Billy Connolly biography
Connolly is among the artists featured on Banjoman, a tribute to American folk musician Derroll Adams, released in 2002. He plays one song, "The Rock".
Stand-up comedy
It is as a stand-up comedian that Connolly is best known. His observational comedy is idiosyncratic and often off-the-cuff. He has outraged certain sectors of audiences, critics and the media with his free use of the word "fuck". He has made jokes relating to masturbation, blasphemy, defecation, flatulence, haemorrhoids, sex, his father's illness, his aunts' cruelty and, in the latter stages of his career, old age (specifically his experiences of growing old). In 2007 and again in 2010, he was voted the greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Since the 1980s, Connolly has worn a black T-shirt as part of his on-stage attire. The first one was by English designer Steven King.
Discography
A partial list of musical and comedic recordings:
- 1972 - Billy Connolly Live
- 1974 - Cop Yer Whack for This
- 1974 - Solo Concert
- 1975 - ''Get Right Intae Him!
- 1975 - ''Words and Music''
- 1975 - ''The Big Yin''
- 1976 - ''Atlantic Bridge''
- 1977 - ''Billy Connolly''
- 1977 - ''Raw Meat for the Balcony!''
- 1978 - ''Anthology''
- 1979 - ''Riotous Assembly''
- 1981 - ''The Pick of Billy Connolly'' (compilation)
- 1983 - ''A Change is Good as Arrest''
- 1983 - ''In Concert''
- 1984 - ''Big Yin Double Helping'' (compilation)
- 1985 - ''An Audience With Billy Connolly''
- 1985 - ''Wreck on Tour''
- 1987 - ''Billy & Albert''
- 1991 - ''Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London''
- 1995 - ''Musical Tour of Scotland''
- 1999 - ''Comedy and Songs'' (compilation)
- 1999 - ''One Night Stand Down Under''
- 2002 - ''The Big Yin - Billy Connolly in Concert'' (compilation)
- 2003 - ''Transatlantic Years'' (compilation of material recorded between 1969 and 1974)
- 2005 - ''Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand''
- 2007 - ''Live in Concert''
- 2010 - ''The Man'' Live in London, recorded January 2010
The above list does not include at least two albums recorded with the Humblebums prior to 1972, and only includes a sampling of the many reissues and compilations released over the years.
Playwright
Connolly has written three plays:
- ''An' Me Wi' A Bad Leg Tae'' (1975)
- ''When Hair Was Long And Time Was Short'' (1977)
- ''Red Runner'' (1979)
Film actor
Connolly has often joked about the regularity of the deaths of the characters he portrays in movies. "If you want to see me in a movie, you have to hurry to the theatre, because I usually die in the first fifteen minutes. I'm never in the sequel." Connolly also claims to be the only man to ever die in a Muppet movie. Notable film appearances include ''Absolution'' (1978) with Richard Burton, and ''Mrs Brown'' (1997) with Judi Dench.
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