Billy Connolly: Live In Dublin (DVD)

Billy Connolly: Live In DublinLabel: Universal Pictures UKDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Highlights from the Big Yin's 2002 stage tour of Belfast Newcastle London Cardiff Sheffield and Manchester - and in particular Dublin. Topics include the horrors of a prostrate examination why he hates beaches his wife's sleep apnoea the difficulty of buying an airline ticket and the incompatibility of vegemite and bed sheets. AMAZON REVIEW As you might have guessed already Billy Connolly Live 2002 presents highlights from the Big Yin's 2002 stage tour. The programme is divided in two the first part offering an hour from his Dublin show the second delivering 45 minutes of highlights from eight other performances. Now 60 age has not withered Connolly--even if as he is fond of reminding us his pubic hair has turned grey--and his restless energy enthusiasm casual obscenity and anger is as intense as ever. He is also of course still very very funny. Whether talking about the horrors of a prostrate examination or reminiscing about a prank played by fellow ex-Humblebum Gerry Rafferty Connolly has the Dublin audience in hysterics. Killarney is treated to an explanation of why he hates beaches and Newcastle gets a wonderful demonstration of how his wife suffers from his sleep apnoea. In London Billy delivers a spot-on lecture on the difficulty of buying an airline ticket while Manchester discovers Hungry Bum Syndrome and Bournemouth gets a hilarious tale involving vegemite and bed sheets. Finally Connolly's Sheffield account of filming a sex scene for the movie The Big Man (1990) is just priceless. Crude rude and not for the remotely easily offended this is Connolly the stand-up comedian on top form. --Gary S Dalkin