Billy Connelly

Billy Connolly, commedian, musician, screen actor and television documentarist. Billy was born in Glasgow and started his working life in the Clyde shipyards as a boilermaker/welder. He became a professional musician in the folk band the Humblebums before taking up a solo career as a comedian.

In 2007 and again in 2010 he was voted greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-ups.