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  • Actors: John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Gillian Lind
  • Directors: Ian Fordyce
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Prism Leisure
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Jul 2004
  • Run Time: 68 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006FI38
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,656 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

  • Exclusive interview with Sir David Frost - filmed in 2002

DVD Technical Information

  • Running time: 65 minutes
  • Language: English
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • No regional restrictions
  • Dolby Digital
  • Stereo
  • PAL Colour


From the Back Cover

Anyone can make themselves unpopular – but it takes a past master like Monty Python’s John Cleese to be really irritating. The secret, he says, is to let the other person believe it’s all totally intentional – and that’s just the first of many tricks of the trade he’s giving away! 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, chat show hosts – for some people, irritation is a way of life. The rest of us have to work at it. After watching this DVD you’ll possess the know-how you need to irritate for business or pleasure … as well as discovering where Basil Fawlty got so many of his ideas from! Find out just how to pack back job interviewers, cinema chatterboxes, garage staff, even bank clerks in the way they deserve. And there’s a gold-plated bonus for Monty Python fans to treasure in Cleese, Palin and Chapman’s "Airline Pilot" sketch – an undiscovered classic of British comedy.

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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pre-Python sketches, 31 Aug 2004
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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.

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57 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A documentry to shape a generation, 22 Aug 2002
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Whether you are a fan the Python mob or not, this is a must see film for all teenagers. I was first introduced to this film at the tender age of sixteen, I had just turned twenty one when I eventually stopped laughing. It may be an old movie, nobody has ever really heard of it, but for the past ten years I have searched the four corners of the world for a copy in an attempt to re-live my teenage years, I have even contemplated camping outside the home of Michael Palin just to see if he kept a copy spare. The gags are bad and the sketches are dodgy too say the least, but it is the foundations on which the Circus and then the Python films were built, and for that it must be respected. Pepperpots, you can never look at your grandmother in the same way once you have watched this film.

I emplore any one with a slightly warped sense of humour to buy this film, if your wife, girlfriend, husband or boyfriend already gets annoyed with you constantly quoting Pyhton sketches then get ready to be single, this is not a film for those who get irritated easily, it's not just a clever title you know!!

This film made our young dull lives that little bit more liveable, and has brought a smile and a laugh to our faces when we think of it now, thirteen years after we last saw it, any film that can do that is well worth watching.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A work of genius!, 10 May 2003
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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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not python quality
This DVD is a 60 minute long John Cleese show, it features different methods of annoying people, some sketches are strong, they are very funny and make you laugh out loud, others... Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2007 by M. Peck

3.0 out of 5 stars This thing has been ageing...
It's not bad but also not that funny, really. The humour has been fading in the last four decades (contrary to the Monty Python Series). I recommend it to Python-fans only.
Published on 7 Mar 2006 by eschbachfan

5.0 out of 5 stars you have to buy this
I found this video in my cupboard at the age of 6 and barely gone a week without watching it since
(im 15 now). Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2004 by helen

4.0 out of 5 stars A very funny collection of sketches.
This is an excellent sketch collection based around the theme of "how to irritate people". Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2001 by tom_m@madasafish.com

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