Monday, November 22, 2010

oh the things you learn...

Billy Connelly, was - amazing.
3 hours.

The chairs, were terrible, and Im sicker then ever. The seats weren't where I thought we would be, but far further back.  Some of it, I couldn't even watch because the background was so obnoxious, and it was hard to focus just on him.
But its amazing.
He started off by congratulating us all on our bravery, informing us that if he were in Ireland *noone* would have come.  Then went on to oh god - sooooo many things.
Some of the topics he covered -
How to be annoying
Nose Hair
Aunt Agnes
Old Ladies and Scones
American Egos
Use of the word "cunt"
Being mistaken for John Cleese - in Harry Potter
Chicago
New York
Glasgow
Camping
Catholic Church
Peruvian Wind Reeds
Defining "Lost" - the verb,  not the show
How big Canada is
Mexican Hurricanes
Smoking and drinking
Aunt Agnes, and the toaster

His style, seems to be to start a story, and then get sidetracked to another, then to another, then to another, and then return to the origanal, then be side tracked, then go back to another hanger....
Its hilarious - you never quite know where hes going to go, or when hes going to cut away.
It keeps you interested in the whole three hours.He does certainly love the profanity, but its funny, not really profane.
I loved, almost every minute of it. 
it was just the seats, that detracted from *everything* - it was brutal to sit in that small, cramped seat, for three hours, and relax enough to laugh like you want to.

But I do know one thing - I will never, ever *ever* again, be able to look at a toaster again, without at least a mental giggle.

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