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 CONNOLLYIf Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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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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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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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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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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