Billy Connolly's first ever TV special broadcast in 1976.
Filmed during Billy's 1975 Irish Tour this movie gives a rare insight to the man at his best.
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.
From 1982, highlights of Billy Connolly's hilarious concerts at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
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.
Billy Connolly in an hour long special by HBO from 1991.
Filmed during Billy's record-breaking twenty-two night run at London's famous Hammersmith Apollo.
Concert from 1995 filmed during Billy's World Tour Of Scotland TV series , Live At The Usher Hall - Edinburgh.
Stand up comedy from Billy Connolly, recorded in London and Glasgow during his 1997 British tour.
Documentary on Billy Connolly's career. With interviews and thoughts from Hollywood and British stars.
Filmed in Brisbane in April '99 it is Billy at his best - in front of a packed house.
'The Best Of The Best' featuring the very best of Billy's live performances during the past three decades.
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.
A collection of the funniest routines from Billy Connolly's three decades of stand-up comedy.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Series 10 Episode 5 of Parky, with his wife as a separate guest.
Billy Connolly and fans mark his five decades in comedy One-hour special features classic clips alongside new performance footage, fan revelations and star stories PLUS a brand-new major interview with the man himself For five decades now, Billy Connolly has been making us laugh about the very stuff of life. He is beloved across the generations for his anarchic, life-affirming humour – and the unique bond he has with his audience. Here, fans of all ages from all around the globe share their extraordinary stories about how Billy has amused, inspired and influenced them.
First transmitted in 1998, Michael Parkinson's guests are Billy Connolly, who talks about his flourishing acting career and how he used an apple to try to help him sleep better, and Sir David Attenborough who tells anecdotes about the sex life of the Penduline Tit and explains how a carrion crow uses traffic lights and the wheel of a lorry to crack walnuts
Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable life and career, which has taken him from musician and pioneering stand-up to Hollywood star and national treasure.
Parkinson Show Series 12 Episode 04
Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly has always considered himself Scottish through and through but as he travels to India in the footsteps of his army ancestors, he makes an extraordinary discovery. Not only was his great-great-great-grandfather present at a pivotal point in Indian history, through him Billy's connection to India runs deeper than he had ever imagined.
The comedian looks back on 25 years of travelogues from his latest destination - his new home in Florida. The film blends archive footage of Billy's globetrotting adventures with interviews as he settles into his new life in the US, going fishing at dawn, meeting an alligator caller in the Everglades and enjoying time with his wife Pamela. Billy Connolly takes you on a tour of his home in Florida. The journey is intercut with Billy reflecting on 25 years of distinctive and joyful global travelogues.
Billy Connolly returns to Glasgow’s famous Kings Theatre, where his journey into comedy first began, to talk life, death and laughter, in a no holds barred encounter with BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz. It is a conversation that looks back on the Big Yin’s past and ahead to the future, covering all elements of his unusually packed existence - how he got started, his approach to comedy, his Scottish roots, and how Parkinson's disease is the latest thing he is having to laugh at.
A tribute to Sir Billy Connolly who recently announced his retirement from stand-up comedy. This special will look back at his illustrious comedy career.
A profile of the comedian and actor drawing on interviews, TV appearances and stand-up performances from his career to reveal his journey from a childhood of maternal abandonment in the tenement blocks of Glasgow to the very top of international showbusiness
Billy Connolly: My Absolute Pleasure is a natural follow-up to It's Been A Pleasure, which marked Billy's decision to step back from stand-up after a remarkable comedy career spanning over 50 years. One year on, Billy invites us to spend time with him in his newly adopted home of the Florida Keys, where we get a freshly filmed welcome into the life he leads now. And as the comedy great launches his first-ever autobiography, he shares with us a personal selection of his most loved stand-up routines captured during his legendary live tours, some of which have never before been seen on TV.