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Michael Parkinson has said that comic legend Billy Connolly now struggles to recognise people.
Connolly, 75, went public about having Parkinson's disease five years ago, but has still been performing until recently and making jokes. In 2017 when ITV1 screened a documentary about him he told Weekend magazine: "There’s a whole lot of shaking going on. It’s kind of weird, this instability. The only time it stops is when I’m in bed and then I can’t roll over. I’m like a big log."
The BBC has upheld a complaint after Jeremy Paxman made an error during a University Challenge question.
In the Celebrity edition which was broadcast last December Paxman attributed Billy Connolly's banana boots to artist John Byrne rather than actual creator Edmund Smith.
The complaint was made by Edmund Smith's daughter. Smith made the size nine bananas for the iconic comedian in 1975.
Comedy legend Billy Connolly has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
He said he was "pleased and a little embarrassed...It won't really dawn on me until Glasgow people start calling me 'Sir Billy' or whatever they come up with...I feel as if I should be called Lancelot or something,"
Pictures have been released of comedian Billy Connolly in front of portraits of him on the streets of Glasgow.
The murals are part of a ‘larger than life’ tribute to The Big Yin, launched by BBC Scotland in conjunction with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life.
A programme will go out this week on BBC One Scotland on June 14 which will show clips of highlights from Billy’s career, and Billy meeting the artists to talk about life, work, comedy and inspiration.
Three representations of the comedian, who turns 75 this year, from original works by top Scottish artists commissioned by BBC Scotland, will go up on walls dotted across Glasgow city centre area.
Billy Connolly has spoken about how he is dealing with Parkinson's Disease in the run-up to a celebration of his work on ITV1.
This piece first appeared on Robin Ince's blog. Read more posts here.
I’ve just been to a screening of Billy Connolly’s High Horse Tour Live.
Billy Connolly is back on the road, doing what he loves best - stand-up. His Parkinson’s Disease means he can no longer play the banjo, but despite ill health he has clung on to that most precious of faculties – a sense of humour.
Age is not a factor when it comes to laughter. We can continue to choose to laugh till the end. And if we have the ability to make people laugh, age cannot take that away from us either.
Billy Connolly’s two-part series on the way we treat death was a strangely moving affair. Not because he was meeting bereaved and dying people from around the world, but because Connolly himself looked so frail at times. Connolly opened the series by explaining that in the same week he was told, among other things, that he had Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer. He was also given a hearing aid.
Update 18/9/13 – After this piece about comedians discussing their prostates appeared I received some interesting feedback. I was advised by one reader that I should go back to my doctor and insist on an examination or change doctors. Or maybe I should take the approach of comedian Bob Slayer (pictured below), who ran Heroes @ The Fringe in Edinburgh this summer and has reminded me of a story he told in his act, as follows:
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