Palin reveales Jones is 'not doing terribly well' in his fight against dementia

“I go and see him, but he can’t speak much, which is a terrible thing.” Palin added: “I mean, for someone who was so witty and verbal and articulate and argued anddebated, to be deprived of speech is a hard thing.” “I thought, ‘That shows that something is ticking over’,” he said. Jones met Palin at Oxford before they rose to fame in Monty Python, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle.