Billy Connolly, the Glossary
Sir William Connolly (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish retired comedian, actor, artist, musician, and television presenter.[1]
Table of Contents
388 relations: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, A939 road, Aberdeenshire, Absolution (1978 film), Acts of Union 1707, Affair, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Alexander Stephen and Sons, ALS, Amnesty International, An Audience with..., An Everlasting Piece, Anderston, Androcles, Angie Dickinson, Anglophile, Anita Roddick, Anti-English sentiment, Arctic Circle, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Atheism, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Audio engineer, Autism, Autoharp, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Fellowship, BAFTA Scotland, Ballater, Bangalore, Banjo, BBC, BBC News, BBC Radio, BBC Scotland (TV channel), Beautiful Joe (film), Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Benefit concert, Beverly Hills Ninja, Biafra, Billy (1992 TV series), Billy Bones, Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand, Billy Connolly's Route 66, Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia, Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales, Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World, Blue Money (1985 film), Bob Dylan, Boilermaker, ... Expand index (338 more) »
- 20th-century Scottish comedians
- 21st-century Scottish autobiographers
- 21st-century Scottish comedians
- 21st-century Scottish memoirists
- British autoharp players
- British boilermakers
- British harmonica players
- Musicians with disabilities
- People associated with Nottingham Trent University
- People from Anderston
- People from Strathdon
- Scottish atheists
- Scottish banjoists
- Scottish comics writers
- Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States
- Scottish people of Indian descent
- Scottish people with disabilities
- Scottish stand-up comedians
- The Humblebums members
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by American musician and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963).
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A939 road
The A939 'Lecht Road' connects the A96 at Nairn on the Moray Coast with the A95 Grantown on Spey, then it continues to the A93 at Ballater by way of the Grampian Mountains, passing Tomintoul and the Lecht Ski Centre.
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Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
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Absolution (1978 film)
Absolution is a 1978 British thriller film directed by Anthony Page and written by playwright Anthony Shaffer.
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Acts of Union 1707
The Acts of Union refer to two Acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
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Affair
An affair is a union of more than two people in one romantic and sexual relationship,, passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has betrayed their partner (regardless of formal or informal relationship status) with a third person or more people (regardless if the partner and the third person(s) were aware, not aware, and/or disagreed to having an affair).
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
Airdrie (Airdrie; An t-Àrd Ruigh) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Alexander Stephen and Sons
Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Glasgow, on the River Clyde and, initially, on the east coast of Scotland.
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ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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An Audience with...
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television (now part of ITV Studios), in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a lighthearted revue/tribute style.
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An Everlasting Piece
An Everlasting Piece is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Barry Levinson, written by and starring Barry McEvoy.
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Anderston
Anderston (Anderstoun, Baile Aindrea) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Androcles
Androcles (Ἀνδροκλῆς, alternatively spelled Androclus in Latin) is the main character of a common folk tale about a man befriending a lion.
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Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson (born Angeline Brown; September 30, 1931) is a retired American actress.
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Anglophile
An Anglophile is a person who admires or loves England, its people, its culture, its language, and/or its various accents.
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Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, now The Body Shop International Limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism.
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Anti-English sentiment
Anti-English sentiment, also known as Anglophobia (from Latin Anglus "English" and Greek φόβος, phobos, "fear"), refers to opposition, dislike, fear, hatred, oppression, persecution, and discrimination of English people and/or England.
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Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)
The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
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Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.
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Autism
Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.
Autoharp
An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family.
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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
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BAFTA Fellowship
The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image".
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BAFTA Scotland
BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Ballater
Ballater (Bealadair) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, immediately east of the Cairngorm Mountains.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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BBC Radio
BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).
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BBC Scotland (TV channel)
BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel) is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC Scotland division of the BBC.
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Beautiful Joe (film)
Beautiful Joe is a 2000 American-British film written and directed by Stephen Metcalfe.
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Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
"Being for the Benefit of Mr.
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Benefit concert
A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.
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Beverly Hills Ninja
Beverly Hills Ninja is a 1997 American martial arts comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Mark Feldberg and Mitch Klebanoff.
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Biafra
Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970.
Billy (1992 TV series)
Billy is an American sitcom and a spin-off of Head of the Class that aired on ABC for half a season from January 31 to May 30, 1992.
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Billy Bones
Billy Bones is a fictional character appearing in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
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Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand
Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand is the soundtrack to the television series Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand, released in 2004.
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Billy Connolly's Route 66
Billy Connolly's Route 66 is a British travel documentary television series presented by Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly.
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Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia is the second in a line of 'world tours' that follow comedian Billy Connolly on his various travels across the globe.
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Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales
Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales is the third of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly's "world tours" commissioned by the BBC.
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Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World
Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World is a four-part travel documentary series produced by ITV Studios, presented by Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly.
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Blue Money (1985 film)
Blue Money is a 1985 English television comedy film written by Stewart Parker, directed by Colin Bucksey and starring Tim Curry, Debby Bishop and Billy Connolly.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Boilermaker
A boilermaker is a tradesperson who fabricates steels, iron, or copper into boilers and other large containers intended to hold hot gas or liquid, as well as maintains and repairs boilers and boiler systems.
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Bonnie George Campbell
Bonnie James Campbell or Bonnie George Campbell is Child ballad 210 (Roud 338).
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Brandy
Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine.
Brave (2012 film)
Brave is a 2012 American animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Brexit
Brexit (portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.
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British Academy Television Awards
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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British Hit Singles & Albums
British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Brownies (Scouting)
Brownies are the section in the Girl Guides (or in the United States, Girl Scouts) organisation for girls aged eight years old to twelve years old.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.
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Bulldozer
A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.
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Bullshot (film)
Bullshot is a 1983 British comedy film, based on the stage play Bullshot Crummond.
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Calgary Sun
The Calgary Sun is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Cameo appearance
A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.
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Can I Have My Money Back?
Can I Have My Money Back? is the first solo album by Gerry Rafferty.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Celtic F.C.
The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.
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Channel 5 (British TV channel)
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK and Australia division.
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Character actor
A character actor is an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles, rather than leading ones.
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Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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Chortle
Chortle is a British comedy website launched in 2000 by Steve Bennett.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.
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City Lights (1984 TV series)
City Lights is a Scottish television sitcom made by BBC Scotland and set in Glasgow.
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Clan Maclean
Clan Maclean (Scottish Gaelic: Clann 'IllEathain) is a Highlands Scottish clan.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor.
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Coast guard
A coast guard or coastguard is a maritime security organization of a particular country.
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Coat of Many Colors (song)
"Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton.
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Cocaine
Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.
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Columbo
Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Comedy drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.
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Comedy in Scotland
Comedy in Scotland is described as "cheeky rather than edgy", largely in part due to its use of language and innuendos.
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Comedy music
Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comical, comedic or humorous in nature.
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Comic Relief
Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.
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Connemara
Connemara (Conamara) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland.
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Construction foreman
A construction foreman, construction forewoman, or construction foreperson is the worker or skilled tradesperson who is in charge of a construction crew.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
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Cowal Community Hospital is a community hospital in Dunoon, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.
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Craic
Craic or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host. Billy Connolly and Craig Ferguson are 20th-century Scottish comedians, 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish comedians, 21st-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish memoirists, comedians from Glasgow, male actors from Glasgow, Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States, Scottish male comedians, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors, Scottish male voice actors and Scottish stand-up comedians.
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Cub Scouts (The Scout Association)
Cub Scouts, often shortened to Cubs, are a section of Scouting operated by The Scout Association with a core age of eight to ten and a half years of age.
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Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld (meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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D-I-V-O-R-C-E
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" is a song written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Tammy Wynette.
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D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
"D.I.V.O.R.C.E." is a 1975 UK number-one single by Scottish folk singer and comedian Billy Connolly.
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Danny Kyle
Danny Kyle (12 December 1939 – 5 July 1998) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter.
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Darien scheme
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony in the Darién Gap on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s.
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Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, and writer.
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Dennis and Gnasher (1996 TV series)
Dennis and Gnasher (or Dennis the Menace and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher) is a British animated television series based on characters from The Beano comic, which was broadcast on BBC from 2 April 1996 until 7 May 1998.
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Derroll Adams
Derroll Adams (November 27, 1925 – February 6, 2000) was an American folk musician.
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Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.
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Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) also termed "Doctor of Literature" in some countries is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities and social sciences that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor of Science (Sc.D.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music.
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Drumchapel
Drumchapel (Druim a' Chapaill), known locally as 'The Drum', is a district in the north-west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Drymen
Drymen (from Druiminn) is a village in the Stirling district of central Scotland.
Duart Castle
Duart Castle, or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic, is a castle on the Isle of Mull, beside the Sound of Mull off the west coast of Scotland, within the council area of Argyll and Bute.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Dunoon
Dunoon (Dùn Omhain) is the main town on the Cowal Peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Dwarfism
Dwarfism is a condition wherein an organism is exceptionally small, and mostly occurs in the animal kingdom.
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Eccentricity (behavior)
Eccentricity (also called quirkiness) is an unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual.
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Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard (born Edward John Izzard; 7 February 1962), also known as Suzy Izzard, is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. Billy Connolly and Elton John are British critics of religions.
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Emma Thompson
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and writer. Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson are British critics of religions.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Fido (film)
Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.
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Frank Bruno
Franklin Roy Bruno (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996.
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Freedom of the City
The Freedom of the City (or Borough in some parts of the UK) is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.
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Gabriel & Me
Gabriel and Me is a 2001 film starring Iain Glen, Sean Landless and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel.
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Gag-a-day
A gag-a-day comic strip is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke or some other kind of artistic statement.
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Gambit
A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (released in some countries as Garfield 2) is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow.
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George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.
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Gerry Rafferty
Gerald Rafferty (16 April 1947– 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty are 20th-century Scottish male singers, 21st-century Scottish male singers, Scottish male guitarists, Scottish people of Irish descent, the Humblebums members and Transatlantic Records artists.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Glasgow Fair
The Glasgow Fair is a holiday usually held during the second half of July in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Glasgow Times
The Glasgow Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Govan
Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland.
Gozo
Gozo (Għawdex), in antiquity known as Gaulos (𐤂𐤅𐤋|; Gaúlos), is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)
Gulliver's Travels is a 2010 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Rob Letterman in his live-action directorial debut, produced by John Davis and Gregory Goodman, from a screenplay written by Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller, with music composed by Henry Jackman.
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Hamish Imlach
Hamish Imlach (10 February 1940 – 1 January 1996) was a Scottish folk singer. Billy Connolly and Hamish Imlach are 20th-century Scottish male singers, Scottish folk singers and Transatlantic Records artists.
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Hammersmith Apollo
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace.
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Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Head of the Class
Head of the Class is an American sitcom television series that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television network.
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Headline Publishing Group
Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing brand and former company.
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Hemorrhoid
Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal.
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Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Honorary degree
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.
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House (TV series)
House (also called House, M.D.) is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012.
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Housing in Glasgow
Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings.
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Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.
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Hyacinthoides
Hyacinthoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.
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Idiosyncrasy
An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something.
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Improvisation
Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.
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In My Life (George Martin album)
In My Life is a 1998 album compiled and produced by George Martin.
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In the Navy
"In the Navy" is a song by American disco group Village People.
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Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal is a 1993 American erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Amy Holden Jones.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Irish Independent
The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.
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Irvine, North Ayrshire
Irvine (Irvin; Irbhinn) is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Isle of Mull
The Isle of Mull (An t-Eilean Muileach) or just Mull (Muile) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute.
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Isthmus of Panama
The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.
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J. J. Barrie
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Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. Billy Connolly and Jack Vettriano are Scottish people of Irish descent.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.
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Jersey
Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.
John Elliot Bradshaw (June 29, 1933 – May 8, 2016) was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality.
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John Brown & Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
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John Brown (servant)
John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years after working as a ghillie for Prince Albert.
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John Byrne (playwright)
John Patrick Byrne (6 January 1940 – 30 November 2023) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. Billy Connolly and John Byrne (playwright) are 20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights and Scottish people of Irish descent.
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Billy Connolly and John Cleese are British critics of religions.
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Billy Connolly and Judi Dench are people associated with Nottingham Trent University.
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Just Another Saturday
"Just Another Saturday" is the 15th episode of fifth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today.
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Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress.
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Kevin McKidd
Kevin McKidd (born 9 August 1973) is a Scottish actor and television director. Billy Connolly and Kevin McKidd are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 20th-century Scottish male singers, 21st-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male singers, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors and Scottish male voice actors.
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Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.
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Kingdom of Scotland
The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.
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Kingdom Swann
Kingdom Swann is an historical novel by the reclusive English writer Miles Gibson, his fourth book, first published 1990 by William Heinemann, London, ISNM 0-434-29133-1, in paperback by Black Swan in 1991, and subsequently reprinted by the Do-Not Press, London, in 1998.
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Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright (Kirkcoubrie; Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a royal burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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Knight Bachelor
The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Last Supper
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (also simply known as A Series of Unfortunate Events) is a 2004 American black comedy adventure film directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon, based on the first three novels of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (1999), The Reptile Room (1999), and The Wide Window (2000), by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler).
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Linoleum
Linoleum is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil (linoxyn), pine resin, ground cork dust, sawdust, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing.
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Linthouse
Linthouse is a neighbourhood in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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List of Edinburgh festivals
This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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List of The Hobbit characters
This article describes all named characters appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book The Hobbit.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
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Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London
Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London is the title of a 1991 comedy album release and a videotaped performance by Billy Connolly.
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Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
MacLellan's Castle
MacLellan's Castle in the town of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century.
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Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor.
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Malky McCormick
Malky McCormick (1943 – 15 April 2019) was a Scottish cartoonist, comics artist, postcard artist, caricaturist and musician. Billy Connolly and Malky McCormick are Scottish banjoists.
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Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Martin Lewis (humorist)
Martin Neil Lewis (born 24 July 1952) is a US-based English humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer, and marketing strategist.
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Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.
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Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Billy Connolly and Michael Caine are actors awarded knighthoods.
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Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author.
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Mike Batt
Michael Philip Batt, LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director, and conductor.
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Minder (TV series)
Minder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld.
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Miramax
Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.
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Monologue
In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
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Monty Python
Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Billy Connolly and Monty Python are Virgin Records artists.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
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Mrs Brown
Mrs Brown (also released in cinemas as Her Majesty, Mrs Brown) is a 1997 British drama film starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, and Gerard Butler in his film debut.
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Muppet Treasure Island
Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical swashbuckler comedy film directed by Brian Henson and the fifth theatrical film featuring the Muppets.
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Musical Tour of Scotland
Musical Tour of Scotland is a collection of traditional and original songs and tunes which accompanied Billy Connolly's 1994 television series World Tour of Scotland.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Nathan Joseph
Nathan Joseph (23 July 1939 – 30 August 2005) was a British record company founder, theatrical producer and talent agent.
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National Association for Bikers with a Disability
The National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD) is a Registered Charity (No. 1040907) in the United Kingdom and (No. SC039897) in Scotland.
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National Television Awards
The National Television Awards (often shortened to NTAs) is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and begun in 1995.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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No Charge
"No Charge" is a country music song, written by songwriter Harlan Howard.
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Not the Nine O'Clock News
Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 16 October 1979 to 8 March 1982.
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Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university located in Nottingham, England.
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Observational comedy
Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.
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Oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
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Open Season (2006 film)
Open Season is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Roger Allers and Jill Culton and co-directed by Anthony Stacchi (in Culton and Stacchi's directorial debuts), from a screenplay by Nat Mauldin and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman, and a screen story by Culton and Stacchi, based on an original idea by Steve Moore and John B.
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Open Season 2
Open Season 2 is a 2008 American animated comedy film and the sequel to the 2006 film Open Season, produced by Sony Pictures Animation.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.
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Oxbridge
Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom.
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Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality. Billy Connolly and Ozzy Osbourne are British harmonica players and people with Parkinson's disease.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire
Paisley (Paisley; Pàislig) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Stephenson, Lady Connolly (born 4 December 1949) is a New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian.
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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is the airborne and elite infantry regiment of the British Army.
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Parkinson (TV series)
Parkinson was a British television chat show presented by Michael Parkinson.
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Partick
Partick (Pairtick, Cumbric: Peartoc, Scottish Gaelic: Partaig) is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan.
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Pavilion Theatre (Glasgow)
The Pavilion Theatre is a theatre in Glasgow located on Renfield Street.
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Paws (film)
Paws is an independent 1997 Australian family comedy film that was released on 25 September 1997 in Australia and filmed in Sydney.
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Pearl (TV series)
Pearl is an American sitcom television series which aired on CBS from September 16, 1996 until June 25, 1997.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Physical abuse
Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.
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Pocahontas (1995 film)
Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company.
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Polydor Records
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.
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Prince Charming (2001 film)
Prince Charming is a 2001 television film.
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Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.
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Quartet (2012 film)
Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the play Quartet by Ronald Harwood that ran in London's West End from September 1999 until January 2000.
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Quartet (Harwood play)
Quartet is a play by Ronald Harwood about aging opera singers.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Rachel Maclean (artist)
Rachel Maclean (born 1987) is a Scottish multi-media artist. Billy Connolly and Rachel Maclean (artist) are Scottish artists.
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Radio Times
Radio Times (currently styled as RadioTimes) is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items.
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Rag-and-bone man
A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker (UK English) or ragman, old-clothesman, junkman, or junk dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants.
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Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell (born Ralph May; 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. Billy Connolly and Ralph McTell are Acoustic guitarists and British harmonica players.
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Residential child care communities or children's homes are a type of residential care, which refers to long-term care given to children who cannot stay in their birth family home.
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Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life.
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Retrospective
A retrospective (from Latin, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past.
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Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress.
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Ribaldry
Ribaldry or blue comedy is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency.
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River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Clyde Watter, or Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.
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Robbie Coltrane
Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March 195014 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. Billy Connolly and Robbie Coltrane are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male actors, Scottish male comedians, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors and Scottish male voice actors.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.
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Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris (30 March 1930 – 10 May 2023) was an Australian musician, television personality, painter, and actor.
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Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.
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Rosary
The Rosary (rosarium, in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), also known as the Dominican Rosary (as distinct from other forms of rosary such as the Franciscan Crown, Bridgettine Rosary, Rosary of the Holy Wounds, etc.), refers to a set of prayers used primarily in the Catholic Church, and to the physical string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers.
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (access-date) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and film in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Scots language
ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.
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Scottish independence
Scottish independence (Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once again becoming a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom.
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Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scots National Pairty, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party.
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Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.
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Scouting in Scotland
Scouting in Scotland is largely represented by Scouts Scotland, a registered Scottish Charity No.
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Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.
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Screen One
Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998.
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Screen Two
Screen Two is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing Screen 2 between April 1977 and March 1978).
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Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. Billy Connolly and Sean Connery are 20th-century Scottish male actors, 21st-century Scottish male actors, actors awarded knighthoods, Scottish male film actors, Scottish male television actors, Scottish male voice actors and Scottish people of Irish descent.
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Sentimental ballad
A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.
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Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.
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Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model.
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Sheb Wooley
Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Shrink Rap (TV series)
Shrink Rap is a British television series hosted by clinical psychologist Pamela Stephenson in which she interviews various celebrities using psychotherapeutic techniques.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Siege of Lucknow
The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East India Company's Army) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.
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Smoking pipe
A smoking pipe is used to taste the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe.
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Sobriety
Sobriety is the condition of not having any effects from alcohol or drugs.
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Springburn
Springburn (Allt an Fhuairainn) is an inner-city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow, made up of generally working-class households.
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St Gerard's Roman Catholic Secondary School, Govan
St Gerard's RC Secondary was a secondary school in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, formerly known as St Gerard's Senior Secondary School.
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St Peter's Boys School, Glasgow
St Peter's Boys School was a Roman Catholic school in Stewartville Street, Partick, Scotland.
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Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts.
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State-dependent memory
State-dependent memory or state-dependent learning is the phenomenon where people remember more information if their physical or mental state is the same at time of encoding and time of recall.
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Still Crazy
Still Crazy is a 1998 British comedy film directed by Brian Gibson (his final film before his death in 2004).
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Strathdon
Strathdon (Gaelic: Srath Dheathain) is an area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Super Gran
Super Gran is a Scottish fictional series about a grandmother with superpowers.
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Surrealist automatism
Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway.
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Tailcoat
A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the tails), with the front of the skirt cut away.
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Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.
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Tenement
A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.
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The Ballad of Nessie
The Ballad of Nessie is a 2011 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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The Barras
The Barras is a major street and indoor weekend market in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.
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The Big Man
The Big Man (US title: Crossing the Line) is a 1990 British sports drama film directed by David Leland.
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The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American-Canadian vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy in his feature directorial debut.
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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is a 2009 American-Canadian vigilante action thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy, based on a story by Duffy and his brother Taylor.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Debt Collector (1999 film)
The Debt Collector is a 1999 thriller, written and directed by Scottish dramatist Anthony Neilson and starring Billy Connolly, Ken Stott and Francesca Annis.
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The Dreamstone
The Dreamstone is a British animated television series that ran for four series, with 13 episodes per series between 1990 and 1995.
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The Dubliners
The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. Billy Connolly and the Dubliners are Polydor Records artists and Transatlantic Records artists.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Herald (Glasgow)
The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro.
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The Humblebums
The Humblebums were a Scottish folk rock band, based in Glasgow.
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The Impostors
The Impostors is a 1998 American farce film, directed, written, and produced by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Kenny Everett Television Show
The Kenny Everett Television Show is a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC1 from 24 December 1981 to 18 January 1988.
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The Kenny Everett Video Show
The Kenny Everett Video Show (later renamed The Kenny Everett Video Cassette) is a British television comedy and music programme that was made by Thames Television for ITV from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan.
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish actor and comedian Craig Ferguson.
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The London Studios
The London Studios (also known as The South Bank Studios, The London Television Centre, ITV Tower, Kent House and LWT Tower) in Lambeth, Central London was a television studio complex owned by ITV plc and originally built for London Weekend Television.
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The Man Who Sued God
The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian comedy film starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and directed by Mark Joffe.
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The Mercury (Hobart)
The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The Pick of Billy Connolly
The Pick of Billy Connolly is a Billy Connolly compilation album.
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The Return of the Musketeers
The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After (1845) by Alexandre Dumas.
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The Rocket Record Company
The Rocket Record Company is a record label founded by Elton John, along with Bernie Taupin, Gus Dudgeon, Steve Brown and others, in 1973.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
The Secret Policeman's Ball is a series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
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The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
The Secret Policeman's Ball was the third of the benefit shows staged by Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights field.
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was the fourth of the benefit shows staged by the British Section of Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights field.
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The South Bank Show
The South Bank Show is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010.
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The Sunday Post
The Sunday Post is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland, by DC Thomson, and characterised by a mix of news, human interest stories and short features.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a 2008 American supernatural thriller film directed by Chris Carter, and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz.
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Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield (Thorin II) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.
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Tickle on the Tum
Tickle on the Tum is a series of ten-minute programmes for young children produced by Granada Television and aired on the ITV network from 1984 until 1988.
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Timeline (2003 film)
Timeline is a 2003 historical science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel.
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Tom Buchan (poet)
Tom Buchan (19 June 1931 – 18 October 1995) Scottish poet, novelist and playwright/dramatist. Billy Connolly and Tom Buchan (poet) are 20th-century Scottish dramatists and playwrights.
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Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
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Tour manager
A tour manager (or concert tour manager) is the person who helps to organize the administration for a schedule of appearances of a musical group (band) or artist at a sequence of venues (a concert tour).
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Tracey Takes On...
Tracey Takes On... is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman.
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Tradesperson
A tradesperson or tradesman/woman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade.
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Transatlantic Records
Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label.
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Transatlantic Years
Transatlantic Years is a double compilation album by Billy Connolly, released in 2001 on Sanctuary Records.
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Two Roads
Two Roads Books is an imprint of John Murray Press now a division of Hachette.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Union Square, Manhattan
Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
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University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde (Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Veronica's Closet
Veronica's Closet is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman.
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Veterinary surgery
Veterinary surgery is surgery performed on non-human animals by veterinarians, whereby the procedures fall into three broad categories: orthopaedics (bones, joints, muscles), soft tissue surgery (skin, body cavities, cardiovascular system, GI/urogenital/respiratory tracts), and neurosurgery.
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Village People
Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music.
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Water (1985 film)
Water is a 1985 British comedy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Michael Caine.
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Welder
A welder is a person or equipment that fuses materials together.
Wembley Stadium (1923)
The original Wembley Stadium (originally known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley, London, best known for hosting important football matches.
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What We Did on Our Holiday
What We Did on Our Holiday is a 2014 British black comedy-drama film written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin.
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White Oleander (film)
White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky.
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Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history.
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
Who is Cletis Tout? is a 2002 comedy film written and directed by Chris Ver Wiel and starring Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Portia de Rossi, RuPaul, and Tim Allen.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.
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Wild Oats (film)
Wild Oats is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Gary Kanew and Claudia Myers.
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William Brodie
William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a housebreaker, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling.
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William, Prince of Wales
William, Prince of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982), is the heir apparent to the British throne.
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World Tour of Scotland
World Tour of Scotland is a six-part television series – the first of Billy Connolly's "world tours" – originally broadcast by the BBC in July and August 1994.
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Worzel Gummidge (TV series)
Worzel Gummidge is a British children's television series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, and based on the Worzel Gummidge books by English author Barbara Euphan Todd.
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Y.M.C.A. (song)
"Y.M.C.A." is a song by American disco group Village People, written by Jacques Morali (also the record's producer) and singer Victor Willis and released in October 1978 by Casablanca Records as the only single from their third studio album, Cruisin' (1978).
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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.
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Zombie
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi, Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.
100 Greatest (TV series)
100 Greatest is a long-running TV strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that has been broadcasting from 11 September 1999 to 10 October 2015, originating in Tyne Tees Television’s Factual Features department under Executive Producer Mark Robinson.
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15th (Scottish Volunteer) Parachute Battalion
The 15th (Scottish Volunteer) Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, originally raised as 15th (King's) Parachute Battalion by the British Army in World War II.
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2003 Birthday Honours
The 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2003 for the United Kingdom and on 2 June 2003 for New Zealand.
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2014 Scottish independence referendum
A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014.
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2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum
On 23 June 2016, a referendum took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU).
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2017 Birthday Honours
The 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.
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3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC.
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See also
20th-century Scottish comedians
- Alan Cumming
- Alex Munro (comedian)
- Allan Stewart (comedian)
- Billie Ritchie
- Billy Connolly
- Chic Murray
- Colin Mochrie
- Craig Ferguson
- Danny Bhoy
- Don Arrol
- George Logan (performer)
- Graeme Garden
- Harry Gordon (entertainer)
- Harry Lauder
- Ivor Cutler
- Jack Kirkwood
- James Finlayson (actor)
- Janey Godley
- Jerry Sadowitz
- Johnny Beattie
- Karen Dunbar
- Kev F. Sutherland
- Phil Kay
- Renée Houston
- Rhona Cameron
- Rikki Fulton
- Ronni Ancona
- Rory Bremner
- Scotland the What?
- Stanley Baxter
21st-century Scottish autobiographers
- Alex Ferguson
- Amy Liptrot
- Bernie Slaven
- Bill Martin (songwriter)
- Billy Connolly
- Chris Hoy
- Dennis Canavan
- Dominic Matteo
- Donald Macgregor (athlete)
- Donovan
- Elaine C. Smith
- Frank McLintock
- Frankie Boyle
- Jamie Andrew
- Janey Godley
- Joe Tarnowski
- John Wark
- Ken Bruce
- Liza Campbell
- Lou Macari
- Lulu (singer)
- Midge Ure
- Ralph Milne
- Stuart Christie
- Susan Boyle
- Tam Dalyell
- Winnie Ewing
21st-century Scottish comedians
- Alan Cumming
- Alun Cochrane
- Anne Miller (author)
- Ayesha Hazarika, Baroness Hazarika
- Billy Connolly
- Bob Slayer
- Colin Mochrie
- Craig Ferguson
- Daniel Sloss
- Danny Bhoy
- Darren Connell (comedian)
- Fern Brady
- Graeme Garden
- Ivor Cutler
- Janey Godley
- Jerry Sadowitz
- Johnny Beattie
- Karen Dunbar
- Kev F. Sutherland
- Kevin Bridges
- Larry Dean (comedian)
- Leo Kearse
- Phil Kay
- Rhona Cameron
- Richard Gadd
- Ronni Ancona
- Rory Bremner
- Stanley Baxter
- Susan Calman
- Wendy Wason
21st-century Scottish memoirists
- Alan Cumming
- Aminatta Forna
- Andrew Robertson
- Billy Connolly
- Candia McWilliam
- Craig Ferguson
- Fern Brady
- Gordon Brown
- James Campbell (author)
- Jock Zonfrillo
- Les McKeown
- Margaret Moncrieff
- Pat Nevin
- Phyllida Law
- Sylvia Patterson
British autoharp players
- Bat for Lashes
- Billy Connolly
- Brian Jones
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Dorris Henderson
- Imogen Heap
- Jeff Lynne
- John Paul Jones (musician)
- Jon Anderson
- Judy Dyble
- KatieJane Garside
- Mary Epworth
- Mike Pinder
- PJ Harvey
- Patrick Wolf
- Steve Hackett
- Steven Wilson
- Tracey Thorn
British boilermakers
- Alfred Short
- Barry Williams (politician)
- Billy Connolly
- Billy Williams (rugby union, born 1929)
- David Williams (Swansea East MP)
- Duncan McNeil
- Fred Cornish
- George Sage (footballer)
- Harry Pollitt
- John Hill (trade unionist)
- John MacDougall (British politician)
- Ted Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe
- William Page (cricketer)
British harmonica players
- Andy Partridge
- Arthur Tolcher
- Benny Gallagher
- Billy Connolly
- Bob Weston (guitarist)
- Brian Jones
- Dave Peabody
- David Bowie
- Denny Laine
- Donovan
- Duster Bennett
- Graham Nash
- Ian Gillan
- Jim King (saxophonist)
- John Lennon
- John Mayall
- John Stax
- Judd Lander
- Keith Relf
- Kieran White
- Leo Sayer
- Lew Lewis
- Mark Feltham (musician)
- Mick Jagger
- Neil Brewer
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Paul Jones (singer)
- Paul Lamb (musician)
- Pete Gage (singer)
- Peter Green (musician)
- Philip Achille
- Ralph McTell
- Ray Davies
- Ray Jackson (musician)
- Ray Thomas
- Rick Davies
- Robert Plant
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Roger Daltrey
- Spencer Davis
- Steve Marriott
- Van Morrison
Musicians with disabilities
- Alex Stobbs
- Alfredo Javaloyes López
- Ammar El Sherei
- Andy Fletcher (musician)
- Billy Connolly
- Blaine Harrison
- Blind musicians
- Django Reinhardt
- Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
- George Kooymans
- Girl in Red
- Girli
- Halid Bešlić
- Hayabusa (wrestler)
- Heinz Burt
- Hikari Ōe
- Ian Dury
- Ian Gregson (athlete)
- Iannis Xenakis
- Israel Vibration
- Józef Boruwłaski
- Kenshi Yonezu
- Laza Ristovski
- Liu Wei (pianist)
- Mamoru Samuragochi
- Marika Gombitová
- Martha Llwyd
- Mike Skinner (musician)
- Rajery
- Robert Wyatt
- Savant (musician)
- Shalva Band
- Sheikh Imam
- Staff Benda Bilili
- Tony Iommi
- William Ward-Higgs
People associated with Nottingham Trent University
- Becky Downie
- Billy Connolly
- Christina Patterson
- Colin Slater
- Ellie Downie
- Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford
- John Peace
- Judi Dench
- Michael Barber (educationist)
- Nwabueze Nwokolo
- Stephen D. Smith
People from Anderston
- Alan Fletcher (artist)
- Alex Mosson
- Arthur Henderson
- Billy Connolly
- Daniel Cottier
- George Stewart (footballer, born 1882)
- Johann Lamont
- John Roberts (footballer, born 1891)
- Matty Lochhead
- Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
- Roddy McMillan
- Thomas Lipton
- Tommy Glencross
- Tony Roper (actor)
People from Strathdon
- Billy Connolly
- Hamish Forbes
- Helen Denerley
- James Brebber
- Peter Goodfellow (artist)
Scottish atheists
- Adam Gowans Whyte
- Alan Cumming
- Allan Pinkerton
- Billy Connolly
- Carol Smillie
- Clementina Anstruther-Thomson
- Donald Findlay
- Frankie Boyle
- Henry Beveridge (orientalist)
- Iain Banks
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Ian McDiarmid
- Ivan McKee
- J. M. Robertson
- J. Michael Kosterlitz
- James Mill
- James Mirrlees
- James Murdoch (Scottish Orientalist)
- James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
- John Anderson (philosopher)
- John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
- John Leslie (physicist)
- John Niven
- John Oswald (activist)
- Limmy
- Ludovic Kennedy
- Marjory Newbold
- Momus (musician)
- Peter Capaldi
- Robin Cook
- Shirley Manson
- Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
- Stephen Batchelor (author)
- Steven Moffat
- Sylvester McCoy
- Tom Bell (politician)
- Tom Conti
Scottish banjoists
- Alastair McDonald (musician)
- Billy Connolly
- Chas McDevitt
- Davey Johnstone
- Graeme Garden
- Graham Lyle
- Malky McCormick
Scottish comics writers
- Alan Grant (writer)
- Billy Connolly
- Bud Neill
- Craig Conlan
- Dave Cook
- David Baillie (comics)
- Denise Mina
- Eddie Campbell
- Gerry Finley-Day
- Gordon Rennie
- Graham McNeill
- Grant Morrison
- Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins
- Ian Rankin
- John Duignan
- John Wagner
- Krysty Wilson-Cairns
- Mark Millar
- Metaphrog
- R. D. Low
- Robbie Morrison
- Sean Michael Wilson
- Tom Morton
Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States
- Adam Sinclair (actor)
- Andy Clyde
- Billy Connolly
- Brian Cox (actor)
- Chinaza Uche
- Craig Ferguson
- Darius Campbell Danesh
- David McCallum
- Don Douglas (actor)
- Dougray Scott
- Ernest Torrence
- Euan Morton
- Ewan McGregor
- Gerard Butler
- Gianni Capaldi
- Grant Kirkhope
- Henry Ian Cusick
- Henry Vibart
- James Finlayson (actor)
- Michael E. Rodgers
- Moffat Johnston
- Olaf Hytten
- Richard Fraser (actor)
- Richard Madden
- Ross King (presenter)
- Ross McCall
- William Shea (actor)
Scottish people of Indian descent
- Ayesha Hazarika, Baroness Hazarika
- Billy Connolly
- Charithra Chandran
- Claude Moraes
- Danny Bhoy
- Feryna Wazheir
- Hardeep Singh Kohli
- James Skinner (East India Company officer)
- Jamie Bhatti
- Jazz Juttla
- Navdeep Poonia
- Neil Patel (political advisor)
- Pam Gosal
- Paul Motwani
- Paul Wilson (footballer, born 1950)
- Priyanaz Chatterji
- Raman Bhardwaj
- Shannon Singh
- Tony Singh (chef)
- Vishal Marwaha
Scottish people with disabilities
- Alison Peebles
- Andrew Wilson (footballer, born 1896)
- Angus McPhee
- Anne Begg
- Billy Connolly
- Billy Mackenzie
- Callum Skinner
- Claire Cunningham
- Daniel Johnson (Scottish politician)
- Donovan
- Edward Rainey
- Elle McNicoll
- Eric Cullen
- Ethel MacDonald
- Fern Brady
- Frieda Inescort
- Gordon Aikman
- Helen Anne Henderson
- Hugh Miller
- JJ Chalmers
- Jackie Stewart
- James Niven
- Jimmy Galt
- Kamran Nazeer
- Lewis Gribben
- Lorna Slater
- Marilyn Gillies Carr
- Martin Dougan
- Nancy Riach
- Pam Duncan-Glancy
- Peter Howson
- Richard Jobson (television presenter)
- Roger MacDougall
- Simone Murphy
- Steve Bronski
- Tom Stoltman
- Walter Scott
- William McHardy
Scottish stand-up comedians
- Alun Cochrane
- Andy Cameron
- Anne Downie
- Billy Boyd (actor)
- Billy Connolly
- Bruce Fummey
- Chic Murray
- Craig Ferguson
- Daniel Sloss
- Danny Bhoy
- Darren Connell (comedian)
- Des Clarke (comedian)
- Des McLean (comedian)
- Elaine C. Smith
- Eleanor Morton (comedian)
- Frankie Boyle
- Iain Stirling
- Janey Godley
- Keara Murphy
- Kevin Bridges
- Larry Dean (comedian)
- Leo Kearse
- Limmy
- Marjolein Robertson
- Mark Meechan
- Phil Kay
- Raymond Mearns
- Rhona Cameron
- Richard Gadd
- Stephen Carlin
- Susan Calman
- Tormod MacGill-Eain
- Wendy Wason
The Humblebums members
- Billy Connolly
- Gerry Rafferty
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Connolly
Also known as Big Yin, Billy Connelly, Billy Connolly filmography, Billy Connolly: Live in New York, Billy Connolly: The Essential Collection, Billy Connoly, Billy Conolly, Billy conoly, The Big Yin.
, Bonnie George Campbell, Brandy, Brave (2012 film), Brexit, Brighton, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Awards, British Hit Singles & Albums, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brownies (Scouting), Buckingham Palace, Bulldozer, Bullshot (film), Calgary Sun, Cameo appearance, Can I Have My Money Back?, Catholic Church, Celtic F.C., Channel 4, Channel 5 (British TV channel), Character actor, Child sexual abuse, Chortle, Chuck Berry, City Lights (1984 TV series), Clan Maclean, Cliff Richard, Coast guard, Coat of Many Colors (song), Cocaine, Columbo, Comedy drama, Comedy in Scotland, Comedy music, Comic Relief, Connemara, Construction foreman, Cover version, Cowal Community Hospital, Craic, Craig Ferguson, Cub Scouts (The Scout Association), Cumbernauld, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, D.I.V.O.R.C.E., Danny Kyle, Darien scheme, Dawn French, Dennis and Gnasher (1996 TV series), Derroll Adams, Digital Spy, Doctor of Letters, Dolly Parton, Drumchapel, Drymen, Duart Castle, Dublin, Dunoon, Dustin Hoffman, Dwarfism, Eccentricity (behavior), Eddie Izzard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Elton John, Emma Thompson, European Union, Fido (film), Fiji, Financial Times, Florida, Folk music, Folk rock, Frank Bruno, Freedom of the City, Gabriel & Me, Gag-a-day, Gambit, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, George Martin, Gerry Rafferty, Glasgow, Glasgow Fair, Glasgow Times, Govan, Gozo, Guitar, Gulliver's Travels (2010 film), Hamish Imlach, Hammersmith Apollo, Harley-Davidson, HarperCollins, HBO, Head of the Class, Headline Publishing Group, Hemorrhoid, Hodder & Stoughton, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Honorary degree, House (TV series), Housing in Glasgow, Howard Hesseman, Hyacinthoides, Idiosyncrasy, Improvisation, In My Life (George Martin album), In the Navy, Indecent Proposal, India, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Irish Independent, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Isle of Mull, Isthmus of Panama, ITV (TV network), J. 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Barrie, Jack Vettriano, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jersey, John Bradshaw (author), John Brown & Company, John Brown (servant), John Byrne (playwright), John Cleese, Judi Dench, Just Another Saturday, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Key West, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom Swann, Kirkcudbright, Knight Bachelor, Labour Party (UK), Last Supper, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Linoleum, Linthouse, List of Edinburgh festivals, List of The Hobbit characters, Live Aid, Live at the Odeon Hammersmith London, Loch Lomond, London, MacLellan's Castle, Malcolm McDowell, Malky McCormick, Malta, Martin Lewis (humorist), Mary, mother of Jesus, Michael Caine, Michael Parkinson, Mike Batt, Minder (TV series), Miramax, Monologue, Monty Python, Mozambique, Mrs Brown, Muppet Treasure Island, Musical Tour of Scotland, Myanmar, Nathan Joseph, National Association for Bikers with a Disability, National Television Awards, New York City, No Charge, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Nottingham Trent University, Observational comedy, Oil platform, Open Season (2006 film), Open Season 2, Order of the British Empire, Oxbridge, Ozzy Osbourne, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Pamela Stephenson, Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Parkinson (TV series), Parkinson's disease, Partick, Pavilion Theatre (Glasgow), Paws (film), Pearl (TV series), Penguin Books, Pete Seeger, Peter Cook, Peter Jackson, Physical abuse, Pixar, Play (theatre), Play for Today, Plymouth, Pocahontas (1995 film), Polydor Records, Prince Charming (2001 film), Prostate cancer, Protestantism, Pub, Public housing in the United Kingdom, Quartet (2012 film), Quartet (Harwood play), Queen Victoria, Rachel Maclean (artist), Radio Times, Rag-and-bone man, Ralph McTell, Residential child care community, Retirement, Retrospective, Revue, Rhea Perlman, Ribaldry, River Clyde, Robbie Coltrane, Robin Williams, Rolf Harris, Ronald Harwood, Ronnie Barker, Rosary, Royal Air Force, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Saint Lucia, Sandstone, Scotland, Scots language, Scottish independence, Scottish National Party, Scottish Parliament, Scouting in Scotland, Screen Actors Guild, Screen One, Screen Two, Sean Connery, Sentimental ballad, Sexual abuse, Sharon Stone, Sheb Wooley, Shrink Rap (TV series), Siberia, Siege of Lucknow, Sky News, Smoking pipe, Sobriety, Springburn, St Gerard's Roman Catholic Secondary School, Govan, St Peter's Boys School, Glasgow, Stand-up comedy, State-dependent memory, Still Crazy, Strathdon, Suicide, Super Gran, Surrealist automatism, Tailcoat, Tammy Wynette, Tenement, The Ballad of Nessie, The Barras, The Beatles, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Big Man, The Boondock Saints, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The Daily Telegraph, The Debt Collector (1999 film), The Dreamstone, The Dubliners, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Humblebums, The Impostors, The Independent, The Kenny Everett Television Show, The Kenny Everett Video Show, The Last Samurai, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The London Studios, The Man Who Sued God, The Mercury (Hobart), The Observer, The Pick of Billy Connolly, The Return of the Musketeers, The Rocket Record Company, The Scotsman, The Secret Policeman's Ball, The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, The South Bank Show, The Sunday Post, The Sunday Times, The Times, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Thorin Oakenshield, Tickle on the Tum, Timeline (2003 film), Tom Buchan (poet), Top of the Pops, Tour manager, Tracey Takes On..., Tradesperson, Transatlantic Records, Transatlantic Years, Two Roads, UK singles chart, Union Square, Manhattan, United Kingdom, United Press International, University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Veronica's Closet, Veterinary surgery, Village People, Water (1985 film), Welder, Wembley Stadium (1923), What We Did on Our Holiday, White Oleander (film), Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series), Who Is Cletis Tout?, Whoopi Goldberg, Wild Oats (film), William Brodie, William, Prince of Wales, World Tour of Scotland, Worzel Gummidge (TV series), Y.M.C.A. (song), Yehudi Menuhin, Zombie, 100 Greatest (TV series), 15th (Scottish Volunteer) Parachute Battalion, 2003 Birthday Honours, 2014 Scottish independence referendum, 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2017 Birthday Honours, 3rd Rock from the Sun.