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Why Billy Connolly loves Australia

1983

Why Billy Connolly loves Australia

1983

  • NFSA ID75THWGZ8
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • GenresVariety show
  • Year1983

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly tells Mike Walsh why he loves Australia - 'It's so odd and I'm so odd and we sort of match'.

Connolly also alludes to the colour of the Australian desert being the same colour as the then-paper $20 dollar note.

Clip taken from The Mike Walsh Show: Episode 3029.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly tells Mike Walsh why he loves Australia - 'It's so odd and I'm so odd and we sort of match'.

Connolly also alludes to the colour of the Australian desert being the same colour as the then-paper $20 dollar note.

Clip taken from The Mike Walsh Show: Episode 3029.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions
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