Re: Terry Jones
Sad loss indeed.
All the Python's were very talented in their own right.
Graham Chapman left us first. Now Terry.
Monty Python was groundbreaking and is still just fantastically funny and zany.
Yet individually these people did all sorts of things.
Look at the work and successes of John Cleese
Look at Palin who has travelled extensively and is pretty much now a national treasure.
Look at Eric Idle. He's written the music for so many things.
and so on.
It's the ending of an era sadly.
Great British/Irish Comedy has lost so many of its best comedy actors and comedians.
Eric Morecambe
Ronnie Barker
Tommy Cooper
Dave Allen
Rick Mayall
Clive Dunn
Mel Smith
Ken Dodd
Victoria Wood
We still have the amazing David Jason
and James Bolam and others.
But that great age of comedy is passing from us and sadly isn't being replaced. The comedians we have today are nothing like these old masters and the programmes we see are mostly frivolous nonsense that relies on the shock factors of swearing or being ultra unPC. They all lack true comedy acting talent.
Such a shame