From
Monty Python through
Fawlty Towers,
John Cleese's creativity, innovation and hilarity altered the world of sketch comedy and sitcoms forever. These three comic gems in
The John Cleese Collection are essential viewing for connoisseurs of British Comedy.
This 3-Disc Set Includes:
D1663 The Strange Case
D1664 Romance With A Double Bass**
D1656 How To Irritate People
**ADVISORY: This program contains some nudity.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It John Cleese is hilarious as the descendent of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather, however, this Sherlock Holmes only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Holmes is summoned to a conference by the desperate Commissioner of Police, to lay plans for the capture of Moriarity before he gains control of the World. From then on, nothings seems to go right.
Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Doctor Watson. Stanford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Romance with a Double Bass**
John Cleese and Connie Booth are at their best in this delightful tale of comic romance based on the well known short story by Anton Chekov.Smychkov (Cleese), a double bass player, is on his way to play at the betrothal ball of a princess. Arriving at the palace too early on a hot summer's day, he decides to take a quick skinny-dip in the royal lake. Unbeknownst to him, the Princess (Booth) has decided to do the same.
Meanwhile, a passing thief steals both of their clothes from the lakeshore, leaving them in a highly embarrassing predicament. Their attempt to return to the castle proves to be a hilarious adventure and results in an unexpected romance.
**ADVISORY: This program contains some nudity.
How To Irritate People
Anyone can make themselves unpopular - but it takes a past master like John Cleese to be really irritating!
The secret, he says, is to let the other person believe that its totally unintentional -and that's just the first of many tricks of the trade he's giving away in this hilarious DVD. With the help of Python pals Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Connie Booth from Fawlty Towers and Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, Cleese demonstrates the uncanny ability to keep his victims just the right temperature under the collar..one degree below boiling point!
Parents, waiters, salesman, talk-show hosts -for some people, irritation is a way of life. The rest of us have to work at it. After watching this DVD, you'll possess all the know-how you need to irritate for business or pleasure...as well as discover where Basil Fawlty got so many of his ideas!
Find out just how to pay back job interviewers, movie chatterboxes, garage staff, even bank clerks in the only way they deserve. And there's a gold-plated bonus for Monty Python fans to treasure in Cleese, Palin and Chapman's "Airline Pilots" sketch -an undiscovered classic of British comedy!
Recorded in front of a live and thoroughly irritated audience, this is John Cleese at his brilliant best!
"The quiz show and discussion show parodies kind of stretch the premise, but they're funny. Romance with a Double Bass, The ball scene, with Cleese and Booth exchanging glances across a crowded room, is a gem. Cleese fans should go with The John Cleese Comedy Collection..."
- DVD Verdict
