Billy Connolly Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

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Title : Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
Brand : Billy Connolly
Category : Arts & Photography,Performing Arts,Individual Directors
ISBN : 1529361362
Page of number : 336 pages
Publisher : Two Roads; Illustrated edition (17 Sept. 2020)
Language : English
Dimensions : 12.7 x 2.22 x 19.69 cm

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Arts & Photography,Performing Arts,Individual Directors Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Connolly’s raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you’d expect’ Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he’d worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling. Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer, and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation.Billy’s routines always felt spontaneous. He never wrote scripts, always creating his comedy freshly on stage in the presence of a live audience. A brilliant comic story might be subsequently discarded, adapted or embellished. A quick observation or short anecdote one night, could become a twenty-minute segment by the next night of a tour.Billy always brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on his family, hecklers, swimming in the North Sea or naked bungee jumping. But his comedy can be laced with anger too. He hates pretentiousness and calls out hypocrisy wherever he sees it. His insights about the human condition have shocked many people, while his unique talent and startling appearance on stage gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex, politics or religion. Billy got away with it because he has always had the popular touch. His comedy spans generations and different social tribes in a way that few others have ever managed.Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy’s storytelling for the first time and includes his most famous routines including, The Last Supper, Jojoba Shampoo, Incontinence Pants and Shouting at Wildebeest. With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout, it is an inspirational, energetic and riotously funny read, and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian.

What a joy to have been alive when Billy has been too. What a wonderful person he is, who has made me erupt with laughter since my hippie days in the early 1970’s right up to my ‘retired old reprobate’ days that I find myself in today. This book contains wall-to-wall funniness with anecdotes that crease me up. Billy has the gift to observe and show us how absurd us humans really can be. There are those that just do not understand humour, but I suppose we ought to leave them to get on with their delusions about running the planet and convincing themselves that we need them. Billy’s the sort of person that we actually need. This is a great read from the man with the most entertaining mind that I have ever encountered. I bumped into him once when going into a shop, in Charing Cross Road, in London, in about 1974. He was coming out and even the confusion of the social etiquette needed to be adopted in the tight doorway turned into a big laugh between us. Nice man.Eamonn

I bought this book hoping to read something new about Billy,because I’ve regarded him as the Guvnor among stand-up comedians since I first heard his albums back in the 70s.Alas,this book is nothing of the kind.If it was possible to buy the transcripts from all those early albums,and put them all in a book,then this is what this is.I remember rolling in agony on the floor,listening to those albums,and even when he appeared on TV,it was the same.He made me laugh,sometimes without him even speaking.HOWEVER,when you see these jokes and stories in print,complete with written down vocal sound effects,it loses all it effect .Billy,you cant write a fart down on paper.Its not funny.I was disappointed to see a large part of ‘An Audience with Billy Connolly’which I’ve long regarded as a masterpiece of comedy included,especially the ‘Incontinence Trousers’ sketch.To see it written down,in words,on paper is not the same.Billy is a visual comic.The effect of all this is that I literally know whats coming next,and if I’d known what the content was,I definitely would not have bought this book.Sorry,Big Yin.Edit: Just finished the book and was disappointed to read the entire ‘Crucifixion’ sketch written down.Raised not a titter from yours truly.Billys material does not transfer to text very well.AND,I’m aware that he’s been known to swear just a bit,but to see every single expletive written down? WellI found it boring,if I’m honest.

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