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In My Own Words: Billy Connolly. Picture: Mike Reilly/BBC

A funny thing happened when Billy Connolly was ambushed by TV tribute show
There have been so many retrospectives with Billy Connolly, most using the same old clips. So kudos to the team behind In My Own Words: Billy Connolly (BBC1, Monday) for venturing further than *that* joke on Parkinson and “An Audience With”. The effort paid off in Connolly’s responses and generated a few revelations besides. When he was the subject of This is Your Life, for example, one of those paying tribute was introduced as a fellow worker alongside Connolly in the shipyards, the one who gave him the nickname “the Big Yin” no less.

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