TALL TALES and wee stories.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome author/subject photographic illustrated dw/dj with glossy orange and grey lettering to front panel,b/w lettering to glossy orange background of spine/backstrip, orange+white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB
+dw/dj,1st edn,4-330pp [paginated] includes,6 sections each with numerous anecdotes,stories etc., original b/w line illustrations by Billy Connolly himself, throughout the book,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] author's drawn thumbnail self-portrait cartoonist sketch illustrated half-title,title page,a contents list/table with a larger version of half-title sketch,to its reverse,an author introduction,individual section separator pages each with a preceding full-page b/w line illus by Connolly opposite same,and b/w line illus before acknowledgements page. 'Tall Tales and wee stories' brings together the best of Billy's storytelling for the very first time.With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout,it is an inspirational,energetic and riotously funny read,and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian.
In December 2018,after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy.It had been an extraordinary career.When he first started out in the late sixties,Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland.Between songs,he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he'd worked.In the process,he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny,from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex.He began to understand the craft of great storytelling.Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer,and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation.
Billy's routines always felt spontaneous.He never wrote script,always creating his comedy freshly on stage in the presence of a live audience.A brilliant comic story might be subsequently discarded, adapted or embellished.A quick observation or short anecdote one night,could become a twenty-minute segment by the next night of a tour.
Billy always brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on his family,hecklers,swimming in the North Sea or naked bungee jumping.But his comedy can be laced with anger too.He hates pretentiousness and calls out hypocrisy wherever he sees it.His insights about the human condition have shocked many people,while his unique talent and startling appearance on stage gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex,politics or religion.
Billy got away with it because he has always had the popular touch.His comedy spans generations and different social tribes in a way that few others have ever managed.
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