So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLYPaddy 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”
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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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 decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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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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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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