Sir William Connolly

[goodgoalie]

Arise, Sir Billy - and Mrs Overall's a Dame!

[Caribeing]

And Judy Murray an OBE!!!

[Mamyalynne]

Congrats to Billy and Julie.

[Jackdaw33]

Who's Judy Murray?

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Murray

[ducksie]

How did that git get to be a sir? Mam met him at the airport in Glasgow once, what a plonker-a hyperactive plonker at that

[Mamyalynne]

Not so hyperactive now with Parkinsons, he was thrilled with his new portraits recently too.


My favourite is the Jack Vettriano one, I loved the film of them chatting too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39947883

[anneasquith]

Well done billy connolly, :-)

[ducksie]

I forgot he had parkinsons, in good health though he was a pain, I wonder sometimes why folk get these OBE's and the other ones, especially when they're sick, it's like giving life long achievement awards posthumously to actors (pity awards) and the like

[Mamyalynne]

The Honours don't do much for me one way or t'other really.

[jno]

I don't know who thinks Britain is a laughing stock because it has honours. So do other countries, though Britain's does seem to be the most complicated.

[ducksie]

I'd never call him or any of the rest of them sir

[naomi24]

I trust he’ll watch his appalling language during the official dubbing. Julie Walters - lovely, talented lady.

[jno]

top award for JK Rowling, she must be one of the youngest.

[237SJ]

I met Billy Connolly at work. A very nice and polite man.

[gness]

Julie Walters I'm fine with......
Connolly.......not since the crack about Ken Bigley......on stage telling an audience he wished they'd get on with the beheading?......Cheap and disgusting....x

[Baldric]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/crowd-angered-by-connolly-s-get-on-with-it-hostage-joke-1-557343

Connolly, nasty piece of work imo

[237SJ]

So he made a bad taste joke and that makes him a bad person does it?

[gness]

Of course not, 237....I'm sure Ken Bigley's family think he's a charming and caring chap who was just as concerned as the rest of us about what Mr Bigley was going through.....a lovely man.

[237SJ]

I expect Ken Bigley's family had greater things to worry about..