I might also add that Python has an appeal to multiple audiences or different emotional levels in one person. College boys get extra points for getting fancy literary ideas, but Joe Sixpack or even a young child can get the straightforward absurdity of, say, John Cleese's need for the exasperated polysyllabic explanations that he's got a dead parrot.

There's a joy in the wit of Python that might be seen to undercut the existential angst. In the abstracted theory, I can see some bit of existential philosophical despair in Monty Python. But amidst all that angst and what not, we're having a hell of a good time — a big ol' flying circus! Exactly such joy and art are high among the list of things that in fact give meaning to life, and help to break the existential pall.

Long live Monty Python, and long live the immortal dead parrot.