Billy - Pamela Stephenson Reviews

Who better to write a book about Billy Connolly than Pamela Stephenson? Not only originally a comic actress by trade, she is now a clinical psychologist but more importantly his wife. These three stand points must give her an all round insight of the man who has become one of the worlds best loved comedians. Often the best evaluation of a person ...  Read the complete review

I have always laughed my socks off at the Big Yin. I have always had a bit of a crush on him if truth be told, with his wild hair and his wit and I even watched the very dubious Debt Collector because I think he's shaping up to be a rather fabulous actor. So to sum it up my impressions of Billy Connolly before this book were that he is ...  Read the complete review

Pamela Stephenson is highly qualified to be Billy Connolly's biographer. She started her professional career as a comic, working on "Not the nine o'clock news" so she understands the business only too well. Then she got into a relationship with the man, bore him several children and even went so far as to marry him (probably not ...  Read the complete review

“A highly combustible mixture has been bubbling away inside Billy his whole life. A huge dose of abandonment pain, a dollop of existential fury, a giant scoop of performing talent plus a massive portion of hell-bent-on-vengefulness has whirled around in him since infancy, catapulting him from tenement to “tinsel town” in five ...  Read the complete review

My wife & I love Billy Connolly, however we both read this book and came to the same conclusions. It is an uncomfortable mix of fact & fiction purporting to be the real story behind the man. If you read this book and had never previously seen Connolly you wouldn't really be bothered about going to see him. Pamela Stephenson comes across as a ...  Read the complete review

It was actually a DooYoo review that finally prompted me to splash out on the exorbitant £3.84 Asda were charging for the paperback version of this book. Following it's reading I thought I might have a bash at trying to do it justice in the hope that more of you will go and read this poignant, honest, insightful and funny biography of my ...  Read the complete review

I have liked Billy Connolly's stand up shows for years, and I particularly enjoyed the slant he took with the 'World tour of Scotland' and 'World Tour Of Australia' series, where hobbies and local history and culture were interspersed with clips from the shows he did, visiting smaller towns instead of the big cities in the UK, ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ This is an autobiography of arguably the greatest comedy talent to emerge from Scotland in the last 40 years. Billy Connolly, or as he is more affectionately known the world over, “The Big Yin”. It’s written by his second wife, Pamela Stephenson, herself a comedienne in her own right, and probably best known for her part ...  Read the complete review

Question: You are sitting in the A&E Department of your local hospital watching your wife writhing in agony on the doctor's couch and knowing that she is about to be rushed by ambulance to the county hospital. You are told that you have sufficient time before the arrival of said ambulance to dash home and collect some essential items. Do you ...  Read the complete review

This is an amazing book written about a true genius by the one person who knows him best, his wife Pamala Stevenson. Billy Connolly has to be one of the funniest comedians of our time. He makes us laugh by talking about everyday occurances and embarrasing subjects like sex or piles. In his stand up shows he talks a lot about his ...  Read the complete review