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Big Banana Feet review: How Billy Connolly's genius shone in the dark days of The Troubles, writes ALAN CHADWICK
ALAN CHADWICK: A long-lost fly-on-the-wall documentary about Billy Connolly's 1975 tour was originally thought to be lost after its distributor went bust.
It's also a stroke of comedy genius that shows Connolly at his iconoclastic best – a jester holding up a mirror to the volatile nature and horrors of the time, while defusing any tension in the audience. The film tracks Connolly both onstage and off, offering up a fascinating insight into his early work, and the down-to-earth attitude of the welder turned comedian just as he's on the cusp of stardom. At his most easy going when charming the tea ladies behind the scenes at his show, he seems non-plussed at having a list of all the big stars (Burton and Taylor; Kim Novak; Rod Stewart) who have stayed in his swanky hotel suite rhymed off by its manager.
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