Someone posted the John Cleese TV program How To Irritate People. I saw it in the 80s on VHS but not since. It was produced in 1968 and an idea of producer David Frost. They aimed the program at the US market to try to introduce British comedy to Americans. The Wikipedia says that it was first broadcast in the US on January 21 1969 and did not get broadcast in the UK. I would have been in Canada at that time and don't remember it being on TV. Not that it means anything, I've hardly any memory of much of what went on in 1969. I do know I would have seen John Cleese and Graham Chapman on The Frost Report by then and knew their names. Everyone who wrote HTIP, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman, all worked on The Frost Report. I remember The Frost Report being entertaining and making me laugh. Ian Fordyce was the director of HTIP and joining John in the sketches are Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Gillian Lind, Connie Booth and Dick Vosburgh. How to actually irritate people is shown in a series of sketches introduced by John. One of the sketches was an early version of the Python Dead Parrot sketch. I had a letter from John back in the 70s and he said he was going to be buried with that parrot. I wonder if he still has it. I should write again.