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Billy Connolly

Season 1 1976 - 2016
TV-MA

  • 1976-02-04T00:00:00Z on ITV1
  • 1h 30m
  • 1d 10h 30m (23 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Comedy
William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to full-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues.

24 episodes

Series Premiere

1976-02-04T00:00:00Z

1x01 First Live TV Performance

Series Premiere

1x01 First Live TV Performance

  • 1976-02-04T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Billy Connolly's first ever TV special broadcast in 1976.

1976-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x02 Big Banana Feet

1x02 Big Banana Feet

  • 1976-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Filmed during Billy's 1975 Irish Tour this movie gives a rare insight to the man at his best.

1981-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x03 Bites Yer Bum!

1x03 Bites Yer Bum!

  • 1981-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

From the days when he still had red hair and was rising to the peak of his career, this is one of Billy’s legendary early performances.

The culmination of a marathon British tour that started in 1980, Billy Bites Yer Bum Live was filmed at London’s Apollo Victoria over two nights in February 1981.

1982-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x04 Hand Picked By Billy

1x04 Hand Picked By Billy

  • 1982-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

From 1982, highlights of Billy Connolly's hilarious concerts at the Cambridge Theatre in London.

1x05 An Audience With Billy Connolly

  • 1985-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.

Billy Connolly delivers his unique brand of humor in this Royal Albert Hall concert, filmed in July 1987.

This performance of Billy Connolly live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was recorded for broadcast on the American channel HBO, presumably as part of a series in which Whoopi Goldberg would use her celebrity status to introduce a different famous comedian each week and then walk on stage to kiss them at the end and share in their applause. Broadcast in 1989, this relatively short set of around thirty minutes is Billy at his best, holding nothing back for the television cameras and allowing his mind to flit freely between topics with his customary lack of direction and without any pretence that this material has been prepared or selected especially for the occasion.

This programme was filmed during Billy's twenty-two night concert run at the Hammersmith Apollo. Over ninety minutes of riotous comedy.

1991-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x09 Pale Blue Scottish Person

1x09 Pale Blue Scottish Person

  • 1991-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Billy Connolly in an hour long special by HBO from 1991.

1994-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x10 Live 1994

1x10 Live 1994

  • 1994-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Filmed during Billy's record-breaking twenty-two night run at London's famous Hammersmith Apollo.

1x11 Live At Usher Hall, Edinburgh

  • 1995-10-16T23:00:00Z1h 30m

Concert from 1995 filmed during Billy's World Tour Of Scotland TV series , Live At The Usher Hall - Edinburgh.

1997-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x12 Two Night Stand

1x12 Two Night Stand

  • 1997-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Stand up comedy from Billy Connolly, recorded in London and Glasgow during his 1997 British tour.

1998-11-15T00:00:00Z

1x13 Erect For 30 Years

1x13 Erect For 30 Years

  • 1998-11-15T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Documentary on Billy Connolly's career. With interviews and thoughts from Hollywood and British stars.

1x14 One Night Stand Down Under

  • 1999-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Filmed in Brisbane in April '99 it is Billy at his best - in front of a packed house.

1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x15 Best Of The Rest

1x15 Best Of The Rest

  • 1999-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

'The Best Of The Best' featuring the very best of Billy's live performances during the past three decades.

2002-11-23T00:00:00Z

1x16 Live In Dublin 2002

1x16 Live In Dublin 2002

  • 2002-11-23T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Join Billy on a host of rip roaring nights during his latest sensational tour. Kicking off with a barnstorming show in Dublin plus the top moments from sell-out nights in Belfast, Killarney, Newcastle, Plymouth, London, Cardiff, Manchester, Bournemouth and Sheffield.

2003-09-22T23:00:00Z

1x17 Greatest Hits

1x17 Greatest Hits

  • 2003-09-22T23:00:00Z1h 30m

A collection of the funniest routines from Billy Connolly's three decades of stand-up comedy.

2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

1x18 Live In New York

1x18 Live In New York

  • 2005-02-01T00:00:00Z1h 30m

After three decades of touring the USA this is Billy Connolly's first concert filmed in America. It was filmed in New York's Town Hall in February 2005

2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x19 Was It Something I Said?

1x19 Was It Something I Said?

  • 2007-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Billy Connolly's sensational new show Was It Something I Said? was filmed in Adelaide on the Australian leg of his sell out 2006 World Tour. This recording captures comedy legend Billy at his brilliant, inspirational, hilariously funny best.

1x20 The Man: Live in London 2010

  • 2010-11-05T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Finally, the wait is over. Billy Connolly, the King of Comedy, returns in his first brand new stand up DVD for three years. As funny, topical and downright brilliant as ever.

2011-11-14T00:00:00Z

1x21 You Asked for It

1x21 You Asked for It

  • 2011-11-14T00:00:00Z1h 30m

Billy Connolly’s most requested comedy clips – in addition to his first live TV performance. Billy is universally recognised as the master of observational humour, and here we see the comic genius at his hilarious best. You Asked For It features extracts from Billy’s most popular TV and theatrical stand-up performances, as well as his first ever TV special, broadcast in 1976.

2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

1x22 High Horse Tour 2016

1x22 High Horse Tour 2016

  • 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z1h 30m

The legend returns in his ‘High Horse Tour’! Connolly's one of the all time greats of stand-up. Without him, modern comedy would look very different indeed. Even at the age of 72, the legendary Scot has a wild, manic energy, and is still as sharp as ever.

A retrospective on Billy Connolly's 25 years as one of Britain's top comedians, featuring clips from many of his TV appearances mixed with new footage.

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