"With skill and tact, we can keep tensions bottled up for weeks,
months, eventually you may induce a nervous breakdown, or better
still, actual damage to the brain cells."  Filmed before a live
audience, this is one of John Cleese's finest moments.
Essentially, the film is a series of linked sketches detailing
just how one can annoy, infuriate and generally irritate
someone.  The film pre-dates Monty Python, bearing the copyright
of 1969*, and contains many sketches which would later crop up
later, slightly modified, in the Flying Circus. For example, an
early version of the Dead Parrot sketch appears, this time
centering around a car. Micheal Palin is the salesman unable to
believe a car brought in by Graham Chapman is broken, even
whilst the car falls apart before their eyes. Other sketches
which can be seen to be like later Python skethes include Silly
Job Interview, a gameshow very similar to Spot the Brain Cell,
and a "suicidal Hindu waiter" who bears a distinct resemblence
to the poor men featured in th