BILLY Connolly has said he would come back to live in Scotland at the “drop of a hat” as he revealed he would like a memorial on the banks of Loch Lomond.

The legendary Scots comic was speaking to Damian Barr as part of a Facebook live event to promote his new autobiography, “Windswept and Interesting”.

Connolly told the event, run in partnership with Waterstones, that he would want his ashes to be scattered over Loch Lomond - and to have a gravestone on its banks.

He further joked that he would want that stone to be turned on its side, so that fishermen could have somewhere for a sit down and a cup of tea.

He was also asked about the passing of another legendary Scot, Sir Sean Connery.

Connolly said that he will “always miss Sean”.

“I missed him while he was alive and I’ll miss him now he’s gone. The world’s a poorer place without him,” he said.

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Connolly, who has lived in the US for more than three decades, also told listeners that he still felt Glasgow was “very much” his home.

He went on: “Even now, talking about it I get a kind of vibration. It’s a lovely place. It means a great deal to me.

“It’s a lovely town to come from. It has the same feeling as a granny in your life. It's a wise old woman. It can nail you, but it can also raise you up. One minute you feel like crying, the next minute you are dancing. It’s a good place.”

Connolly was asked if he could recall his first memories of the Clyde, to which he said: “My first memories of the Clyde are at New Year’s Eve. My father would come in and say happy new year and he’d open the window and all the boats on the Clyde would do their horns… it was wonderful.

“The other lovely moment I have is at the top of Gardner Street [in Partick].

"As you stood at the top of the hill when I was a wee boy and you looked straight forward down the hill you could see the roofs of buildings going into the distance, and then a ship would pass … it would be going through the buildings … and that’s my other great memory of the Clyde flowing through Glasgow.”

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Connolly, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2013 and later retired from live comedy as a result, also said he had lost all trust in politicians.

He said: “The comedian and the poet have a licence to tell the truth. It's a great privilege to able to stand on a stage and say what you think the world is like. The only people I trust now are comics and poets. I don’t trust politicians or anybody like that.”

You can watch the full interview with Billy Connolly on Facebook.