Billy Connolly to play Birmingham and Wolverhampton

Fresh from his television travels on Route 66, comedy legend Billy Connolly - the Big Yin - has announced a British tour which includes four nights in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Billy Connolly will play Birmingham Symphony Hall on Friday and Saturday, February 24 and 25, 2012. Tickets, priced £35 plus fees , will be on sale from 10am on Friday, November 11, 2011. There is a maximum of six tickets per customer.

The next month he arrives at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 2012. Tickets, priced £35 plus fees go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 11, 2011.

Twice voted the greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups - in 2007 and 2010 - the 68-year-old was as a boilermaker in the Glasgow shipyards before leaving to become a folk singer in the Humblebums but later pursued a career as a stand up comedian.

He has aslo acted in films including Indecent Proposal, Mrs Brown and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Connolly is married to comic and psychologist Pamela Stephenson - who wrote his biography. His most recent television appearance was on Billy Connolly's Route 66, with the comedian travelling America's most famous highway from Chicago to Los Angeles.