# Monty Python's Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700 "2016-09-24T03:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/21 "2016-10-03T02:49:57Z")
Formerly said “ni!” Sent from my adequate mobile device. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/22 "2016-10-03T14:52:55Z")
He was at DragonCon (a huge sci-fi/fantasty convention in Atlanta) last year and acting a bit “off”- he was thrown for a loop by some fairly simple questions about some of his works. I’m wondering if this was the disease presenting then. Paricularly bad is that he has a 7 year old daughter to raise and provide for. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/23 "2016-10-03T21:25:44Z")
If you haven’t seen him accept the Bafta in Cardiff over the weekend, [here’s the clip](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37537212). He did a visual joke and a brief spontaneous spoken acknowledgement. It was Palin who, fittingly, presented him with the award. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/24 "2016-10-03T22:42:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > He’s quite the historian, I believe. He is. I’ve read a couple of very good books by him, one on Chaucer’s Knight and another called Who Murdered Chaucer: A Medieval Mystery. It’s tragic that such a fine brain should be laid waste by the ravages of disease. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/25 "2016-10-04T00:52:45Z")
My professor of Medieval English once said that the Monty Python troupe “knew their medieval”, and Terry Jones was why. Damnit all. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/26 "2017-04-16T12:26:00Z")
Good update by the Guardian. His disease is a little different from what I first pictured…very ugly as it is, a lot of his cognitive abilities are still intact. > **[Terry Jones: ‘I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded’](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/16/monty-python-terry-jones-learning-to-live-with-dementia?CMP=fb_gu)** > > The actor, director and Monty Python star talks about how he is learning to live with his illness, with the help of close friend Michael Palin ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/27 "2017-04-16T22:12:51Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Good update by the Guardian. His disease is a little different from what I first pictured…very ugly as it is, a lot of his cognitive abilities are still intact. > > [Terry Jones: ‘I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded’ | Dementia | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/16/monty-python-terry-jones-learning-to-live-with-dementia?CMP=fb_gu) Having read the print version (actually in _The Observer_ rather than the _Grauniad_, but an easy mistake to make online), I’d agree that this is the major update. Hardly Terry, but fairly positive given an inevitable ongoing decline. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/28 "2017-04-16T23:43:16Z")
Good that Mr. Snivelling Little Rat Faced Git still seems to be making a good go of it (well, up to Apr. 2017 so far) and that Micheal Palin and him seem like BBFs. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700/29 "2017-04-17T02:21:46Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Last edited by Eddie The Horrible; Today at 07:44 PM.. Reason: whoa yikes - crucial switching around of an “F” and “W”, there… Hahahahaha. Did make me laugh, that would have been so confusing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-pythons-terry-jones-diagnosed-with-dementia/766700.md?page=1)