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Sir William "Billy" Connolly, is a Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, presenter, actor, artist and voice artist. He is sometimes known, especially in his homeland, by the Scots nickname "The Big Yin" . His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer, firstly in the Humblebums alongside friend Gerry Rafferty and Tam Harvey until 1971, and subsequently as a solo artist. In the early 1970s, Connolly made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully fledged comedian, for which he has received numerous awards.

As an actor, Connolly has appeared in such films as Water , Indecent Proposal , Pocahontas , Muppet Treasure Island , Mrs. Brown , The Boondock Saints , The Man Who Sued God , The Last Samurai , Timeline , Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events , Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties , Open Season , The X-Files: I Want to Believe , Open Season 2 , Brave , Quartet , and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies . Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day .

✵ 24. November 1942
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“Politically correct is the language of cowardice.”

An Audience With Billy - 1985

“You've made a happy man very old.”

An Audience With Billy - 1985

“Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.”

Billy Connolly by Nigel Huddleston, published June 2004.
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“Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.”

Billy Connolly by Nigel Huddleston, published June 2004.
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