What legendary comedian Billy Connolly wants written on his gravestone

Legendary comedian Billy Connolly has always had a knack for leaving audiences in stitches, and it seems he’s planning to keep that tradition alive, even after he’s gone.

In a light-hearted revelation, the beloved comic shared the humorous message he wants etched into his gravestone, proving that even in death, he’s determined to get the last laugh.

In his 2023 book Rambling Man: My Life on the Road, Connolly not only revealed the witty inscription he plans to have on his grave but also shared the one his wife vetoed.

“I was thinking I’d like: ‘Jesus Christ, is that the time already?’ on mine, but my wife Pamela was shaky about it, so we settled on ‘You’re standing on my balls!’ in tiny wee writing,” he wrote.

In a more serious reflection, Connolly spoke of his thoughts on death and what is waiting for us on the other side.

“I used to think about death, and about the life I led, and would ask myself, ‘How will I be held responsible for it when I come to judgment before God?’ I don’t believe that any more, although the whole thing is still a mystery to me,” he shared.

More recently, as part of the upcoming BBC documentary, Billy Connolly: In My Own Words, the 81-year-old spoke of how he no longer fears the prospect of death and how he has found peace with his Parkinson’s diagnosis and the inevitable realities that come with it.

“With something as big as that you just confront it and stick to the front of it. Be with it and make decisions based on it,” he said in the documentary, as per The Scottish Sun.

“And don’t think you have been badly treated and think you have got the bad pick of the straws. It’s not like that, you’re one of millions, just behave yourself, relax.

“You realise that death isn’t the big thing that everybody has made it out to be. It’s nothing, it’s a sudden nothing.”

In addition to what he wants written on his gravestone and his poignant thoughts on death, Connolly has also previously hinted at where he’d ultimately like to be laid to rest.

In 2018 he opened up about his plans to return to Scotland while filming a documentary series entitled Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour. At the time he revealed that he plans to be buried near the banks of Loch Lomond, outside of Glasgow.

“I remember standing by the shores of Loch Lomond, Inversnaid, and the sky was beautiful,” he said.

“I remember that line, I forget whose line it is: ‘Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land’.

“I don’t like to look like a bagpiper with heather in my ears but sometimes your love for the place just has to find a stage. I’d like to die there.

“It’s a weird subject to bring up, but I wouldn’t like to stay away forever. I’d like to be planted there eventually – in Loch Lomond.”