Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet review - proto-punk star comic at his 70s peak

Restored 1976 doc of Connolly's tour of Ireland shows that, despite his bombastic stage presence, he is impeccably polite. But his naughtier material hasn't aged well Here is a 70s time capsule as pungent as a brimming pub ashtray. Restored and rereleased, Big Banana Feet is the 1976 documentary about Billy Connolly's live shows in Dublin and Belfast the year before, just after his appearance on the BBC's Parkinson show made him a star virtually overnight, and allowed his legions of new fans to ...