Television: Scottish comedian is both emotional and phlegmatic as he looks back on his life and career
halfway through In My Own Words , is that you find yourself keeping a running total of all the people who have died. He says this while viewing clips from his prime as a comedian, where those cracking up at his profanity-strewn anecdotes include, who championed the Glaswegian during his early attempts at breaking into American comedy. With a lump in his throat, he recalls Williams contacting him several days before his death by suicide in 2014.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Connolly was notorious for his foul-mouthed style. Revisited today, it’s the surreal quality of his comedy that is most striking. For instance, the joke that made him famous on Parkinson was about a man who murdered his wife and then used her bum as a bike stand – a gag that in 2024 like lands like X-rated Flann O’Brien.Forget the CD box set, all of Madmen is now on the RTÉ playerConnolly is now 81 and lives in Key West, Florida, with his wife, Pamela Stephenson.
Thirty years on, he has amended his opinion. He recalls a man who actually was raised in a home telling Connolly how lucky he was not to have been sent to one. He is inclined to agree – but that doesn’t mean he has forgotten how he suffered as a kid. “It was cruel – it wasn’t right. I longed to be an adult.”
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