Billy Connolly says his sick sense of humour is helping him cope with Parkinson’s as his symptoms are worsen.The Big Yin was diagnosed with the disease in 2013.The comic, who stopped performing live six years ago due to the condition, says he hasn’t given up on a cure being found.Billy, 77, said: “Now that I am getting older and sicker it is important that my comedy kicks in.
I went to a doctor in New York, he was a Russian and he said, ‘Do you realise it’s an incurable disease?’ I was like, come on behave yourself.“Instead of saying incurable, say you have yet to find a cure.“It gives me a wee light at the end of the tunnel.
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