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How to Irritate People
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<p><i>How to Irritate People</i> is a US <a href="/facts/Television/X4YG5nT1">television</a> <a href="/facts/Broadcast/AV1f3dGy">broadcast</a> filmed in the UK at <a href="/facts/LWT/XJItYbNJ">LWT</a> on 14 November 1968 and written by <a href="/facts/John_Cleese/ULkFcKVC">John Cleese</a>, <a href="/facts/Graham_Chapman/bchpDSuv">Graham Chapman</a>, <a href="/facts/Marty_Feldman/0toLs14m">Marty Feldman</a> and <a href="/facts/Tim_Brooke-Taylor/lD8MgdTC">Tim Brooke-Taylor</a>. Cleese, Chapman, and Brooke-Taylor also feature in it, along with future <a href="/facts/Monty_Python/tNPcRLty">Monty Python</a> collaborators <a href="/facts/Michael_Palin/fWgDKcc0">Michael Palin</a> and <a href="/facts/Connie_Booth/CvVgDCB6">Connie Booth</a>. </p><p>In various sketches, Cleese demonstrates exactly what the title suggests—how to irritate people, although this is done in a much more conventional way than the absurdity of similar Monty Python sketches. </p>