Michael has been helping his friend as much as he can by bringing in trinkets (Picture: Ken Jack – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Michael Palin has confessed that his Monty Python co-star Terry Jones no longer recognises him.

Terry, 77, and Michael, 76, were extremely close pals in and out of the show.

However, Terry had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2015 and has been deteriorating ever since.

Michael said: ‘The last time I saw him I don’t think he recognised me. We knew each other well. It feels like a part of yourself isn’t there anymore.’

The actor still visits his friend and despite Terry suffering from the illness, he still kept part of his humour that the public fell in love with.

According to the Daily Star, Michael had said there are still parts of Jones that shine through when they talk to one another.

The pair have known each other for over 50 years (Picture: Facebook/themichaelpalinpage)

Comedians (L-R) Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, unknown and Michael Palin in a sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1971. (Picture: Getty Images)

It is believed that Terry – who wrote the early draft for 1986 film Labryinth – still has parts of his memory.

He previously said that people with the condition ‘are not aware that things are going wrong for them.’

As Michael has been visiting his old pal, he was believed to have taken a copy of a comic they created together to help with his memory.

He took Dr Fegg’s Encyclopaedia Of All World Knowledge, which is a collection of comical facts that frankly make no sense.

On the bright side, Michael genuinely believes that the compendium has been triggering a recollection from him.

He added: ‘At a certain moment Terry began to really laugh, the way he used to laugh.

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‘That was a great moment. But what made it so wonderful was that he only laughed at the bits he’d written. And I thought, ‘that shows there’s a bit of Terry still there’.’

Now that’s what friends are for.

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