Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. His father was a bank clerk, mother - mistress of the house. He has an older brother, Nigel Jones (1940-). He studied at St. Edmund Hall College, Oxford University. In 1965, with his friend Michael Palin, he made
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2000A Fish Tale
(performer: "Interlude", "Fishtastic")
1996Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
(lyrics: "Messing About On The River", "Secret Of Survival", "Mr.Toad", "Friends Is What We Is", "Miracle Of Friends" / performer: "Mr.Toad", "Friends Is What We Is")
1983The Meaning of Life
(lyrics: "Every Sperm Is Sacred", "Christmas in Heaven")
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.
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Trivia:
He attended Royal Grammar School in Guilford, where he was Head Boy, and graduated from St. Edmond Hall at Oxford.
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