The Essential Collection is a box set released with six of Billy Connolly's best stand-up performances and his World Tour of Scotland on two discs. The collection features stand-ups from 1981 to 2005:
- Billy Bites Yer (Your) Bum (1981)
- Handpicked By Billy (1982)
- Billy & Albert (1987)
- Live in Hammersmith (1991)
- Live 1994 (1994)
- Live In New York (2005)
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“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
—Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)
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