Terry Jones Net Worth

Terry Jones's Quotes

• [on the death of Graham Chapman, who died on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the "Monty Python" comedy troupe]: I thought it was in terribly bad taste for him to die when he did. The worst case of party-pooping I've ever seen.
• The problem with the media is [news organizations] are primarily owned by corporations, and corporations are pro-establishment... Newspapers and television start using the vocabulary of politicians, and that's the way bias creeps in.
• Comedy is a dangerous business. If people find something funny you're okay. But the moment you do something that's meant to be funny and someone doesn't find it funny, they become angry. It's almost as if they resent the fact that you tried to make them laugh and failed. Nobody comes out of a mediocre performance of Hamlet seething with rage because it didn't make them cry. But just listen to people coming out of a comedy that didn't make them laugh.
• (On being recognised as a "famous face"): "In a way it makes the world smaller, it makes it like a village. It's really how I felt the world always ought to be, where you feel you know people and people are interested in you. So, it's like a retreat into childhood really, where when you're a baby everybody's interested in you and it's rather the same thing."
• One of the things we tried to do with the show was to try and do something that was so unpredictable that it had no shape and you could never say what the kind of humor was. And I think that the fact that "Pythonesque" is now a word in the Oxford English Dictionary shows the extent to which we failed.

Interesting Facts about Terry Jones

1. Father, with Alison Telfer, of Sally Jones (b. 1974) and Bill Jones (b. 1976).
2. Was the shortest member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, having been about an inch shorter than Terry Gilliam.
3. Has a mild speech impediment - he has trouble pronouncing the letter "r".
4. Has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University.
5. Supported a motion to impeach British Prime Minister Tony Blair after the war "Operation Iraqi Freedom".
6. Father was Welsh and his mother was English (Anglo-Saxon ancestry).
7. Has directed three of the four films that have been banned in Ireland: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), The Meaning of Life (1983), & Personal Services (1987).
8. He attended Royal Grammar School in Guilford, where he was Head Boy, and graduated from St. Edmond Hall at Oxford.
9. Was diagnosed with bowel cancer in the early stages. [October 2006].
10. Member of Monty Python along with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, & Michael Palin.
11. Born in the same town as actor Timothy Dalton.
12. Younger brother of Nigel Jones.
13. Co-wrote an opera, with Luis Tinoco, that premiered in Lisbon, Portugal on January 12, 2008. Jones turned his collection of short stories into a libretto for the production, which he is also directing. It is about machines trying to take over the world and involves cars, motorbikes, washers, dryers, parking meters and gigantic vacuum cleaners, all singing opera on stage. [January 2008]
14. Father, with Anna Söderström, of daughter Siri Jones (born 2009).
15. Knew Eric Idle and Michael Palin from university.
16. Diagnosed of primary progressive aphasia. [September 2016]
17. Wrote and acted for Oxford's equivalent of the Cambridge Footlights.
18. Has been diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia, a type of dementia. This disease erodes the brains ability to use language and eventually speech becomes impossible.
19. Former brother-in-law of Kate Hepburn.
20. Author of books on medieval history and tales for children.