Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
BILLY CONNOLLYThe great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t aim to offend.
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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Don’t work out, work in.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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