Terry Jones
- Welsh
- Actor, writer and director
Press clippings Page 3
Terry Jones brought Chaucer to new audience
It takes a serious humorist to know one: that's the verdict of the historians who have unveiled the last project involving Terry Jones.
David Sanderson, The Times, 3rd February 2020Comedy over the heads of honours system, critics claim
Following the recent deaths of British comedy greats questions have been asked of an honours system seemingly unamused by the nation's jokers, who have often been overlooked.
Craig Simpson, The Telegraph, 29th January 2020BBC: far from perfect but has given us great comedy
The daft ditties of Glasgow's Ivor Cutler and Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks might never have seen the light 'without the BBC, writes Aidan Smith.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 28th January 2020Terry Jones left his brain to science
The Python's gesture should help research into the dementia that affected him in his final years.
Chortle, 27th January 2020Review: Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 2 Blu-Ray
This Series 2 box-set review was being written when news of Terry Jones' passing broke on 22 January 2020, so it seems only fitting to single out his contribution to Monty Python as a founding member.
Dan Owen, Frame Rated, 27th January 2020Terry Jones - a man who grasped the meaning of life
He was not the most high-profile of the Pythons, but he was the funniest, the most modest and the most essential.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 26th January 2020Jeremy Clarkson on the death of Terry Jones
This Python is no more, he has ceased to be, but boy, did he ruffle the Establishment's feathers.
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sunday Times, 26th January 2020The other genius of Terry Jones
Marion Turner praises the Python's love of history - and how it informed his comedy.
Marion Turner, Chortle, 25th January 2020Terry Jones's humanity and scholarship mark him out
Without this humanity you suspect that Monty Python might have been just another clever-clogs Oxbridge revue
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 24th January 2020Terry Gilliam: Jones' death & snowflakes killing comedy
Terry Jones' Monty Python pal Terry Gilliam says his death is end of an era as snowflakes are killing comedy.
Grant Rollings, The Sun, 23rd January 2020