John Cleese: How to Irritate People / A FEAST OF CLASSIC COMEDY SKETCHES! / Directed by Ian Fordyce / DVD Video

UPC 0769716563 

Running time: 65 Mins. 

Made in USA

Anyone can make themselves unpopular - but it takes a past master like John Cleese to be really irritating!

The secret, he says, is to let the other person believe it's all totally unintentional - and that's just the first of many tricks of the trade he's giving away in this hilarious video. With the help of Python pals Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Connie Booth from Fawlty Towers and Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, Cleese demonstrates the uncanny ability to keep his victims just the right temperature under the collar...one degree below boiling point!

Parents, waiters, salesmen, talk-show hosts - for some people, irritation is a way of life. The rest of us have to work at it. After watching this video you'll possess all the know-how you need to irritate for business or pleasure...as well as discover from where Basil Fawlty got so many of his ideas!

Find out just how to pay back job interviewers, movie chatterboxes, garage staff, even bank clerks in the only way they deserve. And there's a gold-plated bonus for Monty Python fans to treasure in Cleese, Palin and Chapman's "Airline Pilots sketch an undiscovered classic of British comedy.

Recorded in front of a live and thoroughly irritated audience, this is John Cleese at his brilliant best!

No kidding: they need a video to tell us how to do this? Actually, How to Irritate People is a collection of TV skits, conceived in the mid-1960s by future Monty Python star John Cleese. As he'd do so often in future projects, Mr. Cleese demonstrates that, within every "veddy proper" Britisher, there beats the heart of a raving lunatic. These bits were assembled into a BBC special, starring both Cleese and his Cambridge classmate (and fellow Pythonite) Graham Chapman. The proceedings aren't quite as uninhibited as Cleese and Chapman's later Monty Python shows, but it's fascinating to watch these two comic geniuses in their embryonic stage. Originally telecast in 1965, How to Irritate People was restored for video in 1992. Hal Erickson, Rovi