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(and now for something completely different) Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77
MSN ^ | Jan 22, 2020

Posted on 01/22/2020 6:06:03 AM PST by 11th_VA

LONDON (AP) — Terry Jones, a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, has died at 77. He had been suffering from dementia.

Jones's agent says he died Tuesday evening. In a statement, his family said he died “after a long, extremely brave but always good humored battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.”

With Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam, Jones formed Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose anarchic humor helped revolutionize British comedy.

Jones appeared in the troupe's TV series and films including “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “The Life of Brian.”

In 2016 he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Jones's wife, Anna Soderstrom, and children Bill, Sally and Siri, said “we 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: 11th_VA

Will they accidently knock over his urn like they did Graham’s?


21 posted on 01/22/2020 6:39:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Lol - I haven’t seen these skits in years, still funny. I remember as a kid, Monty Python was on late at night (PBS I believe). I snuck a portable B/W TV into my room just to watch them; my parents likely wouldn’t approve.


22 posted on 01/22/2020 6:40:08 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Bummer. RIP.


23 posted on 01/22/2020 6:40:55 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: 11th_VA

Definitely not. Especially the naked women.

Me too — I watched it whenever I could and my parents didn’t know that it should have had an R rating.


24 posted on 01/22/2020 6:42:54 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Yo-Yo

25 posted on 01/22/2020 6:43:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: null and void

Me too. Me too.

I found myself at political odds with most of them, but...I still love their work and quote them often.

RIP, and thanks for the laughs!


26 posted on 01/22/2020 6:44:27 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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An article that explains some about FTD...

Terry Jones: ‘I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/16/monty-python-terry-jones-learning-to-live-with-dementia


27 posted on 01/22/2020 6:44:59 AM PST by deks
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To: Alas Babylon!

Perhaps he’d prefer a “waffer- thin” mint ...


28 posted on 01/22/2020 6:57:31 AM PST by IronJack
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To: null and void

I’m wearing my The Ramones parody sweatshirt right now.
It says “Romanes” in the Ramones red font and where it would say “Johnny Joey Dee Dee Tommy” around the circle it says, “Biggus Dickus Incontinentia Buttocks”.
RIP, you great comedian.


29 posted on 01/22/2020 6:58:17 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: 11th_VA

yes... i too did the same... and received my first fuzzy glimpse of a woman’s bare breast... in b&w made it artful, not sleazy.


30 posted on 01/22/2020 7:00:43 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: teeman8r; dhs12345

Hilarious we had the same experience !!!


31 posted on 01/22/2020 7:06:23 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Yes. And I bet that we weren’t the only young boys watching it and their parents didn’t know. After all PBS had Sesame Street. There was no nudity and sexually suggestive scenes. Not at all. :)


32 posted on 01/22/2020 7:10:38 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: teeman8r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5JBrKC5M0

no worries any more


33 posted on 01/22/2020 7:12:10 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: 11th_VA

are you my little brother?


34 posted on 01/22/2020 7:14:48 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: 11th_VA

“No, no,He’s not dead! He’s resting?”

It says something about Monty Python’s influence that when I googled this line “He’s not dead yet!” and “He’s not the Messiah!” outocompleted before it came up.


35 posted on 01/22/2020 7:15:59 AM PST by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: 11th_VA
still-of-terry-jones-in-life-of-brian-1979-large-picture

MRS. GREGORY: Blessed are the cheesemakers? Ahh, what's so special about the cheesemakers?

GREGORY: (Sniffs) Well, obviously, this is not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

36 posted on 01/22/2020 7:17:49 AM PST by PGR88
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To: 11th_VA

They were all great in their way.But Cleese and Palin were the best. Python was really painful to watch after Cleese left.


37 posted on 01/22/2020 7:32:29 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: dfwgator

Lumberjack.

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38 posted on 01/22/2020 7:35:37 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: IronJack

Ok, for Terry’s funeral, let’s make sure his casket has plenty of Spam, Crunch Frog chocolates, wafer-thin mints and a bucket!


39 posted on 01/22/2020 7:36:47 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: 11th_VA

I say Ni to this!


40 posted on 01/22/2020 7:41:12 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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