Sad news about Terry Jones

Very sad news. Poor man and his family. I wonder how Prunella Scales is. We watched her and Timothy West on their canal trips, and in the last series she did seem quite vague.

How sad for someone who had relied on his communicative abilities throughout his entertainment career. He was very funny.

Who s Terry Jones ?

A member of the original Monty Python team, BlueBelle

A brilliant man, so clever, so sad for his family.

Oh thanks couldn't stand Monty Python so never watched it haha I wondered what I was missing there

A lot BlueBelle!

If you never watched it how did you know you couldn't stand it? At least we forced ourselves to watch 10 minutes of Mrs Browns Boys before wondering if the BBC had lost its marbles commissioning such rubbish.

Well like you I managed the first few minutes and have seen excerpts etc but it didn't appeal to me to want to watch it all the way through hence I didn't know the names of the people in it Good job we don't all laugh at the same things isn't it So thanks but for me personally I ve missed nothing

I didn't like Monty Python either, but Terry Jones has done so much more than that brilliantly, that's why it's so sad that he's been struck down with this horrible condition.

Now Jane, Mrs Brown - absolutely and totally un-bea-ra-ble!

Such a shame about Terry- he was brilliant.

Medieval lives was fabulous!

Didn't know about Terry Jones until I logged on to Grans Net.
He's made me laugh so much over the years in Monty Python.

It's so sad to hear of people within your age group falling ill. Somehow I thought they would be forever young.

He was brilliant in the 'Life of Brian'- still makes me laugh just thinking about it.

This is sad. He was great as part of the Python team and hilarious in Ripping Yarns.

And he wrote a very good book about Chaucer's Knight.

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" Very sad news about someone who was such a great communicator. He was at the next table to us in an Italian restaurant in the 60's and seemed such an intelligent and entertaining person.

I also have never heard of him but there again I have never watched Life of Brian, Ripping Yarns, Monty Python,and whatever else he was in.

It is a horrid disease and I do feel sorry for him and his family.

Yes Deedaa a very firm family favourite. It was first on at the cinema alongside Airplane! A very funny afternoon's viewing.

We were living in Cornwall when it first came out and it was banned there for a long time.

When I clicked on this thread I thought it was about how sad when we hear some one close to us has been diagnosed with a degenerative illness not just Terry Jones and Monty Python.

I find it devastating so many friends are "fading" plus the toll on whoever is looking after them, if anyone. It is also disturbing that being born a baby boomer I am now in the "ageing boomers" group and won't get such good benefits (not referring to money) as I did as a baby boomer.

Someone told me that Life of Brian was banned in towns that didn't have cinemas.

He is still 'is' not 'was'

Makes me very very grateful that if it ever happened to me, I'd have the choice here to say 'good bye' before the 'is' becomes 'was' ... I wouldn't want to see it out- nor impose it on my loved ones.