Terry Jones
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A Ryan Tubridy interview takes a terrifying twist
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 25, 2020, 06:00
As he surveys the papers at the start of his show, Ryan Tubridy has some good news for those already suffering from election fatigue. “Obviously it’s (...)

Terry Jones was the John Lennon of comedy
- Film
- January 22, 2020
What The Beatles were to British music, Monty Python were to British comedy and it is no great stretch to view founding member Terry Jones, who has di(...)

Terry Jones, Monty Python star, dies at the age of 77
- Film
- January 22, 2020
The Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77. The actor and comedian, who had dementia, directed some of the comedy troupe’s most-loved(...)

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
- Film
- January 18, 2020, 06:10
There has been an almighty turnover on Netflix since we last compiled this list, with more than half of our favourite films that time around disappear(...)

Monty Python: BBC archive reveals the secrets behind the sketches
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 7, 2019, 10:06
In a memo sent in 1969, the BBC head of comedy seems to have lost his sense of humour. “Please will you have a word with the writers?” said Michael Mi(...)

Monty Python reveal events to mark 50th anniversary
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 27, 2019, 06:20
They return – it would appear – to a time where no one is the messiah but there is no shortage of naughty boys. Fifty years after the first broadcast(...)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian: ‘John Cleese refused to ad-lib. He’s a humour fundamentalist’
- Film
- April 18, 2019, 06:00
MICHAEL PALIN Actor, writer We were on a publicity tour in Amsterdam for Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Eric Idle came up with the title Jesus (...)

Unseen Monty Python sketches found in Palin archives
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 1, 2018, 07:59
Unseen sketches from Monty Python have been discovered in the archives of Michael Palin. The comedy group - containing Palin, Graham Chapman, John C(...)

BBC releases list of top 100 comedy films of all time
- Film
- August 22, 2017
Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot has been voted the best comedy of all time in a poll for BBC Culture. Some 253 critics from around the world – includi(...)

Review – The Poet’s Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales
- Books
- March 8, 2015, 14:12
We know a great deal more about Geoffrey Chaucer than we do about any other early writer in English, because he was a civil servant who played an a(...)