How to Irritate People

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Movie
German title John Cleese - How to Annoy People
Original title How to Irritate People
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 68 minutes
Rod
Director Ian Fordyce
script John Cleese , Graham Chapman
additional material from Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman
production David Frost
occupation

How to Irritate People (German and John Cleese - How to annoy people ) is a 1968 by John Cleese and Graham Chapman written and David Frost produced mockumentary .

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

Cleese plays a TV presenter (who is greeted with boos and hissing at the beginning of the “studio audience” ) who uses 14 well-rehearsed skits to explain exactly what the title promises, namely how to get on other people's nerves.

Some of the skits reappeared in a different form in the Flying Circus (job interviews, bored pilots, the character of the "Pepperpots") or were played out in German sketch programs (e.g. by Rudi Carrell ). The idea of ​​simulating a loss of sound in the middle of a sentence is later found again with Helge Schneider .

The "car salesman" sketch, in which Palin refuses to acknowledge the complaints made by the buyer Chapman, is considered to be the forerunner of what is perhaps the most famous python sketch, The parrot is dead .

Since this film was also produced with the intention of introducing British humor to the US market, it was produced in the NTSC color format, which explains the poor image quality.

How to Irritate People was only released several times on video and DVD decades later . On the video cover picture you can see a portrait of Cleese with an irritating protruding curl, the DVDs had partly swapped front and back covers and an intentionally wrong navigation.

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