In Australia, when I was a lad, I worked underground with Scottish miners, most of them originated in some place called “ the Gorbals” fearsome men, fearsome drunks, fearsome fighters, nicest blokes you would ever want to work with, lend them money and they chased you to repay it, give them a helping hand and they would repay it tenfold if you didn’t stop them.

I've heard this gag so many times, but it still makes me laugh every time. Genius comedy from a comedy genius!

I wasn't allowed to watch this when I was I kid, but my older brother recorded it off the tv on to an audio cassette for me without my parents knowing. I listened to that cassette over and over for years. Such a great comedian, Glasgow's finest. Love you Billy x

Billy, you're an absolute legend, and even when you are long gone, your videos will still be making bellys hurt, and tears fall. Thanks for it all xxx

It's never about the punch line with Billy it's the journey, I lost it at Huey and Rolf....😂😂😂

I needed that. A bit of classic Billy during social distancing

The old ones are the best...comedians as well as jokes...I've dined off this gag for so many years...including the diced carrot and tomato digression...thanks Billy...I owe you dearly...

Adore this man's ability to tell a story.

Billy is one of a kind. Never, ever will be another. Legend, simple as that.

Thank you for keeping the world full of laughter 🌟❤️🌟

His autobiography is Brilliant!! I highly recommend it.

total and utter genius, thanks Billy for making so many folks feel better because of your amazingness! love the subtitles also, you are loved worldwide xx

Billy connolly one of my absolute favourite comedians ever, love the 'jobbie weecha joke", a real legend.

The words just keep rolling out if his mouth. The laughter just keeps coming. I actually think I start laughing before the story us even concluded because he is just funny. His whole essence is comical and he oozes infectious laughter

I had tears rolling down my eyes watching this

I first heard this in the seventies and fell in love. That love continues.... Billy's phrases are part of the collective.... "Hughie /Ralph" lol

A master at work! Taking a simple joke and crafting an hilarious sketch filled with observation from life.

The mark of a great comedian is that it's the journey as well as the destination.

So much love for this hilarious comic. Never fails to split my sides!

Sir, Billy i have cried laughing at your stories and jokes , you have taken simple stories and made them epic thank you for everything thanks for your honest down to earth Glasgow humour bless you

LOVE Billy Connolly always has me in bits.

The first time I heard this routine, it was on a record or something. I just about peed my pants, and I quote this regularly to this very day. Love you, Billy.

"Jimmy, give us two pints 'a heavy!" LMAO

One of his best stories. He was great in the old days when he was still drinking and had the stories to go with it. No criticism of him giving up the booze.

I first heard this on the album called The :Pick of Billy Connelly which was a best of album back in 1983 it cracked me up when I first heard it over thirty years later it still does classic billy

All that shoulder walk and pointing with one leg is just evolving to the wind and rain.

Can only understand half of it and it's still hilarious. I love this man so much.

My old man was a Scotsman, when he drank he would have everybody on the floor pissing themselves from laughing. Some of the stories he would tell.

I had this on his album years ago. In the seventies. I don't know what happened to it but I've never forgotten it. I nearly died laughing at him once,

That diced carrots, tomato skins observation is so true!

"Eh Jimmay, giv us tuu pints a heava".

Best comedian who ever lived!

I canny feel my legs. Lol gets me every time

I never knew he was a comedian. Ive only known him as an actor. Loved him in Boondock Saints

I’m English, so thank god for those subtitles! In all seriousness, genius comic, laid many foundations, much missed

Oh yes he was good, very good, still is, but seeing him in his prime doing stand up, unbeatable.

God bless this Legend ❤ Billy from your home town 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Who is watching Billy 2022 ! ME ! scoucer here Thailand 17 years craving for britt humour !!!!!

That brings back memories. Dryborough's Heavy.

I had this on audio years ago and it is still as funny as ever.

I love two things about Billy Connolly: 1) that he laughs at his own jokes. And 2) that he looks like a muppet in this particular vid. XD

Brilliant!. An exquisete story teller the like we'll never see again!. On ya Big Un!.... Nuff said.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Sir Billy Connolly, Legend 💜🌟

Absolute Legend ❤👏👏

Excellent find! Great stuff, he was at his best in the early years.

Billy Connolly Th Best Comedian Ever Along With Richard Pryor. Very Funny Story.

The classic "Wreck-on-Tour routine. I first heard the album when I was 14 years old. I was in so much pain with laughter. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I think the birthing video follows this, I cannae be sure. 😅😁😄😄😆😆

funniest fucker I've ever heard in my life.......genius

He still makes me laugh til I cry funniest guy ever! Huey Green LOL!

I heard this on his pick of billy conolly album even though this version has bad audio it’s an all time classic but he laugh at his own jokes that’s what it makes it so funny

My favourite joke of all time!!! Legend indeed.

Big Yin Is A Legend,

best story teller ever

Billy is the best no script he's brilliant.

2021, still funny and about the 100th time have watched this!

a true living legend

I love that he cracks himself up lol. It cracks me up when he laughs at himself 😂😂😂

Hughie Green and Diced Carrots - stupendous!!!! :-)

I know Billy won't see this ,but he was a guest at my friend's place for dinner,he tried calling me,but I was working overtime in a tower crane in Auckland nz,I didn't have a cellphone then ,.......and missed out on having dinner with this legend.till the I shuffle off this mortal coil I will always regret that evening.CHEERS.

Thats why hes brillant, you cant remember his stuff unless you watch it all the time because he does digress like that all the time its great.

Billy, this man will never ever be forgotten. Thee funniest man on this planet. I hope his health keeps him with us for many years to come. A legend.

A great comiedien, the best

They still dinnae serve Heavy in Rome, the daft buggers.

reminds me of growing up

Love how the subtitles aren't even that far off from how he sounds. Dutch has to be the easiest language to learn for a native English speaker - moreso for Scottish folk

LOL, who papered the ceiling? Ha haa! I canny believe there's subtitles, lol! How the hell do you subtitle Billy Connelly, awe brilliant!!! Hughey and Ralph Green, awe, I've actually got tears in my eyes!

"who papered that ceiling" hahaha

LMAO !! ''No wonder they carry the Pope in a chair hey ??!!''

I have tears running down my legs Billy I love you 😂😂😂😂

Best story teller ever

The Last Suppper. Billy's best skit on Scots natives in Rome.

Billy is Eternal.

That was somethin else, the detail he put's in his jokes are what makes the so good.

Big man's a legend..oh aye

I guy I know said he first saw this many years ago in a cinema(?) in Norway, with Norwegian subtitles. All was fine until it got to the punchline. The Norwegians read the subtitles a second or so before Billy said, and they laughed so loud he never heard the punchline himself. I loved his earlier stuff. He seemed to mellow after the 80s, and was never quite the same. His meandering storytelling style was unique, and the way he pull true stories into the mix made him without doubt the best comedian of his generation.

Normally i don't like bad language but in the case of Billy Connoly he is pure genius and it just doesn't bother me. I laugh right through all the bad words. I am too busy laughing and trying to hear what he is saying over my loud belly laughs to worry about a bad word here and there and everywhere.

Its his life. Its real storys where he has been a part of. When he said this story is about 2 guys in rome, he really means me and a friend.

A genius.

No wonder they cart him around in a chair roflmao. That is epic.

I see where robin Williams got his drunk Scottish guy origin of golf impression from

So funny, "Green Huey, Huey Green"

not only but he was hot too.

He's absolutely right about diced carrots and tomato peel,the first time I got drunk (1 pint of lager), was in a pub in Aberdeen at the back of Woolworths on Aberdeen green I remember spewing up against the toilet door, every time I went back to the pub The hinges of the door to the toilet still had bits of carrot and tomato peel stuck in the hinges, just showed you they never cleaned the bloody place properly, and I never had any diced carrots or tomatoes for weeks previous to that so Billy is spot-on.

The tape I had on this story had a bit of extra dialogue in the beginning, where the two Glaswegians were walking around Rome and one says to the other, "the sun is just baking doon on ma heid" and the other said lets find a pub for a pint.

Never be a another comedian like him.

I think this maybe the first video I ever got to see, thing is I can't rmemeber the titel of this from billy. Any help? I seem to remember being 14 and crying with laughter.

Silly Billy, you always make me laugh!

Put the subtitles on and have another laugh.

We love you Billy ..

I used to have this gig on a cassette tape I'd listen to as a kid, but can't find that perticular recording of it, where was this gig recorded?

he looks so much like robert de niro here amazing comedy love him

Oh my jaesus, i'm pessin myself laughing!

Anyone help me? I'm looking for his piece about replacing doors from tenement buildings with the ones used to make a fence around the construction site. I can't find it and it makes me piss my pants when I hear it

Loving the Dutch subtitles

"It's like drinking Polar Mints, innit?" LOL

connolly at his best!, the thing about Billy is, he has propbably bean on stage about a millioon times and every time he has a different act, thats the sign of a great comedian, he does not need an act, he just gets on stage and shoots the shit, and he is funnny every time.

the best!

Holy shit, volume is a little HIGH at the beginning.

There was a psychiatrist in San Francisco that would tell his clients if they were feeling depressed to go home and watch a Billy Connolly dvd. I wonder how much he charged?

Though he hails from the Catholic side o' Glesca he's perfect at describing the typical Presbyterian Scottish attitude towards anything foreign to the UK. Mind you, I'm a Scottish Presbyterian and proud tae be!