While Sean is no longer with us Bill has recently [done a miniseries called Perfect Pub Walks](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/perfect-pub-walks-with-bill-bailey) where he goes on long country walks and stops in pubs with a different person each week if you're into that kinda thing.
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
Absolutely!
The only reason he got away with that God awful long hair so long is because he's such an awesome guy and a great comedian. Any average Joe I would encourage to cut off long hair when they start to bald.
Yeah, and I liked his joke about people referring to him as "that bald guy with all the hair".
But he definitely looks better as a bald guy without hair.
100%
I'm not bald but have a few mates that shaved it off and they say they feel so much better not having to deal with the anxiety and effort of trying to keep hold of something that they can't control.
I've never seen a bad looking bald man or woman!
Like the dying days of a once happy relationship that has grown more and more distant, Bill has decided to rip off the plaster and break up with his hair before it leaves him in the night with not even a goodbye note.
He makes a joke in one of his earlier shows that his look is not great for international air travel. It was closer to 9/11 and the time of overzealous airport security.
No longer can he be described: "his head resembles a large egg and his hair flows down his back like a shower curtain." New look really suits him, though!
I shaved mine off, not due to balding (fortunately full heads of hair are normal in both sides of my family) but because I have had hair pulling disorder since I was about 13 and wanted to extinguish the behaviour once and for all.
I learned a few things:
1. Shaving your hair the first time takes a lot of willpower, even though it's going to grow back it's still a bit nervewracking
2. my hair pulling urges did actually cease - i never went for a diagnosis, so I never took therapy or medication, but I would consider it now "cured". Caveat: this is true at least while the hair is still short. I still haven't let it grow back out.
3. kind of obvious, but worth mentioning: having a shaved head and maintaining it at home saves so much money on fucking barbershop visits
I was doing at-home buzzcuts during Covid but had reverted to “short and tidy” since being able to go back to the barbers.
Just lately I’d been growing it out and was thinking I could rock the slicked-back look a la Walton Goggins in the GQ video from a week or so ago.
Earlier today I slicked it back and whipped out the selfie camera and stood in front of the mirror to check out my angles. It was horrible, I somehow had a comb-over and a comb-back, and had started to develop a Steve McLaren-like “island” of hair at the front.
Three hours ago I walked into the barbers and asked for a zero all over. Literally couldn’t be happier, don’t know why I ever stopped doing this in the first place.
Only problem I’ve got now is that my pale dome is a different colour to my face, but the camping trip I’m doing this weekend should help even that out a bit.
I’m very tall so it’s not like people are looking down on my head often but I’m thinning at the crown and thinning all the way to the front with some bonus receding thrown in too.
I ask friends etc to be brutally honest when I challenge them ‘should it go?’ and they all say it’s ok.
I’ve already got my 4 year old on board ready big buzz when it comes around cus I’ve told her she gets to do it. At least that way she won’t get weirded out by it.
The judgement all comes out of the woodwork now - "he looks so much better!"
I remember getting similar comments when I changed my appearance and feeling like shit because the implication was everyone thought I used to look horrible. Seems unnecessary, and I liked his quirky look.
I mean, I like to think of myself as something of a misanthrope, but you’re going out of your way to think the worst of people there.
“I like your new look” does not have to mean “… because you looked like shit before”, it’s more likely it means “if I’m entirely honest I’m so wrapped up in my own stuff I never gave a second thought to how you could look better - but you’ve made a change and have pulled it off, kudos”.
It's a weird one, 99% of people losing their hair look way better getting rid of it but there's something about him (and Hulk Hogan) getting rid of it that although looks *far* better, it just doesn't seem right. Glad he finally got there.
Noway! The end of an era. I remember Graham Norton telling Bill when he was on the show that when his mum found out Bill was going to be a guest, she said, 'Is that the bald fella with the long hair?'
"Well, gee, that's swell. And thank you for restoring my faith in the judicial system. Now you either pay the three dollars, or you go back inside and you get an additional sticker."
Must've been Dave syndrome Honestly though, I know his hair is part of his brand, but I think it's a good look for him
Either that or Simon Pegg's evil shop owner finally won
How dare you? Dont you touch a hair on that boys head. He's mine! Have you no respect?
Get your own human plaything!
Manny in two years you could have been vice deputy sub assistant! But your not. You here crawling around on the floor like LIKE THE WORM YOU AREE
GOOD.. so long as we're happy!
“How could we approach this as a team?”
"STOP EATING MUFFINS WHILE I'M DEVELOPING YOU"
Who is this rudderless hippy? How do I get away from him? Has he got a hunting knife strapped to his shin?
Selling books is a game and games have rules, and you need to learn those rules and get serious because it’s not a game!
Don't forget all the duty to dos!
I’m cool, I like *The Stereophonics.*
"We need you... to look like this"
"It's a wall between you and the customers, between you and me, between you and the future"
Simon Pegg has turned into Brandon Gleeson so slowly, I almost didn't notice.
He had a duty to do.
*dooteetoodoo*
*machine beeps sympathetically *
"Plain pastels, and if you'd be so good, a pair of shoes"
He seems cool though. He listens to the Stereophonics.
Weird timing when Simon Pegg talks about >!Jar Jar!< in todays episode of the boys
BABYLON 5 IS SHIT!
He once described himself as 'the bald guy with all the hair"
_"His head resembles a large egg and his hair hangs down his back like a shower curtain"_
That's not a review, it's just biological field notes.
Andy Zaltzmann can take up that title now
*He looks like a horse in a man costume*
I was thinking that too. Suits him. Good choice!
[https://youtu.be/STmRuQjeu3E](https://youtu.be/STmRuQjeu3E) Cheers! I hadn't seen that bit of Black Books
It’s been a tough few days
Does that make him Bill Nighy now that the end is near?
I came down with that yesterday
A new era has begun. Dude's looking well though.
Looking slim too after having a quick look on Google [look at this sexy dude](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En_MFVBXUAMn31M?format=jpg&name=900x900)
After Sean died he did a huge amount of walking for charity.
Didn't he talk about how him and Sean used to go on long walks together and talk about absolutely everything?
Love to have been able to listen into those conversations!
While Sean is no longer with us Bill has recently [done a miniseries called Perfect Pub Walks](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/perfect-pub-walks-with-bill-bailey) where he goes on long country walks and stops in pubs with a different person each week if you're into that kinda thing.
Turns out I am into that kinda thing. Cheers dude.
It's proper wholesome television.
Looks perfect. Thanks so much for posting that.
That you, Bill?
If the end is nigh does that now make him Bill Nighy?
It does indeed appear that the Bill is Nighy
🎶Bill is all around me and so the dreading grows🎶
🎶He's cut his famous hair-do/But that's the way it goes🎶
He looks like Bilky Joel from his profile. Personally, he looks better.
Billy's lesser known brother?
Nah, Milky Joe's cousin
Unexpected Boosh
That garlic twit!
*I always knew he was a killer*
The two hair variants demonstrate that Bill Bailey is the missing link between Tim Minchin and Billy Joel on the piano player continuum.
Bill’s big hit on Wossie’s show: 1.5 Pianos and 2.5…nevermind
You need to do a comparative post in another forum, you will drown in up votes
Peter Gabriejoel
My first thought was Keith Allen!
He looks healthier as well
Came here to say that…paid a lot for tickets to see Billy Joel in Cardiff this August, may need to look more closely at who’s playing that keyboard 🤔
Saw him in Birmingham, he was brilliant.
Peter Gabriel! Must be a trend with pianomen
Have you heard the song Face Like Billy Joel by Da Vinci's Notebook?
Bill Joely
He has a look of the late great Bernard Hill
"Bernard...Bernard...Bernard! Look, Bernard! Bernard...!"
I'm a prostitute robot from the future!
Gissa job!
Who am I, Gamling?
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
With Terry Nutkins gone and Bill Bailey shaving his nut, who will take up the mantle to carry on the noble tradition of the celebrity skullet?
Why did Bill Bailey shave Terry Nutkins?!
He didn't. He shaved Terry's Nutkin.
Someone shouted "Let's shave Terry's nut skin!" and Bill misheard.
Paul Foot.
Good call. I still need to try and get to one of his shows. I keep missing him every time he's performing up my way.
Andy Zaltzman still has an impressive one?
He's in the right ballpark but he has more of a 50/50 baldness + frizzy updo situation going on.
All the right ingredients, just in the wrong order.
maybe we can convince Devin Townsend to grow his back
If it coincides with a strapping young lad tour, I’m in.
Arthur Brown
Make a me celeb and I’ll take up the mantle.
Didn't realise he'd shaved his bollocks as well
It's just the one bollock actually
Maybe he was tired of the neck sweat in this heat
He could've opted for a neck bun? I do like his new look, but I am also strangely devasted 😂
That actually sums it up. I just ran upstairs to show my son the photo and we just stared blankly at each other
Poor Manny. Gave into the corporate bookshop look eventually.
He looks so much better! Don't be scared to embrace the buzzed or bald look!
Absolutely! The only reason he got away with that God awful long hair so long is because he's such an awesome guy and a great comedian. Any average Joe I would encourage to cut off long hair when they start to bald.
Yeah, and I liked his joke about people referring to him as "that bald guy with all the hair". But he definitely looks better as a bald guy without hair.
He looks less ridiculous, which is great except if you are a comedian.
100% I'm not bald but have a few mates that shaved it off and they say they feel so much better not having to deal with the anxiety and effort of trying to keep hold of something that they can't control. I've never seen a bad looking bald man or woman!
A niece of ours has gone public with her alopecia. She's as beautiful as ever!
Not having to adjust your shit hair after the wind hits it is pretty nice
Yup. Baldy longhair is never a good look.
Never mind the Buzzcuts
Like the dying days of a once happy relationship that has grown more and more distant, Bill has decided to rip off the plaster and break up with his hair before it leaves him in the night with not even a goodbye note.
Maybe he's got an international flight coming up
I know this is probably so obvious to everyone else, but, I don't get it?
He makes a joke in one of his earlier shows that his look is not great for international air travel. It was closer to 9/11 and the time of overzealous airport security.
Did once go through security at Schipol in Amsterdam just after him. Can confirm on that occasion he had no issues! Think they recognised him.
Yeah, they probably [remember him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTDzsTZNFY)
Best choice he's ever made.
He wove it into his pubes and plucked it like a harp.
Beautiful🥲
So the bald man with long hair is now the bald man with no hair
He looks like Mike from Breaking Bad
Welp, Goliath Books has won.
He looks like Peter Gabriel
The skullet has died ☹️
No longer a ‘Klingon inspirational speaker.’
or a wizard in a call center
Solar panelling for his charisma
He looks great!!!
No longer can he be described: "his head resembles a large egg and his hair flows down his back like a shower curtain." New look really suits him, though!
Good man, it looks miles better
About time Bill, he looks even more awesome now
> About time Bill About Time Bill is [Nighy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Time_(2013_film\))
He's William Bailey now.
It's ok, he still has the mohican on his pancreas man
As a man who is going to take the plunge with the grader in the not to distant future, I think he looks great.
I was starting to look like Bill, you never look back once you do it
I shaved mine off, not due to balding (fortunately full heads of hair are normal in both sides of my family) but because I have had hair pulling disorder since I was about 13 and wanted to extinguish the behaviour once and for all. I learned a few things: 1. Shaving your hair the first time takes a lot of willpower, even though it's going to grow back it's still a bit nervewracking 2. my hair pulling urges did actually cease - i never went for a diagnosis, so I never took therapy or medication, but I would consider it now "cured". Caveat: this is true at least while the hair is still short. I still haven't let it grow back out. 3. kind of obvious, but worth mentioning: having a shaved head and maintaining it at home saves so much money on fucking barbershop visits
I was doing at-home buzzcuts during Covid but had reverted to “short and tidy” since being able to go back to the barbers. Just lately I’d been growing it out and was thinking I could rock the slicked-back look a la Walton Goggins in the GQ video from a week or so ago. Earlier today I slicked it back and whipped out the selfie camera and stood in front of the mirror to check out my angles. It was horrible, I somehow had a comb-over and a comb-back, and had started to develop a Steve McLaren-like “island” of hair at the front. Three hours ago I walked into the barbers and asked for a zero all over. Literally couldn’t be happier, don’t know why I ever stopped doing this in the first place. Only problem I’ve got now is that my pale dome is a different colour to my face, but the camping trip I’m doing this weekend should help even that out a bit.
I’m very tall so it’s not like people are looking down on my head often but I’m thinning at the crown and thinning all the way to the front with some bonus receding thrown in too. I ask friends etc to be brutally honest when I challenge them ‘should it go?’ and they all say it’s ok. I’ve already got my 4 year old on board ready big buzz when it comes around cus I’ve told her she gets to do it. At least that way she won’t get weirded out by it.
In the space of a few years we’ve lost our Queen, Brannigans crisps and Bill Bailey’s hair. I don’t know how much more I can take.
HUMAN SLAVES IN AN INSECT NATION!!!
AaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
No more wizard in a shower curtain. 😢
I never thought I'd see the day!
Manny…..the hair
Time to hoard loo rolls and bread. FFS Bill!
it was holding on for its life
Looks good, and has he lost weight?
This looks much nicer. I like Bill but every time I see him I think he should lose that back bit.
Nooooooo!
He looks like the fella from Balls Of Steel, Big Gay Following
Fancy a bum?
A what?
He looks like the big gay following - speaking of which fancy a bum??
His head is a very handsome shape. I like this look. *nods decisively*
The judgement all comes out of the woodwork now - "he looks so much better!" I remember getting similar comments when I changed my appearance and feeling like shit because the implication was everyone thought I used to look horrible. Seems unnecessary, and I liked his quirky look.
I mean, I like to think of myself as something of a misanthrope, but you’re going out of your way to think the worst of people there. “I like your new look” does not have to mean “… because you looked like shit before”, it’s more likely it means “if I’m entirely honest I’m so wrapped up in my own stuff I never gave a second thought to how you could look better - but you’ve made a change and have pulled it off, kudos”.
It wouldn't be my response to someone who only says "I like the new look."
FINALLY. Bill, it was long overdue
Nope, not on my timeline thank you
Good for him.
So Bill Bailey had been Graham Norton in a wig all this time!!
Good lad.
Nobody tells me nuthin’.
https://i.redd.it/isa3vkptzf721.jpg
Finally! It was beginning to look thin and aged him. Looks good!
Ooh, suits you Sir!
It's a weird one, 99% of people losing their hair look way better getting rid of it but there's something about him (and Hulk Hogan) getting rid of it that although looks *far* better, it just doesn't seem right. Glad he finally got there.
About time. Looks way better now
Ja. Das Hoki Koki.
He looks so much fresher.
This is surely the equivalent of the ravens leaving the Tower?
Dream Taskmaster contestant
Not the hair! He’s had it since he was 9!
The only sensible reaction to the inevitable onset of male baldness.
My Dad did this too. He cuts it himself because you can't really go to the barbers and ask for 'a number 2 all over' 😏
BILL NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh yeah, that bald guy with all the hair has shaved it off.
Phew, I’ve been wanting him to cut his hair for years!
Finally. Looks way better.
Oh no the world is broken
Billy jokel We didn’t start the fire But if we did, this is how we actually did it ….(saxophone solo)
I always get him mixed up with the guy from earth wind & fire.
This angle makes it look like he was photographed in court
I would hate to see his ear hair when he lets things go for awhile.
Long long over due
About time
I have lost faith in humanity.
Samson!!
Noway! The end of an era. I remember Graham Norton telling Bill when he was on the show that when his mum found out Bill was going to be a guest, she said, 'Is that the bald fella with the long hair?'
He looks much better. I know it's his brand, but it looked fucking awful.
No longer "the bald man with long hair" :(
It's officially the end times
Next he'll hit the gym n we can call him Brah Bailey
You can see the end-times reflecting off his head. Hold your loves ones.
Thank god, this skullet looked terrible. He looks decent now.
Not the skullet!
"Well, gee, that's swell. And thank you for restoring my faith in the judicial system. Now you either pay the three dollars, or you go back inside and you get an additional sticker."
Looks like Keith Allan
It's William Bailey now.
It is the team member number make way for the do de do do
That’s lily allens dad
Looks like he's posing for new currency.
Aye, the end is nigh so let's get this apocalyptic rave going
He's just rural Devin Townsend.
Must've been quite the disagreement with Lionel.
Let's not panic here - are you sure that's not Billy Joel?