From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: P.B.C.I. #1, or the first Personal Billy Connolly Inventory
Keywords: Billy
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:16:14 GMT
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex


	Yes, friends! Happy and holidays, but now that's over and it's back
to business. As promised to the few scruffs who responded to my original
post, somewhere back in the 1930s, I think, here is my Personal Billy
Connolly Inventory, designed either to inform you, intimidate you or make
you brag like L.L. Cool J about how much more stuff you have, and how your
mother asked you to knock me out.

	RECORDS:

	"Solo Concert", 1975, includes seminal '70s stuff such as "Nine and
a half Guitars", "Harry Campbell and the Heavies", "Glasgow Accents" and
"Camping Holiday".

	"Riotous Assembly", 1979, includes latter-day gems such as "When in
Rome", "Marvo and the Lovely Doreen", "The Doctor/The Optician" and "Sexy
Sadie and Lovely Raquel".

	"Billy and Albert", 1987, live recording at the Albert Hall, includes
the killer sketch "Jet Lag in Perth", as well as another extended vomiting
sketch and piles of personal invective and polemic.


	CASSETTES:
	(Duplicates or edits from many sources)

	Compilation which includes: "The Crucifixion", "The Jobbie Weecha",
"The Short-Haired Police Cadet" and others, including some disappointing mid-
80s stuff like the novelty pop tune "You Take My Photograph, I Break Your
Face"

	"Wreck on Tour", 1985, a gem of a performance from beginning to end,
as good as the one I saw last December 1st, if not better, includes "Swearing",
"Holiday in Aberdeen", "Attending the Birth", "Anatomy Lesson", "Cycling",
"Practical Jokes", "Mario Lanza at the Glasgow Empire" and many more.

	"Raw Meat for the Balcony", early-80s?, has a few funny sketches, but
not up to standard.


	VIDEOS

	"The Pick of Billy Connolly", 1979-80, includes "The Jobbie Weecha",
"Hogmanay", "Sexy Sadie and Lovely Raquel", and "A Kiss on the Bum" among
others.

	"Billy and Albert", 1987, the video of the Albert Hall shows. Often
corresponds with the album, but not exactly. Contains great sketches about
Linoleum and Baby Monitors.

	"An Audience With Billy Connolly", 1988?, filmed by the BBC, features
the Big Yin talking to and being talked to by an audience of British media
personalities, some of whom I recognize, others I don't. Though afflicted
with miserable editing, and the loudest laugh track since the crew of
"Maude" went on a work-to-rule campaign, there are still some gem sketches,
especially ones about Billy's family life, and his reminiscing about Glasgow.

	"Whoopi Goldberg presents Billy Connolly", 1990, from the Brooklyn
Acedemy of Music. Finds Billy in his latter-day guise, just before his
forgettable "Head of the Class" stint. He is fierce and funny and filthy
and I'd tell you more only I can't remember which one of my friends currently
has the tape. Ach, well.

	I also have access to, but have never seen, one called "Billy 
Connolly Bites Yer Bum", which, I'm told by a wee Scottish girl I know, is
"Very good that, and excellent as well."


	BOOKS

	Here, I am skint. I don't have Gullible's Travels, or any other 
uniquely Connolly books, but I have some nifty pictures and a decent sketch
in one of those Secret Policeman's Ball books, which I'm... Um... Actually
kind of, um, ashamed about.


	Well there it is, what I gots, what I have, the booty, the bounty,
the treasure, the media, the message, the Billy.
	A belated Happy Hogmanay to our Scottish friends, and a hell of a new
year to the rest of us.

	Signed, more or less,

	M. Elias, Montreal (c/o emru@cam.org)



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