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Fucking Bully Billy Connolly and his sick 'joke' about wife murder

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Wauden · 28/12/2018 22:58

Just saw a tv programme and have had my eyes opened to Bully.

He was on Parkinson back in the 1970s and told a 'joke' about a man who killed his wife and buried her body under a pile of earth but left her bottom sticking out. Wife murderer was asked why he left her bottom at the top and he replied, it was to park his bicycle.
Cos it's really funny, right.
Michael Parkinson laughed his head off. But then he has form for misogyny.

Don't give me any 'but he's a national treasure' bollocks.

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BIWI · 28/12/2018 23:00

Oh dear ...

CherieBabySpliffUp · 28/12/2018 23:02

Would you have found it funny if the roles had been reversed? Or if victim had been a male lodger? I think you're overreacting [santa]

whiteworld · 28/12/2018 23:03

This was in the 70s. You might want to look at what he’s done in the 40+ years since...

GertrudeCB · 28/12/2018 23:03
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deydododatdodontdeydo · 28/12/2018 23:03

Not funny, was told in the 70s when sexist comedy was more common, and nobody actually died.

RomanyRoots · 28/12/2018 23:06

Are you for real, this is an old music hall gag, times were the same in the 70's.
It's told about men too.

AnyOldPrion · 28/12/2018 23:06

He’s been married to Pamela Stephenson since 1989. She seems like she’d be able to hold her own. I can’t imagine she’d still be with him if he was that awful.

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Wauden · 28/12/2018 23:06

I wouldn't have found it funny if the roles were reversed. Quite honesty back in the 1960s when women didn't have a sense of humour no comedian would have reversed the roles anyway.

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BlackForestCake · 28/12/2018 23:07

The joke is funny precisely because of the contrast between the horrific murder and the banality of the killer needing somewhere to park his bike.

It's terrible when you have to explain them.

Italiangreyhound · 28/12/2018 23:08

CherieBabySpliffUp jokes are not generally told at the expense of the man, if they feature a man and a woman.

I've never found Billy Connoly funny anyway.

Insomnibrat · 28/12/2018 23:08

One of the men said this about another man whose trousers had rode down in the warehouse I work in this week.

The eye rollingly droll 70's adage 'could park a bike in there' is still being trotted out, and not always in an aggressively chauvinistic way.

Italiangreyhound · 28/12/2018 23:10

Well there goes my theoey! Insomnibrat

Aquilla · 28/12/2018 23:13

Still raises a titter, OP. Are you one of those people who believe in censoring comedy?

abbsisspartacus · 28/12/2018 23:13

My lasting memory of him is he streaked for comic relief and skipped around some fountains all I remember is the bouncing hair and the bouncing ummm well you get the gist

RrreCansada · 28/12/2018 23:14

He used to live next door to me. He is really really tall. He wore the same long wax jacket for years. He didn't seem too misogynistic. He was really friendly.

plum100 · 28/12/2018 23:14

We say “ you could park your bike in that “ no matter whether we see a female or male bum crack! An oldie but a goodie And absolutely fuck all to do with gender

PinotPony · 28/12/2018 23:15
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BumbleBeee69 · 28/12/2018 23:17
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Notevenmyrealname · 28/12/2018 23:18

I’ve heard the joke told about a man too. The point is it’s a pretty gruesome scenario flipped with a ridiculous image. It’s a joke. You either find it funny or you don’t but I can’t get offended by stuff like this when there are actual real life people getting three years in jail for murdering their partners in a “sex game gone wrong”.

raspberrycordial · 28/12/2018 23:18

Well if you're looking to take offence to something you're bound to find it if you look hard enough Hmm

MargueritaPink · 28/12/2018 23:18

Don't give me any 'but he's a national treasure' bollocks

I never found him funny. Ever. That "joke" was crude and unfunny then and still is. It wasn't so much the misogyny I objected to but the sniggering teenage boy vulgarity.

I loathed his professional "greatest living Scotsman" act and thought he was vain, shallow and self-satisfied.

His only redeeming feature is that unlike the other professional "greatest living Scotsmen" who don't actually live in Scotland (Connery, Alan Cumming and Irvine Welsh) he at least doesn't lecture those of us who live in North Britain about why we should embrace separatism.

Singlenotsingle · 28/12/2018 23:19

Never found him funny? Shock Not the sketch about the incontinence knickers? He makes me laugh so much my ribs hurt. So much I can forgive the odd tasteless joke. Currently watching "Quartet", but it's quite rude! You wouldn't like it Italian.

pallisers · 28/12/2018 23:20

The joke is funny precisely because of the contrast between the horrific murder and the banality of the killer needing somewhere to park his bike.

no that isn't the point of the joke. Bizarre interpretation.

MargueritaPink · 28/12/2018 23:21

plum100

We say “ you could park your bike in that “ no matter whether we see a female or male bum crack! An oldie but a goodie And absolutely fuck all to do with gender

You might say that but speak for yourself. I think it is stupid, puerile and not in the least bit funny.

MargueritaPink · 28/12/2018 23:22

Never found him funny?

No. I detested him. I can't stand his smug, smirking, everybody loves me face.