Jones was uninhibited, energetic, kind, curious – and a great person to spend time with, says the comedian
I was quite young when Monty Python came down the airwaves into my brain. When the Python cassettes circulated at my boarding school, I didn’t know who was in charge of what but I gradually worked out that Terry Jones’s speciality was crazy women. He was so uninhibited. But I like him best as Sir Bedevere, the very wise knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The Pythons changed the face of world comedy – they just did, you can’t get around that. And Terry was the guardian of the Python spirit. He saved the tapes that were going to be wiped by the BBC for new recordings. And he was such an energy behind them, directing the main films the team produced, including Life of Brian, which is a masterpiece.
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