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Terry Jones, Monty Python Co-Founder and Comedy Polymath, Dead at 77
Rolling Stone|19 hours ago
Terry Jones, one of the core members of Monty Python and director of three of the comedy troupe's films, died Tuesday after a battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD, the BBC reports. Jones' agent confirmed his death, while his family also issued a statement. 展e have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative, and truly loving man whose uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect, and extraordinary humor has given pleasure to countless millions across six decades, they said. 滴is work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programs, poems, and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath.
"Jones frequent writing partner, Michael Palin, said, 滴e was far more than one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation, he was the complete Renaissance comedian writer, director, presenter, historian, brilliant children痴 author, and the warmest, most wonderful company you could wish to have.
"Jones helped launch Monty Python in 1969, working as a writer and actor on their breakout sketch show, Monty Python痴 Flying Circus. He also played a crucial role in the development of its stream-of-consciousness style, where classic sketch tenets and structures were dropped in favor of irreverent beats and random endings. Jones would go on to co-direct with Terry Gilliam one of Python痴 first movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and later helmed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. Along with his comedy career, Jones moonlighted as a medieval historian, political pundit, and children痴 book author.
Jones was born in Wales in 1942 but was raised in England. He studied English literature at Oxford, which is where he met Palin while performing in the Oxford Revue. The pair formed a partnership and, after graduating, ventured out into the television-comedy world together. They spent the mid-Sixties working on a variety of shows, such as David Frost痴 The Frost Report and the sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set. It was during this time that Jones and Palin linked up with the rest of the Pythons, formed the group and, in 1969, debuted Flying Circus."
Rolling Stone|19 hours ago
Terry Jones, one of the core members of Monty Python and director of three of the comedy troupe's films, died Tuesday after a battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD, the BBC reports. Jones' agent confirmed his death, while his family also issued a statement. 展e have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative, and truly loving man whose uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect, and extraordinary humor has given pleasure to countless millions across six decades, they said. 滴is work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programs, poems, and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath.
"Jones frequent writing partner, Michael Palin, said, 滴e was far more than one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation, he was the complete Renaissance comedian writer, director, presenter, historian, brilliant children痴 author, and the warmest, most wonderful company you could wish to have.
"Jones helped launch Monty Python in 1969, working as a writer and actor on their breakout sketch show, Monty Python痴 Flying Circus. He also played a crucial role in the development of its stream-of-consciousness style, where classic sketch tenets and structures were dropped in favor of irreverent beats and random endings. Jones would go on to co-direct with Terry Gilliam one of Python痴 first movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and later helmed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. Along with his comedy career, Jones moonlighted as a medieval historian, political pundit, and children痴 book author.
Jones was born in Wales in 1942 but was raised in England. He studied English literature at Oxford, which is where he met Palin while performing in the Oxford Revue. The pair formed a partnership and, after graduating, ventured out into the television-comedy world together. They spent the mid-Sixties working on a variety of shows, such as David Frost痴 The Frost Report and the sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set. It was during this time that Jones and Palin linked up with the rest of the Pythons, formed the group and, in 1969, debuted Flying Circus."
