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- Exclusive interview with Sir David Frost - filmed in 2002
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- Running time: 65 minutes
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- No regional restrictions
- Dolby Digital
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A work of genius!,
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This review is from: How To Irritate People [1968] [DVD] (DVD)
To sum it up, this film is just brilliantly funny! The first time I watched it I didn't really know what to expect, not really being a Monty Python fan. I immediately loved it! John Cleese shows himself to be completely devoted to the same purpose as me: being annoying! His wit had me in stitches and ripped the telephone service to pieces. The sketches aren't simply silly, like a lot of Monty Python, but are very clever and taken from real life. The Pepperpots remind me exactly of my grandmother and the bits about how annoying parents are completely true as well. This film may be old, but everything in it is still true today and still funny. All in all, John Cleese and Monty Python pals Michael Palin and Graham Chapman have made a really clever and funny film which makes fun of society and provides some very helpful hints on how to be annoying.
35 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pre-Python sketches,
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This review is from: How To Irritate People [1968] [DVD] (DVD)
Chronologically, this 1968 show fits somewhere between 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' and 'Monty Python'. Although there are elements of wackiness, this is light-years away from the polished lunacy that was the first Python series. John Cleese is very irritating indeed -- no more so than when he introduces each sketch, reading from a tele-prompter in an echo chamber masquerading as a TV studio.Half the Python team is here: Cleese, Chapman and Palin, plus Connie Booth pretending to have an English accent. The team clearly learnt by the mistakes they make here. I cannot recall Palin ever again browning up to play an Indian, for example. Every sketch here ends on a punch-line -- one of the rules the Python team was determined to abandon. The other key player is Tim Brooke-Taylor who, it has to be said, plays a very fine old lady -- certainly up to the standard later set by Terry Jones. It has to be said that Graham Chapman also does not put a single foot wrong, but this film was made before the rest of the Pythons became aware of his drink problem. There are a number of proto-Python sketches -- the 'Freedom of Speech' sketch, for example, is clearly a practice run for the 'Tell us about your latest film, Sir Edward' sketch in the first Python film. The 'First Letter of the Alphabet' sketch is an ancestor of the 'Spot the Brain Cell' sketch you can hear on 'Monty Python at Drury Lane'. Although most scenes were written by Cleese and Chapman, it's intriguing to see Marty Feldman's name appear on the credits. But in the main, this is sub-Python humour -- an important historical document for Python completists in the same sense as those unobtainable items such as 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' on DVD, the Bert Fegg book and those three missing episodes of 'Ripping Yarns'. Coming to it new, I didn't find it as funny as many of the other reviewers here. Sorry.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very funny collection of sketches.,
By tom_m@madasafish.com (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: John Cleese - How to Irritate People [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is an excellent sketch collection based around the theme of "how to irritate people". John Cleese presents it, and features in many of the sketches along with some of his Python friends. A lot of the humour is in the style of Python, though it is not a Python video. Most of the sketches are quite accessible and will be appreciated by most people, with less of the weird or less funny sketches that were found in "Flying Circus".So, if you like John Cleese, you'll probably like this. A very enjoyable collection.
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