(The National (Scotland)) Internationally-renowned comic Sir Billy Connolly CBE began his entertainment career in folk music, gradually expanding the chat and occasional jokes and stories in-between ...

From his days as a welder in the Glaswegian shipyard, Billy Connolly was also a banjo player in the folk music band The Humblebums and found the jokes he told between songs went down well, and ...

Born in a poor tenement block, Connolly was abandoned by his mother, Mamie, at the age of three and brought up by his aunt, Mona, who used to beat him, and his father, William, who sexually abused him ...