i don't know if that's fair. monty python is also the predecessor of tim and eric and pretty much all humor of that nature. i don't really think it's a coincidence that the actual structure of tim and eric mimics python almost exactly. like tim and eric, python was extraordinarily heavy on parodying fake commercials, television programs, and public figures to an almost nauseating extent. even the quirky visual style is similar in nature, with tim and eric's being the garbled poorly edited public access mess, and python being terry gilliam's ridiculous take on turn of the century art(although gilliam's work is really far superior here). most python wasn't really that senselessly random either, and a lot of it did have an identifiable thought pattern behind it rather than just being overwhelmingly pointless stupidity.

at the time, monty python was pretty revolutionary. there really was no mainstream comedy that legitimately managed to push the boundaries of what comedy was. even if monty python doesn't hold up awful well, it really did open to door for other people to explore avenues of comedic expression, and that was their intention for the most part. the problem is that the style of monty python was ripped off of spike milligan and the goon show, and people falsly attribute the invention of that style of comedy to python, even though that isn't even vaguely true.

it's just unfortunate that nobody remembers spike milligan. comedy would be a lot more dull and conventional without his influence on others. as far as i've ever been able to tell, he was really where absurdist comedy was born. it's very likely we wouldn't have had the works of peter sellers either if it wasn't for how much he learned about comedy from spike milligan.