Sir Billy Connolly performed his last stand-up comedy gig in 2017.He was forced to stop touring by ill health. As he put it after being diagnosed in 2013: “I’ve got Parkinson’s disease.
I wish he’d f***ing kept it.”Nowadays, The Big Yin is happy to spend his time out of the spotlight, fishing from the dock of his home in the Florida Keys, writing his autobiography and enjoying a new-found love of art.And in a new documentary 78-year-old Billy speaks about this “new lease of life” and reflects on his last stage performances in the 2017 High Horse tour.He says: “It was obvious from my movement, that I wasn’t who I used to be.