Billy Connolly - Potatoes of the night - Live 1994

i'm in this restaurant in ireland right remember i was telling you me and my daughter cara right and we both she found it very funny as well now it was an incredibly simple thing but it usually is a simple thing it makes me roar and it was limited it's one of those menus with nothing on it you know those menus with no information i don't know why they bother giving you the thing it's got things like soup of the day so you then have to ask what it is what is this super that because you can't just say alive soup of the day you know a shot in the dark it may be octopus soon you've blown it right i'm sorry sometimes i see pictures that just crack i just get this picture of a man sitting in a lesson with an octopus blowing up his ass oh there you go what are you doing well it's none of your business so like right super today is nothing just get a pencil pen right the kind of supers too much to ask vegetables vegetables in season it could be pumpkins or frozen peas japanese mushrooms you have no idea so you can't just say all of the veggies and seeds and maybe a pile of this you don't know what you're gonna get you know what i mean the fish catch of the day what is it whale or a jellyfish what are we talking here some ugly thing that lives at the bottom of the ocean you've never seen before it's got three and horns you know what i mean so you i just i lose weight or even worse they'll send some limp wristed lisping prick out to tell you the specials and he is today's what do you mean specials those all aren't here we'll be the ordinaries well today's special is the fillet of monk fish and a bed of sauteed beet root with balsamic vinaigrette off just off write it down bring it out in my country this is called a menu give it to me i will produce therefore said menu and when i'm ready for you i'll call you'll know me when i call it'll be like how and you come and ask me and i'll tell you what i want just like they used to do before no oh there's another thing about lobsters it's letters like market prices or something like tfd two deer right i don't know i don't even bother myself or simpleton thing i was that's when i burst out laughing it says soup of the day veggies and season catch of the day blooded the blah lobster thing rather than that and there it was only an island i thought potatoes of the night i just i nearly fell out my chair right i was sitting i thought maybe it's a band maybe maybe between the main course and the putin you know ladies and gentlemen put your hands together a big galway welcome for the potatoes of the night oh oh my ring number three from the white ball your daddy all right and i was really looking forward to this i said oh potatoes are the night for me you know i thought they'd bring them up one at a time you know just very shy creatures keep the lights down no certain noises no sudden movement you scare the at them yeah i was so disappointed and i'm sure you will be able to tell you potatoes of the night was potatoes how they were doing them that night mash boiled uh isn't it a pizza isn't that the worst news you ever had potatoes of the night i mean you would expect leonard cohen to be singing about them she gave me potatoes i couldn't even ah cause already in my mind i had it down i mean this was a nocturnal potato native to ireland specialist farmers at four o'clock in the morning out in the fields you know miners helmet with a light on it there's one that was a big cracker just ran down it's hole before i get a chance to grab it the chips are scattering off your plate running at your dark corners you

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Length: 5min 26sec (326 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022