I’ve loved Billy Connolly for years, since I was a little lad.  I love his style of rambling, swinging from one topic to another.  He’s not a joke teller, like Jimmy Carr, but a storyteller.  He carries you along with him whether you like it or not.

So, when I saw that Jimmy Carr had tweeted that he’d just been to see Billy perform (and that he was brilliant) I was immediately excited – I might get the chance to go!  I’ve never seen him live before, so it was a thrill to think that I might get the chance.  I checked with friends if they wanted to come and then set about trying to get my four tickets.

I was immediately disappointed, for the sites which appeared at first glance to have tickets available turned out to be sites with no tickets available.  The bastards.  In a last chance ditch I phoned Ticketmaster, and was told that there were standing tickets left for the show on Tuesday 26th January (though these didn’t appear on their website).  After calling friends to check the revised date, and going through the agony of trying to get through again, and not knowing if the tickets would have gone, I finally had it all confirmed – I was going to see Billy Connolly!

So, last night I saw Billy Connolly live for the first (but hopefully not the last) time, and it was bloody brilliant.  No support act, just straight in with a two hour non-stop show.  A chap in front of us had a brilliant laugh too, and boy did he use it.  Typical Billy style, wistfully meandering through topics, all the time face-achingly funny.

Jimmy said it first, but I’m saying it too.  I bloody love Billy.