John Cleese: How to Irritate People
by Ian Fordyce
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Actor: Gillian Lind, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Tim Brooke-TaylorDirector: Ian Fordyce
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: White Star
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Summary of John Cleese: How to Irritate People
A pre-Monty Python British TV special which starred and was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, with Michael Palin and two or three other non-Pythons as actors, that will make you laugh and--if you follow the movie's instructions--highly unpopular, though that is, in fact, the point. There is a lot of great (and truly irritating) material in this movie. Scenes such as the restaurant sketch with John Cleese and Connie Booth; the car sales-man (an early form of the parrot sketch, so I am told), the bored pilots telling their crew not to panic, no the wings aren't on fire, please get out your life-jackets from above your heads, but do not leave your seats. This is really a wonderful collection of sketches and amusing comments and advice on irritation in between. If you want to laugh or to make others mad, buy this classic.And now for something completely rare. This 1968 television special is essential for connoisseurs of British humor and, of course, Monty Python completists. A pre-Python John Cleese teams up with Michael Palin and Graham Chapman (with invaluable assistance from co-Fawlty Towers creator Connie Booth and Tim Brooke-Taylor) for sketches that serve as a master class in demonstrating insincerity, inefficiency, and all-around rude behavior "to help people become more neurotic." The tricky bit, Cleese teaches, "is to never push the unsuspecting victim too far. With skill and tact, we can keep tensions bottled up for weeks, months, eventually you may induce a nervous breakdown, or better still, actual damage to the brain cells." Cleese and company portray very irritating parents, moviegoers, waiters, and partygoers. Of special interest to Python fans will be an auto mechanic sketch that anticipates the classic "Dead Parrot" sketch, as well as the job interview sketch that later found its way into the Python repertoire. This time capsule gem is, as Cleese observes at one point, "effective, but not very subtle." --Donald Liebenson
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