I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
BILLY CONNOLLYIf Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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