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Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly

  • 82 years old
  • Scottish
  • Actor and stand-up comedian

Billy Connolly features

Statler and Waldorf Features

Comedy Chronicles: Kindly get on the stage - The real comic heritage of heckling

Sunday 6th April 2025

What many hecklers, these days, fail to understand, is that the best hecklers are comedians. That's why they're up on the stage and we're down in the stalls.

Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith). Credit: Columbia Pictures Features

Comedy Rewind: 50 years of Confessions

Sunday 18th August 2024

The Carry Ons are well-known, but the wildly successful Confessions series of sex comedies from the mid-1970s are far less celebrated today, despite barnstorming box office success. 50 years since the first was released, it's time to redress the balance.

Sooty with his water pistol Features

75 years of Sooty

Wednesday 19th July 2023

As he celebrates his 75th birthday, we take look back at over seven decades of slapstick shenanigans with Sooty.

Billy Connolly Features

Comedy Chronicles: The Big Spin - Billy Connolly and the art of adaptation

Sunday 7th March 2021

Joke theft is generally perceived to be one of the worst acts any comic can commit. But there is a difference in execution between imitation and adaptation, and a certain Scotsman is a master of the latter.

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Billy Connolly is Grand Marshal of New York City Tartan Day Parade 2019

Friday 5th April 2019

Billy Connolly will act as the Grand Marshal of the New York City Tartan Day Parade this Saturday (6th April 2019).

Billy Connolly: Portrait Of A Lifetime. Billy Connolly. Copyright: Martin Shields / BBC TV

Billy Connolly visits Glasgow murals

Sunday 11th June 2017

Pictures and a video of Billy Connolly visiting the giant murals in Glasgow that has been erected in his honour.

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