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Billy Connolly

July 2024

  • Stealers Wheel Posed In Denmark<br>COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - April 01: Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty from Stealers Wheel posed outside Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1974 (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns)

    Joe Egan obituary

  • Kyle Gass performing with Tenacious D.

    Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

May 2024

  • Billy Connolly in Big Banana Feet.

    Dawn of the Big Yin: rediscovered film shows Billy Connolly on the road to comedy glory

  • Billy Connolly walking with a camera filming him in the film Big Banana Feet

    Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet review – proto-punk star comic at his 70s peak

February 2024

  • Yvonne &amp; Graeme

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the return of a beloved doggy dating show

    Abandoned dogs are matched with new owners at a north London shelter in The Dog House. Plus: the fearless Rob and Romesh have a go at F1. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2023

  • God Save the King is sung at Tottenham Hotspur stadium before an NFL London American football on 9 October 2022.

    Brief letters
    Time to liven up the national anthem – at 120bpm

    Brief letters: A change of tempo | Tories’ tumblers | Boxed up | Women’s work

September 2023

  • Billy Connolly and Pamela Stephenson Connolly in Key West Florida, September, 2023

    Billy Connolly’s most intimate interview yet (by his wife): ‘Comedians never used to worry about what was correct to say. You said it, and soon found out’

    Only one person can get to the heart of who the Big Yin is – his partner and carer, psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson Connolly. He talks about how Parkinson’s has changed him, what he misses from being on tour, and living in a hotbed of Trump supporters in Florida

May 2023

  • Gary McNair in Dear Billy.

    Dear Billy review – brilliant tribute to the Big Yin

    Gary McNair delivers verbatim interviews and misremembered Connolly routines from ordinary people in this love letter

April 2023

  • A young Billy Connolly, traveling in the North West of England, as part of his 64 date Big Wee Tour of Britain, February 1979.

    How Michael Rudman’s wit led to a sellout show for me and Billy Connolly

    Letter: The actor Bill Paterson recalls how a 1972 production of The Great Northern Welly Boot Show was helped by the theatre director’s endorsement

March 2023

  • Peter Cook and Mel Smith: Peter Cook and Mel Smith - synchronised swimming, Nether Wallop style

    The Guardian picture essay
    Comic Relief’s outlandish origin story – inside Nether Wallop festival

    Was this impromptu festival – 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?

June 2022

  • Lauren Laverne

    On my radar
    On my radar: Lauren Laverne’s cultural highlights

    The TV and radio presenter on a surprising history of menswear design at the V&A, classic Billy Connolly routines and her favourite London venue

May 2022

  • Billy Connolly photographed in Key West, Florida

    ‘Deeply honoured’: Billy Connolly to receive Bafta fellowship

    Comedian says he does not let Parkinson’s disease dictate who he is, as he speaks of delight at accolade

March 2022

  • Amol Rajan with Sir Ian McKellen

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Sir Ian McKellen reflects on gay kisses and X-Men’s origins

    The celebrated actors opens up to the BBC’s Amol Rajan. Plus, Billy Connolly is searingly honest about fatherhood. Here’s what to watch this evening

February 2022

  • Billy Connolly at home in Florida

    TV review
    Billy Connolly Does ... review – criminally entertaining yarns from the Big Yin

  • Billy Connolly

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Billy Connolly, Keith Moon and trucks full of snakes

December 2021

  • Pinch of Nom: Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson.

    Pinch of Nom narrowly beats Richard Osman to top Christmas book chart

    The food bloggers’ fourth book Comfort Food outsold Osman’s second cosy crime novel by just over 1,000 copies
  • Bill Connolly.

    Billy Connolly reveals unusual methods for keeping his Parkinson’s under control

    Comedian says he ‘hypnotises’ hand to stop it shaking but laments condition stopping him writing
  • Billy Connolly

    Audiobook of the week
    Windswept & Interesting audiobook review – Billy Connolly revels in his life stories

    The sadness of the standup’s childhood is outweighed by the joy and comedy of his adult years. Plus, this week’s other picks

October 2021

  • Billy Connolly, with long hair, long beard and glasses, looking into the camera, blue sky behind him

    Billy Connolly: ‘It might be lovely on the other side’

  • An independent bookshop in London … the Booksellers Association is urging customers to ‘shop early, shop local’ this Christmas.

    John le Carré, Daisy May Cooper and Paul McCartney expected to boost book sales at Christmas

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