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"Billy Connolly has said that he plans to keep performing despite his recent memory issues. The 70-year-old comedian revealed that he is planning a stand-up tour in 2014, while undergoing treatment for Parkinson&amp;#039;s Disease.  However, he told TV Now that his health problems would not stop him from performing, as it is just &amp;quot;something that comes with age&amp;quot;. He said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m starting to have problems with remembering things but who doesn&amp;#039;t when they get to my age. You definitely can&amp;#039;t refer to me as a spring chick any more. &amp;quot;I get blanks all the time now, the curtains fall down in front of your eyes so you just keep talking till you remember your material that you were going to say. &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re nervous, you forget everything you were supposed to do and you just think, &amp;#039;What am I going to say to these people?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;And when you go out, you become the other guy. Sometimes you get blanks, just like jetlag. I&amp;#039;m not getting any younger. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s something that comes with age. I&amp;#039;ve had a pretty good run of it, to get to my 70s and still be standing upright is half the battle. You just take it all as it comes, don&amp;#039;t you?&amp;quot;  Connolly also revealed that despite his diagnosis in September, he has enjoyed the year after filming The Hobbit. He said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been having a great year, the time of my life. The Hobbit was a dream job to get. &amp;quot;I love travel and getting to stay down in New Zealand, playing this warrior dwarf with a red Mohawk and hair down to my arse. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been wonderful... It&amp;#039;s like being back at school with those lads, like you&amp;#039;re on a class trip. And Jimmy Nesbitt was the biggest laugh on set, and he knows great songs. You know those Irish traditional songs with big fights in them, he knows every syllable of them.&amp;quot; In October, Billy Connolly was given the all-clear in relation to prostate cancer. Watch the trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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