OnlineSeats offers premium unique Billy Connolly tickets. Billy Connolly tickets may be purchased online through our guaranteed safe and secure server. For faster service please order tickets through our web site .
William "Billy" Connolly, (born November 24, 1942) is a comedian, musician and actor. Billy Connolly was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mary and William Connolly, the son of an Irish immigrant. Connolly was brought up in the Anderston and later, Partick districts of Glasgow and attended Saint Gerards Secondary School.
He started his working life as a welder in a Glasgow shipyard but left that trade to become a folk singer. Together with Tam Harvey he started a group called the Humblebums, which later included Gerry Rafferty. Connolly sang, played banjo and guitar and entertained the audience with his humorous introductions to the songs. Eventually the duo broke up and Billy went solo. His first solo album in 1972, Billy Connolly Live! on Transatlantic Records, features Billy as a singer, songwriter and musician. His early albums were a mixture of comedy performances with musical interludes, but by the late 1980s Connolly had all but dropped the music from his act, though he still records the occasional musical performance.
It is as a comedian that Connolly is best known. His observational humor is idiosyncratic. He talks about himself, who he is, where he's been, what he thinks and how he reacts to the world around him. He has outraged audiences, critics and, of course the media, with his free use of the word fuck. He has used masturbation, blasphemy, defecation, flatulence, sex, his father's illness and his aunts' cruelty to entertain. By exploring these subjects with humor, Connolly has done much to strip away the taboos surrounding them. Yet he does not tell jokes in the conventional way. At the end of a concert the audience can be convulsed with laughter but few can remember a specific "funny" line.
One of Connolly's most famous comedy skit is "The Crucifixion", an early 1970s recording in which he likens Christ's Last Supper to a drunken night out in Glasgow. The recording was banned by many radio stations at the time. Musically, Connolly's best known song is "The Welly Boot Song" which he used to close many of his concerts in the late 1970s.
In recent years he has appeared in various Billy Connolly's World Tour of... series, in which he combines touring with travelogues, giving his views about the history and culture of the places he visits between excerpts from stage shows performed in those regions. He also visited the frozen north in A Scot in the Arctic.
A notable feature of these shows is that he strips naked in one scene in each of them, usually in some remote wilderness area where no one is likely to complain, although for Comic Relief he once danced naked around Piccadilly Circus.
Artist Biography - Billy Connolly
Billy's second wife Pamela Stephenson, has written a biography Billy which outlines his career and life including the sexual abuse by his father that lasted from his tenth to his fourteenth year. Much of the book is about Billy Connolly the celebrity but the account of his early years provides a context for his humor and point of view. A follow-up, Bravemouth, was published in 2003.
In October 2004, the comedian was criticized for making jokes about the hostage Kenneth Bigley and his wife. Shortly after Connolly joked about the future beheading of the hostage, Bigley was beheaded in Iraq.
Billy Connolly was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Glasgow on July 11, 2002. This particularly bemused his wife, who noted that she had studied for six years to obtain her Ph.D., whereas Billy merely had to turn up and collect his. He has also received a BAFTA award for lifetime achievement in 2003.
Movies Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2004 Last Samurai, 2003 Timeline, 2003 The Man Who Sued God, 2001 The Boondock Saints, 1999 Still Crazy, 1998 Beverly Hills Ninja, 1997 Mrs. Brown, 1997 Muppet Treasure Island, 1996 Deacon Brodie, 1996 Down Amongst the Big Boys, 1995 Pocahontas, 1995 Indecent Proposal, 1993 The Big Man, 1991 Crossing the Line, 1991 The Return of the Musketeers, 1989 Water, 1985 Blue Money, 1984 Bullshot, 1983 The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, 1982 Absolution, 1981 The Elephant's Graveyard, 1976 Just Another Saturday, 1975
Television The Kenny Everett Television Show (guest star) Not The Nine O'Clock News (guest appearance) Parkinson (repeated appearances as chat show guest) An Audience with Billy Connolly A Scot in the Arctic Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales
Billy Connolly tickets may be purchased by following any of the links on this page. Onlineseats.com is a licensed ticket broker and onlineseats.com supplies the highest quality Billy Connolly tickets at the best price on the internet. Onlineseats.com is 100% determined on providing customers with unsurpassed customer service and the highest quality Billy Connolly tickets available.
Miscellaneous Information:
Please consider onlineseats.com for all of your other entertainment needs. Onlineseats.com also offers tickets for all major Billy Connolly events across the country. In addition to all mlb baseball tickets, we also provide concert tickets, nfl football tickets, nba basketball tickets, ncaa basketball tickets, pga golf, major tennis events, major boxing event tickets, music concert tickets, comedy show tickets, and theater tickets including but not limited to las vegas shows and broadway shows. Call onlineseats.com today for your Billy Connolly tickets and tomorrow for any of your other entertainment needs! we strive to give our customers the finest in quality service while maintaining the most competitive pricing. If there is an event that is not listed, please do not hesitate to contact us for any special requests/orders. We aim to please!
Shipping:
When you find Billy Connolly tickets that you would like to purchase,they can be purchased online via our encrypted safe and secure server.Or if you prefer,you may order by phone.for faster service, please order online.your Billy Connolly order will be fulfilled within 6-24 hours.All tickets will be sent via federal express.The shipping address must be the same as your billing address at which you receive your credit card statement.If this is not the case, we will need to obtain a fax written authorization from you.If you would like to do this, you should contact one of our ticket representatives.
Availability:
The ticket inventory is updated on a hourly basis.However,if the tickets you wish to purchase are no longer available, we will contact you immediately and you will be given other options or you may choose an alternative set of tickets that we wil try to offer similar to the price range of your original order.
Top CONCERTS Stories
Detroit Symphony borrows Honda robot to fire up students as it begins new education campaign "The future's full of possibilities we may not want to imagine" Classical music enthusiasts long have sought to drum up support for the musical genre among yo...
Read More
Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding "There is nothing to confirm at this time." Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imm...
Read More
Billy's second wife Pamela Stephenson, has written a biography Billy which outlines his career and life including the sexual abuse by his father that lasted from his tenth to his fourteenth year. Much of the book is about Billy Connolly the celebrity but the account of his early years provides a context for his humor and point of view. A follow-up, Bravemouth, was published in 2003.
