Terry Jones passed away.

BeerWolf

RIP, you legend.

LINK

is_that_so

A naughty, naughty boy! RIP

He's just pining for the fjords.

RIP.

Hannibal_Smith

He's not the messiah. Hes just a very naughty boy!

RIP

Realt Dearg Sec

Had heard he was suffering badly with dementia the last few years so on one sense it is a relief to know that nightmare is over.

He was a bit of a hero to me as a kid, growing up watching python. When I was studying English in college I was amazed to discover he was also a highly respected scholar of middle English and his book about the Knights Tale in The Canterbury Tales had largely changed several centuries of consensus about what it meant. He had recognised that it was a satirical piece making fun of the pretensions and hypocrisy of knights in that era, which nobody had seemed to register. His interpretation of the tale was a major influence on the writing of the holy Grail.

razorblunt

Well I didn't expect that.

Harry Palmr

Has a small place in Irish cultural history - director of three mainstream films that were banned here, Life of Brian of course but also Meaning of Life and Personal Services.

RIP your scandalous One

selwyn froggitt

He's not dead,he's just resting.

B0jangles

I was at a guest lecture he gave on Chaucer years ago - a very interesting, engaging and erudite speaker, and he also seems to have been a genuinely nice person too.

NickNickleby

When Life of Brian was banned here, my wife bought me the soundtrack on cassette. It was hilarious, and in fact my visual imaginings were very close to the film (when I eventually saw it) which is down to the quality of the script, not my own imagination.

Anyway, I can still quote most of it. Especially "Now!, write it out a hundred times, and if not done by morning, I'll cut your balls off". So reminiscent of my Latin master in O'Connell's.

edit: the sarcastic tone: "Romans the 'ouse they GO!" came to me after I pressed enter first time

Odhinn

The miracle of the juniper bushes as holy man, and as Brian's mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBcHbxym6IQ

Harry Palmr

The soundtrack album was my generations kicking against the catholic picks.

NickNickleby

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The soundtrack album was my generations kicking against the catholic picks.

This is going to sound mad , but sure anyway:

When I got the tape, I used to leave it running in the living room as I worked away. One Saturday, I made a joke about being struck down and within a minute there was an 'almighty' crack of thunder (pun intended). I immediately ran in and turned off the tape.. there was no more thunder and no rain. So I turned it back on, after all, it could only have been coincidence. Couldn't it....... :eek::pac::pac:

Flaccus

NickNickleby wrote: »

When Life of Brian was banned here, my wife bought me the soundtrack on cassette. It was hilarious, and in fact my visual imaginings were very close to the film (when I eventually saw it) which is down to the quality of the script, not my own imagination.

Anyway, I can still quote most of it. Especially "Now!, write it out a hundred times, and if not done by morning, I'll cut your balls off". So reminiscent of my Latin master in O'Connell's.

edit: the sarcastic tone: "Romans the 'ouse they GO!" came to me after I pressed enter first time

Had the tape too a year before I saw it. This bit always resonates with me when the crowd mishear and think Jesus said “Blessed are the cheese makers” and the intellectual in the crowd compounds the error with “Its not meant to be taken literally.....applies to any manufacturer of dairy products.” Sounded like our Geography teacher at the time.

https://youtu.be/-xLUEMj6cwA

bodhrandude

Sad to hear RIP Terry, yer impersonations of the ladies was second to none.

MrAbyss

The Bishop is one of the funniest comedy skits in history. I was howling watching it as a kid and I still do.

Mint Sauce

razorblunt wrote: »

Well I didn't expect that.

No body expects the Spanish Enquisition.

RIP Terry.

Raconteuse

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The soundtrack album was my generations kicking against the catholic picks.

The bishop in the famous debate was church of England. And it was before Malcolm Muggeridge joined the Catholic church.

topper75

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Meaning of Life ...

Meaning of Life banned? Jaysus I didn't know that at all. Probably Cleese the classroom scene. Or was it Terry's Mr. Creosote?

I suppose it wouldn't be the only work of genius that was put down here.

Anyway - thanks Terry. A nice legacy: laughter that continues through generations.

Ger Roe

NickNickleby wrote: »

When Life of Brian was banned here, my wife bought me the soundtrack on cassette. It was hilarious, and in fact my visual imaginings were very close to the film (when I eventually saw it) which is down to the quality of the script, not my own imagination.

Anyway, I can still quote most of it. Especially "Now!, write it out a hundred times, and if not done by morning, I'll cut your balls off". So reminiscent of my Latin master in O'Connell's.

edit: the sarcastic tone: "Romans the 'ouse they GO!" came to me after I pressed enter first time

I remember those days too.... the vinyl album was 'smuggled in from England' and passed around the class for copying to tape. We found it hilarious and couldn't understand why the film was banned (even so, the album was never played loud enough for parents to hear... just in case). We all knew the lines off by heart and it was like being in a secret club that only a select few understood.

I eventually got to see the film in 1980 while on a youth leader training course. It was shown on a pirate VHS tape and the picture quality was terrible, but it was the only way to see what all the fuss was about at the time.

But you try and tell the young people of today that...and they won't believe ya.

RIP Terry Jones, thanks for the madness.

TuringBot47

topper75 wrote: »

Meaning of Life banned? Jaysus I didn't know that at all. Probably Cleese the classroom scene.

Ah yes, that would do it. Demonstrating sex education with his wife in front of a classroom of kids !

Or the "Death scene", where the guy gets to choose his form of death and is chased over a cliff by a dozen topless women.

Don't remember anything particularly blasphemous in the "Meaning of Life", not like "The Life of Brian". My mother told a religious brother in my secondary school that was a religious film so he rented it from the local Xtravision !

Niska

topper75 wrote: »

Meaning of Life banned? Jaysus I didn't know that at all. Probably Cleese the classroom scene. Or was it Terry's Mr. Creosote?

I suppose it wouldn't be the only work of genius that was put down here.

Anyway - thanks Terry. A nice legacy: laughter that continues through generations.

More than likely the musical number, Every Sperm is Sacred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

WrenBoy

A man who, from the outside seemed to have lived a great life and gave me a lot of laughs along the way. RIP

Woke Hogan

Raconteuse wrote: »

The bishop in the famous debate was church of England. And it was before Malcolm Muggeridge joined the Catholic church.

Life of Brian was banned in Ireland, which is a majority Catholic country. This is an Irish bulletin board.

selwyn froggitt

https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1220000089847975937

Riddle101

Rest in Peace. A True comedy genius.

The Nal

Seems like it was a bit of a release. Rough few years, very sharp decline. RIP.

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1219979583719690241

branie2

led by a bottle, more like!

aziz

One of the more amusing things in the holy grail that I liked is men dressed as women pretending to be men

Mortelaro

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Had heard he was suffering badly with dementia the last few years so on one sense it is a relief to know that nightmare is over.

He was a bit of a hero to me as a kid, growing up watching python. When I was studying English in college I was amazed to discover he was also a highly respected scholar of middle English and his book about the Knights Tale in The Canterbury Tales had largely changed several centuries of consensus about what it meant. He had recognised that it was a satirical piece making fun of the pretensions and hypocrisy of knights in that era, which nobody had seemed to register. His interpretation of the tale was a major influence on the writing of the holy Grail.

Yes,he actually came over and delivered a lecture on Canterbury tales in UCD in the mid 80's,I was at it
On two evenings that week he gave a short talk before screenings of the life of Brian and the meaning of life in Theatre L in the Arts block
Both were banned in Ireland at the time I think,life of Brian certainly was
A very intelligent and funny man R.I.P

Here he is as Mr Creosote in the meaning of life
(Some not safe for work language in this:D)

https://youtu.be/GxRnenQYG7I

Realt Dearg Sec

Mortelaro wrote: »

Yes,he actually came over and delivered a lecture on Canterbury tales in UCD in the mid 80's,I was at it
On two evenings that week he gave a short talk before screenings of the life of Brian and the meaning of life in Theatre L in the Arts block
Both were banned in Ireland at the time I think,life of Brian certainly was
A very intelligent and funny man R.I.P

Here he is as Mr Creosote in the meaning of life
(Some not safe for work language in this:D)

https://youtu.be/GxRnenQYG7I

Yes! he was very good friends with professor Fletcher in UCD, was still collaborating with him on things when I went there for my PhD in the noughties

Loafing Oaf

This is one of the most gripping history books I've ever read. Co-author Terry Dolan, a friend of my dad's, also passed away not so long ago...

Realt Dearg Sec

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

This is one of the most gripping history books I've ever read. Co-author Terry Dolan, a friend of my dad's, also passed away not so long ago...

Another UCD connection, and another legend of a man.

NickNickleby

branie2 wrote: »

led by a bottle, more like!

Although I posted a different quote, this was the first one that came to mind when I saw the thread.

Realt Dearg Sec

New favourite comment:

Terry Jones, one of the funniest women of all time.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

I can't say I ever found Monty Python particularly funny to be honest. Even the much vaunted Life of Brian came across as a bunch of Oxbridge toffs trying very hard to be 'out there' and controversial. A deeply ordinary comedy once you get rid of the controversy that surrounded it.

Realt Dearg Sec

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

came across as a bunch of Oxbridge toffs trying very hard to be 'out there' and controversial..

You wouldn't know anything about that kind of thing of course

squawker

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You wouldn't know anything about that kind of thing of course

never feed an eejit, who tries way too hard to troll

BadTurtle

Hes having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans and spam with Chapman now.

From what I've read about the troupe, there seemed to be a general consensus that he was the genius at the heart of their success. And what a wonderful woman he made.

selwyn froggitt

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I can't say I ever found Monty Python particularly funny to be honest.

“I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

NickNickleby

last one:

"I'm Brian, and so is my wife".

I only found out years later that this was a send up of Spartacus.

Apologies, not really Terry, but perhaps he wrote it.

sligojoek

Riddle101

You could probably find a load of Monty Python clips to use but this one stands out to me. The brilliance of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

topper75

topper75 wrote: »

Meaning of Life banned? Jaysus I didn't know that at all. Probably Cleese the classroom scene. Or was it Terry's Mr. Creosote?

I suppose it wouldn't be the only work of genius that was put down here.

Anyway - thanks Terry. A nice legacy: laughter that continues through generations.

Probably the 'bloody catholics filling the world with bloody kids they cant afford' bit!