There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
BILLY CONNOLLYWithout arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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”
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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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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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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The more you know the less the better.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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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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