i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s footsteps down to the pit. his escape was journalism, which took him to granada tv. ladies and gentlemen, miss shirley maclaine. and then in 1971, the parkinson show. i hope i can get away with this. it s a beauty. it was a programme that could transform a career. a substitute for tattoos. i m frightened to get a tattoo. billy connolly appeared 15 times. i bet the oyster that went to a discotheque and pulled a muscle. this is where they became good friends. i need somewhere to park my bike. but others. let s talk about nudity, especially. some women were rather less comfortable in his company. do you find, in fact, that this what could be best described as your equipment,
the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s footsteps down to the pit. his escape was journalism, which took him to granada tv. ladies and gentlemen, miss shirley maclaine. and then in 1971, the parkinson show. i hope i can get away with this. it s a beauty. it was a programme that could transform a career. a substitute for tattoos. i m frightened to get a tattoo. billy connolly appeared 15 times. i met the oyster that went to a discotheque and pulled a mussel. this is where they became good friends. he said, i need somewhere to park my bike. but others. let s talk about nudity. ..especially some women were rather less comfortable in his company.
his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first
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