck on stage and it was his image and most of the stories are from life from him or friends and some made up that's what make the big yin great

[@irbennett]

Billy didn't wear the same t-shirt all the time. He wore a different one for each performance

[@craigrorison7872]

Billy is great, commentary is outright awful

[@BoringReviews]

You should be more honest next time. Don’t spare our feelings. We can take it. 😂😂

[@irbennett]

@@BoringReviews Don't worry, this is a message board. You can expect crap like that.

[@renotseng4809]

😄 the difference is Trevor Noah isn't funny

[@irbennett]

Yes he is.

[@paul2598]

The way she put her hand over her mouth at the punchline. 🙊 It’s always great to see prudish woke Americans shocked at themselves for laughing at a politically incorrect joke.😂

[@irbennett]

Are you still using the word woke.

[@alisonrodger3360]

Terrorist attack Glasgow airport - No, really 😁 And yeah, the other bus one.