Billy Connolly announces retirement from live performance

Comedian also rejects suggestions that Parkinson’s disease has ‘dulled’ his brain

Billy Connolly has announced that after a half-century career in standup, music, film and television he is retiring from live performing.

The news came in an interview where the comedian also revealed he had tried medicinal cannabis to treat his Parkinson’s disease, likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and rebutted Michael Parkinson’s claim that his illness had “dulled” his brain.

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