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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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Yeahnahyeah · 28/12/2018 23:27

....and this is why we can't have nice things Grin

Yeahnahyeah · 28/12/2018 23:29

Husband: "I never should have bought you that blender for Xmas"
Wife: "Why?" *Quietly sipping her toast.

Purplecatshopaholic · 28/12/2018 23:32

I dont find him very funny these days myself but that particular 'joke' was of its time and humour has moved on I guess.

fikel · 28/12/2018 23:35

I went off him when a man was being held hostage in the Middle East, the poor mans name escapes me and he said in a live gig, something like “ I wish they would just get on with it “. This poor man was later beheaded, I think the gig was in Liverpool

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Wauden · 28/12/2018 23:55

Fikel, and after that 'joke', Connolly said it was taken out of context. Nah, the context was clear!

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Unacceptable · 29/12/2018 00:06

It's interesting that you'd post in feminism chat in order to provoke discussion about some supposed disgusting comment regarding women and then defend your point with
Quite honesty back in the 1960s when women didn't have a sense of humour no comedian would have reversed the roles anyway

Womantheonlykind · 29/12/2018 00:06

Billy's a weedgie not a nun.

If a prolific comedian only offended you once forty years ago then he is doing all right!

Mon the weedge.

AspieAndProud · 29/12/2018 00:09

When I saw the thread heading I thought he’d just said something offensive, not a joke he made before most of us were born.

Jesus wept, most of his contemporaries were raping children back then.

Pick your fights.

flossietoot · 29/12/2018 00:11

He just has a very dark weegie sense of humour. Had horrendous childhood. I like him.

MargueritaPink · 29/12/2018 00:13

Quite honesty back in the 1960s when women didn't have a sense of humour no comedian would have reversed the roles anyway

I assume the OP was being ironic.

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:13

Quite honesty back in the 1960s when women didn't have a sense of humour no comedian would have reversed the roles anyway -
This from me was sarcasm on my part. There were very few women comedians on tv in the 1970s and yes, men used to say quite often that women didn't have a sense of humour. So, the jokes would be at the expense of women.

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MargueritaPink · 29/12/2018 00:18

Quite honesty back in the 1960s when women didn't have a sense of humour no comedian would have reversed the roles anyway-
This from me was sarcasm on my part. There were very few women comedians on tv in the 1970s and yes, men used to say quite often that women didn't have a sense of humour. So, the jokes would be at the expense of women

It was obvious what you meant.

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:22

Ok so he had a tough upbringing but I that wouldn't excuse it, to me.

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Defender90 · 29/12/2018 00:24

Good lord it's a 40 year old joke.

My husband said something earlier and I said shit who put 50p in the prick and we laughed.

Hope he doesn't bring it up in 40 years.

flossietoot · 29/12/2018 00:25

His mother abandoned him when he was four and he was sent to live with his aunt who abused him. I don’t think the females in his life were exactly positive role models and good to him. Probably lots of attachment issues going on. His first wife at around this time also had a drink problem which later killed her.

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:25

Well at least I got three biscuits on this thread which is handy!

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NoelGallaghersEyebrows · 29/12/2018 00:26

Oh fuck off, you professionally offended. Stalking decades old footage to find something that you can complain about.
Pick your battles, indeed.

MargueritaPink · 29/12/2018 00:26

I think he is and was horrible and unfunny. Saying something in a Glaswegian accent is not, of itself, funny. I thought Connolly relied on that to the exclusion of actually saying anything funny.

But he hasn't been in the public eye for a long time now - does anyone care?

flossietoot · 29/12/2018 00:26

No body has any bins out

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:29

Defender90Xmas Smile, I get it, but my post is about taking the mickey out of wife murdering...

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:32

I forgot that wife murdering was funny...

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twattymctwatterson · 29/12/2018 00:33

Good lord. Echo what the others have said. It's a 40 year old joke- of it's day and Billy was at one point (I believe) the funniest man alive. Maybe because I'm a weege myself and a lot of it rings true to me. In saying that I like a lot of comedy that's considerably more off colour, including Frankie Boyle who is hated on here.

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Wauden · 29/12/2018 00:33

Hell of a life story, though

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ScouseQueen · 29/12/2018 00:41

He's been overrated for a long time and it was the Ken Bigley 'joke' that put the seal on that - not funny and he couldn't hold his own when the audience at that gig got angry. Odd that if you're the 'funniest man alive'. Plus Pamela Stephenson's sex therapist career has resulted in some truly banal and terrible advice in her Guardian column, to the point that you wonder if she really got that column purely on her outstanding therapist ability.

I don't have a problem with dark or non PC comedy. Have found Frankie Boyle,
Jimmy Carr, and other 70s comedians funny. But I truly don't get the Billy Connolly adulation

GrandmaSteglitszch · 29/12/2018 00:41

he at least doesn't lecture those of us who live in North Britain about why we should embrace separatism.
No, he told us we'd be Better Together but has recently changed his mind because of Brexit.