I’d like to sleep with the fishes... Billy Connolly says he wants memorial table on Loch Lomond
World famous funnyman says final tribute no laughing matter
The great and good are often remembered after they die with a headstone, perhaps a plaque, or sometimes even a statue.
But Billy Connolly, one of the most popular Scots of the modern era, he wants his memorial to be a lot more useful.
The funnyman has revealed he’d like to be commemorated with a stone table in the middle of Loch Lomond.
He revealed he’d like his memorial to be “practical”, and would be a gift to fisherman on the Loch.
Glaswegian Billy revealed his wishes in his new book, Tall Tales and Wee Stories, a collection of his stand- up routines and observations.
The book has been dubbed a celebration of his life, and was accompanied by a cinema release of a movie, The Sex Life Of Bandages.
The tribute was a box office hit. Billy has been battling Parkinson’s Disease after revealing he had the condition in 2013.
Last week he revealed his fond memories of the start of his stage career in the 60s and 70s.
“I look back on it with great joy,” he said. “It was a great bunch of people – folkies, jazzers, poets, storytellers, people that knew obscure music and played weird instruments, all of them vaguely hippy and strange. It was totally unique.
“I’ve always admired ordinary people – the electrician, the nurse, the secretary. You’ll see them in the pub, roaring with laughter, not a comedian among them.
“Ordinary people are great at comedy. They wish they could do it – they don’t know they can.”