Overview
- Longtime friends Steve Buscemi and Aidan Quinn presented the honor during the Florida event.
- Using a walking stick, Connolly told the audience, "I walk with a stick because I suffer from a horrible illness."
- His wife, Pamela, supported him onstage by holding the microphone as the crowd responded warmly.
- Quinn shared that videos of Connolly’s stand-up brought joy to his late brother Paul during cancer treatment.
- The Glasgow-born star now lives in Florida on doctors’ advice after his diagnosis and has appeared in more than 50 films, including Mrs Brown and The Last Samurai.