Billy Connolly

An Audience with Billy Connolly captures the pleasure of a storyteller who appears happy to follow a diversion without losing the room. The 1985 special moves through recollections and responses to its celebrity audience, with changes of voice and physical detail making a remembered encounter vivid. Start with the full programme rather than a collection of punchlines. The apparent wandering is part of the appeal: a side observation can become the richest section before he brings attention back to the story.