Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly is my comedy hero, says Armando Iannucci

Comedian Armando Iannucci has revealed one of his biggest influences is Billy Connolly - because they went to the same school.

Heckler was being nice, Billy Connolly says

He upset fans earlier this year when he walked off stage after being heckled, but Billy Connolly has now revealed that one of the people he believed was hurling abuse at him was actually offering good wishes.

Billy Connolly's tour marred by boozed-up heckler

Billy Connolly's troubled tour has been marred by another boozed-up fan who staggered on to the stage.

Billy Connolly's debut art show - video

The Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly talks about his first art exhibition, Born on a Rainy Day, which showcases his pen and ink drawings. Connolly, star of Mrs Brown, The Last Samurai and The Hobbit, launched his art show at London's Halcyon Gallery. Prints of Connolly's work are on sale via Castle Galleries across the UK.

Billy Connolly makes art debut

Comedy veteran showcases Born on a Rainy Day, a collection of contemporary pen and ink drawings.

Noel Gallagher: Billy Connolly helped me kick £1m drugs

Noel Gallagher has revealed how comic legend Billy Connolly helped him kick the £1million cocaine habit threatening to wreck his life.

Video: Billy Connolly 'Troubles' film airs

A fly-on-the-wall documentary which shows Billy Connolly on tour in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles is to be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival.

Big Banana Feet was made in two days during Connolly's 1975 tour of Ireland.

The only remaining copy of the programme is in an American film archive which has been restored and brought back to Glasgow for the screening.

Video: David Peat talks to Billy Connolly

David meets Billy Connolly almost forty years since they first met and they discuss the making of Big Banana Feet. Film-maker David Peat, was the cameraman on the observational documentary which followed Billy on tour in 1975. Connolly travelled to Dublin and Belfast for two sell-out gigs. This trip took place at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Billy Connolly joins The Hobbit

Peter Jackson has announced the latest addition to the cast of The Hobbit. It's Mr Billy Connolly...

A little like Billy Connolly's early travelogues, this lazily formatted affair dispatches the young Scottish comic - the most recent beneficiary of the small-screen stand-up boom - back to Glasgow to tell us about the roots of his comedy, interspersing the nostalgia with stand-up clips. The latter is sound, unsurprising observational fare, although Bridges has great stage presence for one so young, and his foul-mouthed bonhomie covers a few cracks. Off-stage too he seems a nice chap, getting some mileage out of a chat with Frank Skinner (who inspired him to go into comedy) and a trip to Utah to meet a real Chad Hogan (the source for a popular skit), but a contented guy with a secure upbringing and a happy life rarely makes compelling television.