Comedian Billy Connolly is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award by Bafta Scotland.
In the early 1970s, Billy Connolly's anecdote-heavy, expletive-strewn stand-up shows were selling out venues in Scotland.
The only two people who ever did that were Mohammad Ali and Billy Connolly.
Comedian Billy Connolly and author Stuart MacBride have backed Aberdeen's bid to be UK City of Culture in 2017.
In particular they objected to comedian Billy Connolly's nude stunt in central London.
Largely Scottish, they include Billy Connolly as blustering King Fergus, Kelly Macdonald as Merida and Emma Thomson as the Queen.
Billy Connolly has been confirmed as the latest star name to become an ambassador for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
BBC: Billy Connolly is Glasgow Commonwealth Games ambassador
The Review Show With Billy Connolly will be available on the BBC iPlayer until 23:44 on Friday 11 January 2013.
John Lasseter, Pixar's CEO, said he was delighted to take any contributions, but had a healthy suspicion of anything Billy Connolly suggested.
"Parky" interviewed guests such as boxer Muhammad Ali, ex-Beatle John Lennon, comedian Billy Connolly and even members of the Royal family, including Princess Anne.
He has also worked in television and radio and most recently appeared alongside Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut Quartet.
While Billy Connolly's career was on an upward trajectory, though, his personal life was spiraling out of control in a toxic blur of drink and drugs.
But the event has had competition over recent years from the Lonach Gathering, which attracts celebrities such as Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Steve Martin and Ewan MacGregor.
Comedian Billy Connolly, a former shipyard welder, had much of the congregation in fits of laughter as he recounted several anecdotes about his earlier life in the area.
It features the voices of Kelly Macdonald and Billy Connolly.
The streets of Glasgow weren't nearly as friendly 65 years ago when the young Billy Connolly arrived with a plop on the cold linoleum floor of his parents' tenement house.
Not long after Billy's birth, his father, William Connolly, left to join the war effort in Burma.
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