Billy Connolly played to a packed audience in Perth at the first of two gigs taking place in the Fair City.
The Glaswegian comic, who revealed last year that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, gleaned much of his routine from his recent health troubles.
Audiences at the first gig of the High Horse tour, in Aberdeen on Tuesday night, noted that the 71-year-old showed restricted movement and appeared to forget some lines over the course of the evening.
However an audience member at Perth, who has seen Connolly perform before, claimed this was a common feature of the comic’s “conversational” style.
He said: “I thought it was good he was sharp as a tack and classic Billy Connolly.
“It was two hours and 20 mins of him on stage, without breaks, and him talking all the time. The audience was hanging on his every word.
“If people say he was forgetting things, they don’t know his style. It’s conversational, he changes the subject two or three times before going back that’s his routine, that’s how he performs.”
At the Perth show the comic discussed his vast career, which stretches from the shipyards of the Clyde to stages around the world.
He reminisced about an early performance in a hospice, where a patient died as Connolly sang on stage.
He also tackled current affairs, with a personal attack on UKIP leader Nigel Farage. He branded the recent independence referendum “a joke”.
Tickets for the tour, which also visits Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow, sold out within minutes on their release in July.
Such was the demand that Connolly was forced to add another two dates to the Tayside leg of the trip, one in Perth and another in Dundee.
The Scots comedy legend will now also take to the Dundee stage on Sunday October 12 as well as Saturday October 11 and will appear in Perth again on Thursday night.
Tickets for the first Perth date took just 90 minutes to sell out in, prompting tour bosses to book a second night.
Dozens of comedy fans queued outside the concert hall from the early hours of the morning to secure tickets for Connolly’s first Scottish tour in five years. Hundreds more booked their tickets online, waiting up to 40 minutes in a virtual queue.
The first in line outside Perth Concert Hall waited from 3.30am for the doors to open.
The tour coincides with the release of Connolly’s latest film, What We Did On Our Holiday.