Connolly, Billy

Bio of the Big Yin mentions his horrific childhood and offers his stage, screen, recording, and publishing credits. Link to Web sites, articles, and merchandise.

Upon receiving an honorary degree at Glasgow University, the comedian who worked as a shipyard welder spoke on behalf of 1,000 threatened Clydeside ship workers.

Find out how the comedian who "went on a bender with The Who drummer Keith Moon the day before he died" started the day with alcohol and finished it with 30 brandies.

Read about the shocking content covered in the definitive biography written by the Big Yin's wife, psychologist and former performer Pamela Stephenson.

Discover why the big, burly ex-shipyard welder "who says Hollywood success hasn't changed him" gets regular manicures which include the application of fake fingernails.

Read an assessment of the "normal bloke who got lucky" and his three-hour no intermission show, and find out how his act prefigured the alternative scene by a decade.

Get tour dates, read a biography, and purchase merchandise for this British stand-up comedian that also stared in the TV show Head of the Class.