Billy Connolly
- 82 years old
- Scottish
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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Billy Connolly announces new travel book Rambling Man
Billy Connolly will publish a new book in October. Rambling Man: My Life On The Road explores his 'Rambling Man' philosophy and shares stories from a live adventuring across the globe.
British Comedy Guide, 13th July 2023Billy Connolly art book priced at £1250
Billy Connolly: Born On A Rainy Day, a book featuring the art of Billy Connolly, is to be published in July, costing £1250.
British Comedy Guide, 7th June 2023Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award 2023 nominees announced
Scott Agnew, Paul Black, Janey Godley, Craig Hill, Kieran Hodgson and Susie McCabe are up for the inaugural Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
British Comedy Guide, 31st March 2023Billy Connolly releases new artwork
Billy Connolly has released a new range of limited-edition art prints - including one called A Load Of Old Bollocks.
Chortle, 23rd March 2023Billy Connolly: My childhood was hell - I was preyed upon by nightmare family
Billy Connolly has admitted he has never got over being abused as a child in a new TV documentary and revealed: "My life at home was hell."
The Scottish comedian, 80, opens up in the first episode of the second series of Gold's Billy Connolly Does....
Jill Robinson, The Sun, 21st March 2023Billy Connolly: 'Lots of people are dead but don't know it yet. They have just given up'
He recently turned 80 and is living with Parkinson's but Billy Connolly has vowed to continue growing old disgracefully.
Murray Scougall, The Sunday Post, 20th March 2023Comic Relief's outlandish origin story - inside Nether Wallop festival
Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?
Alan Burles, The Guardian, 17th March 2023Is Nick Hornby right - can beautiful women never be funny?
Victoria Coren Mitchell has been watching Sky's Funny Woman and a comedy masterclass on BBC Maestro.
Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Telegraph, 4th March 2023Judging panel announced for first Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award
Glasgow's Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren, The Herald & Times Editor-in-Chief Catherine Salmond and Elaine C Smith are among the 11 judges who will shortlist nominations and make recommendations to Sir Billy Connolly, who will then have the final say on the first ever winner of the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th February 2023I'm an aspiring stand-up - Billy Connolly gave me a comedy masterclass, I was blown away
Aspiring stand-up Simon Houston was blown away after getting a series of top comedy tips from the Big Yin himself.
Simon Houston, The Scottish Sun, 29th December 2022