What adjective was coined to describe humour similar to Monty Python's?

The adjective coined for humour similar to Monty Python’s is “Pythonesque.”

The word describes comedy that resembles the troupe’s distinctive blend of surreal situations, absurd logic, unexpected editing, wordplay, grotesque imagery and deliberate interruptions of normal narrative. It is not simply a synonym for “funny” or “surreal”: the term points specifically to the recognisable style associated with Monty Python.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus helped establish that style through sketches that often refused traditional endings. A scene might stop when a character announces that it had become too silly, shift suddenly into another sketch, or be joined by one of Terry Gilliam’s animations. The programme also mixed intellectual references with slapstick, satire and deliberately anticlimactic dialogue.

“Pythonic” is a real English adjective, but it usually relates to pythons or, in another context, the Python programming language. “Surrealist” is broader and refers to an artistic movement and style, while “Goonish” points toward the earlier comedy of The Goon Show. Pythonesque is therefore the canonical answer for comedy modelled on the Pythons’ particular comic sensibility.