Monty Python’s Terry Jones joins the choir invisible

Monty Python's lone Welshman, purveyor of spam, succumbs to frontotemporal dementia.

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[Marakai]

Two Down, Four to Go
A very sad day.

Dunno who downvoted you, as you were literally quoting what John Cleese said at Terry's passing. :-|

 

[sheepless]

Confirmed!

Just to add, this episode of MPFC was on BBC America just last week and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FzUI8998U

That is such utterly crazy fake German, "I can't even..."

Huh. Next you'll be telling us that there was no such person as Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumble-meyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

 

[BoneChompski]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

 

[graylshaped]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

Tough to be intense if one is a frequent practicing nudist.

 

[Thad Boyd]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

Tough to be intense if one is a frequent practicing nudist.

You could be talking about several Pythons there.

 

[nononsense]

Saying Jones is not your favorite Python is a bit like saying double-dutch chocolate ice cream with caramel and walnuts is not your favorite dessert.

RIP Terry. You and your comrades brought a lot of light and laughs into my life. Thanks.

 

[Papageno]

My all time favorite Monty Python sketch is the classic: "I came here for an argument" sketch.

No it isn't.

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

 

[CraigJ ✅]

My all time favorite Monty Python sketch is the classic: "I came here for an argument" sketch.

No it isn't.

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

 

[panton41]

My all time favorite Monty Python sketch is the classic: "I came here for an argument" sketch.

No it isn't.

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

That was never five minutes just now!

 

[CraigJ ✅]

My all time favorite Monty Python sketch is the classic: "I came here for an argument" sketch.

No it isn't.

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

That was never five minutes just now!

Yes it was.

 

[marsilies]

Harry "Snapper" Organs (of Q-Division).
The Bishop.
The Judge.
The nude man.
Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson.
The woman who got a new brain (because she was a looney).
El Mystico.
An Undertaker.
Mr. Keith Maniac (from Guatemala, who could put bricks to sleep by hypnosis).
Lev Davidovich Trotsky (in drag, singing "Old Fashioned Girl"). Cleese: "Should I seize him too?" Chapman: "No, we'd better keep him. He's going down well."

No love for Ron Obvious? The end of that sketch seems apropos now.

"I am now extremely hopeful that Terry Jones will break the world record for remaining underground. He's a wonderful boy this, he's got this really enormous talent, this really huge talent."

 

[CuriousAF]

Terry Jones as the learned the art...of not being seen.

 

[bookrats]

I bought the most recent DVD release of the entire series (having been promised that, finally, this one was free of edits), and I'm glad to say that the transfer looks incredible.

If you can, splurge.

EDIT: Blu-Ray, not DVD. My age is showing.

Second the recommendation. The restoration is amazing, and they have edited back in things that American censors removed when it was broadcast in the U.S.

 

[CraigJ ✅]

I still find it hard to believe that it’s jones playing Mr Creosote. Dat makeup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRnenQYG7I

It’s only “wafer thin”.

Is it documented anywhere what was supposed to be in the mint?

 

[CraigJ ✅]

I think he would take it as a mark of pride were we to simply say of his contributions: "He's been a naughty boy!"*

And, Eric, as to this:

I was probably 11 or 12 years old when I became aware of the groundbreaking British comedy troupe, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus was instant appointment viewing for me on KRMA, Denver’s PBS affiliate. The problem was timing. I could stay up until Python started at 10pm on a Saturday night, but I had to slog through some uninspiring TV to get there.

Same for me, but it was on a Sunday night out of the Chicago PBS station, which meant I also had to convince my dad it was okay for me to do this on a school night.



edit: eh, daemonios beat me to it.

I think l lived in Mc Henry at that time. I remember not being allowed to watch it. This was in 1977 or 78.

 

[giuliop]

Terry's first wife, Alison Telfer is an accomplished biochemist. I'd meet up with her occasionally at London photosynthesis meetings (she did a lot of work on Photosystem II function and regulation). A scream in the pub afterwards.

My semi-dyslexia had me think you'd meet her at London pythonsynthesis meetings, and then of course she worked on Pythonsystem II (whatever that would be).

 

[graylshaped]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

Tough to be intense if one is a frequent practicing nudist.

You could be talking about several Pythons there.

As best I know, he was the one doing it while directing the movies, though you're probably right.

 

[graylshaped]

I think he would take it as a mark of pride were we to simply say of his contributions: "He's been a naughty boy!"*

And, Eric, as to this:

I was probably 11 or 12 years old when I became aware of the groundbreaking British comedy troupe, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus was instant appointment viewing for me on KRMA, Denver’s PBS affiliate. The problem was timing. I could stay up until Python started at 10pm on a Saturday night, but I had to slog through some uninspiring TV to get there.

Same for me, but it was on a Sunday night out of the Chicago PBS station, which meant I also had to convince my dad it was okay for me to do this on a school night.



edit: eh, daemonios beat me to it.

I think l lived in Mc Henry at that time. I remember not being allowed to watch it. This was in 1977 or 78.

They ran it at that time for years. I remember watching it--when I could, from junior high all the way through high school.

 

[HobbitsHaveThePower]

I still find it hard to believe that it’s jones playing Mr Creosote. Dat makeup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRnenQYG7I

It’s only “wafer thin”.

Is it documented anywhere what was supposed to be in the mint?

I always assumed it would be an After Eight mint; for a long time in the 70s and 80s in the UK, they were seen as the traditional post-meal small treat, and you'd often get them in restuarants with the bill... I don't think the joke with Mr Creosote was that the mint contained anything wild, unless you count peppermint as exotic, rather it was to emphasis the irony of him exploding at the final stage.

 

[Jiggers]

That reminds me, time to pick up another crunchy frog sampler before today's gala luncheon.

 

[yrddraiggoch]

Terry was instrumental in saving the tapes of Monty Python from the BBC as they were scheduled to be wiped for reuse.
Also got the BBC to sell the full rights and control back to the group too.

 

[Nutrimentia]

Two Down, Four to Go
A very sad day.

I just hope he finds all the gold that he can eat.

 

[Wheels Of Confusion]

Is it documented anywhere what was supposed to be in the mint?

Irony.

 

[till213]

My all time favorite Monty Python sketch is the classic: "I came here for an argument" sketch.

No it isn't.

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

That was never five minutes just now!

Yes it was.

No it wasn't.

 

[Thad Boyd]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

Tough to be intense if one is a frequent practicing nudist.

You could be talking about several Pythons there.

As best I know, he was the one doing it while directing the movies, though you're probably right.

IIRC there's a line in Don't Panic where Douglas Adams recalls being flatmates with Graham Chapman and when they'd go to the pub Graham would get drunk and put his willy on the bar.

 

[gerryq]

I think he was my favorite of the Pythons, he seemed very good-natured and genial. A good contrast to more intense Pythons.

Tough to be intense if one is a frequent practicing nudist.

You could be talking about several Pythons there.

Just letting the Python out.

 

[CraigJ ✅]

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

That was never five minutes just now!

Yes it was.

No it wasn't.

If you want me to go on arguing you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

 

[frankheflin]

"It's getting hit on the head lessons in here."

Sorry, the five minutes is up.

That was never five minutes just now!

Yes it was.

No it wasn't.

If you want me to go on arguing you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

I could be commenting in my spare time.

 

[lohphat]

I'll just leave this here:

Michael Palin pays tribute to Terry Jones: 'He was the 'spirit of Monty Python'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKr9sZ8CNx4

 

[Rob C.]

What a loss, a man who makes amusing and delightful skits and other media along long with his fellows. World less place without him.

Thanks Terry!

R.I.P.