CALM DOWN BILLY!!! Americans React To "Billy Connolly - Wildebeest - Two Night Stand '97"

[@ALANL4460]

Billy is in every way a Scottish national treasure

[@zinkzoyd]

As well as being the funniest person that's ever lived in my opinion he's also a very clever man

[@shuggiemcg1]

I agree his observational comedian skills are simply superb!

[@andrewdrummond1244]

Billy would never think of himself as an intelligent person, but l agree he is very smart, as are the majority of comics.

[@bri_____]

Billy will never know i exist, However, his sketches have been a feature of my life for decades. He's almost like a family member ❤

[@stevesoutar3405]

My dad was so chuffed when he saw a comedian speaking Glaswegian on the BBC for the first time - Billy became compulsory viewing in our house from that day onward - I don't think my mum ever understood half of the words spoken by the Big Yin, but me and my dad would be roaring with laughter, and explaining the joke to my mum & my sister - like translators working at the UN He did a few sketches with Kenny Everett in the 1970's, before he started become a mainstream act on British TV - if you can find Billy & Kenny together, they are great pieces of comedy - and Kenny's Tv shows are well worth diving into as well

[@marywood8794]

English comedian, Russell Howard, feels the same way about Billy. Russell's family love him like a family member, too. Russell talked about it on his TV show during a "covid" version of his TV show, where he got to interview his hero, Billy, too.

[@frozengamer3030]

He’s one of the greatest storytellers.

[@LauraLou82]

One of my faves! "I'm not a wildebeest, I'm one of those stripey things...." 😂

[@garulusglandarius6126]

Billy is simply Fxxking brilliant 👍❤️❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@ThomasKelly669]

He was in a band with The guy that wrote Baker Street, Stuck in the middle with You. Gerry Rafferty who shunned fame, Billy and Gerry played as The Humblebums, “Her Fathers didn’t like me anyway”, is a song that comes to mind

[@clairehayward4521]

This is one of my absolute favourites from Billy Connelly, other than the incontinent pants. I couldn't breathe the first time I watched it. Thanks guys xxxxxx

[@MarkSiosal]

Billy's just 1 of many reasons i'm a really proud Scot. Love him to bits.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

I saw Billy live a few times and I've never laughed more!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@mandapanda2847]

This one of my favourite Billy Connolly bits. Just so hilarious!!

[@christinestromberg4057]

The incontinence pants. That one is hilarious. I definitely shout at the television. Even in thrillers, telling the unsuspecting victim to watch out. LOL

[@SwearyCyclist]

Billy's genius is he doesn't tell jokes he tells stories we all relate too.

[@paulgibson490]

Mike Harding is brilliant unfortunately he appears to be a forgotten man now, the joke about the explosion in the soup factory is classic. 😂

[@CS-yn1qm]

The Scots are the best at telly stories. It's impressive that Billy never had a script when on stage

[@djellyt]

Billy Connolly is one of the best.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Yup - started off playing in a folk-rock duo with Gerry "Baker Street" Rafferty, called The Humblebums. Billy's songs were always lighter and more humorous, and he moved from being a funny songwriter to a comedian who sometimes played music. And what a great comedian!

[@corbuzchristi365]

For as long of a career as he has had and all the shows Billy did over the years, this particular time was when he was at his absolute best in my opinion! ❤👍👌

[@79mib]

YES! One of my favorites! Thanks for getting to it, boys!

[@pj_naylor]

Another comedian who started out storytelling at folk music clubs is Mike Harding - his "14 1/2 pound budgie" story is a classic.

[@pbg0301]

I love him. Still have tears of laughter watching this. I'm glad you are watching him x

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

Love this routine

[@mcinally91]

He was in a band with Gerry Rafferty who wrote stuck in the middle with you. Which he wrote about Billy and another member of the band

[@clarestewart877]

Love the comment that wildebeest don’t know they are wildebeest because there are no mirrors in the Serengeti! 😀😀

[@martindunstan8043]

Great one fellas, definitely one of my favourites of Billy and I still laugh after all these years🤣take care lads ✌️🍻

[@fintan6739]

If you ever get a chance, watch Billy and Albert, it's his original full stand up when he was selling out bigger gig's than rock bands. It's him at the Royal Albert Hall (1987). It's funny as shit. As classic as Robin Williams live at the Met.

[@catrionamackenzie4933]

The first time I saw Bill's Wildebeest sketch I pished myself laughing*. Love Billy. * Metaphorically speaking of course

[@Irene-lf4fr]

I read his book "windswept and intersesting" it was the funniest and saddest book ive ever read. Hes a remarkable man and very relatable being a Glasgow girl myself.

[@indigo8021]

He’s my idol. He’s the greatest proof that you can have the hardest start to life imaginable and still carve out a great life for yourself instead of being yet another bad human being. I love him dearly

[@markpalmer7215]

Look out for Billy Connollys documentaries, world tours of Scotland, Australia, NZ & England plus one in Artic a mix of comedy & factual sight seeing

[@treacadelic]

The absolute Don.

[@mikesmith7102]

Loved the lion mime!

[@Seanadun]

This is a hilarious story from Billy. I've seen him twice he is a magnificent storyteller. The one and only. He was in the band playing Banjo. The band was called Humblebums.

[@ChrisM541]

I remember, years and years and even more years ago listening to a classic record of another Billy masterpiece The Crucifixion. I've never had a fish supper since!

[@LauraLou82]

Thanks guys!

[@EmbraceTheSuck21]

Thanks Laura!!

[@LoneRanger100]

Greatest bit of mime ever.

[@a-5699]

I just found your channel- you two knuckleheads are me. I’ve been into Fred Dibnah, Sean Locke, British humor, and the great Karl Dilkington for years. Plus I just moved to the NOVA area. Thank God you’re on here!!!! Thanks Gents!

[@LadyGigglesnort]

Yes!!! One of his funniest stories!!

[@scottstewarttv]

Regarded by most as the best comedian of all time

[@john9508]

Got to try prank call if you can - when he was touring with the late, great Gerry Rafferty in the Humblebums

[@clarestewart877]

For long sections of this he wasn’t saying a word but the whole audience were falling about laughing at his actions. Genius 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jamescrawford1534]

Billy was in a folk band with Gerry Rafferty. He would tell jokes between songs and they got longer and longer, Rafferty wrote 'Stuck in the middle with you' as a reaponse to his joking about.

[@annephillips8494]

Really?

[@bdpeters]

Don't think so! He and Billy agreed to part but remained friends. Stuck was about feeling distanced from the music biz.

[@Platesmasher]

Holy crap, I just watched the funniest Billy Connolly clip after this. It’s called “Billy Connolly - Salad bar - live in London” 😂

[@LadyGigglesnort]

I was lucky enough to see Mr Connolly before he retired. 3 hours of rib hurting.

[@tommyi6667]

Never forget Mr C played glasgow clubs and came out with the"alternative crucification "brave and I wish the guy the best for the future. 😊

[@Craig_Humphries]

Thanks

[@EmbraceTheSuck21]

Thanks Craig!

[@annephillips8494]

Spot on, it can range from muttering to a meltdown in the Car.Then talking back to the Radio TV, then yourself.I was in a Zoom meeting earlier.During the break I realised I had switched the Vid off but not the mute.🥴

[@andrewmcewan8081]

he was in a band with gerry refferty called the humblebums at the start of both thier carreers

[@denisebell8422]

Good old Bill 😂😂 very funny man 😂😂😂 ❤ 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@neilburgess9652]

I know and love this story, Pre-emptive like :D

[@acesfn7316]

I find myself doing this on quite a few occasions

[@mrsiborg]

Gotta love the Big Yin..

[@fishingstevie8830]

As a Scot seen Billy once in Glasgow at a Celtic v Manchester Utd Testimonial match with Celtic players Jimmy Johnstone and Bobby Lennox in aid of them two great Celtic players way back in 70s ..Billy came out from tunnel at half time wearing a scarf of Celtics rivals Rangers and wearing them famous banana boots ..Until he fell to ground in fun and carried back up into tunnel all for crowds amusement and them Celtic fans all giving him stick for the wearing Rangers scarf lol Ye Billy was a very good musician and player of banjo and a very good Narrator of his programmes inc his American travel series and Route 66 in Usa was seen here in UK .Also was into a bit of fly fishing was Billy and just seemm a down to earth guy who done rather well for himself as a Comedian in which he done his apprecntice in the Shipyards in Glasgow . Always liked Billy . Never seen the quip before seems from that show in Usa one day i shall .

[@fionareid7727]

Don't drink the water in Spain is my favourite clip

[@instigatorartworks]

I was catching up on your video's and noticed 2 things. First of all, congratulations' on " We Got Our Own Signature Guitar & Bass". My favorite guitarist just got her own as well. I think it's a Fender, Tash Sultana is her name you should watch Tash Sultana - Blackbird | São Paulo Air Rooftop - 22/03/2018 Performance as guitarist's I'd be curious of your take on her playing. Secondly, you missed Ren Hunger Love watching the 2 of you. Congrats again on the Guitar & Bass.

[@oldskeptic1513]

... the boy has turned the cap the right way around ... progress of a sort ...

[@davidsmith663]

You chaps should also check out Jethro, the Cornish comedian.

[@marywood8794]

Billy is a pretty good dramatic actor, too. He was in one of the X-Files movies. More recently I saw him in a British drama where David Tennant played one of his sons. I'm sure someone in the comments will know the name of the movie. I just can't remember it right now. He was also in the U.S. sitcom Head of the Class years ago, but that's not really a stretch for him, unless you count him not being allowed to be as funny as he is with his stand up.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

The only film I can think of that has David Tennant playing Billy Connolly's son, is What We Did On Our Holiday. Which is a great film but it's a comedy (with a touch of dark humour) not a drama.

[@davidclarke2513]

Billy Connelly stared as an actor in the last of the samuri

[@kevinty7]

Nice one boys🤣🤣🙌🏽👍🏽👍🏽🫶🏽

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

Always wished Betty had been called Senga, just a extra joke for Scottish people.

[@S2Mac1980]

Billy Connolly Christmas dinner party

[@purpledahlia1969]

I go to pick something up off the floor and think "what else can I do while I'm down here?"

[@victordevonshire807]

I'm not an expert but I believe once lions have had their feed they sleep it off and shut down to other prey? Nice site. 🤠👍

[@stevesoutar3405]

My daughter was taking the piss out of me when she was about 12, asking me why I make "dad noises" every time I get up out of a chair - I don't know when i started doing it either 🙂

[@heathcornbeef]

Yeah i shout and swear at the big TV screen the one just in front of the steering wheel of my car/work van

[@TechyMantis]

He is a comedy legend, but unfortunately he is not well as he has Parkinsons disease and his last tour he was not his energetic self, stayed in one spot through the show but was still fine mentally as he still had some good jokes.

[@joefoster8839]

Oh yes, little noise sitting down or standing up. My feet are getting further away and I’ve noticed that they’re making floors lower these days!.

[@dereksharpe6957]

The jobbie weecha and football violence worth listening to

[@Scott-j5o]

baker Street Gerry Rafferty with the help of the big yin ❤❤

[@Scoobydcs]

billy could make litterally ANYTHING funny!

[@wendypop1113]

my bf met billy at a music fair and he went to my bf tent with his friends for a drink

[@oakguard]

my grand father didn't really talk to the tv instead he would say funny things for example watching an old cowboy and indian film get to a battle scene and he says "aw what a bloody mess am gonna have clean the back of there later bodies and everything"

[@markrichardson3421]

Its an age band... thirty-something, middle-aged, then shouts-at-wilderbeast

[@gsxr-bt2qg]

I thought Billy Connolly was dead,don't ya wish he'd get on with it.

[@sabrinaroberts2846]

PLEASE check out Billy Connolly songs Evil Scotsman and the masturbation song you will laugh your asses off! As a fellow Scot I love to see the Big Yin has you laughing just as hard as he makes us laugh xx 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@garvabboz]

Billy Connolly incontinence pants

[@muninraven3327]

1:11 The body does know what it's doing. The older you get, the more you can easily sniff out pure BS from people who open their mouths and speak. The longer hairs grow so as to take the edge off slightly. Just enough to call it out with a rational mind and not be overpowered.

[@dallassukerkin6878]

Ahhh :nods in understanding: :D So ... :quizzical expression: ... what about the ear hair thing? And why on earth do we get the Crazy Wizard owl-eyebrows?

[@grahamsangster1042]

I'm one of them stripey things haha

[@moni3634]

Didnt you watch that Part from Billy already some months ago??

[@EmbraceTheSuck21]

It got blocked, we reuploaded it with edits, hence the part of the title I'm sure you read that should've saved you making this comment...

[@moni3634]

@@EmbraceTheSuck21 sorry,was very busy lately😂its still funny!

[@roymagnus827]

react to dwarf on a bus. you will hurt laughing.

[@garethjones6051]

Billy Connolly his fart story

[@mka70]

You have to watch "Jobby wheeecher". Stop reading watch Jobby Wheecher....

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

I used to find Billy Connolly hilarious. Until he made a joke about a guy from my hometown who, at the time, was a prisoner of an Islamic extremist group and about to be executed (which he was. He had his head removed and the whole thing was filmed). Connolly joked about footage of the man pleading for his life and said to his audience, "Aren't you the same as me? Don't you wish they would just get on with it?! lol" and after sniggering, one of the crowd shouted "You're talking about a man's life, Billy!", to which he responded by saying, "F*** off!" and he was promptly booed and later condemned in the press because of it. Pretty much killed his career off until he got sick and everyone started feeling sorry for him. I'm not a bitter man but he lost all my respect that day and as such I have zero sympathy for his illness, as he is yet to show remorse for what he said

[@dallassukerkin6878]

That's what comedians do, surely? They test the boundaries of good taste talk about the dreadful things that occur to us in the silence of our heads as barely civilised simians. If a comedian offends you that is, at source, something within yourself that causes the reaction. To explain. For example, I cannot abide the likes of Chubby Brown; despicable, low 'humour' that I find offensive - I think that's because of the strict Christian upbringing I had, with a side order of very old-fashioned good manners and politeness. But, regardless, the reaction is from me not him ... and other folk find him hilarious. I don't go to his shows or buy his material and I am perfectly happy and, I presume, he couldn't care less about my disapproval :)

[@williamc4309]

I've never laughed at a Billy Connally joke or story.

[@indigo8021]

One of his finest 😂

[@crimsonwizard2560]

He is our country's crown jewels. Man I love Billy. Brilliant.

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

Well, he was. Before he mocked a man about to be beheaded and said he wished the terrorists would just 'get on with it'. His career was never the same again and rightly so

[@steviekenny581]

GLASGOWS OWN🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚

[@duncanwyer2460]

🇬🇧 Norfolk my fave of his 😂