Billy Connolly CD Gift Set: Contains Classic Connolly, More Classic Connolly, Two Night Stand

by Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly has been making us laugh since the early 70s with his unique look at life and the people he meets. He was the innovator of new wave stand-up and continues to pack out gigs around the world. Classic Connolly, More Classic Connolly and Two Night Stand bring together the great man’s finest recordings from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, running to over 5 1/2 hours of fantastic entertainment. Besides the wealth of stories and jokes, the pack also contains the classic hit songs D.I.V.O.R.C.E., In the Brownies, Welly Boot Song, The Shitkickers Waltz, and Half-Stoned Cowboy.

Audio CD

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE 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 fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Last Samurai (2003); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).

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.

Connolly has been married to comedian and psychologist Pamela Stephenson since 1989. In the book Billy, and in a December 2008 online interview, Connolly states he was sexually abused by his father between the ages of 10 and 15. He believes this was a result of the Catholic Church not allowing his father to divorce after his mother left the family. Due to this, Connolly has a "deep distrust and dislike of the Catholic church and any other organization that brainwashes people". In a 1999 interview with "The Sunday Herald" Connolly condemned the SNP as "racist" and the new Scottish parliament as a "joke".

In November 1998, Connolly was the subject of a two-hour retrospective entitled Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years, which included tributes from Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Eddie Izzard.

Reviews

[Jenni · Rating 4 out of 5]

The man is a storyteller. An interesting book with interesting tales. It is intriuing, fun and all round entertaining. This man cracks me up. I went to see him live when he was in Australia, and I hurt from laughing so much as I did reading his books. Some of the stories in this book I heard at his show, but it never fails to entertain whether reading or listening live.

Have a read you won't regret it.