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Sir Billy Connolly: 'You don't wake up famous, you wake up scratching yourself like everybody else'

"I've got Parkinson's disease," Sir Billy Connolly writes in his new book, Tall Tales And Wee Stories, "and I wish he'd f***ing kept it to himself!"

When I meet him in a hotel suite in London's plush Mayfair for this interview, Connolly is having one of his better days. White hair cascading to the collar of his denim jacket, a chunky metallic ring on his right hand, he navigates the...