Connolly 'saddened' by British hostage's death
Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is "desperately saddened" by the death of a British man held hostage in Iraq - who he made a joke about last week.
The Mrs Brown star was performing one of his series of sell-out shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo when he launched into a rant about 62-year-old engineer Ken Bigley, who was kidnapped in Baghdad three weeks ago with two American colleagues - all of which have now been beheaded.