Opinion | Jeff Slate: 'The comedy template Terry Jones and company created all those decades ago still informs just about every type of comedy out there.' - NBCNewsTHINK
after a long battle with dementia, stood out as the warmest of the bunch.
Often referred to as the Beatles of comedy, Idle recently told me he actually thinks of the Fab Four as “the Pythons of rock.”he actually thinks of the Fab Four as “the Pythons of rock” — Monty Python shared a timeless, even anarchic spirit with the Beatles. In much the way the Beatles seemed to set every record and break every rule in the music business first, Jones and company did so for comedy.
Jones, of course, held his own, writing some of the troupe’s most memorable skits for “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” He eventually co-directed “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and directed “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” and “Meaning of Life.”during anniversary screenings of “Holy Grail” and “Life of Brian.” At each joke — and there are, of course, many — he’d lean over to tell me a little anecdote about the making of the scene in question.
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