How To Irritate People
A Feast Of Classic Comedy Sketches!
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 the boiling point!
Parents, waiters, salesmen, talk-show hosts - for some people, irritation is a way of life. The reason 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!
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Review - How to Irritate People - maw-
This is the embryonic stage of what would come. For those who are familiar with Cleese's later work with Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, this early collection of skits, while still funny, doesn't reach the heights that he would later attain. Lots of silliness. Classic Cleese.Yes - This DVD Did Irritate Me - Mookie
With Half the Monty Pythons working on this special you would have to expect there to be some laughs. There is even Connie Booth, the former wife of Cleese who wrote and starred in Faulty Towers with him. Take my advice - watch Faulty Towers or any Monty Pyton episode and you'll get more laughs.
A lot of it is the writing which is spotty at best but another problem is the production values/director. I know this to be true because they reprised an old Monty Python Sketch to be included and with the exact same dialogue the Sketch wasn't funny at all - I had just watched it on my Monty Python collection and it was hysterical.
Are there a few funny sketches? Sure...but not enough to make it worth your while.
Overall, it was a huge disappointment and I urge everyone not to waste their time with this tripe. It's a shame too - the concept was a good one, but the execution was horrid.Not what I was hoping - weez1959
This is not what I was hoping, mostly it was boring with a few ha ha's here and there. Not what we're used to with the monty python bunch. I'm not sure if these were before or after the python series but it definitly lacked what the tv shows had. Worht a rent once but this is nothing I would watch again.
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Review - How to Irritate People - maw-
This is the embryonic stage of what would come. For those who are familiar with Cleese's later work with Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, this early collection of skits, while still funny, doesn't reach the heights that he would later attain. Lots of silliness. ...Yes - This DVD Did Irritate Me - Mookie
With Half the Monty Pythons working on this special you would have to expect there to be some laughs. There is even Connie Booth, the former wife of Cleese who wrote and starred in Faulty Towers with him. Take my advice - watch Faulty Towers or any Monty Pyton ...Not what I was hoping - weez1959
This is not what I was hoping, mostly it was boring with a few ha ha's here and there. Not what we're used to with the monty python bunch. I'm not sure if these were before or after the python series but it definitly lacked what the tv shows had. Worht a rent ...