Tag: Billy Connolly

  • There’s A Hole In My Brit
    There’s A Hole In My Brit

    At the 1985 Brit Awards, things didn’t seem to be going too well. Then came the category for the Best Comedy Record, and things livened up a bit. It’s worth looking at all this a little more closely. Listen to the crowd just talking over Noel, and look at how lost he looks (this was…

  • Billy In The Bog
    Billy In The Bog

    Here’s a series of outtakes (including the clock countdown) of Billy Connolly as he appears in a sketch from The Kenny Everett Video Show.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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