Editing Monty Python (section)

==="Pythonesque"===
Among the more visible cultural influences of Monty Python is the inclusion of terms either directly from, or derived from, Monty Python, into the lexicon of the English language.
* The most obvious of these is the term "[[wikt:Pythonesque|Pythonesque]]", which has become a byword in [[surreal humour]], and is included in standard dictionaries.<ref>{{cite news|title=Monty Pythonesque|work=Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English|edition=Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)|publisher=Lexico Publishing Group, LLC|date=23 November 2007|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pythonesque}}</ref><ref>"[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/155585 Pythonesque, adj.]" ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, June 2018. Accessed 22 July 2018.</ref> Terry Jones commented on his disappointment at the existence of such a term, claiming the initial aim of Monty Python was to create something new and impossible to categorise, and  "the fact that Pythonesque is now a word in the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' shows the extent to which we failed".<ref>{{cite book|author=Jones, Terry|title=Monty Python: Live at Aspen|date=1998}}</ref>
* The term has been applied to animations similar to those constructed by Gilliam (e.g., the cut-out style of ''[[South Park]]'', whose creators have often acknowledged a debt to Python, including contributing material to the aforementioned 30th-anniversary theme night).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/464765.stm|title=Monty Python meets South Park|work=BBC News|date=4 October 1999|access-date=21 September 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Good Eats]]'' creator [[Alton Brown]] cited Python as one of the influences that shaped how he created the series, as well as how he authors the script for each episode.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mr. TV: Food for Thought|url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/community/programming-insider/column/e3icbd5f8a8048766fc980ec4910fe71b25|publisher=Mediaweek|date=27 September 2009|first=Marc|last=Berman|access-date=27 October 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002220042/http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/community/programming-insider/column/e3icbd5f8a8048766fc980ec4910fe71b25|archive-date=2 October 2009}}</ref> Later episodes included Gilliam-style animations to illustrate key points.
* Film critic [[Robbie Collin]] writes, "You can find the Pythonesque everywhere in cinema. Most successful Hollywood comedies bear some kind of Python-print. The ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series chugs along on Pythonisms. Then there are [[Christopher Guest]]'s mockumentaries, such as ''Waiting for Guffman'' and ''Best in Show'', which revel in the quiet absurdity of the everyday—well-staked-out Python territory. And there's a tensile weirdness in the films of [[Will Ferrell]] that's also deeply Pythonesque."<ref name="Collin"/>