Sir Billy Connolly: 'I don't fear death'

Sir Billy Connolly has insisted he does not fear death as he revealed how laughter was helping him cope with Parkinson's disease.

The comedian said he viewed old age as an adventure that was preparing him for the "next episode in the spirit world".

But he said there was "still time to go yet, places to go, new friends to make, new songs to write and sing and jokes to tell".

The 76-year-old was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2012.

Speaking in the Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland documentary to be shown on BBC2 on Friday evening, Sir Billy said his age and his diagnosis with the degenerative brain condition meant he was now "at the wrong end of the telescope of life".

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