In the "joyful" new book, Billy explores this philosophy and how it has shaped him, and "he shares hilarious new stories from his lifetime on the road". From riding his trike down America's famous Route 66, building an igloo on an iceberg in the Arctic, playing elephant polo (badly) in Nepal and crashing his motorbike (more than once), to eating witchetty grubs in Australia, being serenaded by a penguin in New Zealand, and swapping secrets in a traditional Sweat Lodge ritual in Canada.

Billy Connolly hits out at 'pathetic' Scottish Labour politicians, by Laura Webster". Glasgow Times. 11 June 2020 . Retrieved 19 June 2020. Billy Connolly has, over the last six decades, unloaded an avalanche of intimate details about his private life. Such is our familiarity with the Big Yin’s saga, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he’s already written his memoir.

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Connolly, without any malice, simply as if it’s the only subject he ever has in mind, says: “Yeah.” It all feels behind you, in a good way. You’re telling the whole story Connolly has spoken about how he was sexually abused by his father between the ages of 10 and 15. He believes this was a result of the Catholic Church not allowing his father to divorce after his mother left the family. Connolly has since had a "deep distrust and dislike of the Catholic church and any other organization that brainwashes people", and considers himself an atheist.

In August 2018, his old friend Michael Parkinson said that Billy was struggling to remember who his friends were, and this "wonderful brain had dulled". Connolly, who was a welder in his home city before becoming an entertainer, said: "It's the first time I've done this. Other people have written about me, or for me, but this time it's just my own life in my own words. Gay Byrne interviews Billy Connolly on The Late Late Show Connolly says in his early days working at a Glasgow shipyard, he never understood why the workers were so negative.Billy Connolly confronts his losing battle with Parkinson's disease". Newshub . Retrieved 3 January 2019. Billy’s love for books, music and animals were some of my favourite aspects. Some passages will no doubt be familiar to fans from his stand-up shows over the years – but they never get old. His approach to comedy was insightful and as much a reflection of Billy’s approach to life too. Before this, in 1968 aged 26, Connolly married interior designer Iris Pressagh. In 1985, they divorced after 16 years, having separated four years earlier, and he was awarded custody of their children. Called an "optimism nuclear generator" during a BBC Radio interview in 2019, Connolly on where his optimism comes from. [52]