While he wants to cavort in it

Larry David is a man who finds eye-popping enragement in everything

I wonder what the Big Yin would make of the portrayal of Scotland’s capital in One Day, sun-dappled throughout. In the new series of Billy Connolly Does … (Gold), the world’s greatest stand-up muses on our weather normally. How it’s so cold most of us are conceived with our parents fully-clothed. How it’s so windy children on shopping trips have to be lashed together with rope. And how it’s so wet there isn’t a single family which doesn’t possess a holiday photo of everyone in raincoats. “It makes you come over all patriotic and Sir Walter Scottish,” Connolly chortles.

The format is simple – classic clips teed up by reminiscence of a wonderful life, the theme for the opener being “Scottish Pride”. He snorts at the professional Scotsman and all the tartanalia. In his day anyone wearing the plaid would be taunted with “Kiltie, kiltie, cauld bum”. And what about those daft heedrum-hodrum songs? “‘March through the purple heather’? You’d break your nose!”

The young pre-comedy Connolly had pride in the Clyde and of being a welder in the shipyards. Bet you didn’t know that a ship is only a ship when it’s 500 yards down the slipway and tied up in the water. Until then it’s just a boat. Connolly stresses he would never have become a comic if not first a welder. The yard and his culture inspired him to dream. “Working-class folk began to think ‘I can be an actor, I can be a poet, I can be whatever the hell I like’.” Who needed university?

The union firebrand and organiser of the famous “work-in” was a big influence. “It was Jimmy Reid who got me on the Parkinson show.” Then from a shelf of photographs Connolly produces a fantastic representation of his drookit homeland. Kilt and purple heather-free, it’s half a dozen guys who succeeded in becoming whatever the hell they liked: himself, Reid, Frankie Miller, Alex Harvey and the Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart, who once had the biggest hair in all Caledonia. “Scotland rocks – it always did!”

While Connolly battles Parkinson’s, I don’t know how many more of these programmes we’ll get to see, but they’re to be cherished.

Cherish Curb Your Enthusiasm (Sky Comedy/now), too, because this 12th series will be the last. While Connolly is a tall, white-haired man who finds humour in anything, Larry David is a tall, white-haired man who finds eyepopping enragement in everything. At least he does in this show.

You hope, for the sake of his blood pressure, that in real life he could shrug off Siri’s mishearing, crashingly dull party small-talk and his spectacles being stretched by a woman’s massive noggin. Though a white South African businessman who goes around saying he’s “from Africa” – that deserves to be called out.

There’s somewhere colder than Connolly’s Scotland – the Lapland setting for Reindeer Mafia (Channel 4), a family power-struggle drama like Succession with scenes of blacked-out SUVS and choppers purposefully on the move although mostly it’s snowmobiles.

There’s a reindeer herding co-operative, reindeer bolognese is a popular dish and reindeers figure in possibly the crummiest tourism initiative ever featured on TV. There are bigger concerns, and they get even bigger with the death of the matriarch, prompting the figure closest to Brian Cox’s Logan Roy to force some unfortunate to strip naked in the tundra in the dead of night. I can’t watch everything, but want more of this.

One Day (Netflix), Billy Connolly Does ... (Gold), Curb Your Enthusiasm (Sky Comedy/now), Reindeer Mafia (C4)