Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 - 21 January 2020) was a British comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director, political commentator, children's writer and Chaucerian scholar. He is probably best known as a former Python.

See also:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
And Now For Something Completely Different
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
Labyrinth

Quotes

• A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.
  • Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
  • Jones' suggested title for the show that was eventually named Monty Python's Flying Circus.

• It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.
  • Crusades, episode 4; first broadcast in January 1995. Co-written with Alan Ereira.

• Saying "We will destroy terrorism" is about as meaningful as saying: "We shall annihilate mockery."
  • The Daily Telegraph, December 1, 2001.

• What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
  • The Daily Telegraph, December 1, 2001.

• Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
  • The Observer, February 23, 2003.

• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages?...I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears – Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's, Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.
  • The Observer, February 8, 2004.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Terry Jones at Wikipedia
• Media related to Terry Jones at Wikimedia Commons

Monty Python
Members	Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle · Terry Jones · Michael Palin
Supporting cast	Carol Cleveland · Neil Innes
Television series	Flying Circus  (1969–1974) · Fliegender Zirkus  (1972) · Personal Best  (2006)
Filmography	And Now for Something Completely Different  (1971) · Holy Grail  (1975) · Life of Brian  (1979) · Live at the Hollywood Bowl  (1982) · The Meaning of Life  (1983)
Music	Monty Python albums
Specials	Parrot Sketch Not Included  (1989) · Live at Aspen  (1998) · Python Night  (1999)
Documentaries	The Seventh Python  (2008) · Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)  (2009)
Stage productions	Spamalot  (opened 2005) · Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)  (premiered 2007) · An Evening Without Monty Python  (debuted 2009) · Live (mostly)  (premiered 2014)
Literature	Big Red Book  (1971) · Brand New Bok  (1973)
Video games	Flying Circus  (1990) · Complete Waste of Time  (1994) · Quest for the Holy Grail  (1996) · The Meaning of Life  (1997) · Cow Tossing  (2011)
Related articles	Do Not Adjust Your Set  (1967–1969) · At Last the 1948 Show  (1967) · How to Irritate People  (1968) · We Have Ways of Making You Laugh  (1968) · The Complete and Utter History     of Britain  (1969) · Rutland Weekend Television  (1975–1976) · Ripping Yarns  (1979) · Holy Flying Circus  (2011) · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's     Graham Chapman  (2012)