Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly releases new artwork

Billy Connolly has released a new range of limited-edition art prints - including one called A Load Of Old Bollocks.

Billy Connolly: My childhood was hell - I was preyed upon by nightmare family

Billy Connolly has admitted he has never got over being abused as a child in a new TV documentary and revealed: "My life at home was hell."

The Scottish comedian, 80, opens up in the first episode of the second series of Gold's Billy Connolly Does....

Billy Connolly: 'Lots of people are dead but don't know it yet. They have just given up'

He recently turned 80 and is living with Parkinson's but Billy Connolly has vowed to continue growing old disgracefully.

Comic Relief's outlandish origin story - inside Nether Wallop festival

Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?

Is Nick Hornby right - can beautiful women never be funny?

Victoria Coren Mitchell has been watching Sky's Funny Woman and a comedy masterclass on BBC Maestro.

Judging panel announced for first Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award

Glasgow's Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren, The Herald & Times Editor-in-Chief Catherine Salmond and Elaine C Smith are among the 11 judges who will shortlist nominations and make recommendations to Sir Billy Connolly, who will then have the final say on the first ever winner of the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.

I'm an aspiring stand-up - Billy Connolly gave me a comedy masterclass, I was blown away

Aspiring stand-up Simon Houston was blown away after getting a series of top comedy tips from the Big Yin himself.

How Billy Connolly gave Scottish comics their voice

Few Scots have had as significant an influence in any field as Connolly, and 50 years since the start of his solo comedy career he's considered one of stand-up's greatest ever practitioners.