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

[Wauden]

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.

Not that Boyle or Carr are 70s comedians! Badly put, it's late..

Awww bless you OP.

I can quite like dark humour also but sometimes it is also bullying and demeaning of people in a sadistic way. Then the 'flying monkeys' retort that some people don't have a sense of humour.

That 'joke' sounds vile, ScouseQueen. He'd have no way of excusing it to an angry audience.

OP, what comedians do you find funny?

I never got why he laughs at his own jokes on stage.

Lichtie - Dave Allen, Ruby Wax, Joan Rivers... all class acts!

It’s part of his act, sort of “we’re all in on this joke” type thing.

I loved his “world tour of...” videos when I was younger. I preferred his older stuff before he started sweating constantly.

Why not complain about someone like frankie Boyle who is actually (it was, not heard him getting pulled up for anything recently) actually offensive?

I'll have to YouTube Dave Allen.
Never got Ruby wax, just don't find her funny. Guess we have different senses of humour as I find Billy hilarious.

I was just reading about Frankie Boyle. Some of his stuff is offensive, certainly.

By the way, Superpooper, was that sweating constantly or 'swearing constantly'?

Billy is the funniest man alive. Dave Allen was a class act, but I can't stand Frankie Boyle. I don't watch him, he's too cruel and completely unfunny.

What do you think of Joan Rivers' jokes about 9/11 widows op? I personally thought they were fucking hilarious but given that they're jokes about women benefiting from the murder of their husbands no doubt you didn't?

Swearing oops!

Saw Billy Connolly live in the 1980s and loved it. Things change and no-one would dare say the same things on stage today as so many comedians did then. A bit like saying Henry VIII was an unreasonable husband. He was, but we cannot go back and re-write history.

As for Frankie Boyle, we saw him live a few years ago and he told a disgusting joke which was extremely disrespectful to servicemen killed and injured in Afghanistan. The audience went quiet and I would never pay good money to listen to him again.

I bloody love Dave Allen My favourite comedian. There are loads of his shows on you tube.

And The Essential Dave Allen is a great read. Its his material split into chapters with the foreword to each chapter written by the biographer Graham McCann.

For a moment i was What Lichtie Youve never heard of Dave Allen?

Then i remembered He had a clause in his contract that his shows could only be repeated once which is why a lot of young people have never heard of him.

A Dave Allen special from 1981 Around 40 mins in he talks about the obsession with body hair and how advertisers wanted to convince us to get rid of it.

Dave Allen on sex and gender roles from the 1984 Christmas special.

Of all the crass inappropriate jokes made, you pick on one of Billy’s from the 70’s, when you have the likes of Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson, Richard Prior to name but a few vile specimens operating under the guise of Comedians. I think you are very unreasonable.

Jo Brand doing WIQ (a W.I.--based quiz) on R4 recently went straight into belittling middle-aged men for cheap laughs — Billy's bike-stand joke seemed way less spiteful 40+ years ago. Are men fair game, women not? Is it OK if a black comedian does racist jokes a white comic would avoid, and similarly, Jews, Moslems, Irish etc. referencing their own ethnicity? Sexist and racist humour seems to pass even today as long as the speaker identifies with the 'victim' group ... weird, too, how casual ageism is still mainstream comedy fodder. And while fatist material is off-limits, 'slap-head' jokes abound. Go figure.

He was hilarious back in the day when young and raw and at his best. Love him.

I had this conversation with my husband today - things being "of their time". Assuming that a behaviour wasn't actually illegal, and isn't illegal now, it's a bit off to hang, draw and quarter someone because moral standards have moved on in 40 years.

It's ok to say it's no longer acceptable, but some things were in the past and it's not fair to retrospectively blame people by modern standards. Especially when their contemporaries were busy committing actual crimes.

If I went back to the 1970s and met myself I wouldn't want anything to do with me.

30/40 years ago I hated Connolly’s humour almost as much as I dislike Russell Brand now. However there was and still is a trend for ‘offensive’ comedy. If folk didn’t laugh comedians wouldn’t do it.
I have loved Connolly in his acting roles especially What We Did On Our Holidays and Mrs Brown. I have enjoyed some of his documentaries too, the one about death in the USA was poignant and funny.
I like him now, he has aged well and is an entertaining entertainer, a job well done.

Billy Connolly was always a bit hit and miss but that’s probably because he never followed a script - all his shows would be different every night

Dave Allen was a genius - anyone not familiar with him and a few spare hours should check him out on YouTube

As a slight aside - my dad looked and sounded like him and

MP - North Britain ... really?