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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 Four4]]'s One Hundred Greatest Stand-Ups in both 2007 and 2010.
 
== Tropes Associated With The Big Yin ==
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* [[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]]
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* [[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.
 
== Selected Filmography: ==
* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''
* ''[[Brave (Animation)|Brave]]''
* ''[[The Hobbit (Filmfilm)|The Hobbit]]''
* ''[[The Last Samurai]]''
* ''[[Mrs Brown]]''
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* ''[[Open Season]]''
* ''[[Still Crazy]]''
* ''[[The X Files: I Want to Believe]]''
 
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