How to Irritate People

• John Cleese
• Tim Brooke- Taylor
• Graham Chapman
• Michael Palin
• Gillian Lind
• Connie Booth
• Dick Vosburgh

How to Irritate People is a 1968 by John Cleese and Graham Chapman written for the BBC mockumentary.

The cast includes, besides Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, with whom he the series Monty Python's Flying Circus turned from 1969, yet Tim Brooke- Taylor and Connie Booth, who later became known as "Polly " in the series Fawlty Towers.

Cleese plays a television presenter ( which is received at the beginning of the " studio audience " with boos and hisses ), which exactly explains with the help of 14 -rehearsed skits what the title promises, namely how to make other people gets on my nerves.

Some of the sketches appeared in modified form in the Flying Circus again ( interview, bored pilots, the figure of the " Pepperpots " ) or were re-enacted in German Sketch shipments (eg by Rudi Carrell ). The idea of ​​simulating a loss of sound in mid-sentence, is to be found later at Helge Schneider again.

The " car salesman " skit in which Palin has refused to recognize the claims of the buyer Chapman, is considered the precursor of perhaps the most famous Python sketches The parrot is dead

Since this film was produced with the intention of introducing Cleese and his new humor in the U.S. market, it was produced in NTSC color format, which explains the poor image quality.

How to Irritate People was repeatedly published as video and DVD. On the video title picture you can see a portrait of Cleese with an irritating protruding Locke, the DVDs were partly misleading old-fashioned cover and an intentionally false navigation.