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Line 1: {{~~work~~creator}} Billy Connolly, born 24th November 1942 in Glasgow, is a Scottish folk musician, actor and [[Stand Up Comedy\|stand-up]]. Commonly known as "The Big Yin", he has a large fanbase and was voted Number One on [[Channel ~~Four~~4]]'s One Hundred Greatest Stand-Ups in both 2007 and 2010. ~~== Tropes Associated With The Big Yin ==~~ {{creatortropes}} * [[Bits of Me Keep Passing Out]]: A gag about drinking, and "zombie" cocktails that he tried which "get you drunk from the feet up", remaining lucid until you try to move: {{quote\| So I said to her, and she said to me-- back in a minute. [Tries to walk and falls over].}} * [[Blooper]]: His ''World Tour Of Scotland'' TV show kept them in, including a scene where he stalled his car and started rolling down a hill into traffic... with a driving instructor in the car directly behind his. * [[Censorship Byby Spelling]]: "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", a parody of the song by Tammy Wynette, which was a number one hit in the UK. * [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Billy's quite at home with swearing. * [[Cool Old Guy]] * [[The Danza]]: He has two Reverse-Danzas to this name - as Billy MacGregor in the British TV show ''Billy'' and as Billy Bones in ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]''. Line 15 ⟶ 14: * [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Dances naked in the snow in ''A Scot In The Arctic'', setting a precedent for his other travel shows. * [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: Back in his days as a welder, his colleagues in the shipyards were ''real'' men - if the crotch of their overalls caught alight, they would beat the fire out with a hammer! * [[Violent Glaswegian]]: [[Subverted Trope\|Subverted]] in a sketch on ''[[Not the Nine O 'Clock News]]'' where he barges into a dingy looking pub and in a gruff accent asks for a list of tough sounding men. When he is told that none of them are there, he orders a "campari and soda" in a camp accent. == {{examples\|Selected Filmography: ==}} * ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'' * ''[[~~Brave (Animation)\|~~Brave]]'' * ''[[The Hobbit (~~Film~~film)\|The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies]]'' * ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' * ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' * Small cameo as himself in ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'' * ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'' * ''[[Open Season]]'' * ''[[Still Crazy]]'' * ''[[The X -Files: I Want to Believe]]'' * ''[[Head of the Class]]'' * ''[[Lemony Snicket]]'s [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' {{reflist}} [[Category:Actors]] [[Category:~~Billy~~Pages ~~Connolly~~with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Comedian]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Names to Know in Comedy]]