Billy Connolly in profile: The Scottish comedian - his dark childhood and success
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Billy Connolly has often been called the greatest stand-up comedian in various polls. He has achieved enormous success and was made a Sir by receiving a knighthood from Prince William in 2017. Billy had an extraordinarily harsh childhood in Glasgow with an abusive father and aunts and a teenage mum who left when he was little. We look at his upbringing, his break-out success and his marriages as he turns 80.
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