billy connolly

[niallc]

what did Billy Connolly say about hostages

[WaldoMcFroog]

cruthinboy, if you can't (or choose not to - delete as applicable) understand the points raised in Stewart Lee's article, it's redundant me to say any more, since I felt it made the points eloquently. Your dislike of Stewart Lee is irrelevant.

[cruthinboy]

Didn't say it was relevant or otherwise Waldo - just thought I'd add it - okay with you???- If you can't (or choose not to ) see the point I made about comics like Connolly knowing exactly what it's safe to make gags about and what it isn't, then I'm wasting my time too. I mustn't "back Billy" if I don't want to - I feel the points lee made were typical left-of-centre middle-class white-boy b****** frankly, and it is indeed redundant for you attempt to patronise me into thinking otherwise.

[regboy]

If BC said that live on stage I'm sure he regrets the emotion its stirred up. His style of comedy meas that he does come very close to the bone with alot of his comments, I very much doubt he really meant any harm towards ken Bigley, he is blatantly not a vicious man. As regarding his comedy and him personaly he is one of the best comedians in the world, he is one of the only comedians who uses a style of conversational humour with intellignece, not many else could do that. Yes he swears and yes he gets close to the bone, but does so with more thought than most people muster up in a year. This country will no doubt jump down his throat for what he's said, but when you've got a country like Britain who thrive on such hype then you cant expect anything else (Sun, Mirror, mail readers...I'm refering to you) Two weeks back the Mail wrote an article naming every ethnic group living in one street in London...why? because it loves to inflame people and get them angry, although of course it attempted to white wash the article with a 'melting pot' style slant...to me however it sounded like pointless racist bilge. They'll no doubt lap this story up!

[Octafish]

We scousers are renowned worldwide for our irreverant, biting and sometimes cruel humour, but we don't like it when people laugh at our expense. As a youth I would regularly go to watch the football at Anfield. Whenever we played Manchester United, I, along with 40,000 others would gleefully chant, "Who's that lying on the runway? Who's that dying in the snow? It's Matt Busby and his boys Making all the ****** noise, Coz they couldn't get the aeroplane to go." I was too young to know anything about the Munich air disaster, apart from the "Munich 58" grafitti daubed all around the city. This chant continued, until Liverpool themselves were involved in the Heysel disaster, and then the Hillsborough debacle. There were jokes concerning the events at Hillsborough, but woe betide anyone who dare repeat them. Billy made a joke in bad taste. We scousers do it all the time.

[Abanazer]

I was there in the audience. Connolly said: "Why don't they just get on with it? Weren't you all just a little bit disappointed when you found Bigley was still alive today? Go on admit it?" (Then he made a curved, knife cutting gesture with his hand) Some people laughed. .. a few booed. He said: "Go on... Boo if you want to. **** ***!!"

[OzBoy]

Stewart Lee's sympathy's are in the wrong direction.  Billy is funny sure, but he is also so arrogant he thinks he can do no wrong, or just doesn't care.  His tirade of f*ck offs to anyone who questioned him about Bigley shows that.  It took a man to lose his head to get a smidge of remorse from the big yin.  Time he learnt a little humility instead of acting like a curmudgeonly up-himself prat.

OzBoy