And it's very sad to hear that Terry Jones is suffering from primary progressive aphasia, which does bad things to one's ability to speak. I guess that means that the farewell performances of the Monty Python guys really were the farewell performances. I was always impressed not just with how funny those men were as performers and writers but how smart they all seemed to be. Jones authored some brilliant articles and books, and it's always painful to hear that a brain like that is functioning at reduced capacity.
The news reports (like this one) identify him as "one of the founding members of comedy troupe Monty Python." There have been, of course, no non-founding members of the comedy troupe Monty Python. They never admitted anyone else and they never admitted women or racial minorities. I always thought that if I was ever asked to interview any of them, I was going to ask about their apparent bigotry in that regard and say something like, "Even when you have roles for such people, you instead have a white guy put on a dress or even blackface rather than admit a qualified female or non-Caucasian."
And I sure would have hoped they understood I was kidding…