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Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly (Hardcover)
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Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly (Hardcover)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his
life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday
Times In 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.
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