There are some truly funny bits in this video, but not enough. The humor is gloriously Python, complete with "pepperpot" ladies with their outrageous voices. Each actor does very well, with Graham Chapman a real standout.Unfortunately the material is very uneven and goes too long without laugh lines. When the lines do come, it's harder to get into the swing of things because you've gone so long without anything to build up to them. This isn't helped by lack of audience reaction. They would've been far better served by using fake applause à la Python than by using the live audience, which (especially at the start) seemed befuddled by what was going on.I made it through an hour but then felt I'd had enough. It was just taking too much time to get to anything funny. A severely edited version might be more successful, but that certainly won't be happening!

I can't believe what I see.A rating of 5/10 on IMDb...is this because it is an American site or..?..this is probably one of the most hilarious films ever made and if there are people that fail to see that,I seriously question these people..I'll admit the set-up of the movie can seem quite odd,or the fact that it actually isn't a movie but more a collection of sketches,but that doesn't change one bit to th fact that this movie is a pearl amongst swines..I know that some sketches may be a bit long-threaded..but in my opinion the other sketches make up for this flaw..who can keep a straight face while watching the quiz sketch.."What do horses eat?Meat.No.Other horses?..No,what do horses eat?Lobsters."..or the airplane sketch"Ladies and gentlemen,there is no reason to be alarmed". I just want to point out that despite the fact some of the sketches don't match up to the certain standard we possibly created for Monty python material,this movie is certainly worth seeing and deserves more than a 5 on 10.

This show seems to have been aimed at a more conventional crowd than Cleese, Chapman and Palin's work with Monty Python. In fact, it has very, very little of the subversive and hilarious wit they displayed in that comedy troupe. The premise doesn't give much room for anything but Cleese portraying an intentionally annoying character (a noisy father disrupting his TV-watching children, an overly considerate date, a loud middle-aged woman in a movie theater) and noticeably bothering a character usually portrayed by Michael Palin. The characters don't have anything very funny about them, they are very straighforward and do nothing but annoy or get annoyed in the exact way you would expect based on Cleese's narrated set-up. There aren't any twists. There are very few moments when you get any hint of how brilliant these guys could be on their television shows and movies as Monty Python. In fact, it's kind of annoying seeing such talented men wasting away in such an unfunny piece of work - even if you're a Python fan, theres nothing really necessary about 'How To Irritate People', though the dedicated will inevitably check it out since theres almost always a copy by the Flying Circus videos at any rental store.

Many people may be disappointed with the material on the program because it is not typical Python. People need to take into account that this is before the incorporation of Idle, Jones and Gilliam. Also, it is a precursor for what was eventually to become one of the funniest sketch comedy shows ever broadcast.