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Billy Connolly officially announces retirement from stand-up comedy
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evoke.ieLegendary Scottish comedian Billy Connolly has revealed that he will no longer be doing stand-up comedy due to the escalation of his Parkinson’s disease.
Despite saying he wouldn’t rule out performing once again last year, the 77-year-old comedian made the comments while talking to Sky News, saying: ‘I’m finished with stand-up – it was lovely and it was lovely being good at it.
It was the first thing I was ever good at.’ Billy also explained that while he is invited to events with other Parkinson’s sufferers, he turns them down a lot because he doesn’t want his disease to ‘define’ him.
He also admitted that he sometimes gets upset over his diagnosis, and explained that he is drooling more, occasionally has difficulty hearing and walking and
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