ITV documentaryBilly Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure where he was upfront about what was to come. He said: “It’s got me and it will get me and it will end me but that’s OK with me. ”Read more: Sir Paul McCartney wants to get COVID vaccine as soon as possibleSir Billy added: “I started low and I ended high.
Just staying up there, until it is time to stop, seems a natural and good thing to do. It is a good thing to be proud of, I wanted to be a funnyman and I got it. ”The star was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013 and has not performed a stand-up gig since 2017 because he started to find he couldn’t remember his stories well enough.