Ive always been a big fan of Billy, my wife got me the new DVD for xmas so last night we sat down to enjoy it.

Oh dear ! After 45 mins, my wife was asleep & i turned it off. That far in i hadnt even chuckled a little, it was very slow & just a complete letdown. The audience were laughing but it was all a tad poor in my opinion.

Have any other billy fans seen it & what was your opinion ??

Im thinking maybe we were just in the wrong frame of mind but not sure i can face trying it again.

I fully understand if people dont like him but ive enjoyed most things he has done over the last 20 years & this has just got me thinking maybe he should finally call it a day.

Seems Billy Connolly has finally Copped his Whack http://youtu.be/x1iC5UWiLaw think this was the last stuff that was original.....
After this he has been samey same old jokes set thru the washer a few times.

Think he should go back to being a welder.

Yup, most of what you said. I too have been a massive fan. He recycled some stuff and didnt like the people responding to his place names. Tame in comparison to previous things. Maybe he or his management think he should be putting something, anything, out at Crimbo and this was all that was available. Bet the audience were peed off as well cuz they probably paid a packet to see him. Could be time to say TTFN Big Yin.

I'm a huge Billy Connolly fan. I've met the man a few times and he's an absolute gent - quite possibly the most interesting person I've ever talked to! It's all about you when you chat and rarely about him.

Anyway... his comedy! I still regard him as one of the finest stand-up's this nation has ever produced, but his stand-up prime was the late-70's to mid-80's. An absolute powerhouse who changed stand-up forever - always teetering on the edge of acceptability!

Nowadays 'anything goes' in comedy and Billy's traditional approach seems heavily sanitised in comparison. Shame really, as I think comedy involved a lot more intelligence back when there were general 'boundaries' of acceptability's.

I've not bought a Connolly 'stand-up' DVD for quite some time.

Where he does excel these days though is as a talk-show guest, or when he is doing a documentary... i.e. just being Billy Connolly. Particularly so when talking about his life as an abused child growing up in poverty in Glasgow. For a self-schooled man he is incredibly intelligent and articulate. And of course, he is naturally funny!

A national treasure...

I managed 5 minutes before switching off.
Extremely poor

I have to agree although I hav'nt seen the last couple of stand-up dvds. As Scootz says he's fantastic when doing travelling documentries like the north-west passage thing he did a while ago & I'd like to see more of that rather than pure comedy which seems to have left him somewhat.

One of the kids bought it me, haven't taken the cellophane off yet, reading this I guess I won't bother.

R.I.P the big yin

You'd think with the life he's lived all he'd have to do is get on stage and ramble about what he's done for an hour