Terry Jones credited as playing...
Self • Various Roles
- Robert Klein: You were six and of course, Graham Chapman passed away in 1989. He would have loved this.
- Terry Jones: He would have.
- John Cleese: But he's dead.
- Michael Palin: He is no more.
- Terry Gilliam: Stone dead!
- Michael Palin: He is no more. Ceased to be.
- John Cleese: Stone fucking dead.
- Michael Palin: Fucking dead.
- Terry Jones: The thing was there's nothing funny about what Christ said and what's funny, really, is the fact that, you know, Christ said all these really good things about "Love thy neighbor" and everything and for the next 2,000 years people are killing each other and torturing each other because they can't decide *how* he said it.
- John Cleese: [on how they came up with the name] Someone shouted out Python and then someone else shouted out Monty which made us all laugh because Monty to us means Lord Montgomery, our general from the second world war.
- Terry Jones: Oh I see!
- Michael Palin: I thought it was Monty Sunshine the jazz player.
- Terry Jones: Yes, Monty Sunshine the jazz clarinetist.
- Michael Palin: We did a sketch about the Sunrise Cruise Competition in which someone gave their hobbies - they were asked about hobbies. And he said, "Strangling animals, golf, and masturbating." Terrific roar of laughter from the audience. And the BBC came to us and they - the head of the BBC had a look at this and he said, "You cannot have masturbating. We cannot put masturbating on television." And we fought them. We went to have this wonderful meeting at the BBC, the six of us sitting around, with Graham, trying to reason with Duncan Wood, his name was, about the word - using the word 'masturbating'
- Terry Jones: "What's wrong with masturbating? I mean, you masturbate, don't you Duncan?" "Well, um..."
- Michael Palin: Behind his desk and all that. Anyway, in the end, they - they - they won. We had to cut out 'masturbating'. So, out came the sketch and he says, "Strangling animals, golf" pause - huge laugh. Enormous laugh for the word golf. I mean, it was ridiculous...
- Terry Jones: What was his thought that strangling animals is all right, but masturbating isn't?
- Terry Jones: I think one of the things we were trying 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 the fact that "Pythonesque" is now a word in the Oxford English Dictionary, shows the extent which we failed in this attempt.
- Terry Jones: [about 'Life of Brian'] The film is heretical, but it's not blasphemous.
- Eric Idle: It's a heresy.
- John Cleese: I don't think it's a heresy. It's about - it's making fun of the way that people misunderstand the teachings...
- Terry Jones: Of course it's heretical, John! It's attacking the church! And that has to be heretical.
- John Cleese: No, it's not attacking the church, necessarily. It's about people who cannot agree with each other.
- Eric Idle: No, it's not!
- Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam: [singing] Always look on the bright side of life, Always look on the light side of life, If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten, And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing, When you're feeling in the dumps, Don't be silly chumps, Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing, And, Always look on the bright side of life
- Eric Idle: Come on
- Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam: Always look on the right side of life, For life is quite absurd, And death's the final word, You must always face the curtain with a bow, Forget about your sin, Give the audience a grin, Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow...