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Terry Jones

Terry Jones

  • Welsh
  • Actor, writer and director

Press clippings Page 4

The 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 2020

Terry 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 2020

Cleese on Jones: "I shall think of him exploding"

John Cleese also told BBC Radio 5 Live he would remember Terry Jones fondly as the character Mr Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

BBC, 23rd January 2020

Sanjeev Bhaskar remembers his friend Terry Jones

"It was as if the creativity itself kept the dementia at bay."

Sanjeev Bhaskar, The Telegraph, 23rd January 2020

Terry Jones: Python and Renaissance man

He was a wit, a scholar and incredibly funny. RIP.

Tim Dawson, Spiked, 23rd January 2020

Terry 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

Terry Jones was as funny as anyone in Monty Python

As sharp as his comrades but possessing of an indefatigable decency, Jones was always the heart of Monty Python, writes Ed Power.

Ed Power, The Independent, 22nd January 2020

Terry Jones might have been the most important Python

The writer, director and actor has died aged 77. Without his conceptual framework, Monty Python might not have worked at all.

Eddie Robson, The New Statesman, 22nd January 2020

Terry Jones: Michael Palin pays tribute to Python star

Sir Michael Palin has paid tribute to his fellow Monty Python star Terry Jones.

BBC, 22nd January 2020

Theatr Colwyn holds minute silence for Terry Jones

A one minute silence as held in Colwyn Bay to remember one of its most famous - and funniest - sons.

Duncan Rieder, Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele Journal, 22nd January 2020

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