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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jan 22, 2020 15:23:06 GMT
I am beyond devestated. Monty Python brought me through my terrible teens up into my turbulent twenties and the Flying Circus was one the funniest things I ever saw. One of my favourite things he did was the Undressing in Public sketch. Underappreciated but absolutely hilarious. Jones is a masterful actor, and arguably the most underrated Python. He was the best pepperpot, hands down.
I knew it was coming, I was expecting it, but it still hit me like a truck. Dementia is an horrible thing that I wouldn't let even my worst enemy suffer through.
RIP you marvellous looney. Go join Graham and have a jolly good catch up.
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Post by joem on Jan 22, 2020 23:32:45 GMT
I often debated with myself as to which was my favourite Python and Terry Jones often won the debate. I think mainly for his versatility; he could do all sorts of humour, from wordplay to slapstick to satire. He could play dominant or submissive, put on funny voices. He did an excellent job in directing the Python films too. He looked like a less serious Gordon Brown or (slightly) less musical Anthony Newley but there was a kindly twinkle in his eye when he wasn't in character.
Brian's mum of course but also the guy selling the cockroach chocolates, Mr Creosote in Meaning of Life, one half of "nudge, nudge" in certain versions, the naked pianist in the "Blackmail" sketch, the tenor singing the completely unPC "Never Be Rude To An Arab". And so on... and so on. A very, very funny man. That godlike generation of British comedy is now passing into the shadows and their successors and what's left behind are mere mortals in comparison.
RIP.
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