Billy Connolly has been cleared by Ofcom after complaints by the public because he recited a joke based upon a true story told to him by Liam Neeson during the documentary Billy Connolly: My Absolute Pleasure which aired on ITV over the holidays. Billy Connolly loves the story because it was originally meant to be a sad tale of the killing of a domestic cat. But he couldn't resist taking this sad reality and dressing it up and "making people fall about laughing". I'm not sure everybody will fall about laughing. I am one of those people. I don't see anything fun in it at all. Billy Connolly didn't see the story as a 'sad tale'. Photo in the public domain. I see the way it might be funny to some people but it is frankly too horrible to be funny. This is the story. It goes back to when Liam Neeson was filming Rob Roy . It's a film about the 18th-century Scottish clan chief who became a folk hero. Neeson was being driven by the film's armourer in ...