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 CONNOLLYI’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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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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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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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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The more you know the less the better.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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I was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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