I’ve never done a comedy club in my life. It’s weird because I don’t have the same background as most comics. I don’t have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
BILLY CONNOLLYPeople 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.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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The more you know the less the better.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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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 spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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 hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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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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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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