Oh Danny Bhoy…

“In England they’ve got no time for comedy. They don’t laugh at all. They have no muscles in their faces. So they just stare blankly with their dead, cold eyes.”

So says that top-draw Scots comedian, Danny Bhoy, currently in Canada for the Just for Laughs festival.

Who? Yeah, I’ve never heard of him either. Perhaps he’s being doing the workingman’s club circuit, where to be honest all he is likely to get is dead eyes as most of the punters are over 60.

It’s a cynical move, of course, designed to ingratiate himself to the Canadian fans who love a bit of anti-English chit-chat.

Of course, they prefer to poke fun at the Yanks, so who knows what he’s on about.

If his English audiences – who have paid to see him – sit and “stare blankly with their dead, cold eyes”, perhaps, Oh Danny Bhoy, you should put some jokes in your routine.

You know, instead of just talking…

“I do shows now that are 90 minutes or two hours long. People physically can’t laugh for that length of time. I guess in those moments between stories is where you try to make a plea for humanity. I think there is a degree of politics now behind my comedy. But that’s what comedy is all about – about pushing people to think, as well as laugh.”

The pipes, the pipes are calling….From glen to glen, and down the mountain side…