Billy Connolly Does...

GOLD, 9pm

There’s a lot of material here that many fans of Billy Connolly may have seen before. But who’s complaining, as the

Big Yin looks back over his incredible life and career at the age of 79?

Splicing recent interviews at his home in Florida with a wealth of archive material drawn from shows by the Scottish comedy genius over the decades, this seven-part series features Connolly holding forth on entertaining topics in each episode, such as sex and alcohol.

Bad behaviour is his opening subject: cue a series of anecdotes about life on the road and partying with some notorious A-list celebrity friends such as Keith

Moon and Ringo Starr. But best of all is Connolly’s acute observational humour: witness his eye-wateringly hilarious analysis of the various different kinds of drunken walks. ★★★★☆