link is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. link together with Tam Harvey started a group called the Humblebums. Billy Connolly and Tam Harvey at their first gig, Billy Connolly reportedly introduced them both to the audience by saying, "My name's Billy Connolly, and I'm humble. This is Tam Harvey, he's a bum." It is as a stand-up comedian that Billy Connolly is best known. Billy Connolly observational comedy is idiosyncratic and often off-the-cuff. Billy Connolly has outraged certain sectors of audiences, critics and the media with his free use of the word "fuck". Billy Connolly has often joked about the regularity of the deaths of the characters that Billy Connolly portrays in movies. "If you want to see me (Billy Connolly) in a movie, you have to hurry to the theatre, because I usually die in the first fifteen minutes". Billy Connolly has made jokes relating to masturbation, blasphemy, defecation, flatulence, haemorrhoids, sex, Billy Connolly even made jokes about his father's illness, his aunts' cruelty and, in the latter stages of his career and Billy Connolly made jokes about his old age.