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RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:13 pm
by OBI-wan
Terry Jones of Monty Python has died.
Re: RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 3:23 pm
by dlodoski
Hmmmm. Bummer.
The stuff he did in
The Life of Brian will always crack me up. Very funny guy.
I have the entire Flying Circus collection on DVD. I'm getting close to sitting through that. Anybody remember the Colonial Tennis match?
Re: RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:48 pm
by BogDog
"He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!"
I have the entire Flying Circus collection permanently burned into my memory. We use to recite the entire script for "...Grail". The others too.
Rest In Peace, funny man. Thank you for all the belly laughs.
Re: RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 11:28 pm
by MadMax359
i hope he finally gets Two Sheds
Re: RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:54 am
by pete1672
Jones was my favorite member of the Pythons; Cleese and Palin were arguably the funniest performers, but Jones' writing and direction endeared him most to me. The animations of Gilliam aside, Jones' contributions were always the most surreal, the most cartoonish; it was that humor that appealed to me most in Python.
All my heroes are leaving me...
Re: RIP Terry Jones.
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:53 am
by BogDog
https://youtu.be/hjkBzf6leGoWARNING: The last scene made me cry.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin (whom he met at Oxford) wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programs, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, and American animator/filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Jones was largely responsible for the program's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punchlines. He made his directorial debut with the team's first film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.