Comments | thewayne: Monty Python--: Terry Jones, RIP

thewayne

Monty Python--: Terry Jones, RIP

Jan 22, 2020 07:20

Terry passed away from a form of dementia that robbed him of his ability to communicate, he was 77. Part of their last series of performances paid off his mortgage and debts so he didn't have to worry about his financial future ( Read more... )

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thespian15 January 22 2020, 15:52:42 UTC

RIP Mr. Jones. :(
Hugs, Jon

thewayne January 23 2020, 03:49:27 UTC

As John Cleese said, "Two down, four to go."

thespian15 January 23 2020, 08:38:20 UTC

Oh No. :(

thewayne January 23 2020, 13:22:25 UTC

Yeah, Graham Chapman died of esophageal cancer, IIRC, some 20+ years ago, he died pretty young. The remaining Pythons are John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and the American animator, Terry Gilliam.

Carol Cleveland, who appeared in quite a number of sketches when they needed a real woman and also toured with them and appeared in the first two films, is also still alive but was never a fully credited member of the troupe.

Two other unofficial Pythons were Douglas Adams and Neal Innes. Adams wrote and performed with them in the final TV season when John Cleese left. He passed away in the '90s(?). Innes did a lot of music with them and did some live performances with them, he passed away just a couple of weeks ago.

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markmc03 January 23 2020, 01:11:03 UTC

I'm sorry to hear this. But he had a good run with his friends. He was brilliant.

thewayne January 23 2020, 03:49:06 UTC

He truly was a brilliant man. I was emailing with a friend that it was such serendipity that all of the Pythons came out of university at about the same time, all were writing for the BBC for different projects at the same time, and all came together to form Monty Python's Flying Circus. And the structure of comedy has changed so much in the 50+ years between then and now that I don't think that we are likely to ever see such a happening again.

But at least we have our DVD collections.

markmc03 January 23 2020, 06:09:37 UTC

DVD? You mean you don't have a laser disc player?

Seriously though, yes, we have a digital record for as long as we have electricity. A few more years at least.

thewayne January 23 2020, 13:17:38 UTC

Actually, I have two laser disc players! They're not connected at the moment, my A/V stereo had a fit and blew up its HDMI switch, so I can't easily connect anything except my DVD/BR player to my TV at the moment. ;-)

I have a couple of boxes of discs for it, but no Python. As I recall, the most notable releases that I have are the first digital releases of Toy Story and Fantasia.

chaquir January 24 2020, 07:21:59 UTC

I always did watch Monthy Python, and he was a really good actor.

thewayne January 24 2020, 13:16:59 UTC

I started watching Python when it was first aired over here, it must have been shortly after it was discontinued on the BBC. It definitely was a major influence in my life, giving me an insight into humor that I otherwise would have never appreciated.

The only time that I ever won a piece in the board game Trivial Pursuit was because of Python! And the category was romance literature! The question had to do with Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff, one or the other was the question and answer, and I knew it from a sketch where they presented Wuthering Heights in semaphore.

So comedy can be educational.