Lädt ...

Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

von Billy Connolly

Mitglieder	Rezensionen	Beliebtheit	Durchschnittliche Bewertung	Diskussionen
158	4	174,253	(3.38)	4
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage and enjoyment, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from 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 Glasgow. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own exaggerated body movements to the power of speaking explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling too. 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 improvised, embellished and digressed as he went: a two-minute anecdote could become a 20-minute routine by the next night of a tour. And he brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on holidays, alcohol, the crucifixion, or naked bungee jumping. But Billy's comedy could be laced with anger too. He hated pretentiousness and called out hypocrisy where ever he saw it. He loved to shock, and his startling appearance gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex, politics or religion. It was only because he was so likeable that he got it away. Billy had the popular touch. His comedy spanned 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.… (mehr)

Alle Mitglieder

▾Mitglieder

Kürzlich hinzugefügt von

Mo_Cat, saffronblue, stabbedcat, Munchkin2474, andycorrigan, collectemall, Yajuu, blanty, emilily-sophie

▾Tags

▾Empfehlungen von LibraryThing

▾Listen

Keine

▾Wird es dir gefallen?

Lädt ...

Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest.

▾Diskussionen (Über Links)

Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.

» Siehe auch 4 Erwähnungen/Diskussionen

▾Benutzer-Rezensionen

Erscheinungsjahr ▼ | Stimmen

Zeige 4 von 4

I've always felt a little Billy Connolly goes a long way. Most of the time I just don't find him particularly funny, even more so here as his material doesn't translate well from the stage to the printed page. I would never have looked at this book if it hadn't been a book club choice and I read the book out of a sense of duty which probably didn't help. (

)

Robertgreaves | May 20, 2022 |

I watched the TV tribute to Billy Connolly - It's Been A Pleasure - just after Christmas and found the clips of his shows really funny, so I wanted to find out more about the man himself. This book isn't that - more a transcription of his stand-up routines than a biography. Some of the jokes are still hilarious - mostly the toilet humour for me! - but others are incredibly dated (though not the digs at Donald Trump - 'Now there's a complete cunt' - and the middle classes - 'It’s the V-neck pullovers and that fucking Volvo crowd that fuck the whole thing up. It’s climbers'). He started in the late 60s and the years show. And I think the way he performed his jokes made for 80% of the laughs - as another comedian once said, 'It's the way I tell 'em'. I could 'hear' his voice in the Scottish (swear) words and the sound effects, but wasn't laughing quite as hard. (

)

AdonisGuilfoyle | Jan 14, 2021 |

There is no plot to this book, but that’s okay. Connolly is one of the funniest people I know of, and his style of funny is not jokes or terse anecdotes; he starts talking about one subject, veers off in a Grandpa Simpson way (except the detour actually has a point), goes back to the main thread, veers again, finally gets to the end, in the process saying “f***” about 500 times and bringing sex into the story at least once. By the time I get to the end of the story, I’m lying on my side, tears running down, gasping and wheezing and trying not to wake my husband, because I stayed up a good deal of the night reading, unable to quit. So, yeah, I liked the book. I wish I could have seen Connolly perform live, but at least I’ve seen him on TV enough that, as I read the book, I heard it being told in his voice. (

)

lauriebrown54 | Jun 7, 2020 |

Billy Connolly has long resisted writing down his stories. They evolve and take their own paths over the course of a tour or even a single night. But now that Billy is retiring from stand-up, it’s finally time to capture those fireflies. The stories are grouped together by theme and vary wildly in size. Some are maybe a page, while others might run to four. All of them can be imagined easily in Billy’s voice. Some I found a bit too 20th-century-man for my tastes, but I loved his stories about growing up in Scotland, which paralleled the experience of reading his memoir, Made in Scotland. I also laughed much more than is probably seemly at several of the anatomy-related stories, including the one about farts. This is a good book to read if you like Billy’s comedy. You may find yourself tempted to read these out loud, but find a Glaswegian to do it, because it probably sounds a lot funnier with the right accent. (

)

rabbitprincess | Jan 28, 2020 |

Erscheinungsjahr ▼ | Stimmen

Zeige 4 von 4

▾Publizierte Rezensionen

keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen

▾Weitere Autoren

» Andere Autoren hinzufügen

▾Reihen und Werk-Beziehungen

▾Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen

Verlauf anschauen

▾Wissenswertes

Du musst dich einloggen, um "Wissenswertes" zu bearbeiten.

Weitere Hilfe gibt es auf der "Wissenswertes"-Hilfe-Seite.

Gebräuchlichster Titel

Originaltitel

Alternative Titel

Ursprüngliches Erscheinungsdatum

Figuren/Charaktere

Wichtige Schauplätze

Wichtige Ereignisse

Zugehörige Filme

Epigraph (Motto/Zitat)

Widmung

Erste Worte

Zitate

Letzte Worte

Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung

Verlagslektoren

Werbezitate von

Originalsprache

Anerkannter DDC/MDS

Anerkannter LCC

▾Literaturhinweise

Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen.

Wikipedia auf Englisch

Keine

▾Buchbeschreibungen

'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage and enjoyment, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from 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 Glasgow. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own exaggerated body movements to the power of speaking explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling too. 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 improvised, embellished and digressed as he went: a two-minute anecdote could become a 20-minute routine by the next night of a tour. And he brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on holidays, alcohol, the crucifixion, or naked bungee jumping. But Billy's comedy could be laced with anger too. He hated pretentiousness and called out hypocrisy where ever he saw it. He loved to shock, and his startling appearance gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex, politics or religion. It was only because he was so likeable that he got it away. Billy had the popular touch. His comedy spanned 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.

▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen

Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden.

▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern

Buchbeschreibung

Zusammenfassung in Haiku-Form