Terry Jones, Monty Python Founder and Scholar, Is Dead at 77

[Nutso]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/arts ... -dead.html

Terry Jones, who earned a spot in comedic lore as a member of the British troupe Monty Python and also had success as a director, screenwriter and author, died on Tuesday night at his home in the Highgate neighborhood of North London. He was 77.

His ex-wife, Alison Telfer, confirmed the death. Mr. Jones announced in 2016 that he had primary progressive aphasia, a neurological disease that impairs the ability to communicate.

Mr. Jones, four other Britons — Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman — and an American, Terry Gilliam, formed Monty Python in 1969. Their television sketch show, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” became a phenomenon, first in Britain and then in the United States when it was rebroadcast there in the mid-1970s.

[IanKennedy]

RIP

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Considering the dementia, this might've been a small blessing for him. RIP.

[Graham Kennedy]

RIP

[McAvoy]

Considering the dementia, this might've been a small blessing for him. RIP.

Both my grandmother and grandfather died from complications from dementia. Believe me when I say it, it is. Both of mine in their last years on this world, was basically them not having an idea of where they are at or what time frame it is either.

Its brutal on the family. I saw my grandfather a couple of days before he died. He was semi conscious and kept on trying to pet a cat that wasnt there and talking to a small girl named Bonnie. His oldest daughter that he lost forty years ago. That hit my Mom and my aunt hard.