:sunglasses: 50 % :pray: 6.3 % :laughing: 34.4 % :cry: 3.1 % :poo: 6.3 %
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By Tubby Isaacs
#85066
I've never got Billy Connolly. That's probably because I've never actually seen him performing (even on TV) in fairness to him. He's always just been there on chat shows etc. Seemed pleasant enough.

And he was always being impersonated very badly on Copy Cats, the show where impressions were so bad they had to tell you who they were doing. "Hello, it's me, Billy Connolly, the Big Yin!"
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By Abernathy
#85068
This, for me, was probably the funniest routine he ever did. And doubly brilliant because it was such an accurate bit of observation. Growing up in the late 1960s/1970s in the west of Scotland, I actually experienced all that stuff. People actually did vocalise that way.

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By Youngian
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:35 pm And he was always being impersonated very badly on Copy Cats, the show where impressions were so bad they had to tell you who they were doing. "Hello, it's me, Billy Connolly, the Big Yin!"
Probably inspired by Sun cartoonist Franklin. Even the most famous politicians were so badly drawn they carried briefcases with their initials and job title; GB - Chancellor, TB- Prime minister.
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By Killer Whale
#85083
The Weeping Angel wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:41 am
Dalem Lake wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 4:56 pm Surprise, surprise, having originated from twitter it appears to be total bollocks.
Fact check: Did Anas Sarwar call Billy Connolly vulgar and offensive?
If anyone should know about spreading fake news about Anas Sarwar it's the national.
Makes no sense. The National was exposing it as fake.
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By Abernathy
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Actually, thinking logically about it, it is vanishingly unlikely that someone like Anas Sarwar, an experienced politician with an acutely tuned set of antennae concerning public opinion (as have nearly all high-profile elected politicians) would publicly say something as crass and inaccurate about someone like Connolly, who is easily Scotland’s most popular comedian/actor and held in great affection by a probable huge majority of Scots voters. It is fairly surprising that someone would try to fake this bollocks, but no doubt it will have penetrated the skulls of a few of the hard-of-thinking tendency.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#85105
The stupid, like the poor, are always with us.

We could, however, do something about the poor if we tried.
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By Youngian
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Degsy on one last heist that goes tits up. Has he been lurking around Liverpool council for 35 years pulling strokes on the QT?
Ex-Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and Derek Hatton charged with bribery
Pair among 12 charged with bribery or misconduct relating to council contracts, say Merseyside police
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ry-charges
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