
Sir Billy Connolly is on “good drugs” and takes “six pills a day” but the time has come for the comedian to bow out of stand-up comedy forever because of his Parkinson’s disease.
The 77-year-old has been living with the disease publicly since 2013, and has told Sky News his fans won’t see him on stage again.
“The Parkinson’s has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy,” he told the broadcaster.
Connolly last performed in 2017 in a world tour before officially announcing his retirement in 2018. However, he had hoped to perform again in some way.
But in a recent interview with Sky, the veteran comedian explained that in comedy “everything you say should have five or six alternatives behind it. You’d say something and then attack it from behind, and let the story make itself up.”
“It’s a madly exciting thing to do. The story is taking place and you don’t know where it’s going. It’s a delight. It’s a privilege to be part of it,” he added.
It is for these reasons however, that Connolly can no longer perform.