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Billy Connolly Bites Yer Bum



 


 
Billy Connolly Bites Yer Bum

 This tape was made at the Apollo Victoria in London over two nights during a run of two weeks in February 1981. It was the culmination of a marathon British tour which started in August 1980, probably the most successful thing I've ever done. The material on the tape had six months to mature, so it's as right as it's ever going to be! God knows I prayed for the advent of video tape so that people could see my stuff as well as hearing it. Well, it's here, and I've done it, and at the risk of sounding smug, I like it. I hope you do too.

 What the papers said :
 
 
"filthy but funny... I defy anyone under the age of seventy-six not to fall about laughing"
- DAILY MIRROR
"three hours of falling off the seat laughing... His other great talent is mime... Marcel Marceau couldn't do better. At the end of the show, something spectacular happens."
- THE OBSERVER
"The audience revelled in his outrageousness... His delivery and shock power have been developed to gargantuan proportions."
- THE TIMES
"He parodies brilliantly targets including the Americans, the Australians, the Welsh, and royalty too. But his style is such that he never offends."
- MUSIC WEEK
"He makes Bette Midler look like Jess Conrad"
- THE STAGE
"He mounts a bravura performance"
- THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"Perhaps the most moving of all his songs was 'My Granny Is A Cripple In Nashville' which contained every conceivable disaster."
- BEXHILL-ON-SEA OBSERVER

Running Time
1 hr 45 mins
Distributor
Chrysalis
Code
CHV 10561