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The Big Yin
Billy Connolly One Night Only
Americans are weird. Foreigners are weird. There is no better man to make us laugh at the oddities of human nature than Billy Connolly, an aggressively funny Scottish man. As a stand-up comedian, his observational comedy is off-the-cuff, quite offensively funny, and completely true. He pokes fun at the quirks of the human plight and it’s interesting because at some point he will be making fun of you. While everyone, including yourself, is laughing, you’ll be looking out of the corner of your eye for fear you’ll see your friends pointing and saying “That’s you! That’s you!” Especially after you spent the whole show in side splits about the hilarity of such ruthless humor, it will be refreshing to be called out so well. His diverse audience is a clear indicator that no one is spared laughter not even to the point of near death.
This show is a once in a lifetime chance, which is quite appropriate considering there is only one show. Los Angeles gets the privilege and intense responsibility of housing The Big Yin at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre on June 4. Angelos alike should all be aware that Billy Connolly is the most entertaining on the attack and is very good at what he does. The man has been generating laughs for over four decades and his enthusiasm has remained unchanged. In fact, it’s apparent when he laughs at his own jokes that his stories are merely to entertain himself, it just so happens that he is doing it in front of an audience. Luckily they find them just as funny and it is his freshness that has kept the appeal alive for much longer than his youth.
With the show, filled with the antics and observatory musings of a boy who never grew up, expect to hear jokes about everything offensive, funny, and simply down-right hilarious. As with the best things, they get better with age and an adolescent boy in man’s pants has an interesting perspective on the rules of growing up. He even says himself that since he never grew up, he never grew out of the jokes. There is always something inherently hilarious and somehow tragic about being vulnerable to this man’s humor. The fact that no one is spared is a clear indicator that no one is perfect, no one is without some humor, and the people with the least amount of humor are always going to be the best to laugh at.
If you are looking to be pleasantly delighted, as you were with afternoon tea, expect to have your doilies ripped off their armchairs. This comedy show is prescribed to be about as unforgiving as a red wine stain and as irrationally funny as that time the neighbor’s husband was caught with his pants down in the garden.
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